French press guide: grind, ratio, and timing

This guide is the complete Coffee Parts guide to brewing with a French press — one of the highest-volume non-espresso keywords on the Australian market at 7,000 monthly searches. The article opens by establishing that the French press is the most misunderstood brewer in specialty coffee — most home users have been making French press coffee wrong for years, and the canonical James Hoffmann "ultimate French press" technique produces a fundamentally different cup from what most people are used to. The guide walks through the Hoffmann method: medium-coarse grind, 1:15 to 1:17 ratio, 4 minutes total brew time, no plunge — instead, skim off the crust, wait another 5-10 minutes for the fines to settle, and decant carefully. It addresses the more traditional plunge method honestly for users who prefer it, and explains the Espro double-filter system that produces cleaner coffee while still being plunged. The article covers French press sizes (small 3-cup for solo drinking; 8-cup for households; 12-cup for entertaining), the right grinder pairings (any decent burr grinder), and the maintenance routine. Cross-sells include the Bodum and Espro French presses Coffee Parts stocks, the matching pour-over grinders, kettles, and scales.