In daily articles, Front Street often uses "juice-like" to describe a cup of coffee. "What is the feeling of juice?" Occasionally, a friend will ask Front Street Street after reading it.When we drink a cup of coffee, we combine the flavors and aromas we come into contact with based on our own taste preferences and memories, and associate them with concrete flavors. The "juice feeling" that Front Street refers to every day is an adjective that combines flavor and taste characteristics, referring to the feeling that this cup of coffee tastes like juice.(At this time, some friends may say: Then why not just drink juice?)So what is that juice-like feeling? Usually it means that we can smell the rich fruit aroma from the coffee. The taste is mainly sour and sweet, and the taste is smooth and full. The combination of the three can make people think of drinking juice squeezed from a certain fruit. This is the so-called juice feeling of coffee.Although it sounds complicated, it's actually not difficult to get juice from your coffee. We only need to select the coffee beans, find the corresponding parameters and methods, and then we can easily brew a cup of coffee with juice~How to make coffee taste like juice?If you want to brew coffee with a juice-like taste, the premise is that the beans themselves need to have a fruity aroma, and at the same time, the roasting degree can well retain the acidity and highlight the sweetness. There are actually a lot of coffee beans of this type now, and a large part of the coffee beans sold on the Front Street Bean List belong to this type.For example, Front StreetKenya·Little Tomato, its flavors include tomatoes, plums, and berries; or Front StreetEssai Oiran, the flavors it produces include citrus, strawberry, berry; or Front StreetDivide Manor·Xijiao, the flavors it produces are grape, passion fruit, apricot, floral...So here Front Street will use Front Street Kenya·Small Tomato from the bean list to demonstrate to everyone! Coffee beans from Kenya are famous for their rich and prominent cherry tomato and berry notes. Under ideal extraction, it is easier to brew juice-like coffee.In terms of parameters, we have two options. One is to use a larger ratio of powder to water to make the taste fuller, and the other is to use a smaller ratio of powder to water to make the fruit flavor more vivid. Front Street here chooses the former, so the ratio of pink to water is 1:14(Friends who can’t drink too strong coffee can choose the latter, using a powder to water ratio of 1:16)。
In order to better highlight the sweet and sour taste of coffee, we need to reduce the release of bitter substances. The sour, sweet, and bitter substances in coffee have different dissolution rates because of their different molecular weights. The fastest dissolving substances are sour, followed by sweet, and finally bitter. If we want to better highlight the sweetness and sourness of the coffee, we need to end the extraction before the bitter substances dissolve in large quantities, so as to improve the performance of the sourness and sweetness in the coffee. This is something that is often mentioned on Front Street.Therefore, Front Street chose to inject a large amount of hot water into the front section to increase the proportion of sour substances in the coffee. Although the amount of water injected in the tail section is less, it will be injected for a long time by reducing the water flow. This can extend the extraction time, increase the sweetness and bitterness of the coffee, and improve the sweetness and body of the coffee. Coffee won't just taste sour. The specific brewing parameters are as follows:Amount of brewing powder: 16gPink to water ratio: 1:14(Friends who cannot drink too strong are recommended to use 1:15)Grinding degree:Ek4380% screening rate of 10 scale/No. 20 screenBrewing water temperature: 91°CBrewing method: 3-stage (30/130/64)First, we inject 30ml of hot water and start timing. The steaming time is 30 seconds. After steaming, we inject the second section of hot water. The amount of water injected in this section is 130ml. We use a medium-to-large water flow with a flow rate of about 6ml/s to quickly inject from the inner ring to the outer ring.After going around the outer ring, we can stay on the outer ring and continue to fill the circle with water until the set amount of water is filled. Then we only need to wait for the dripping of coffee liquid in the filter cup to complete, and then we start to inject the third stage of hot water. The water volume in this section is 64ml, which is injected in a small circle with a small flow of water (about 4ml/s).It should be noted that since more hot water is allocated to the second stage and less to the third stage, we need to try to avoid raising the powder bed too much when filling the second stage with water. Because we slowly inject a small amount of water in the third stage, if we raise the powder bed too much when injecting water in the second stage, the hot water injected in the third stage will not be able to reach the high coffee powder on the edge of the filter cup, which can easily lead to under-extraction.Therefore, when we inject the second stage of hot water, try not to raise the powder bed too much. When the height of the powder bed reaches three-fifths of the filter cup, if there is still a large amount of hot water that has not been injected, then we can appropriately reduce the water flow to keep the water level at this position. When the hot water injected in the third stage has completely penetrated, we can remove the filter cup to end the extraction and start our tasting! The entire extraction time is about 2 minutes.As the front street said, the cherry tomatoes punched out in this way have a very round, acidic, and solid taste like juice. When you taste it, you can clearly capture the flavors of cherry tomatoes and ebony plums, the sweetness of caramel, and the sweet and sour flavor similar to berries at the end. The overall taste is like drinking a glass of freshly squeezed cherry tomato juice, which is very good.And if you are brewing ice hand brewing, you can start from"Portal"Learn about the specific parameters and methods in the article. Because the overall flushing method and parameters have certain differences, I won’t introduce them in detail here.Front Street believes that friends who often watch Front Street will easily find that the brewing method has not changed much from what Front Street usually shares, except for slight adjustments in parameters and water injection volume. Although the adjustment is not large, it is enough to make a certain change in the taste of the coffee. Because these changes affect the amount and concentration of coffee solubles, the taste and mouthfeel of the coffee will be altered.What Front Street wants to express is that compared to what parameters and techniques to use, understanding the logic of brewing can actually help us brew an ideal cup of coffee. So don’t be too obsessed with a specific technique or rigidly set a certain parameter. Start learning from the basics first, so that when faced with any beans and any brewing, we can brew the desired and delicious cup of coffee with ease~
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
