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Most people still prefer light roasted coffee beans, while fewer people like to drink dark roasted coffee made with ice hand brew. Front Street got some answers after communicating with several coffee lovers, "Dark roasted iced Pour over(V60) coffee tastes like drinking iced Americano, bitter and watery."
Indeed, in daily brewing, Pour over(V60) iced coffee made with lightly roasted coffee is easier to brew with a refreshing, sour, delicious, less bitter, and comfortable flavor. When using dark-roasted coffee beans to brew iced hand-brews, it will be a little more difficult to create a delicious and comfortable taste. If you are not careful, you will have a bitter taste and a watery taste.
Because of this, in the field of ice brewing, the sweet and sour taste of light roasted coffee is obviously more popular than the bitter tone of dark roasted coffee. However, as long as the brewing plan is appropriate, using dark roast coffee to make iced hand brew can still make people feel refreshing and comfortable.
Ice hand brewing is a brewing method derived from hot hand brewing. Compared with hot hand brewing, it only extracts the middle and front part of the coffee, and then uses ice cubes to quickly cool down the hot coffee into iced coffee. In order to extract more substances with a limited amount of water, the usual practice is to use ice hand brewing with a finer grinding degree than hot hand brewing.
Put it in light roasted coffee, because the sweet and sour substances of light roasted coffee are concentrated in the middle and front parts, so even if the back part is missing, it can still show the sweet and sour taste. The main characteristics of dark roasted coffee are the mellow taste and the aroma of caramel. When brewing with ice, the aroma will not be obvious and the taste will not be dominant. If you add too many ice cubes, the coffee will become bitter, watery, and very unpleasant to drink.
Therefore, if you want to brew a refreshing and solid taste of dark roasted coffee, you need to pay attention to the method of water injection and the proportion of ice cubes.
First of all, we need to prepare a pack of fresh medium-dark roasted coffee beans with an online flavor. You can choose the buttery and nutty Front Street Queen's Manor, you can also buy the dark chocolate-flavored Front Street Colombian Cymbidium, or you can choose the superior quality Front Street Blue Mountain No. 1.
This time, Front Street PWN Golden Mandheling is used as a demonstration. Front Street Huangman’s single-origin coffee is the most roasted bean. The flavor is nutty, herbal, caramel, pine, mellow and clean.
The amount of powder is still based on 15g, and the grinding degree is medium grinding (75% passing rate on No. 20 screen), which is slightly finer than hot punching. Use a water temperature of 88 degrees (medium to high for dark roasted beans).
The amount of water injected is 150ml (powder to water ratio 1:10), and the number of ice cubes recommended is 75g (5 times the amount of powder). You can also use 120g large ice cubes like Front Street to cool down and then remove the ice to avoid the remaining ice cubes from melting and affecting the taste.
Water injection method Front Street uses the "30-30-30-30-30" water injection method of injecting 30ml in each section, a total of 5 sections. After injecting 30ml of water into the first section and steaming for 30 seconds, inject 30ml in a small circle around the center with a small flow of water in the second section. After the layers appear to be concave in the center, continue to inject 30ml in the third section in the same way, and repeat until the fifth section is finished.
After the coffee liquid is filtered, remove the filter cup and shake the sharing pot to allow the ice cubes to fully blend with the coffee liquid. At the same time, feel the temperature of the sharing pot with your hands. When the temperature drops, you can separate the ice cubes and pour the coffee liquid into the cup.
The dark-roasted iced Pour over(V60) coffee produced in this way has a sweet and bitter flavor of caramel and dark chocolate. However, the bitterness will quickly dissipate after entering the mouth, and the taste will be relatively clean and refreshing, followed by a sweet aftertaste. Not only is the mellowness high, but it will not appear watery.
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
