A reader submitted that he bought a bunch of hanging coffee for a recent event, so he wanted to brew it in a different way, and then he found a slightly tricky way - to brew it with milk. But because he had never tried it, he was worried that it would overturn the situation, so he asked Front Street if it was feasible. For those who are willing to help coffee people, Front Street has always had no problem. Without further ado, let’s get started~
Is it possible to use milk to wash the ear hooks?
In fact, it is not the first time that milk, as the protagonist of coffee extraction, has appeared in the Front Street experiment. Last year, we published an article "Is it feasible to brew Pour over(V60) coffee with milk?" It mentioned that because milk contains too many substances, the extraction ability is difficult to compete with conventional hot water. At the same time, if it is heated to boiling hot, a large amount of protein and lactose substances will be lost, which will make the taste worse. Therefore, it is obviously not feasible to directly apply conventional parameters and techniques to brew coffee with milk.
In order to solve the problem of lack of milk extraction ability, Front Street plans to steam it with hot water first, allowing the coffee powder particles to absorb water to help better release flavor substances in the later stage. Then the milk will be heated to 75°C and injected in two stages.
In order to avoid the sour taste or bland taste of the brewed milk coffee, Front Street still recommends that you give priority to the categories marked with medium and dark roasts. If you like coffee with a strong taste, buy Front Street Bird of Paradise, Front Street Queen's Manor, Front Street PWN Golden Mandheling, and Front Street Whelan. Coffees such as Front Street have obvious caramelization aroma, so they can better coordinate with hot milk;
But if you are sensitive to bitter tastes, it is more recommended to drink acidic coffee with a sense of fermentation. Try the categories such as Front Street Xi Claw, Qian Street Big Navel, Qian Street Strawberry Candy, and Qian Street Mozart, because this type of coffee combines candied fruit, fruity aroma, fermented wine taste and a certain caramelized flavor, and is suitable for drinking with milk.
What if you use milk to wash the ear hooks?
First, prepare a long glass and a pack of fresh Front Street Strawberry Candy Coffee, tear it open and hang it on the edge of the cup (in order to give you a more intuitive reference, Front Street will add timing and weighing during this brewing process).
In the first stage, use 90-93℃ hot water to inject the hanging ear bag until the filter bag is half full (after boiling, turn off the heat, open the lid and leave it at room temperature for 1 minute). The amount of water is about 25g. Be careful to keep the water flow as small as possible. If you use a long-neck kettle, you can add circles appropriately;
After the coffee liquid has finished dripping, start injecting the second section. Use 75°C hot milk (too hot to touch) and pour the powder layer into the filter bag until it is 90% full. When the coffee liquid is about to dry up, you can continue to inject the next section until it is 90% full. The total amount of water and milk is 150g.
Visually, the whole cup of coffee has a strong milk tea color. Looking at the taste of the coffee, Front Street believes that the richness and aroma are acceptable. When you taste it directly, you can taste the flavors of strawberry jam, raisins, and cream. Whether you drink it directly or with ice, it has a good taste.
However, since the fine powder of coffee will expand at an accelerated rate after contact with milk, thus blocking the gaps in the filter bag, the flow rate can be seen to slow down greatly during the second stage of extraction, and the total dripping time is 11 minutes.
In addition, coupled with the preparation time of various raw materials, it took 20 minutes to get the milk coffee for the large belly button ear-hanging bag on Front Street Street. Moreover, the tools for heating milk had to be cleaned, which obviously ran counter to the original intention of the ear-hanging - convenience. Therefore, for those who want to use the ear-hanging bag to quickly make milk coffee, Front Street does not recommend this direct injection method.
Hanging ears + milk, what else can be done?
Since hanging ears have been developed in China for many years, people have also explored many novel ways to combine milk with them in their daily lives. There happen to be two kinds here in Front Street. One is to first use hot water to make a rich black coffee, and then add the appropriate amount of fresh milk according to the proportion. For specific operations, you can refer to this article "How to make latte coffee with an ear-hanging bag?". I won't repeat it too much here.
The other one is not only more suitable for those who love iced milk coffee, but the steps are also very simple. As long as you have ear-mounted coffee bags, a bottle of milk (fresh milk tastes better), and a refrigerator, you can easily achieve the freedom of "latte" after sleeping.
The operation is very simple. After taking out the ear-hanging bag, there is no need to tear it open. Just peel off the paper shell on the package, then throw it "nakedly" into the milk. After tightening the bottle cap, shake it up and down vigorously to let the milk soak the coffee powder inside. Since it is a low-temperature extraction, Front Street believes that the ratio of coffee and milk does not need to be too strict, as long as it falls roughly between 1:12 and 1:15. For example, a 10-gram pack of hanging ear coffee here on Front Street will add 150ml of fresh milk.
Then, we put the milk soaked in the ear-hanging bag into the refrigerator to refrigerate overnight. The next morning (it takes about 8 to 12 hours), we can take it out, shake it vigorously a few times, clip out the ear-hanging bag, and the milk coffee is ready.
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
