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The weather has been getting hotter recently, and a cup of iced coffee is like a summer treasure, whether indoors or outdoors. Iced coffee is not necessarily only provided by coffee shops. You can also get a cup of iced coffee with a small ear-hanging coffee bag.
Hanging ear coffee bag
First, let’s talk about the ear-mounted coffee pod. Simply put, the ear-mounted coffee pod is a super simple version of Pour over(V60) coffee. The structure is a coffee filter bag with "ears" containing a certain amount of pre-ground coffee powder. Eliminate the tedious operations such as grinding coffee powder and preparing paper filter cups for Pour over(V60) coffee, and go directly to brewing. It is a coffee product that is very suitable for office workers to take a break from their busy schedule.
There are advantages and disadvantages. While the hanging ear coffee is convenient, the flavor of the ear-mounted coffee will be slightly inferior to that of freshly ground Pour over(V60) coffee due to the pre-ground coffee powder and lack of filter cup assistance.
Hanging ears can also make iced coffee
The specifications of the ear-mounted coffee bags are 10 grams per small bag, and the grinding level is also preset by the store. Therefore, if you brew the earloaf according to the normal process and add ice cubes, the taste will be as thin as water. Therefore, it is necessary to adjust the brewing method. In order to implement the simple characteristics of hanging ear coffee, Front Street will try to be as simple as possible in the method and auxiliary tools.
The materials to prepare are also very simple, just ice cubes, short cups, hot water and ear-hanging coffee bags. If possible, you can also prepare an extra electronic scale.
①Open the outer packaging bag of the hanging ear coffee, tear the seal along the "open" line, open the hanging ear, and hang it on the tall cup.
② Prepare hot water, the water temperature is about 93°C. If you don’t have a thermometer, you can open the lid and let it sit for 2 minutes after the water boils, so that the temperature will be about 90-94°C.
③Pour 100 ml of hot water into the coffee filter bag to ensure that the coffee powder is soaked in the water and soak for 3 minutes. Then take the ear-hanging bag out of the cup and discard it.
④The last step is to add ice cubes to cool down. You can put large hard ice cubes directly into the cup, or you can prepare a separate cup with ice cubes and pour the hot coffee liquid into it. Front Street prefers the latter. Such ice cubes will be more durable and make the ice coffee taste better.
Recommended ear bag suitable for making iced coffee
Many office workers ask Front Street to recommend some coffee beans suitable for making ear-hanging coffee bags. The bean list of Front Street has more than 50 single-origin coffee beans from different production areas, all of which can be made into ear-hanging coffee bags. Below Front Street recommends several hanging ear coffee bars with more classic flavors.
1. Front Street Guodingding Cooperative Hanging Er 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.
Front Street Yirgacheffe Fruit Cooperative Coffee
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. Front Street Brazilian Queen Estate Coffee Beans
Queen's Manor is located in the Morgiana production area in the state of Sao Paulo, Brazil. It is different from many large-scale production areas in Brazil that rely on quantity. The terrain here is higher, forming a relatively unique micro-climate. In addition, the manor manually picks coffee fruits with suitable maturity. Each batch is processed with a small amount of exquisite techniques, and the quality of the coffee beans produced are mostly high-quality. Queen's Manor is most proud of the yellow bourbon variety, which has won multiple awards in the Brazilian COE competition with its exquisite and delicate flavor. The Queen's Manor coffee beans from Front Street are roasted in a medium-dark color, which highlights the classic mellow aroma of Brazilian coffee, and at the same time shows the sweetness of bourbon itself. Not only can we drink the rich coffee aroma, but also the taste has a clear aftertaste.
Front Street Brazilian Queen Estate Coffee Beans
Production area: Brazil Morgiana production area
Manor: Queen's Manor
Altitude: 1400～1950m
Variety: Yellow Bourbon
Treatment method: Sun treatment
Flavor: dark chocolate, cream, peanut, sugar cane, nuts
3. Front Street Sun-Dried Oiran Coffee
Front Street Coffee This Oiran coffee bean introduced by Coffee was the champion of the sun-dried category of the Ethiopian TOH Coffee Competition in 2017. It appeared in front of everyone with its unique strawberry cream flavor and became a blockbuster. Therefore, this batch of green beans was introduced to the country by Hongshun, a green bean trader in Beijing. In the same year, Li Jianfei used this bean to win the runner-up in the 2017 World Brewing Competition in China. This Ethiopian bean was particularly outstanding among the many Gesha participating beans, so it was named Oiran.
Sidamo Oiran Coffee on Front Street
Country: Ethiopia
Origin: Sidamo
Altitude: 2250-2350m
Variety: Local native species
Treatment method: Sun treatment
Flavor: berry, scented tea, honey, lemon, black tea
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
