In today's materially rich world, the pursuit of refinement is the ideal of everyone's serious life. When you go out to a cafe, it's actually very easy to drink a cup of black coffee. You just need to stand in front of the cashier and say "I want a cup of XX coffee." Then, it was time for the barista to perform, preparing coffee beans, filter cups, filter paper, sharing pots, and hot water. After a whole set of processes, the exquisite coffee flavor is fully revealed with the wonderful brewing skills.
However, a series of tools can be overwhelming when used and take up space when not in use. Isn’t there any convenient tool that can help coffee lovers drink a cup of exquisite coffee? When this problem is presented to the Front Street barista, the Front Street barista will immediately pull out the dusty French press.
The history of the French press
French Press, also known as French Press. This coffee brewing tool is highly praised among workers for its simplicity and convenience. The earliest written records of the French press can be traced back to the 1950s. Two Frenchmen submitted a patent document related to the French press: a metal can is connected to a movable rod. There is a hole at the bottom of the rod, and a layer of flannel is sandwiched above and below. When the lever is pressed to the bottom of the metal can, the coffee grounds will be isolated at the bottom of the container, resulting in a cleaner cup of coffee.
Due to the design flaws of the above-mentioned French press, the container cannot be sealed, which has also prompted other designers to improve their technology and develop a new design version of the French press.
In 1929, a company from Milan, Italy went to the United States to register a modified version of the French Press, and the prototype of the modern French Press appeared.
How the French Press works
The French press is a coffee brewing appliance composed of a glass body and a metal filter with a pressing rod. When using a French press to brew coffee, pour the coffee powder into the pot and add hot water to soak it completely. Then use the pressure bar with a metal filter to separate the coffee liquid and coffee grounds.
Front Street observed the metal filter of the French press and found that the gap between the filters was larger. Compared with the filter paper, some fine coffee powder could easily pass through the metal filter. Moreover, before the coffee liquid is poured out, the liquid is soaked in the coffee powder, so the soaked coffee liquid tastes more mellow and retains more texture and oil of the coffee.
Precautions for using French press pot
No matter how the barista brews it, the coffee will always taste good. But when I brew it at home, I still can't get the exquisite taste that I get when I drink it in a restaurant. Compared with the extremely technical and difficult water injection brewing, friends have turned their attention to the simplest coffee brewing method, which is to brew coffee with a French press.
Since you want a cup of coffee with exquisite taste, even a French press that requires as much care as a mother is very particular about it, and there are still certain restrictions on grinding degree, water temperature and other factors.
[Grinding degree]
Baristas at the Front Street store often receive questions like this: What is the correct scale for grinding? The Front Street store uses an EK43s grinder, while some friends may use a Commander C40 hand grinder. With different equipment, different types of equipment cutterheads, and different maintenance statuses, even if the scale is the same, the thickness of the ground coffee powder will be different.
Therefore, when Front Street recommends the degree of grinding, it generally uses the Chinese standard No. 20 screen pass rate. Front Street Coffee recommends a screening rate of 80% for medium-light roasted coffee beans and 75% for medium-dark roasted coffee beans. Due to different equipment, the specific flavor needs to be determined after sifting and brewing, and then further adjustments can be made.
【Water temperature】
As the temperature rises, the material exchange rate increases more obviously. When Front Street brews different coffee beans, it will adjust the water temperature according to the coffee beans with different roasting degrees.
The lighter the degree of roasting of the coffee beans, the firmer the internal structure of the coffee beans. Flavor compounds precipitate at a slower rate when in contact with water. In order to extract more delicate floral aroma and high-quality fruit sourness and sweetness from lightly roasted coffee beans, high-temperature hot water of 90 degrees Celsius to 92 degrees Celsius is generally used.
When the coffee beans are roasted more deeply, the volume of the cooked coffee beans expands and their internal structure becomes looser. After grinding into granular form, it has higher water absorption efficiency and faster flavor dissolution rate. The increase in water temperature will accelerate the precipitation of more flavor substances with larger molecular weight, which will easily produce a bitter and burnt taste. Therefore, Front Street generally uses hot water between 86 degrees Celsius and 88 degrees Celsius when brewing medium-dark roasted coffee beans.
Notice! ! About choosing coffee beans for French press
French press coffee is an immersion extraction, just like making tea, so it is best to choose coffee beans that can highlight the unique taste: If you want a cup of coffee with a mellow taste and not sour, buy Front Street PWN Golden Mandheling; if you like a sweet taste, your first choice is Front Street Strawberry Candy and Front Street Blackberry, which are processed with honey to enhance the flavor of tropical fruits; finally, if you want coffee that is not bitter, buy Front Street Oiran or Front Street Fruit Ding Ding, both of which have floral aromas and the sour and sweet flavors of citrus and berries.
Front Street French Press Brewing Tutorial
Next, Front Street will useOiran coffee beansAs an example, teach French Press brewing.
Brewing equipment: French press
Water temperature: 90 degrees Celsius
Amount of powder: 15g
Pink to water ratio: 1:15
Grinding degree: Chinese standard No. 20 screen pass rate 70%
Preheat the body of the French press in advance; add 15 grams of groundOiran coffeepowder, and pour 225 grams of 90 degrees Celsius hot water; pull the pressure lever to the highest position and cover the lid, soak for 4 minutes; gently and slowly depress the pressure, and pour out the coffee liquid.
Front Street is brewed through the above parameters and steps.Oiran coffee, the entrance is like compound berry juice, the aftertaste has a rich and long creamy aroma, and the overall body is full and mellow.
Produced in the Damohambera sub-producing area of EthiopiaOiran coffeeIn 2017, he won the championship in the TOH Ethiopian sun exposure category. At that time, he was very interested in this product.Introduction to the taste of Oiran coffeeRich strawberry and cream flavor. In the same year, Oiran Coffee was introduced into the country and entered the Chinese division of the World Coffee Brewing Competition. Since then, Oiran Coffee’s reputation has skyrocketed. Over the years, Oiran coffee has become a must-have coffee bean for coffee lovers every year.
On the bean rack of Front Street Coffee, there are nearly half a hundred types of coffee beans. Oiran coffee is a variety of coffee that represents the wild taste and superior quality of sun-dried coffee beans from the Sidamo production area.
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
