Coffee equipment ice drip pot | Why is ice drip coffee so expensive? How many hours does it take to make ice drops? What are the taste characteristics of iced drip coffee?

As the weather gets hotter, the pre-made coffee in the refrigerator on the front street has become the most popular hot-selling item besides iced American style. Without any introduction, everyone will immediately say when they enter the store: Boss, have a cup of iced coffee!

Some customers may hesitate because they don’t know what to drink, so they ask the barista: What’s the difference between that iced drink and American style? Front Street’s answer: One was made the day before, and the other is made now. The customer became even more confused. In the end, he silently chose the iced American style because he thought it was cheaper~

All iced coffees on the market can be roughly divided into two categories. One is the hot extraction mode that uses high-temperature hot water to brew and then adds ice to cool down, such as iced hand brew and iced American style;The other is a cold brew type that uses low-temperature/normal-temperature water to directly contact coffee powder to slowly release flavor substances. Ice dripping is one of the most widely used.

We all know that cold brew coffee, which is based on cold brewing technology, uses a long-term soaking method and finally filters it out. As long as you have a refrigerator and coffee powder (beans), you can easily make a cup of iced coffee by finding a clean container with a large enough capacity and a material that can be filtered.

In contrast, making ice-drip coffee is more demanding and requires a specialized drip filter device—an ice-drip pot. There are many cool styles of this type of brewing equipment on the market, with prices ranging from tens of yuan to thousands of yuan, but the main structure generally has three parts: the upper pot with a valve that can adjust the dripping speed of ice water, the filter cup for holding coffee powder, and the lower pot for collecting coffee liquid.

With the help of this device, ice water will fall into the filter drop by drop, react with the coffee powder inside to extract soluble flavor substances, and then fall into the lower pot by gravity. The extraction will not stop until the pot is filled with enough coffee liquid.

Since only low-temperature ice water is involved from beginning to end,Moreover, the trickling filtration speed is very slow (average 1 to 2 seconds/drop), so it takes longer toLet more flavor substancesRelease them all toget oneModerately thickdegree。Coffee is less likely to release bitterness, etc.Miscellaneoustaste,

Take Front Street making ice dripping as an example. The Tiamo HG2713 three-layer ice dripping pot is used. Front Street is accustomed to using a powder-to-liquid ratio of 1:10, that is, 60 grams of coffee powder extracts 600ml of coffee liquid. The dripping frequency of ice water is about 7 to 8 drops in 10 seconds. In addition, the dripping tip sometimes gets clogged by cold, and we need to keep an eye on it to make adjustments at any time, so the whole process usually lasts 5 to 8 hours, depending on the amount of powder used and the dripping speed.

During the entire process of drip filtering, new cold water will continue to pass through the powder layer, and then filtered to form new coffee liquid. Compared with the static cold brew type, ice dripping is a dynamic brewing that extracts and filters at the same time. The ice water and coffee powder are not in full contact with each other, so in terms of taste, ice dripping of the same coffee beans will be cleaner and clearer than cold brewing.

The operation is very simple, just put it into a sealed and clean bottle and put it in the refrigerator for more than 8 hours. Until the refrigeration fermentation is completed, we can add an appropriate amount of ice cubes to the strong coffee according to our preference and enjoy it. The reason whycoffee putLeave it in the refrigerator overnight for the purpose ofcontrolled fermentationandavoid spoilage。

Before and after, it takes about ten hours to make a 600ml pot of espresso liquid, so ice dripping is generally considered to be the longest of all production methods. This is why some coffee shops sell ice dripping on a reservation basis. (Of course, you can also drink ice-drip coffee on Qian Street without making a reservation, but the taste will be more random.)

In order to highlight the unique mellow taste of ice dripping while avoiding the odor at the end caused by long-term drip filtering, many coffee shops will specially choose high-quality single-origin beans full of fruity aroma. SoCompared with the conventional Italian bean recipe, the raw material cost of Bingdi is relativelyWillmore expensiveoneSome.

For example, when Front Street prepares ice drops, they like to give priority to beans that express floral, fruity, fermented wine and other flavor types. With the help of slow drip filtering and low-temperature maturation, the ice drops produced not only have the translucent flavor of fruity coffee, but also are filled with a fermented texture like fruit wine, which is mellow yet refreshing.

Last but not least, the reason why ice-drip coffee is generally more expensive is because it uses a larger amount of powder. For example, Front Street requires 60 grams of coffee powder to make a 600ml pot of ice-drip coffee. In the end, a total of 3 cups can be sold (each cup is about 200ml + ice cubes). However, if you follow the hand-brew production habit, 60 grams of coffee beans can brew 4 cups of ​Pour over​(V60) coffee (15g/cup).

Of course,Price is not the only criterion for measuring a cup of coffee, Front Street has also seen affordable ice drops that are extremely cost-effective, and they are equally mellow and delicious. As long as the barista makes them with care and the extraction is in place, the quality of the beans is online, and the pricing will depend more on the target positioning of the cafe.

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