Now, this isn't really a head to head there doing things a little bit differently, but they have something in common.

They're both designed first and foremost.

There's travel brewers.

So here we have the which is a kind of weird name.

I'm gonna be honest.

It's a weird name on then the calf Llano go brutes their latest product.

Now quick note.

I reviewed the compressor from calf Lana.

Previously on I did say I would like to see the maths behind their claim of nine bars on.

Then they left a comment with the maths in it on the video.

So if you're curious, go check that out.

I'll leave a link in the description below.

Now both of these air crowdfunded products.

This went on Indiegogo for about £27 then the calf Llano eyes.

Currently I think retailing about $36.

So actually almost identically priced.

I feel like the world travel coffee brewers got really distorted by one successful thing that is the era press.

It's been an undeniable success story of coffee, and people like it for a whole bunch of reasons.

One of which is that it travels well.

It's light.

It's unbreakable.

You can sort of fit a little hand grinder inside.

Often it's very easy to travel with.

However, I think a lot of people have looked at the coffee brewer market and seeing the success of the air press and said, Oh, it's a travel brewer That's why it's successful.

That's what people like it.

Let's make travel brewers and that isn't really the case.

I would say most air oppresses air used most of the time at home.

It's bought and its loved because it's a good coffee brewer that has the bonus of traveling well.

But if you build something from the beginning to be purely travel, well, then you're likely to build in a bunch of handicaps and problems.

And actually, the number of occasions that people will want to use your product is way less than building a great brewer.

The travels Well, I might travel to make coffee 10 maybe 20 days a year, but the rest of the time I'm probably bring coffee at home.

So if I'm buying a travel focus brewer, I'm almost never going to use it.

What then, if it isn't optimized for brewing.

That's the question.

So let's look at both of these brothers because, like I said, they're super super different to each other.

And we'll start, I think, with slightly weirder of the two, which is the Thea over is not easy to explain.

I guess the best thing I could say is it's kind of like an air press with a travel cup built around the brewer itself.

I should take it to pieces.

So you got your main plunger piece, which is also the drinking piece.

I'll explain, and then you have your sort of main brewing chambers.

Your coffee and water go in the top, and at the bottom there is a little sort of mesh filter that there's no paper filters in here.

You're just gonna use a reusable mash filter.

Now you can take it apart further, which is kind of necessary to explain where the coffee goes when you press.

So when you push the plunger down through here and the coffee is pressed out from this filter, the bottom it goes into this main chamber here on dhe.

Obviously, there's a small gap with sides around the broom chamber and it runs up the sides and then it actually flows back into the top of the brewing chamber.

Now, the reason it doesn't just recirculate is at that point, the piston has come down and it's actually gonna flow on a sit on top off the piston inside the brewing chamber.

Right?

So it's kind of recirculated up, around and back in, and it separated from the grounds by the plunger piece.

I'm terrified that this makes absolutely no sense.

So what we'll do is is let's let's brew some coffee with it and try, Make a bit more sense, I'm gonna brew about 1/3 of a liter, and I'm gonna dose a little heavy exit Isn't infusion, Brooke.

I'm gonna brew it 75 grams a liter.

1/3 of that is 25 grams.

So 25 tier 333 But second volume is what I'm gonna do a relatively short steep time, because there is gonna be this percolation phase where you push the liquid through the grounds to separate them on Bill, see what we get.

We're ready to brew, and I'm gonna add my coffee in here.

Gonna add 25 grams I'm now gonna add my third of a liter.

Start, my little timer.

Now, what slightly distressing to me is that some water inevitably does flow through the filters and it has brewed a little bit, but it is pretty much out of the brewing process.

For the most part, it will have extracted something from the coffee.

But it's not gonna be taking part in most of the brew with an air oppress.

People conquer this by brewing either inverted or by just popping the top of the plunger on to create a vacuum to prevent the liquid flowing through the coffee prematurely.

Here, we don't really have that same way of doing things.

So we're gonna get on, give it a little stir and give it a plunge.

So at this point, you could see the liquid has flowed through the bed, back out and around.

The reason we're pleasing sort of, you know, nice, pleasing hiss.

And then you can lock it into place and thusly.

We have made coffee.

A little lead fits on top of the brewer on.

Now we're done.

I can take this with me.

It is It is obviously still with ground coffee and there.

But that broom process has finished.

The grounds are separated from the liquid and I can drink my brewed coffee.

Now, this is heavy will.

This still weighs 950 grams, just shy of a kilo to carry with me 280 miles of coffee.

I'm not sure I take this with me on a train on a commuted.

It's just so bulky.

I'm not sure would fit into most cupholders unless you've got, you know, the big cup holders.

But in in this country, we don't have very big cupholders, so it it probably fits.

But it would be a little squeezy in terms of the construction.

Obviously you're taking with you a brewer full of hot liquid because it's watertight.

There are a couple of little gaskets in here that can be a little bit fiddly if they get loose.

When you're taking the whole thing to pieces to clean it properly, to give a good deep clean, I got my gaskets Lucite to reset them.

That was just a little bit of finicky kind of work.

