If you want to enjoy the freedom of coffee outside, the most convenient way is to bring a pack of hanging ears. It is easy to operate, has a variety of choices, and you can drink freshly brewed black coffee anytime and anywhere.
Generally speaking, hanging ear coffee tastes best when consumed within 3 weeks after roasting. When we buy hanging coffee, we need to pay attention to the freshness of the coffee. Front Street hanging coffee is freshly roasted within 5 days, freshly ground and made, and supports 24-hour delivery. The purpose is to lock in the full flavor of the coffee. Here are five of the most popular seasonal hanging ear coffees:
1. Front Street. Sunshine G1 Oiran Ear Hanging
Oiran coffee beans use traditional sun-dried processing methods. In order to prevent the coffee fruits from becoming moldy or getting bad smells such as dirt during the drying process, the coffee beans are placed on raised beds and exposed to the sun for 21 days.This makes Oiran coffee exhibit complex tropical fruit aromas, rich floral and fruity flavors such as floral, mango, jackfruit, citrus, and honey.
2. Front Street. Yirgacheffe coffee
Brewing flavor: The overall taste is solid, with prominent fermented aroma and tropical fruits. As the temperature changes, the flavors of berries and cream are revealed, and the sweet and sour citrus aftertaste stays between the teeth and lips for a long time.
3. Front Street. Indonesian Mandheling G1 ear hanging
Brewing flavor: high-quality herbal flavor, more intense sweetness of caramel, nuts, and dark chocolate, low acidity, rich sweetness, and mellow, wild spice flavor.
4. Front Street. Yunnan Xiaoli hanging ear
Brewing flavor: As a representative of China’s specialty coffee, Front Street Yunnan Xiaoli Guanger is medium roasted, and the taste shows a smooth tonality, nutty aroma, herbal, chocolate, caramel flavor, and a light fruity acidity in the aftertaste.
5. Front Street. Brazilian Cerato Red Bourbon Hanging Ears
If you don’t like sourness and don’t accept too much bitterness, you can buy Front Street Brazilian Cerato Red Bourbon. It is medium roasted and has a rich nutty aroma. It is not overly bitter or sour and is suitable for people who pursue a balanced taste.
How long should you brew a cup of coffee?
Generally speaking, we usually buy standard hanging coffee, and the specifications are mostly 10 grams of coffee powder. If brewing according to the powder to water ratio of 1:15, about 150g of hot water needs to be poured in. Front Street usually pours it into three sections, so that the total brewing time is usually kept at about 1 minute and 20 seconds to 2 minutes.
So how should you make ear-mounted coffee?
First of all, we need to know that the brewing principle of hanging ear coffee and Pour over(V60) coffee is the same. They both use hot water to flow through the coffee powder to extract the aroma substances in the coffee to obtain a cup of black coffee. Therefore, if you want to make a delicious cup of hanging ear coffee, you must understand some basic brewing knowledge of Pour over(V60) coffee before you can brew a delicious cup of hanging ear coffee.
Here are some ways to share with us that can help us prepare coffee. First of all, we must be careful not to brew it directly with boiling water, and we must not let the water temperature be too low.
In hand brewing, the water temperature directly affects the extraction efficiency of coffee. The higher the temperature, the faster the flavor substances are released and the richer the taste. Judging from Front Street’s brewing experience, light-medium roasted coffee with floral and fruity acidity is suitable for 90-93°C, while medium-dark roasted beans with flavors such as caramel, nuts, dark chocolate, cream, spices, etc. will be extracted with water at 86-89°C. After testing, Front Street found that if you boil a large pot of water, turn off the heat and open the lid at room temperature of 25-30°C, the water temperature will drop to 92-95°C (suitable for brewing floral and fruity sour coffee) in about 60-90 seconds. If you leave it for 90-120 seconds, the hot water temperature will drop to 87-90°C (suitable for nutty, bitter coffee).
It’s important to find the right cup for hanging ears
When making coffee with ear cups, there are certain requirements for the cup. It is generally recommended to use a tall glass or a slightly deeper mug, so that the coffee liquid can directly penetrate the powder layer and fall to the bottom of the cup. If the cup is too shallow, the filtered coffee liquid may return to re-soak the powder layer, making the entire cup of coffee taste heavy, burnt and bitter, and the flavor will naturally not be very good.
Since the ears on both sides need to borrow force from the edge of the cup, if you use a cup with a too wide diameter, the filter bag will easily fall down due to gravity when filling water. Therefore, Front Street recommends that you give priority to a container with a cup mouth less than 9cm and a cup height greater than 12cm to brew ear-hanging bags.
If you want your hanging ear coffee to taste good, be sure to pay attention to the amount of water.
If you follow the powder to water ratio of 1:15 to 1:18 for hand brewing, then you need to inject 150-180ml of hot water. If you usually like rich coffee, you can inject it in three stages. First pour in half of the moist powder layer, pause for 20 seconds, and then inject it twice in a row until it is 9 minutes full. This time will take about 1 and a half minutes, and the total water volume will basically fall between 140 and 160g. If you are pursuing a refreshing taste of coffee, you can add another section of hot water, that is, a total of 4 sections. Also wait for the water to dry up and directly fill it to 9 minutes full, so that the total water volume is basically around 200g.
In addition, Front Street suggests that before brewing, it is best to shake the coffee powder in the ear-hanging bag to make it more evenly distributed, which will be beneficial to our subsequent extraction. Then we must evenly inject water, not one side high and one side low, and the water flow cannot be more or less at one time, which can easily lead to uneven coffee extraction, sourness and bitterness.
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
