Brewing coffee by hand is not as difficult as everyone imagines, but many times, people only pay attention to the general direction of brewing, and some small details are easily overlooked. And there are some details that determine whether a cup of coffee tastes good or not. Now Front Street will tell you which details you should focus on.
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Detail 1: The grinder cannot be used
When Front Street answered the questions of many friends about Pour over(V60) coffee, they found that the most common problem was the grinding degree. It was not that they were not sure about the grinding degree of Pour over(V60) coffee, but that their grinder hardware was not up to par. The coffee that comes out is watery or burnt and boring, which has nothing to do with the grinding thickness. Therefore, if you want to make delicious Pour over(V60) coffee, you cannot save money on a good grinder.
A good grinder: grinds evenly
Good grinder⬆️ Bad grinder⬇️
Detail 2: Grinding the powder is the last step in the preparation stage
Basically, friends who make coffee by hand know the importance of freshly ground coffee. After the coffee beans are ground into powder, the flavor dissipates quickly, so the best way is to prepare the filter cup and other equipment and the water temperature is ready before grinding the coffee.
Detail 3: Please check carefully before filling with water
Front Street lists a few points that should be paid attention to for your reference. Please check whether the waste water in your lower pot is drained cleanly before filling it with water. When wetting the filter paper and the warm pot, the water remains in the lower pot, and sometimes we forget to pour it out and just flush it. Even experienced baristas sometimes make these stupid mistakes, so you need to pay special attention before filling them with water.
After grinding the coffee powder, it is recommended to reset the electronic scale to zero before pouring in the coffee powder to confirm whether the gram weight is accurate. Beware of the grinder eating powder without your knowledge.
Detail 4: Grasp the extraction time
In addition to the coffee grinding size, the extraction time is the most difficult to grasp. Many friends say that it is very important to grasp the end time of water injection. How can the free settlement of the remaining coffee liquid be controlled?
In fact, after grasping the grinding degree, what can basically affect the time is the water injection method. The first is the problem of segmented extraction. The more segments there are, the longer the overall extraction time will be. Therefore, the one-sword style takes less time than the three-stage style (a difference of 15-20 seconds)!
Water injection with a large flow of water will also take less time than water injection with a small flow of water. The large flow of water can raise the height of the powder layer and dilute the thickness of the powder layer at the bottom, so the water will naturally flow faster. Large water flow and small water flow can also be used alternately to adjust the extraction time.
Generally, it is more reasonable to control the brewing time between 1 minute and 50 seconds to 2 minutes and 10 seconds.
Detail 5: Please shake the pot after making coffee
Under normal circumstances, the coffee liquid that has just been brewed is not completely blended evenly, and is generally thicker at the bottom and lighter at the top. So you need to shake the pot to mix the coffee liquid evenly. One of the reasons for using the Yunduo Sharing Pot is that it is easier to shake (actually it is for good looks).
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
