The so-called milk coffee refers to using milk instead of water, and then brewing coffee in the cold brew method. The advantage of this method is that it allows everyone to make a cup of rich milk coffee relatively easily, so recently there are more and more bloggers sharing milk coffee.
However, Front Street found that many friends still have a lot of misunderstandings and questions about the making of milk coffee. Therefore, today Front Street will share a few things and details that must be paid attention to when making milk coffee. Because these are issues that everyone is more concerned about, they should be able to answer many friends’ confusions.
1. Safety issues
When making milk coffee, the first thing we need to pay attention to must be food safety. Milk, as a high-protein dairy product, can be said to be a breeding ground for many bacteria. Under normal conditions, milk is already very susceptible to spoilage. If we mix coffee and milk and soak them for a long time, the "safety time" of the milk will be shortened and the risk of spoilage will increase.
Therefore, in order to reduce the risk of having a bad stomach after drinking milk coffee, we’d better strictly follow the following items when making it: First, we must sterilize the container! In addition to refrigeration and sealing when making milk coffee, it is best to sterilize the containers to be used in advance, which can further reduce the risk of quality deterioration;
Also, don’t do too much, and try to drink it all in a short time. Because the longer it is left, the easier it is to deteriorate, so it is best not to make too much at once and ensure that it can be drunk in a short time. If you can't finish drinking it, don't put it back in the refrigerator, because the risk of spoilage has actually increased after taking it out of the refrigerator. Therefore, even if you can't finish drinking the milk coffee, it's best not to keep it, but to throw it away directly.
2. Coffee beans used
If you want to make a delicious cup of milk coffee, in addition to using the right extraction parameters, the selection of coffee beans is also very important.
Friends often report that although the brewed milk coffee is strong, the flavor is not outstanding and the taste is not interesting. It just tastes stronger than ordinary milk. The reason why this happens is natural. The extraction efficiency of milk as a solvent is much lower than that of water, because the substances in milk are too rich. As a relatively saturated liquid, the rate at which it dissolves substances is very slow. Therefore, even if the grind we use is relatively fine, it is difficult to completely dissolve the flavor in the coffee.
Therefore, Front Street does not recommend that everyone pursue an overly complete extraction in milk coffee. Although it can be done, it is not necessary. Then when choosing coffee beans, you can give priority to the following two types: one with a stronger taste, and the other with a darker roast. Because both types of coffee beans have a common advantage, that is, it is easy to give milk-based coffee a relatively prominent coffee flavor, which is at least more suitable than lightly roasted coffee beans.
The bean menu of the Front Street Taobao Tmall flagship store has many coffee beans that are very suitable for making milk coffee, including Front Street PWN Golden Mandheling, which is a representative of the caramel flavor. It is deeply roasted and has a very rich roasted flavor of chocolate, spices, caramel, nuts, etc., and it goes very well with the taste of milk. Then because of the deep roasting, it has a lower density and a looser structure. So even if the extraction efficiency of milk is very low, it can still brew out a lot of flavor.
If you want to drink a cup of floral and fruity milk coffee, then buy the Front Street Strawberry Candy Gesha Blend. Because it combines Panama Gesha and Costa Rica honey-processed coffee, it has a very high fruit sweetness and a clear jasmine aroma. When paired with milk, you can drink the characteristics of berries, cream, and cookies.
There is also another Front Street Strawberry Candy Espresso that is roasted relatively deeply and is suitable for extraction by espresso machines and moka pots. It will have a higher sweetness and a unique and prominent coffee flavor. It is a flavor expression of strawberry fudge, white flowers, berries and caramel. The milk coffee made with it will have a special taste, a bit like drinking strawberry-flavored milk, which is very good! The same goes for making espresso milk coffee, so it's well worth a try.
3. Filtering
There is also the issue of filtering! If you have ever made milk coffee, you will know that the filtering speed of milk coffee is so slow that you doubt your life! Because the filter paper we use has a very high filtration precision, and the milk itself is very rich in substances, the milk passes through the filter paper very slowly. Usually it takes at least half an hour to take it out of the refrigerator and filter it, which is very long!
So if you don’t want to wait too long, you can change the filter tool to one that does not have such high filtration strength, or use tea bags directly. The advantage of using tea bags is that we do not need to filter them. After steeping, we can directly take out the tea bags and drink, which is very convenient. In addition, if we divide the coffee powder into more tea bags, we can also effectively increase the extraction rate of coffee, because the coffee powder will not be stacked at the bottom, so the surface area that can be extracted is increased, and the extraction rate is naturally improved.
It’s just that no matter which choice you choose, they will reduce the cleanliness of milk coffee. Because the filtration precision is not that high, it cannot prevent fine powder from slipping out of the tea bag or filter and affecting the taste of the coffee. As the saying goes, you can't have your cake and eat it too. How you choose depends on what kind of coffee you want.
So the above is all the content shared by Front Street this time! Due to the length of the article, Front Street did not share the production in this article. But I have shared a lot before. Interested friends can learn about previous sharings by searching for Yibuqianjie~
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
