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In the hot summer, listen! The cicada on that tree is chirping! The cicada on another tree is also chirping! In Guangzhou, in this damn summer, everything is either steamed, baked or boiled. If you have a glass of ice-cold drink in your hand, it can pull you from hell to heaven in an instant. Recently, many friends who come to FrontStreet Coffee stores will ask, is there cold brew coffee?
But did you know that there are actually three types of cold brew coffee: iced drip coffee, iced coffee and cold brew coffee. What's the difference between them? Next, let FrontStreet Coffee explain to you the differences between them.
Ice drip coffee
What is iced drip coffee? Iced coffee is the coffee liquid extracted by dripping ice water through coffee powder. It is said that iced drip coffee was invented by the Dutch. However, ice-drip coffee has a history of hundreds of years in Japan. Iced drip coffee is also known as "Kyoto Coffee" (Kyoto coffee) and "Japanese-style slow-drip" (Japanese-style slow-drip). In South Korea, almost every cafe sells ice-drip coffee, and many famous ice-drip equipment brands also come from Japan and South Korea.
The advantages of ice-drip coffee are: ① Filtered by cold water, the coffee is 100% soaked and moist, and the extracted coffee tastes smooth and not sour. The disadvantage is that it is difficult to control the trickling filtration speed. Generally, 7 drops in 10 seconds is the optimal trickling filtration speed.
[How to make FrontStreet Coffee iced drip coffee]
Amount of powder: 60 grams
Pink to water ratio: 1:10
Grinding degree: Chinese standard No. 20 screen pass rate 85%
Time: 6 to 8 hours
1. Place a piece of circular filter paper at the bottom of the powder cup, wet it with water and fit it to the cup wall, put in 60g of ground coffee powder (FrontStreet Coffee uses a Chinese standard No. 20 sieve, with a passing rate of 80%, which is just a little coarser than hand brewing), then smooth the surface of the coffee, or you can use the weight of the powder hammer to lightly press the powder layer to make the surface smooth.
2. Place a piece of filter paper on top of the coffee powder. Because the tension of the filter paper can make the water evenly distributed on the surface of the coffee powder layer for extraction, if there is no filter paper, long-term water droplets will drip out of the powder bed into a pit.
3. Use ice water to "pre-soak" and evenly wet the entire coffee powder layer with ice water. This step is like steaming Pour over(V60) coffee, which can improve the extraction effect and the consistency of the finished product.
4. Put a 1:1 mixture of ice and water into the water bottle, and adjust the regulating valve to make 7 drops of water for about 10 seconds.
5. After making, pour the coffee liquid into a sealed glass bottle and put it in the refrigerator to oxidize overnight, so that the flavors of the coffee can be blended together, making it taste better and easier to drink.
So, what coffee beans are used to make delicious iced drip coffee? There are coffee beans commonly used for ice dripping in Front Street and I would like to share them with you.
front street dark berry type：Hacienda Canet, Costa Rica - Front Street Musicians Series Mozart 60g
Front Street Mozart’s coffee beans use anaerobic honey processing and have a very special raisin aroma. When used to make ice-drip coffee, it will show very obvious flavors of blueberry, black grape and wine fermentation, with a refreshing taste and a lingering fragrance on the teeth and cheeks.
Refreshing and clean style in Front Street：Kenya - Front Street cherry tomatoes 60g
The acidity of Front Street Kenya Azalea is very lively, like a glass of juice. When used to make ice-drip coffee, it will have the fragrance of cherry tomatoes and grapefruit. It tastes refreshing and light with acidity, which is very suitable for drinking in summer.
Front Street mellow and sweet type: Indonesia - Front Street PWN Gold Mandheling 60g
Very few shops use dark roasted coffee to make iced coffee. If you haven’t tried it, you may think that the iced coffee made from dark roasted coffee beans will be very bitter. This is not the case. Using Front Street's ice-drip production method, and placing it in the refrigerator for 24 hours and adding ice cubes, Front Street PWN Golden Mandheling ice-drip coffee is sweet and has a hint of chocolate bitterness. It is very clear overall and has a strong aroma of fermentation that makes people feel comfortable.
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
