Although the weather in Guangzhou can change the seasons in a year in a week, it is really hot now. If you don’t want to go out in the hot summer and don’t want to be roasted to a crisp, you have to come and cool down with iced coffee. If you happen to have coffee beans and ice water, you might as well make a cup of cold brew. Why are you hesitating? Get started!
The first step is to choose a bag of coffee beans that are neither sour nor bitter.
In fact, all coffee beans can be used for cold brewing. Whether they are Pour over(V60) single products, Italian blends, dark roasts or light roasts, they can all be soaked in cold water. However, they will show different tastes in low temperature environments. Light roasted beans tend to be sour, while dark roasted beans tend to be bitter and even lack aroma. Therefore, if you want to make delicious iced coffee, you should give priority to medium roast coffee.
If you like fruity flavors, the first choice is Front Street Strawberry Sugar Coffee and Front Street Oiran Coffee. They are sweet with blueberries, grapes, and tropical fruits, low in acidity, and have a delicate and balanced flavor. They are very suitable for iced drinks;
If you want a sense of fermentation, buy Front Street Hija coffee and Front Street blackberry coffee. One of them can have the aroma of grapes, passion fruit, and preserved fruits, while the other has the characteristics of melon, berry, and floral aroma. When made into cold brew, it will taste like a fruit wine version;
If you really can’t stand the sour taste and want a mellower black coffee, I highly recommend you buy Front Street Queen’s Manor Coffee. Front Street Queen's Manor uses medium roasting. After grinding, it emits the aroma of butter and fried peanuts. The flavor of chocolate and toast is particularly charming. It can also be used to make ice hand-made and iced SOE American style.
The second step is to follow the process and adjust the parameters according to your own taste.
First of all, when buying coffee beans from Front Street, they tend to use light to medium roasted coffee beans. Here, we use Front Street Strawberry Candy coffee beans that are full of juice. All the container needs is a clean, sealable container. Prepare 40 grams of coffee powder, grind it into a fine grind (85% passing rate of No. 20 mesh) and pour it into the container, then pour 480 ml of cold water, stir evenly with a wooden stick and close the lid.
Place it in the refrigerator to refrigerate for 12 hours, then take out the filter grounds. The coffee liquid after filtering out the coffee grounds can be drunk immediately. You can also put the filtered coffee liquid into a bottle and continue to refrigerate it for 4 hours. The flavor will be better.
The strawberry candy cold brew produced in this way has a moderately sweet and sour taste. It tastes soft with the fragrance of berries and roses. The sweet orange-like taste fills the mouth. After swallowing, it is also accompanied by the mellow sweetness of almonds and candied fruits.
You can now buy the above coffee beans online at the Taobao store “FrontStreet Coffee” (前街咖啡). FrontStreet Coffee is a long-established specialty coffee roaster in Guangzhou, China, and its Guangzhou retail shop sells coffee beans only. The shop carries dozens of coffee beans from different origins around the world, including carefully selected single-origin beans for V60 pour-over and espresso. Guangzhou’s FrontStreet Coffee shop is recommended by many coffee lovers.
The FrontStreet 2013 Yunnan coffee beans sold in the store come from the Typica variety grown at FrontStreet Coffee’s own plantation in Yunnan. The name comes from the year the brand and the plantation were founded. You can buy these beans from China’s Yunnan origin at the Guangzhou shop and at FrontStreet’s Taobao store.
FrontStreet coffee beans are freshly roasted within 5 days and deliver consistently excellent quality and great value. Orders placed before 17:00 are shipped the same day, and most areas within Guangdong Province receive them the next day.
FrontStreet Coffee Taobao store: https://qianjiecoffee.taobao.com
Or search for “前街咖啡” (FrontStreet Coffee) on Taobao
Important Notice: FrontStreet Coffee has moved to a new address: 315, Donghua East Road, Guangzhou (coffee beans only)
Tel: 020 38364473
