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In the hot weather, iced coffee has become the first choice for many people. There are many ways to make iced coffee, such as iced Pour over(V60) coffee, iced drip coffee, iced Americano, iced latte, etc. produced in coffee shops. But what should you do if you want to drink delicious and rich iced coffee at home? Today I will teach you how to make ice-cold, rich cold brew coffee at home very easily.
What is cold brew coffee?
Cold brew coffee is also a type of coffee extracted with ice water. Like ice drip coffee, the production cycle is long and very time-consuming. But unlike ice-drip coffee, ice-drip coffee uses dripping ice water to extract the coffee flavor, while cold brew coffee uses ice water immersion to extract the coffee flavor.
Since low-temperature soaking makes it difficult to extract large molecular (bitter, mellow) flavor substances, if you use medium-dark roasted coffee beans to make cold brew coffee, the final product may lack the mellow taste. Therefore, to soak the beans for cold brew coffee, FrontStreet Coffee recommends using beans with outstanding flavor, or medium light to medium roast, with sweet and sour taste to make cold brew coffee.
For example, FrontStreet Coffee's "Ethiopian Sidamo Oiran Coffee Beans" are roasted medium to light and retain the unique and rich sour aroma of mixed berries. After being made into cold brew coffee, it will show the full sour and sweet taste of compound berry juice, the fermented aroma of soft fruit wine, and the sweet aftertaste like black tea.
For example, FrontStreet Coffee's "Honduras sherry coffee beans" are barrel-fermented and paired with medium roasting, which retains the wine aroma in the coffee and also stimulates more caramel aromas. When made into cold brew coffee, it will show the aroma of sherry, the sweetness of vanilla cream and a smooth taste, as well as the aftertaste of nutty chocolate.
Long-term extraction at low temperature can fully release the sweet and sourness in the coffee beans, while also controlling the release of bitter substances. Compared with high-temperature Pour over(V60) coffee, cold-brewed coffee will be fuller and cleaner in taste.
How to make delicious cold brew coffee easily at home?
Making cold brew coffee is very simple, and you don’t need to worry too much about the tools to make cold brew coffee. All it takes is a clean, airtight container.
The grinding size for making cold brew coffee can be the grinding size of hand brewed coffee (the size of fine sugar). If you don’t have a grinder at home, you can go to a coffee shop and ask the owner to grind it for you, or ask the coffee bean seller to grind it for you. The coffee beans currently sold by FrontStreet Coffee are all shipped 5 days after roasting. By default, they are original beans and packaged 100% freshly roasted. Friends who are in need can also remark "cold brew grinding powder" after placing the order.
When making cold brew coffee, you will choose 40 grams of coffee powder and add 520 ml of drinking room temperature water/ice water. The ratio of powder to water is 1:13. Then stir evenly, let the coffee powder fully contact with the water, then seal the bottle and put it in the cold storage layer of the refrigerator, and then extract it at low temperature for 8 to 12 hours.
When the time is up, you can take out the coffee filter cup and put it on the filter paper/filter with high pore density to filter out the coffee liquid, and the cold brew coffee is finished. It is simple to make, has low technical requirements, and has a high error tolerance rate. It is very easy to make delicious iced coffee.
Can cold brew coffee be brewed at room temperature? How long can it be kept?
It is not recommended to extract cold brew coffee at room temperature. It is recommended to extract cold brew coffee in the refrigerator. The extracted and filtered coffee liquid can be stored in the refrigerator for 72 hours~
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
