Of late I've been making a few trips to Denver International Airport. I've been there four times already since temporarily relocating to Boulder, and I have another two trips there this week.
Most of these trips involve getting up at the ass-crack of dawn to drive the 45 minutes it takes to get from NoBo to the Big Giant Scary Blue Horsey. Yikes!
For situations like those, you're going to need the Bodum Travel Press ($16, Boulder's socialist-level-sales-tax-rate included), available at the Brewing Market.
Fill this bad boy up with your favorite cup of joe and by the time you get to the oversized, pissed-off bronco you'll be bright eyed and bushy tailed!
The Travel Press gives its users all the fabulous flavor of a full-sized french press in a tall, sippy-cup style to-go mug.
Yum. yum.
Initially, I had a lot of reservations about a mobile french press. Will it keep the grounds separate? How/where do I put my coffee enhancements? Will it be unbearably hot to the touch at first, only to cool down quicker than a Montana spring night as soon as the sun goes down?
But this little bad boy delivers, in all areas.
Nothing turns off your frazzled airport guests more than a corse coffee ground stuck between your otherwise beautiful (and pearly white) incisors. You might as well be sporting some snuze in your lower lip! Hello, and welcome to Denver!
Worry not: With the Travel Press there is little, if any, escape of coffee grounds into the drinking chamber -- which as you can imagine was a major concern of mine given my frequent galavanting to DIA.
I found that adding my favorite hippie coffee dilutions to the Bodum -- vanilla hemp milk and agave syrup -- was easier than you’d think using the Travel Press’s wide-mouth hole in the lid.
Mentally, I only needed to check myself the first and second time to make sure I hadn’t added the dilutions before adding the hot water. Easy to do when your synapses fire like a half burnt-out neon "open" sign first thing in the morning like mine. But generally not a good idea.
Bodum and I have a sordid past, so I was also worried about investing in yet another product. In the past year, I’ve already broken the glass beakers in two Bodum full-size french presses -- neither of them technically mine. Sorry, Mike!
I think this one will last longer. Here’s why: 1) it’s made of plastic; 2) it has a closable sippy-cup top, which so far has completely withstood the tight corners I often turn in the MINI Cooper.
Cha-ching.
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That's an appropriately ominous shot of the maniacal mustang, eep!
ReplyDeleteAnd I can attest to the fact that Aaron is as attached to his new sippy cup as baby Jack is to his - those two are like peas in a pod. Thankfully, however, there is nothing caffeinated in Jack's.
(And thankfully there is plenty of octane in Aaron's on those other early mornings when we head the opposite direction on I-70 to hit the slopes...)
Hurray for The French Press in general. Now available in convenient travel size! We've broken the glass carafe our big 12 cup Bodum twice, but were able to find replacements either online or through the fantabulous M.E. Swings in DC (www.swingscoffee.com), thank goodness. It's 9:20 pm and reading this has made me want a cuppa. Tisk tisk.
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