There are many ways to make delicious iced coffee (types of iced coffee). From the more complicated ice dripping, to the most instant Pour over(V60) iced coffee, to the easy-to-make and mainstream cold brewing method. The cold brew method has many names, Cold Brew (cold brew coffee in English), cold brew coffee, cold brew coffee, cold brew coffee, etc., all refer to the same method of making iced coffee.
In this article, you can learn about the benefits of iced coffee and quickly master the "iced coffee recipe and cold brew coffee ratio". Learn how to choose iced coffee beans & iced coffee powder. What’s more important is that you don’t need any special equipment such as a coffee machine for iced coffee, a cold brew coffee pot, or a cold brew coffee cup. You must know that easy-to-use utensils have always been hidden in people's homes and readily available. Let's take a look at the following cold brew coffee tutorial:
1. Prepare 50g of Front Street Butterfly coffee beans and grind them into coarse powder (the pass rate of No. 20 standard sieve is 65%).
2. Pour the ground coffee powder into a sealed bottle and add 500ml of room temperature water.
3. Cover the lid and shake evenly, put it in the refrigerator for 12-14 hours, and perform low-temperature slow extraction.
4. After the time is up, use filter paper (filter) to separate the coffee grounds. The resulting coffee liquid can be enjoyed immediately, or can be refrigerated and consumed within two days.
5. Because this plan is to use a 1:10 ratio to make cold brew coffee, allowing as much substance as possible to be dissolved in less water, so the cold brew coffee will be rich and full of sweet and sour fruit flavor. You can also add an appropriate amount of ice cubes to dilute and chill, so that it will be more refreshing and refreshing to drink.
Cold brew coffee benefits
1. Delicious taste: Friends who have watched the six-step coffee tasting video know that most of the aromatic substances in coffee beans will be lost during the process of hand brewing with hot water. The biggest difference in flavor between iced coffee and hot coffee is that cold brew can retain water-soluble aromatics to the greatest extent, making the aroma you drink closer to what you smell.
2. Special: Iced coffee is made with cold extraction technique, which has low bitterness and astringency. Rich, round, fermented flavor like wine
3. Cheap: If you do it yourself, you can use better coffee beans to make cold brew. The price of cold brew coffee is also cheaper than buying ready-made cold brew coffee
4. No waste and environmental protection: consume the stock of good beans and mixed beans, and the coffee grounds can be used as fertilizer, as well as refrigerator, toilet aromatics, etc.
Q: Are commercially available cold brew coffee pods useful?
A: After the ground coffee powder is left for several hours, most of the good aroma will evaporate. Because of the lack of these good flavors extracted through low temperature and dissolved in cold brew coffee. This kind of cold brew coffee will be much inferior to the finished product of freshly ground raw beans and cold brewing.
Q: After the iced coffee is made, can it be drunk overnight or the next day?
A: If you make iced coffee according to this tutorial, it can be stored in the refrigerator for several days. Of course it needs to be placed in a sealed jar - at least a glass jar with a lid to prevent the smell from escaping.
Q: Will cold brew coffee or ice drip coffee be sour?
A: If you choose lightly roasted coffee beans with high acidity, the extracted coffee liquid will have a fruity and sour taste. If you don’t like the acidity of coffee, you can choose to make it with coffee beans that are darker roasted, wet-planed, or wind-stained.
Q: Is cold brew coffee high in caffeine?
A: The melting point of caffeine is around 220 degrees. The level of caffeine depends on the caffeine content of the coffee beans used. For the same bean, cold water extraction may have slightly lower caffeine than hot water extraction.
Q: What is the grinding thickness for cold brew coffee?
A: Just use the thickness of powder you are used to grinding by hand.
Q: What is the difference between cold brew coffee and iced drip coffee?
A: The method of making ice-drip coffee is to use cold water + ice cubes, and drop by drop of ice water into the coffee powder for extraction; the fermented flavor of ice-drip coffee is more obvious. Cold brew coffee uses a method similar to cold brew tea...the coffee powder is soaked in water, chilled in the refrigerator for a few hours, and then filtered to obtain the coffee liquid. The flavor is more rounded and there is more aroma.
Q: There are many varieties of coffee beans. Are there any particularly suitable cold brew coffee beans?
A: All coffee beans can be used for cold brewing, and the flavor extracted will of course depend on the coffee beans used. This is why we recommend making your own; after all, it’s easier to get your favorite taste by cold brewing your favorite coffee beans.
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
