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Like Pour over(V60) coffee, hanging ear coffee is drip coffee, but hanging ear coffee does not require complicated timing brewing steps, nor does it require expensive coffee machines and grinding equipment. You can drink a cup of fragrant coffee in a few minutes. Convenience is the biggest advantage of hanging ear coffee. Front Street below will summarize some details to make hanging ear coffee taste better.
Features of hanging ear coffee
Ear-hanging means grinding roasted coffee beans into powder in advance and putting them into a sealable filter bag. With two "ears" that are easy to hang and stable, you can brew coffee anytime and anywhere with just hot water and a coffee container.
When you open the outer packaging of the hanging ear, you can see a filter bag made of biodegradable non-woven fabric wrapped in coffee powder. Because after coffee powder is extracted, there will be insoluble substances, namely coffee grounds. The hot water penetrates the coffee powder to extract the flavor substances, and the filter bag can prevent the coffee grounds from falling into the cup.
The coffee powder used for hanging ear coffee is usually ground from freshly roasted coffee beans in order to retain the original flavor of the coffee to the maximum extent. After the coffee beans are roasted, they need 4 to 7 days to exhaust and grow, and then enter the best tasting period. For example, the coffee beans shipped by Front Street are all freshly roasted within 5 days. If they are made into hanging ear coffee, when we receive it, it is usually 4 to 5 days after roasting, and it is just right to start brewing and tasting.
Since the extraction properties of hanging coffee and Pour over(V60) coffee are the same, the coffee grinding degree is the same as that of Pour over(V60) coffee. In order to facilitate extraction, most hanging ear coffee is individually packaged in small amounts. A single bag of hanging ear coffee produced by Front Street contains 10 grams.
How to brew coffee with hanging ear
The operation of brewing the hanging ear is really simple and convenient. You only need to add a certain amount of hot water to the coffee powder and wait for the coffee liquid to filter, and the entire extraction process is completed. Because the flavor of coffee is affected by many factors, such as the ratio of powder to water, water temperature, water injection method, etc. If you want to brew a cup of coffee with good flavor and taste, Front Street recommends paying more attention to the following details during operation to make the coffee in the cup taste better.
First we need to prepare enough boiling hot water, because the temperature of the water is high enough to release more aromatic substances in the coffee powder. When brewing coffee by hand, Front Street recommends brewing it at a water temperature of 86 to 93 degrees Celsius. If the temperature is only about 80 degrees, the brewed coffee will tend to be tasteless, while boiling water will easily extract a burnt and bitter taste. Therefore, Front Street will open the boiling water and let it sit at room temperature for 1 to 2 minutes, allowing the water temperature to drop slightly to about 90 degrees Celsius.
When brewing coffee by hand, the ratio of powder to water is very important. If you use a powder to water ratio of 1:12 for a cup, the coffee will be too strong and only have a bitter taste. If you use 1:18, there will be too much water and the coffee will have a bland taste and insufficient aroma. Front Street recommends brewing at 1:15 first, with 10 grams of coffee powder corresponding to 150 grams of hot water. The extracted flavor will be more balanced and the extraction will be smoother. If you don’t have a scale, you can also find a graduated cup.
Boil the water before brewing, tear open the sealed package, take out the coffee ear bag, and tear open the non-woven bag along the dotted line above. Then pull the two ears apart, pull the entire ear bag apart, and hang them over the rim of a cup or sharing pot.
First, inject a small amount of hot water into the first stage to completely moisten the coffee powder, and steam it for about 10 to 20 seconds to help discharge the gas in the coffee powder, in order to make the extraction in the later stage more stable. The second section of small water flow is injected steadily until the liquid level is close to full, and waits for the coffee liquid to drop until the coffee liquid flows out. Inject the last section of water until it is full, and wait until all the coffee liquid is dripped to complete the extraction.
Before drinking, Front Street will gently shake the coffee liquid evenly and drink it directly to enjoy the pure flavor of black coffee. You can also add an appropriate amount of sugar or milk to blend according to your personal preference.
