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Speaking of iced coffee, the first thing that comes to mind may be methods such as ice dripping and cold brewing. Today Front Street will share with you another very simple ice coffee recipe, which is ice brew.
Front Street will first clarify the differences between these three words. Ice drip is about dripping ice water into the coffee powder drop by drop to extract and filter the coffee liquid; cold brew is actually also called cold brew. Cold brew is usually used to soak the coffee powder and extract the coffee in a low-temperature environment; ice extraction is to directly put ice cubes in contact with the coffee powder to extract the coffee. The main materials required for the ice extraction method are very simple, just a large filter cup, ice cubes, and coffee powder. The operation is also very simple and crude. Put the filter paper on the filter cup, pour the coffee powder, then add ice cubes to the coffee powder, and time will do the rest.
Some friends may have tried this method of ice brewing a long time ago, while some friends are still self-taught and fiddled with this method of making iced coffee by themselves. The principles and general methods are almost exactly the same. The remaining differences may be in the details of some parameters, so friends who have learned the method can also look at the parameters and learn from each other.
When it comes to the selection of coffee beans, Front Street recommends choosing some coffee beans with richer flavors. For example, Front Street’s demonstration uses Front Street Xija coffee beans. The iced coffee will have the flavor of grape, blueberry, and passion fruit, and the juice will be full. In terms of the amount of powder, you need to consider the size of the filter cup. It is best not to exceed 1/2 the height of the filter cup because the capacity of the ice behind it must also be considered. Front Street uses the No. 02 filter cup of Hario V60, and the amount of powder used is 30 grams. The grinding degree of coffee will be coarser than that of hand brewing, and the passing rate of No. 20 sieve is 65-68%.
After grinding the coffee, pour it into the filter cup, pat it flat, and then inject 30ml of cold water to moisten the coffee powder layer, in order to avoid serious uneven extraction.
For the rest, you can move the pot aside, wait for the ice cubes to melt slowly at room temperature, and extract the coffee.
It takes about 5 hours for all the ice cubes to melt. After the ice cubes are dissolved, you can remove the filter cup. The extracted coffee liquid can be drank immediately. When drinking, you can add 1-2 large ice cubes to keep the coffee at a low temperature and taste better. You can also put it in the refrigerator to chill for a while before drinking.
Although this ice extraction method has many uncertain factors in extraction, such as the melting speed of the ice cubes and the flow of water after the coffee melts are difficult to control. But the actual fault tolerance rate is very high, which means that for daily drinking, the coffee produced by this method tastes good.
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
