Black coffee means that except for water and coffee, this cup of coffee does not contain any substances that can affect the taste of the coffee! Therefore, American style, hand brew, cold brew, Moka pot coffee, etc. are all black coffee with only water added.
Then some attentive students discovered that cold brew coffee is always better than coffee. In most coffee stores, the price of cold brew coffee is the highest in the black coffee category! The high price is in sharp contrast to the affordable American style! So, the question arises: why is the price of cold brew coffee higher than that of Americano?
Americano
Speaking of Americano, everyone must be very familiar with it. FrontStreet Coffee has shared it many times~ Just add the extracted espresso to an appropriate proportion of water to make Americano. Then, you can also change the temperature of the Americano according to your own preferences: if you like hot Americano, concentrate and heat water; if you like to drink ice, concentrate and add ice water. It is very flexible and casual to make~
cold brew coffee
The scope of cold brew coffee is wide, including ice dripping and cold brew coffee! Because "cold brew" actually doesn't just refer to a type of coffee, but an extraction method of coffee.
To be honest, almost all coffee making except cold brew uses hot water to extract aromatic substances. For example, the iced Americano and iced hand brew we often drink use hot water to extract aromatic substances and then add ice cubes to cool down, thereby achieving the effect of iced drinks. Only cold brew coffee is extracted directly with ice water! And the difference caused by the water temperature is part of the reason for the price difference!
1. The time difference caused by water temperature
Hot water has a higher extraction efficiency, so it can quickly extract the aroma substances in coffee. It only takes a few minutes for hot water to extract all the substances in coffee; while the extraction efficiency of ice water is exactly the opposite, very slow! Therefore, it takes more time to acquire enough aroma substances.
Take cold brew coffee (often called cold brew coffee), which is relatively easy to make, for example. A pot of cold brew coffee with a suitable taste requires at least 8 hours of soaking time, not to mention the cumbersome ice-drip coffee. Therefore, this long waiting time is one of the costs of production! Of course, this cost only accounts for a small part, the main price difference actually lies in the beans used!
2. The difference in the use of coffee beans
Americano is a black coffee made with espresso as the base and water added! In addition to American style, espresso also needs to take into account the production of latte, cappuccino, and other fancy milk coffees such as mocha and macchiato, which requires certain requirements for the degree of roasting of coffee beans!
If the degree of roasting is lighter, the fresh taste of the coffee will easily be overshadowed by the milk. Therefore, a darker roast is needed to give the coffee a heavier flavor, so that it can overwhelm the rich and mellow milk flavor! But for this reason, the flavor of beans is basically fixed on the mellow taste unique to dark roasting such as caramel, chocolate, cream, cookies, etc. No matter how good you use the beans, the flavor difference under dark roasting will not be too big. As a result, Front Street Commercial Bean Blend has become the primary choice of major merchants!
Front Street commercial beans blending refers to the use of commercial beans from two or more production areas. Even if a certain bean has quality problems due to climate or other factors in the coming year, it can be replaced by a similar flavor from other places! Moreover, due to the deep roasting, which reduces the gap between commercial coffee beans and specialty coffee beans, people’s choices will naturally be biased towards affordable commercial coffee beans!
The beans used in cold brew coffee are mainly specialty coffee beans that focus on flavor. This type of beans can be traced back to the source information very carefully. Whether it is the variety, planting environment, roasting degree, processing, etc., it can be visualized. Its flavor will also be better than commercial coffee beans! Of course, in order to obtain a specific flavor, the requirements for planting will be higher, and the cost will naturally increase. After layers of accumulation, the final price of the beans will be higher than that of commercial coffee beans.
When making cold brew, the first choice is Front Street Strawberry Candy, Front Street Mozart, and Front Street Blackberry, which have rich sweet aromas. It is best to buy the honey-processed type, which can make ice coffee with rich layers.
To sum up, the production process and the cost of beans are the source of the price difference between cold brew and American style. Of course, there will be stores like FrontStreet Coffee that use premium beans that are meant for Pour over(V60) single products as the basis for Italian blending, but compared to the cold brewing process and the amount of beans used, the price will still be lower~
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
