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Irish Aeropress Champion 2025 🏅
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☕ 🏆 All three of the past champions were there on Friday, let’s chat with Michael Nolan 2025’s winner, and to Alejo Castro, the producer of this year’s coffee!💪🏼

🏆 First up, Michael Nolan! Dentist by day, AeroPress Champion by night! Michael won the 2025 Irish AeroPress Championships, earning himself a trip to South Korea to represent Ireland on the world stage. 🇮🇪✈️🇰🇷

Having been recommended the competition, Michael was drawn in by the atmosphere and how open and friendly the coffee community is. And that’s exactly what we love to hear! ❤️

🌱 Then we have Alejo Castro from Volcán Azul, Costa Rica! An eighth-generation coffee producer whose family has been growing coffee for over 200 years. 🇨🇷

Alejo was the farmer and producer behind this year’s Mystery Coffee — the very coffee all 36 competitors had to work their magic with! ☕🔥

His focus? Producing clean naturals that showcase the flavours of their terroir. And getting to taste his SL28 brewed in so many different ways was a fascinating experience, showing just how differently one coffee can shine in different hands.

From the people brewing the coffee to the people growing it, the Irish AeroPress Championships are all about bringing the coffee community together. 🤝❤️

Thanks, Michael and Alejo, for being part of it!

#BadgerAndDodo #IrishAeroPressChampionships #AeroPress

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It was an honour to make coffee alongside some of the best and most talented people in the industry at the Irish Aeropress Championship 2026

Thanks to @badgeranddodo and @bakestonecafe for hosting an incredible night

I really enjoyed this year's mystery coffee and
I'm thrilled to have brewed a trophy worthy cup

Huge congratulations to Ricky from @vivacoffeeltd
Best of luck representing Ireland in Mexico!!
🇮🇪 🇮🇪 🇮🇪 💪 💪 💪 ☕️ ☕️ ☕️

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Come make a coffee with me at home😮‍💨

Using top tier @lunocoffee_ beans on my @sageappliancesuk bambino

The coffee might not always be aesthetic and the latte art might not always be a tulip (in hindsight, maybe I should’ve filmed that one lol), but that’s the beauty of a daily coffee ritual, isn’t it?

Not every cup has to be perfect to be enjoyed🤪 (the second cup was for mr.coffeegirlandmore who is too shy to feature hehe)

Not a paid post but thank you @lunocoffee_ for sending me your coffee to sample and @sageappliancesuk for sending out a replacement machine so quickly!

#CoffeeGirl #CoffeeRitual #CoffeeAtHome

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☕️🇮🇪 MEET THE REST OF THE CONTESTANTS! 🇮🇪☕️

36 competitors.
1 AeroPress.
1 Irish Champion. 🏆

On Friday, October 16th, the Irish AeroPress Championships are taking over Bakestone on Perry Street, Cork City — and we’ve got 36 of Ireland’s finest coffee nerds, baristas, brewers and AeroPress obsessives ready to battle it out. 👀

Over the coming days, we’ll be introducing you to the contestants who’ll be stepping up to the brewer, weighing, grinding, pouring and praying their way to victory. 😂☕️

🔥 Got a favourite? Pick your fighter.
📣 Know someone competing? COME LOUD.
🏆 Think you can spot the future Irish Champion? Back them from the sidelines.

Spectator tickets are available now — grab yours via the link in our bio and get yourself into the middle of the action.

Because let’s be honest… watching someone make coffee under pressure is MUCH more entertaining than it sounds. 😏

Friday 16 October | Bakestone, Perry Street, Cork City

🇮🇪☕️ 36 competitors. One champion. Who are you backing?

#IrishAeroPressChampionships #AeroPress

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We are so delighted to host @lunocoffee_ as a guest cup this weekend. Roasted with passion by Irelands 2025 Aeropress Champion Big Mick Nolan in Connemara. This small batch Columbian single origin is wonderfully smooth with lingering fruity notes. Great with milk or enjoyed as an Espresso for maximum flavour!

Only 2 bags in stock.

GET IT WHILE IT LASTS!!

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It’s been a couple of days let’s look back on the first Battle of the Brewers at @re_galway ☕

A huge thank you to everyone who came out to support and compete you made the day. The Galway coffee scene is hopping and we can’t wait to return 🙌🏻

And to our judges, who lent us their expert tastebuds:
Enda & Laura @kalicoffeebar
Aisling Alexander @aislingalex

Congrats to our winners!

🥇- @babyjem.lettuce
🥈- @hannafuzeshi

The series isn’t over yet 👀

📍 Round 2 — @woocafe.dublin , Dublin · 28.05.26 (SOLD OUT)
📍 Round 3 — Bell Lane HQ, Mullingar · 05.06.26 (LOW TICKETS)

#BattleOfTheBrewers #BellLane #SpecialtyCoffee #IrishCoffee CoffeeCompetition

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Meet Michael Nolan the 2025 Irish AeroPress Champion! 🏆

Fresh from representing Ireland at the World AeroPress Championships in Seoul (where he made it to the quarter-finals!), Michael joined us at the roastery last week to share his winning recipe.

If you’ve ever wanted to taste a champion’s brew, this is the perfect opportunity! For this recipe, Michael used our coffee from the Gitesi washing station in Rwanda.

#CalendarCoffee

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🔥 I can’t believe it has been almost 6 months since the 2025 Irish Aeropress Championships! 👀

We are already starting to plan the next one. If you want to be involved in anyway, please DM us! 💪🏼

We already have a few sponsors ready to go for this year, and we are looking for more. If you are interested, please DM us. 🔥

This year we are bringing back to Dublin, date 📆 and location TBD! 📍 So stay tuned! 👀

We hope to see you on Thursday January 22nd at the Badger Brawl in @black.honeycoffee sponsored by @oatly

See you there! 🙃

We are 85+

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Treated myself to some delicious coffee from @mylittleflowercoffee in Oughterard made in my new coffee cup a present from son Michael @filtercoffeefiend from his areopress adventures in Seoul 😊

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Join us this Saturday at 10am with the 2025 Irish AeroPress Champion, Galway native Michael Nolan @filtercoffeefiend , for a chat about all things coffee and AeroPress and a demo of his winning recipe with World AeroPress Championship coffee! 🏆

There’s only 12 spaces available and tickets are €10 with all proceeds going to the Irish Red Cross Gaza Appeal. Those attending will also be included in a surprise coffee raffle, which have been kindly donated by Michael himself 💚

Message us to secure your place. Come along for a nerdy coffee filled morning!

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world aeropress championship ☕️

where champions unite, grateful to have met the exceptional people of my industry, from the home brewer to the coffee ProMax! Well done to us! 🤝

Congratulations @nemo.pop ‘champion of champions’ 🥇

here’s to lasting memories 🤝
gamsahabnida korea 🇰🇷

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Back in September I won the Northern Ireland AeroPress Championship, which meant I qualified to compete in the World Finals in Seoul.

Out of 6,500 competitors worldwide, 66 made it, and I ended up placing in the top 6. Still crazy to say.

The past couple days have been incredible from tasting and brewing amazing coffee to meeting such amazing people and making incredible memories.

Can’t wait to compete again next year in the NI nationals and maybe a few other comps too!

#aeropress #aeropresschampionship #worldareopresschampionship #specialtycoffee
#coffeeseoul

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