Cold Brew Coffee Vs.Iced AmericanoThe biggest difference is that cold brew coffee is a low-temperature brewed coffee with a clean, full and refreshing taste;AmericanoIt is a high-temperature brewed coffee with a rich and mellow taste. If it is an iced Americano, it will be rich and refreshing.
Cold brew coffee in English, also known as cold brew coffee, ice brew coffee, cold brew coffee, is a kind of coffee extracted at low temperature. The ground coffee powder is directly put into room temperature water and fully soaked, then placed in the refrigerator for refrigeration and extraction for more than 8-12 hours.
The biggest feature of low-temperature brewed coffee is that substances that make coffee taste unpleasant (such as bitter and astringent substances) are not easily released in low-temperature water, so the taste of cold-brewed coffee will be cleaner. At the same time, because of the long soaking, the pleasant substances (such as sour and sweet) in the coffee will be fully extracted, so the overall flavor will be fuller.
AmericanoAmericano in English is a coffee made from espresso mixed with water, and the concentration can be adjusted according to personal taste preferences. For this type of coffee, finely ground coffee powder is put into a designated powder bowl and pressed flat, and then pressurized through an espresso machine to allow hot water to quickly pass through the powder layer, extracting a small amount of coffee liquid with high concentration.
We make the American-style preferred Front Street blend bean series. They are all roasted to a medium-deep degree, with a balanced taste and a rich and mellow aroma. They include the butter-flavored Front Street Classic Blend, the nut-flavored Front Street Boutique Blend, the caramel-flavored Front Street Commercial Blend, and the chocolate-flavored Front Street Dark Cocoa.
AmericanoThe characteristics are that it is quick and the taste can be decided according to personal preference. Different from cold brew coffee, Americano coffee is coffee extracted at high temperature, so it can extract more bitter locations. The coffee taste will be richer and mellower, and the taste will be more solid.
Cold brew coffee making tutorial
Cold brew coffee is similar to cold brew tea. It is suitable for various single-origin beans that express fruity sourness and sweetness. The first choice is the jasmine-flavored Front Street Fruit Ding Ding Coffee, the grape-sour and sweet Front Street Blackberry Coffee, and the passion fruit-flavored Front Street Cicada.
When making cold brew coffee at Front Street, they first grind the coffee beans into the size of white sugar, put them into a clean, sealable container, and then pour room-temperature water into them to fully contact the coffee powder. Then put it in the refrigerator to soak for 8-12 hours, and then use a higher-density filter/filter paper to filter the coffee grounds.
This cold brewing method will amplify the various flavors and aromas of coffee, make the sweet and sour taste softer and fuller, and the taste will be cleaner and purer. The taste of cold brew coffee depends on the roasting and flavor of the coffee beans themselves. Since low-temperature extraction is not easy to extract mellow substances, FrontStreet Coffee recommends that you use coffee beans with a sweet and sour taste/flavor and medium light to medium roasting.
For example, Front Street’s popular “Front Street Oiran Coffee Bean”. This is a medium-light roasted coffee bean, made into cold brew coffee. It has a very attractive and full sweet and sour taste, and tastes like a complex fruit juice. It also has a soft fermented fruit aroma and a sweet aftertaste like black tea.
If Oiran coffee beans are used to make Americano coffee, the roasting level is not deep and cannot form more mellow substances. Therefore, after extremely fine grinding and rapid extraction at high pressure and high temperature, the coffee taste will be thin. Although there is also charming berry acidity and the sweetness of black tea, after being mixed with water to make Americano coffee, the taste will be watery and the overall performance will be bland.
Cold brew coffee shelf life
After the cold brew coffee is extracted, it must be filtered first and then stored, otherwise the coffee powder and water will remain in the extracted state. After the coffee's flavor substances are completely extracted, the woody fiber flavor will be released, so remember to filter it first! !
The filtered coffee liquid can be sealed and stored in the refrigerator for 120 hours. However, the refrigerator environment at home is complicated, so FrontStreet Coffee does not recommend that you store it for such a long time. It is best to drink the filtered cold brew coffee liquid within 72 hours!
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
