It’s true that different people have completely different opinions when it comes to making coffee.
In the eyes of "old coffee people" who keep everything simple, making a cup of coffee only requires three steps: grinding powder - pouring powder - filling with water, and you can drink it after the dripping is finished. Any additional step is considered a waste of time; if you start from a store that needs to ensure stable production, such as Front Street believes that a good cup of coffee is inseparable from the control of various parameters, so the brewing framework must be set based on the characteristics of the coffee beans;
And if you are an avid hand-brew enthusiast, then there is a high probability that you will be addicted to various tricky techniques, equipment and complex data, and even sum up an "exclusive extraction plan" by yourself.
Compared with the above three types of experienced people, many friends who come to the Front Street store are still in the novice stage or have just started. These "newbies" who have just started to get involved in the brewing circle usually first search for various hand brewing equipment on the Internet, learn various brewing plans, watch various video tutorials, and even recite certain professional terms on coffee. Then they find that their eyes have learned it, but their hands have not, and the coffee they brew is a mess.
For this kind of friends, Front Street does not recommend that you worry too much about what grinding degree, what technique, what water temperature, and what extraction rate to use. Instead, start by finding the feeling, then pay attention to a few principles and details, and then match it with coffee beans that suit your taste, and try to brew a satisfying cup of coffee first.
The first step is to prepare the necessary equipment: a hand brew pot for filling water, a filter cup and filter paper to separate the coffee grounds, a grinder for grinding coffee beans, an electronic scale with a timing function, a thermometer for measuring hot water, and a sharing pot for coffee (a cup can also be used instead). When it comes to electronic scales and thermometers, many friends will buy them based on the situation, but Front Street believes thatEach of them plays a relatively important role, andThe price is not expensive, thereforeIf you want to improve your brewing level in a targeted manner, it’s best to prepare them all.
inhand flushWhen it comes to the selection of coffee beans, we can roughly divide them into three categories: sour, balanced, and rich. Friends who like sour coffee should go straight for floral, citrus, and berry aromas; if you are pursuing a balanced taste, you can choose beans with both fruit and baking aromas (such as toast, nuts, chocolate); and if you prefer a rich coffee type, it is recommended to directly choose dark roasting.Front Street is used herekafa forest, has floral aroma, citrus sourness, and a slight aroma of melon seeds and nuts, which belongs tomedium light roast。
Now that the equipment is ready and the coffee beans are available, let’s start brewing right away~
Weighing beans + grinding powder: Before grinding, we need to weigh the amount of beans for a cup of coffee. Here we use the 15g beans produced daily by Front Street. If you choose not to buy an electronic scale, you can refer to this article on Front Street"No scale? I'll teach you to use a spoon to measure the weight of coffee!", and then make a judgment based on the utensils at home.
After weighing the coffee beans, throw 2 to 3 extra beans into the grinder and grind them into powder. When the particles are close to the level of white sugar, pour all the remaining coffee beans into the bean bin and grind them into powder.. If it is much thicker than granulated sugar, adjust the scale 3 to 5 steps finer. If it is much finer than granulated sugar, adjust the scale 3 to 5 steps coarser.grid。（This method can onlyhelp usroughlyTo determine the grinding scale and find the most suitable thickness of coffee beans, you must also consider the subsequent brewing conditions. )
Prepare hot water: Although Front Street has talked about the impact of the water temperature parameter on the flavor of coffee in many articles, for novices to practice this scenario, reciting too much data will only make us more troubled. Therefore, Front Street recommends that you directly choose a conservative value - 90°C. It is not only suitable for multiple types of coffee beans at the same time, but also allows us to try to avoid the results of over-extraction and under-extraction. If you don't have a thermometer, boil the water and open the lid at room temperature of 25 to 30 degrees Celsius for about 2 minutes and 30 seconds to 3 minutes, and it will drop to 90 degrees Celsius.
Water injection: When making tea, we are accustomed to pouring hot water according to the amount of tea leaves. In fact, the same is true for coffee. If there is less water, the taste will be stronger, and if there is more water, the taste will be weaker. When you first try it, Front Street recommends using a powder-to-water ratio of 1:15, that is, 15g of coffee powder corresponds to 225g of hot water. If you feel that the brewed coffee is too strong and bitter, add more hot water next time so that the powder-to-water ratio becomes 1:16 or 1:17. Still the same, friends who don’t have an electronic scale can refer to another article on Front Street"Without an electronic scale, how can I blindly brew coffee?", judge the amount of water injection by feeling it.
The water injection method is not only the most basic part of Pour over(V60) coffee, but also the parameter with the most diverse gameplay. It can make the coffee show different tones. However, when you are still in the entry stage, you may not understand the "mystery" at all. In fact, there is no need for fancy techniques, even a novice can do itMake delicious coffee, we only need to do it in about 2 minutesMake sure all the hot water is poured over the coffee grounds andkeep them in full contactThat’s it。
For example, the one used in Front StreetThree-stage extraction15g of Kaffa forest coffee powder, corresponding to 225g of water, is divided into three injections. The weight of the electronic scale shows: 30g, 125g, 225g.
whenThe drip filtering time falls between 1 minute and 50 seconds to 2 minutes and 10 seconds, and the coffee grounds have also formed a nice "bowl shape". It tastes moderately concentrated, which means there is no big problem with adding water.
If your extraction time is less than 1 minute and 40 seconds and the taste is light or sour, it may be caused by too much water flow. Front Street recommends brewing with a gentler small water flow; on the contrary, if the extraction time is more than 2 minutes and 20 seconds and the taste is strong and bitter, it may be that the coffee powder has been soaked for too long. Next time, you can increase the water flow to circulate.
After successfully brewing a cup of delicious coffee,means youHaving roughly mastered the steps of brewing also means that you have a certain understanding of individual parameters, and you can continue to become familiar with them and make improvements in future operations. And if you want to improve your brewing skills, you have to try to understand how they change the flavor of coffee, what is the relationship between various parameters, and then use them flexibly in brewing.
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
