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1. What is an ear-mounted coffee?
It is similar to a tea bag, except that it is filled with ground coffee powder. There are hard paper hanging ears on both sides of the coffee bag, which can be hung directly on the rim of the coffee cup. When drinking, first heat the coffee cup with boiling water, then unfold the coffee bag and hang it on the edge of the coffee cup, and then brew it with hot water boiled by the electric kettle. The coffee liquid will filter into the coffee cup. After flushing, throw away the extracted coffee bag, and you can drink coffee. It is very convenient!
2. What is the difference between ear-mounted coffee and instant coffee?
The ingredients of hanging coffee are 100% whole bean ground coffee without any other additives. It contains hundreds of health-promoting ingredients that can resist liver damage, various cancers, asthma, heart disease and paralysis shaking. It is beneficial to drink 1-2 cups of black coffee daily without any additions. Non-coffee drinkers are more likely to develop these diseases than coffee drinkers. Research results from the American Coffee Research Institute show that coffee contains anti-dementia substances, which can reduce the impact of harmful substances on the body and help prevent some diseases.
And instant coffee is not a healthy drink. Instant coffee is an industrialized synthetic product. The quality of the raw materials of coffee is generally not very good. After concentrated brewing and drying into powder, although the coffee has a high concentration, most of the coffee aroma will be lost under various high-temperature treatments. Therefore, when making instant coffee, you need to add coffee-flavored essence or sugar powder to enhance the sweetness.
At the same time, in order to make instant coffee more suitable for the public's taste, it usually contains a large amount of non-dairy creamer and sugar, so drinking it for a long time or in large quantities will not do any good to the body.
3. What are the characteristics of ear-mounted coffee? How is the quality?
The hanging coffee bags sold by Front Street Coffee are freshly roasted and kept fresh as the main considerations. In order for friends to feel the unique and rich aroma and flavor of coffee after "tailor-made" roasting, Front Street will grind the coffee beans appropriately immediately after they are roasted and cooled, and then individually sealed and packaged. Whether it is coffee beans or hanging coffee bags, Front Street Coffee 100% guarantees that each order will be dispatched within 5 days after the roasting is completed.
The ear-mounted coffee sold on Front Street uses a straight-type ear-mounted filter bag. The non-woven material can better block the coffee grounds and ensure that the brewed coffee has a clean taste. There are 10 small bags in a box of hanging ears, and each small bag contains 10g of ground coffee powder.
The biggest advantage of hanging ear coffee is its portability and convenient brewing. Although hanging ear coffee can only be regarded as the entry-level for freshly ground coffee, it does not mean that it will lose to boutique Pour over(V60) coffee. After all, in terms of taste, we can still choose the coffee that suits us, including the production area, variety, processing method, etc. Below, we take the Front Street Bean List as an example and list three types to choose from based on the public's tastes.
1. Fruit acid refreshing type
For friends who like sourness, Front Street recommends that you only focus on the description of the acidity or floral aroma, such as the Front Street Fruit Ding Ding ear, Front Street Washed Gesha Ear, Front Street Small Tomato Ear, Front Street Flower Butterfly Ear, etc. with white floral aroma and lemon citrus tone; or the flavor is written with terms such as dried fruit, tropical fruit, rose flower aroma, etc., we recommend Front Street Bach Ear, Front Street Red Cherry Ear, and Front Street Oiran Ear.
2. Mellow nutty type
However, Front Street has also noticed that most of our friends still prefer the type with strong taste and mellow flavor. If you are the same, Front Street will choose the medium-dark roast type first. You can choose Front Street Queen's Manor Roast, Front Street Bird of Paradise Roast, Front Street Golden Mandheling Roast, and Front Street Blue Mountain No. 1 Roast. Their flavor descriptions include nuts, chocolate, caramel, cream, and cocoa. The brewed Roasted Roast Coffee has low acidity and a strong roasting aroma, which is very full.
3. Rich wine aroma
Of course, many people are still like Front Street, who are not satisfied with a single flavor and taste, but want to drink a richer level in their hanging ears. If you like wine-flavored coffee, it is recommended to choose Front Street Shirley hanging ears, Front Street Mozart hanging ears, Front Street Strawberry Candy hanging ears, and Front Street Xizha hanging ears; if you like fruity coffee, you might as well start with Front Street Dorothy hanging ears and Front Street Bach hanging ears.
Is it necessary to buy a coffee cup with hanging ears?
As the scene of ear-mounted coffee appears more and more, some merchants have begun to launch ear-mounted coffee cups for this product, claiming that they can easily brew delicious coffee. However, from Front Street's point of view, there are actually many containers in our homes that can be replaced, and there is no need to buy additional ones.
For cups with hanging ears, 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.
Steps for brewing ear-mounted coffee
Most of the hanging ear coffee is in small packages. For example, the hanging ear bag on Front Street Street contains 10 grams of coffee powder per bag and uses a powder-to-water ratio of 1:15, so 150 grams of hot water needs to be injected. Front Street believes that brewing the hanging ear is very casual. If you want to drink stronger black coffee, you can reduce the water used to brew the hanging ear; if you want to drink lighter black coffee, just increase the amount of water. As long as you like it.
1. First, we need to prepare a container for coffee, either a sharing pot or a drinking cup, and a kettle for filling with water.
2. First tear open the sealed package, take out the coffee ear bag, and tear open the non-woven bag along the dotted line above.
3. Pull the two ears apart, pull the entire ear-hanging bag apart, and then hang them on the edge of the cup or sharing pot.
4. First, wet the coffee powder in the first stage and steam it for about 10 to 20 seconds. The second section of small water flow is injected steadily until the liquid level is close to full, and waits for the coffee liquid to drop until the coffee liquid flows out.
Pour in the last amount of water until it is full, wait until all the coffee liquid is dripped, take away the ear-mounted coffee bag, shake it gently to evenly distribute the coffee, and you can start enjoying it. It should be noted that hanging-ear coffee cannot be brewed a second time, because all the delicious substances are released during the first brewing, so the second brewing has no taste, just like drinking wood residue soaked in water.
4. I used to drink instant coffee. Are you used to drinking ear-mounted coffee?
Many of my friends who drink instant coffee are because instant coffee entered the market in the early days and they could only drink instant coffee, some for refreshing, some for convenience, etc. Nowadays, the popularity of coffee culture is getting higher and higher, and the varieties of coffee are becoming more and more abundant. At the same time, the requirements for the taste of coffee are getting higher and higher, and there is an increasing need for high-quality coffee. I have tried the instant version, and I quickly got used to it. Drinking the hanging ear coffee is actually tasting coffee, which can reflect various characteristics of coffee, and it is also very convenient to carry when going to work or traveling.
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