I get that they're necessary to make this watertight to make it safe, but there are two mia frustration in the design on the fact that I can't really use paper false with This is a shame.

I just prefer paper filtered coffee so he could drink it from this, that we could treat it as a sort of famous and just pour it out into a little cup test is okay.

Interesting to me is that obviously this has already lost more heat than a thermos would have done.

So I don't think this is gonna keep your coffee hot for a particularly long time if that's something you're interested in.

Like I said, the coffee tastes okay, but that's because there's good coffee in there, good water.

And I got the grind setting.

Right.

So now let's talk about the caf Llano go brew.

And here they've tried to do something a little bit too clever, which is have a nice portable bottle that happens to be like a little coffee transformer homebrewing set up.

So how does it work?

Well, let's take off the lid to start with as I live.

And then we got this sleeve.

Now this sleep clicks, slides up and clicks.

Now that's gonna act as a way to suspend what is in fact not just the lid of a bottle, but our little filter brewing cone.

So this pops on the top.

Now, quick note.

There's a couple of Finn's here toe hold it in place on.

I wish they'd done three instead of two.

Because it's possible to have this at a slightly funny angle, which isn't great for brewing.

You really want this to be flat for the best possible outcome.

So I wish they'd done three fins just to make sure it was always gonna be perfectly flush and stable.

The bird itself takes the supplied little wave style filters they pop in the top, but it does create a pretty narrow brewing environment.

So here it is.

We're gonna brew in this thing.

Uh, coffee's gonna brew at the bottom into the bottle.

We can throw away the coffee afterwards, put our lead on we're good to go.

So I'm gonna bring with this, but I got through 1/3 of a liter again.

But because this is just a percolation just a pore over, I'm gonna use 60 grams per liter, so I'm gonna use 20 grams of coffee to my third of a liter of hot water or 1/3 of a kilo if we want to rehash that conversation from a previous video.

But let's not get into it, right.

Let me grab some coffee for this.

Let me get this fruit 20 grams in.

And what's notable to me is that 20 grams that's a pretty full filter basket.

There's not a lot of space left in here for water for brewing.

It's gonna be pretty pretty slow.

Pause.

Now I'm brewing with a domestic cattle because I'm imagining this is a travel scenario where I don't have a pouring kettle with me.

I'm likely in a travel scenario, not tow.

Have specialised poor equipment.

Let's begin little bloom.

Give it a stair to make sure it is sufficiently agitated.

And then let's brew.

So I don't really have much choice here than to do several little paws.

And so now we have a bottle of coffee.

All right, so live goes back on.

So I think we're about Max capacity.

There's about 280 mills of liquid inside that's about that's about all we're gonna get.

I think now, in previous efforts, I've had a small this year previously had had a small issue in that there's a little gasket that seals the lid to the main body on that had gotten loose, which meant that when I poured my coffee out into my cup, it leaked, which was not good.

And I'm gonna be honest.

Gaskets are necessary in this design or a gasket and then necessary in the design of the month.

But in both cases, there fiddly floors to me right there, their points of failure.

Point of frustration points off disappointing user experience.

Now I would expect the copy to taste absolutely fine here again.

Good coffee, good water.

The right ground setting the brewing environment is OK.

As far as I'm concerned, the little wave filter shape is okay, and it took quite a sort of compact cylindrical bed rather than a wide flat bed or a cone shaped bed.

It should make a perfectly good tasting coffee on.

It does.

It does.

It's fine.

It's totally fine.

I haven't drunk out of the bottle itself yet, which I'll, uh, try.

Now it's fine.

Study fine.

And for me, with both brewers, there's just that lingering question of why when where did these have really strength over something I might already Oh, if I had to pick one of the two, I would guess I'd probably pick the Teflon.

Oh, it's paper filtered and weight wise.

It's just a little over half a kilo full of coffee.

Competitive nearly a whole kilo for the month.

So a big difference there.

It doesn't make dramatically better coffee than the only if you prefer paper filters, then you really prefer that coffee out of one of these, but that primarily about filtration rather than brewing.

They both broke a right, but I'm not sure where they really hands down win.

Where did they beat an era press and a thermos?

Whether they beat a V 60 and a reasonable takeaway cup?

I don't think I have a good answer for that.

And for travel brewers, this is really the question to answer Bryant, like the air A press is a good brewer that travels well, though it kind of breaks my mind that the new era press that they're releasing is travel focused.

They fixed the one thing that wasn't wrong with it, you know, like it already traveled really well.

Except now they put a lid on the whole thing so you can put a grinder in it.

It just seems like a weird bunch of decisions that I don't necessarily understand.

That aside, this was my thoughts on a couple of travel.

Bruce the month and the calf.

Lana, go brew.

If you're looking for a travel brewer, I'd be really interested to hear your thoughts.

Do you really want something specifically for those few instances a year when you are traveling?

Do you want something that you use every day that can also travel?

Well, did you buy one of these two?

Did you back these on on crowdfunding?

Do you have one?

Do you still use it?

I'd be really interested to hear thoughts.

Thank you so much for watching.

I have a great day.