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Recently, many friends have come to the Front Street store to ask if they have iced drip coffee. Front Street’s iced coffee not only offers iced drip, but also cold brew, iced Americano, and iced Pour over(V60) extractions of various single-origin coffee beans. As the two most popular iced coffees, customers often ask what the difference is between Front Street iced coffee and cold brew. Why does iced coffee need to be "pre-ordered"? What are the differences in the details of the two methods? Don’t worry, let Front Street tell you today.
To put it simply, both are low-temperature-extracted coffee. The difference is that one is brewed and the other is drip-filtered. But sometimes, the term cold brew coffee is also used to refer to low-temperature brewed coffee. However, in most cases, cold brew coffee refers to cold brew coffee soaked in cold water. The term cold brew coffee is purely an elegant translation of English (Cold brew).
Cold brew or ice drip, which one tastes better?
The current street uses the same coffee beans——front street mozartA pot of cold brew coffee and a pot of ice-drip coffee were made according to the parameters produced by the store. In the end, it was found that both of them showed their own characteristics: the front street Mozart cold brew was closer to the original flavor of the coffee beans, with the aroma of raisins, osmanthus, and sweet orange, and the layering was fuller and richer; while the ice-drip coffee was cleaner, more translucent, and refreshing, with a strong fermented aroma of fruit wine, which fully demonstrated the unique taste of this method.
(The flavor comparison between these two methods is based on the focus of the same coffee beans through these two methods. If you don’t taste it carefully, you may not find any difference.)
Some friends came to the Front Street store and saw on the blackboard that "Ice-drip coffee needs to be reserved two days in advance." This is because ice-drip coffee takes a long time to make. It takes 6-8 hours to filter. After filtering, it needs to be left for 12 hours before drinking. Therefore, if a friend wants to drink ice-drip coffee with designated coffee beans, they need to make a reservation in advance.
Of course, in such hot weather as now, Front Street will make ice-drip coffee every day. Of course, the choice of beans depends on Front Street’s schedule for the day.
Parameters of ice-drip coffee (it should be noted here that the parameters of ice-drip cold brew are not unique. Just like Pour over(V60) coffee, there are many completely different parameters that can achieve the purpose of delicious drink. Here are the parameters used by Front Street)
Amount of powder: 60 grams (depending on the size of the container)
Grinding degree: No. 20 sieve pass rate 85% (fine sugar)
Powder to liquid ratio: 1:10
Temperature: Extraction of ice-water mixture at room temperature
Ice drop flow rate: 7 drops in 10 seconds
Extraction time: 6-8 hours
How to drink: After extraction, seal and refrigerate for 12 hours. When drinking, add 50 grams of ice cubes for every 200 ml of liquid.
Cold brew coffee parameters
Amount of powder: 30 grams (depending on the size of the container)
Grinding degree: No. 20 screen pass rate 80%
Pink to water ratio: 1:12
Temperature: Refrigerated extraction at 7 degrees Celsius
Extraction time: 12 hours
How to drink: After extraction, filter with filter paper and refrigerate for 4 hours before drinking.
Generally speaking, for the sake of flavor experience and health and safety, whether it is ice dripping or cold extraction, as long as the extraction method is carried out in a low-temperature environment, Front Street recommends that you drink it within 5 days (counted from the production date).
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
