The Capra Press: Is this a long-overdue redesign of the French Press?

We’re the first to admit it: sometimes we get cranky when people try and redesign a classic piece of kit, and end up making a proper hash of it. So is the Capra Press going to be the same?

We’ve got so narked about it in the past that we’ve even written a whole post about The Worst Coffee Campaigns on Kickstarter. Check it out.

But we’d be the first to admit it too, that sometimes there are real crappy tools that are just crying out for an upgrade, so we’re always rather excited when something new comes along.

The Capra Press

When Mia Knobler, Co-Founder of Capra in Revelstoke Canada, emailed us telling us that they’re setting out to transform the coffee brewing experience by upgrading the classic French Press, we were all ears.

The Capra Brewer is due to be released on Indiegogo on the 15th of March.

Back in 2020, when the fertile imaginations of coffee drinkers were on overdrive due to lockdown and the lack of coffee shops, Mia and her sister Zoey started doing some research.

Mia and Zoey set out to redesign the French Press in 2020. As life-long coffee lovers, the sisters took a deep dive into at-home coffee brewing devices during the pandemic, when many of their favourite coffee shops closed their doors. While they tried different brewing methods, they found themselves returning to the French Press despite their love-hate relationship with it.

They loved the full-bodied flavour of coffee from a French Press, but noticed recurring issues with the ones they tried. One was that the filters were often made of mesh, meaning the water would stay in contact with the coffee grounds after plunging, leading to over-brewed and bitter coffee. Another was the inconvenience of cleaning the French Press.

Yep, we’ve had the same issues.

Mia’s partner Jeff started to wonder what the French Press could be like if it was redesigned: “It’s my job to notice bad design, and it became increasingly obvious to me that there were many design aspects of the traditional French Press that were being overlooked to the detriment of the user experience”.

So, what’s different about the Capra Press?

Possibly the biggest factor is the removable bottom which means that you just unscrew it to dispose of all the coffee grounds.

It has a unique “sealing filter” which separates the grounds from the water of you’ve pressed the coffee to prevent it from over brewing, and also keeps the grounds nice and compact in the bottom for easy disposal.

It’s also made of a vacuum-insulated stainless steel carafe, so it stays just as hot as it should be.

More coffee, less headaches.

The verdict? This is a redesigned classic that we’re very excited about.

Support it here:

https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/capra-press/coming_soon