The same beans, cold brew and hand brew taste completely different. Many people feel that beans that are "too sour" when brewed by hand taste great when brewed into cold brew. However, dark-roasted beans that are stable when brewed by hand may appear bland after cold brewing. Behind this is actually the different "preference" for beans between the two extraction methods.
Cold brewing and hand brewing have different extraction logics
Hand brewing is a high-temperature (around 90°C) rapid extraction, the aroma is released instantly, the acidity is bright, and the layers are clear, but the fault tolerance rate is low. Slight deviations in water temperature, grinding, and water injection methods can easily lead to bitterness.
Cold extraction is a long-term soak at low temperature (refrigerated in the refrigerator). The extraction process is very gentle. The release of bitter substances is greatly suppressed, the acidity is softened, and the sweetness is fully brought out. Therefore, cold brew products are usually smoother, sweeter, and more "friendly."
Why Cold Brew Is Better for Fruity Tonka Beans
The flavor of fruity beans (lightly roasted single product) is mainly floral and fruity, sour and sweet, and these are precisely the parts that cold brewing can completely retain or even amplify. Low-temperature extraction makes the floral citrus of Yerga, the strawberry passion fruit of Oiran, and the sweet and sour cherry tomatoes of Kenya softer and clearer, making it taste like a cup of fruit tea with full flavor.
In cold brewing, the burnt aroma and richness of dark roasted beans will become flat, lacking the impact of high-temperature brewing, and it will easily taste "boring".
How to choose beans according to drinking method
Mainly drink cold brew → Prioritize light roasted single-origin beans or fruity blended beans with obvious fruity aroma
The main drink is Pour over(V60) → choose according to taste, there are corresponding beans for the floral and fruity pie or the mellow pie.
Drink both cold brew and hand brew → Prepare a fruity single-origin bean, suitable for both cold brew and hand brew
Front Street Yirgacheffe Fruit Ding Ding, Front Street Ethiopian Oiran, and Front Street Strawberry Sugar Coffee Beans are all fruity beans with outstanding cold brew performance. If you want to drink a soft, sweet, neither bitter nor astringent cold brew, the right place to start is the fruity bean.
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