The bean menu on Front Street has more than 50 types of single-origin coffee beans from different production areas, including the classic Ethiopian Yirgacheffe coffee beans, Jamaican Blue Mountain No. 1 coffee beans, Costa Rica Mozart coffee beans, etc., all of which can be made into ear-hanging coffee bags. Since hanging ear coffee needs to be ground in advance, the coffee powder has a larger contact area with the air than the whole beans, and the aroma is easier to lose. Front Street recommends drinking it as soon as possible after receiving it, otherwise the aroma in the coffee will be easily lost if stored for too long. If you want to taste the coffee with the fullest flavor, Front Street recommends buying whole beans, freshly ground and brewed, for a better flavor profile.
Hanging ear coffee recommendation
1. FrontStreet Coffee Washed Yirgacheffe Tintin Cooperative Hanging Ear Coffee
The coffee beans from Front Street Guodingding Cooperative are produced in the famous Yirgacheffe production area in Ethiopia. The coffee beans are washed after being picked. Traditionally, Yirgacheffe coffee uses the oldest method of sun-drying. However, because most of the sun-dried coffee beans in the early days were dried on the flat ground, they were inevitably contaminated with earthy dust and other foreign smells. Coupled with the lack of reasonable screening, the quality of sun-dried beans was average. In 1972, Ethiopia introduced washing technology from Central and South America in order to improve the quality of its coffee, making Yirgacheffe coffee's jasmine aroma and bright acidity of citrus and lemon clearer and translucent, making it one of the representatives of fine coffee in the world.
FrontStreet Coffee: Yirgacheffe Guodingding Cooperative Coffee Beans
Production area: Yirgacheffe Gedeo Zone
Producer: Guodingding Cooperative
Altitude: 1900-2300m
Variety: Local native species (Heirloom)
Treatment method: washing treatment
Grade: G1
Flavor: citrus berry lemon sucrose green tea
2. FrontStreet Coffee, Jamaica Blue Mountain No. 1 hanging ear coffee
The green beans of Jamaican Blue Mountain No. 1 coffee on Front Street will carry a certificate of origin from Clifton Estate and the wooden barrels used to transport Blue Mountain coffee. Unlike other countries, Blue Mountain Coffee is the only coffee producing area among all coffees that uses wooden barrels to store green beans. Other producing areas use sacks. The Rainforest Water Frog logo means that Clifton Manor meets the "sustainable agricultural system standards" and is certified by the Rainforest Alliance. The Jamaican Blue Mountain No. 1 coffee on the front street bean rack belongs to the highest grade of Blue Mountain coffee, that is, NO. 1. The specifications of the green beans must be 17-18 mesh, the defect rate is less than 3%, the particles are uniform, and the bean body is full. Blue Mountain No. 1 coffee, which is roasted medium-dark, has a classic Blue Mountain flavor with chocolate and nutty tones.
FrontStreet Coffee: Jamaican Blue Mountain No. 1 coffee beans
Origin: Jamaica Blue Mountains
Altitude: 1310m
Treatment method: washed
Variety: Typica
Flavor: Chocolate Nut Cream Cocoa
3. FrontStreet Coffee Costa Rica Mozart Coffee
This Costa Rica Mozart coffee on Front Street belongs to the Musician Series and uses raisin honey processing. The raisin honey processing method is a double fermentation honey processing method. On the day of harvesting the coffee fruits, pour the harvested coffee fruits into a large tank. The mature and full fruits will sink to the bottom of the water; underdeveloped or overripe fruits will float to the surface. These floating beans need to be removed. The selected coffee fruits are placed on a raised bed to dry in the sun to become a raisin state, and then the pulp and peel are removed, and the pectin is retained before drying. Front Street believes that coffee beans treated with raisin honey will have a richer fermented flavor and a richer and fuller flavor level.
FrontStreet Coffee: Costa Rican Canet Musician Series·Mozart
Country: Costa Rica
Production area: Tarazhu
Altitude: 1800m
Processing method: Raisin honey processing
Grade: SHB
Flavor: raisins, dried fruits, star fruit, berries
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
