Do you feel it, friends? After the thunderstorms of the past two days have dissipated, the temperature has begun to slowly climb, and the season of drinking iced coffee is here again! ! ! But, I want to drink coffee, but I don’t want to leave the door. So, is there any easy way to make delicious iced coffee at home? There really is! The omnipotent Front Street took it out of his pocket:
"Ear-hanging coffee"
So today, let’s follow Front Street to see how to easily make delicious iced coffee using ear-hanging coffee pods!
What is hanging ear coffee?
As usual, let’s briefly introduce ear-hanging coffee! Simply put, ear-mounted coffee is a "Pour over(V60) coffee" that is easy to carry and easy to make! By pre-grinding the coffee powder and putting it into a specially made filter bag made of non-woven fabric for sealing, it is easy to carry and make.
The filter bag acts as filter paper, used to filter coffee grounds during brewing; paper ears are installed on both sides to make the bag empty, and they play the role of filter cups. Just hang these two "ears" on the cup wall to support the filter bag for brewing coffee, so it is called "hanging ears".
The way to make hanging ear coffee can be very simple or very elaborate. Exquisiteness means using the same method as manual brewing, and using precise parameter control to brew black coffee with good flavor; to put it simply, it is very simple. The water temperature and water filling are all done by visual inspection~ This will be more in line with the portable characteristics of the hanging ear~
How to make delicious iced coffee with hanging ears?
In fact, it is very simple. After all, good food cannot be separated from good raw materials. If you want to drink delicious food, high-quality Arabica coffee is indispensable.
Front Street recommends giving priority to flavored coffee cups for making iced coffee. If you like floral aromas, Front Street Guo Dingding coffee cups and Front Street Oiran coffee beans are your first choice. They have a soft sweet and sour tone and are very suitable for beginners. If you want to drink rich fruity coffee, buy Front Street Strawberry Candy coffee cups, Front Street Mozart coffee cups, and Front Street Blackberry coffee cups, which can give you a taste like fruit wine.
There are two ways to make iced coffee, one is the drip method that you can drink immediately, and the other is the immersion method that requires a long wait! But no matter which method is used, it is very simple to make~ So let Front Street talk about it next.
1. Make it by hand brewing method
Yes, the ice brewing method of hand brewing coffee is the fastest way for us to get a cup of iced ear coffee. Conventional ice hand brewing will increase the extraction rate by finer grinding based on hot brewing, and then increase the concentration by enlarging the powder to water ratio. Finally, add ice cubes to cool down and dilute, and a delicious cup of iced hand brewed coffee is completed.
However, the ear-mounted coffee pods have already been ground in advance, and we cannot improve the extraction efficiency by finer grinding. Therefore, it is necessary to find another way to increase the extraction efficiency by adjusting other parameters. For example: increase the water temperature.
The reason why we need to increase the extraction rate is because we need to reduce the amount of water, increase the concentration of the coffee, and leave enough room for ice cubes to dilute. In this way, when the ice cubes melt, the coffee will quickly cool down, so it won't be bland and thin. The conventional brewing water temperature is 92°C (light roasted beans)/88°C (dark roasted beans). On this basis, we can increase it by 2°C. If you don’t have a thermometer, you can boil the water directly and leave it for about 1 minute. (In the case of pouring the pot, the time can be extended by 30 seconds without pouring the pot)~
Normally, the amount of powder in a pack of ear hangings is about 10g. The ratio of Pour over(V60) powder to water and ice is 1:10:6. The parameter converted into an ear-hanging bag is 10g of powder, brewed with 100ml of hot water, and 60g of ice cubes. The brewing steps are as follows
① First steam with a small amount of hot water. The injected hot water just covers the coffee powder. The approximate amount of water at this time is 20ml. (It is still recommended to use a scale)
② Then pour the remaining 80ml of hot water in a small circle with a small flow of water. If you don't have a small-diameter pot at home, you can use a hot water bottle instead of pouring it in, and then take out a small spoon or stick and stir it for 10 turns.
③After the coffee dripping is filtered, you can pour the hanging coffee into a container with ice cubes and blend it. In this way, a cup of ice-cold hanging coffee is completed~
2. Preparation using cold brewing method
Cold brew is easy. Just prepare any sealable container, then tear open the ear-hanging bag, and pour the coffee powder in the ear-hanging bag with room temperature water according to the proportion (the empty ear-hanging bag should be kept and cannot be thrown away). The ratio of powder to water is 1:10, that is, 10g of coffee powder needs to be poured into 100ml of room temperature water.
Front Street recommends using multiple bags at one time for extraction. After all, the coffee extracted from one bag of hanging ear cups may only be about 80ml (the powder will absorb water). Then put it in the refrigerator for one night and then filter out the coffee powder through the ear bag the next day~
After we filter it out, we can taste the concentration first. If the concentration is suitable, there is no need to add ice. If the concentration is too thick, just add ice cubes to dilute it~
(It’s easier to soak in a short cup, so it’s best to use a tall cup~)
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
