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Eight years ago today, I published  my review of the AeroPress , which I discovered after breaking a couple of French presses in pre-caffeinated exuberance and seeking a more robust coffee maker for the office. Before long, I loved using the AeroPress so much I bought a second one for home use, and it became my default weekday brew method — I soon flipped to using the  inverted brew method . (At the weekend, when I have more time, I tend to experiment more with my V60s and  Kalita Wave , or even my  Sage Barista Express espresso machine .) When AeroPress Inc. announced last year the upcoming launch of an even more portable version of the coffee maker, dubbed the AeroPress Go , the news was met with some degree of scepticism. The original AeroPress is already well adapted for travel, so was a slightly smaller version — even one that cleverly packed all of the essential brewing accessories inside a tumbler for brewing and drinking — really necessary? As I'm the t...