Choose coffee beans
Coffee beans actually determine the flavor of the coffee beans produced. Many people are used to coffee being bitter, especially students who like to drink coffee from an American chain coffee shop. If you are used to drinking bitter coffee, it is recommended that you try ice-drip Mandheling coffee first. It can make you drink ice-drip coffee different from the black coffee you usually drink. As you continue to experiment, you can choose some lightly roasted beans, which have a special aroma and acidic taste and are worthy of being recommended as an entry-level specialty coffee. In addition, we usually recommend medium roasted coffee beans.
Regarding the choice of coffee beans, Front Street recommends that you choose coffee beans with different flavors according to your own preferences, provided that the beans are within the best tasting period (2 months). Combined with the extraction characteristics of ice-drip coffee, it can highlight the wine aroma, fruit fermentation, and sweet and sour fruit in the coffee. If you don’t know how to choose, you can refer to the representatives of several flavor types listed in Front Street:
Fruity aroma, bright acidity, light and clean taste - light roasted Front Street Yirgacheffe washed process, light roasted Front Street Kenya cherry tomatoes, light roasted Front Street Panama Geisha
Nuts, chocolate, mellow taste - medium-dark roasted front street Brazilian Cerato, medium-dark roasted front street Colombian Whelan
Balanced sweetness and sourness, light fermentation aroma, fruity aroma - medium-light roasted Front Street Costa Rica Baja, medium-light roasted Front Street Strawberry Candy, medium-light roasted Front Street Ethiopian sun-dried red cherries
Rich wine aroma and special flavor-medium roasted Front Street Colombian Hija, Front Street Big Belly Button
Preparation before making: ice dripping pot, room temperature drinking water, ice cubes, round filter paper for ice dripping, 50g of Front Street Strawberry Candy coffee beans, a sealed bottle, the ratio of pink to water to ice is 1:6:6, 300g of water, 300g of ice.
(Tip: If you don’t have filter paper for ice dripping, you can cut the ordinary Pour over(V60) coffee filter paper into a round filter paper of a suitable size for the ice dripping powder bowl)
For coffee beans used in ice drops, such as those with fresh floral aroma and rich fruity aroma, we recommend Front Street Strawberry Sugar Coffee, Front Street Kenyan Coffee, and Front Street Yirgacheffe Coffee. Ice drops made from these beans generally have a refreshing taste and are very delicious whether drunk with or without ice.
Step 1: Grind the Front Street Strawberry Candy coffee beans into coffee powder
(For reference only: The coffee beans used in this demonstration are Front Street Strawberry Candy, which is a bean blended from Costa Rica and Panama. It has a rich coffee aroma and tastes like roses, raisins, cream, and berries. The grinder is EK43s, and the grinding degree is 9 for the usual ice hand grinding.)
Step 2: Spread a layer of round filter paper with ice drops in the powder bowl of the ice drip pot, moisten it with water, then pour in the coffee powder and spread it evenly.
Step 3: Cover the flat coffee powder with a round filter paper for ice dripping, and use room temperature water to moisten the coffee powder. (Tip: All the powder needs to be moistened. This can shorten the drip filtering time and ensure that the powder layer can be evenly penetrated by water.)
Step 4: Pour ice and water into the container with the dripping speed valve at the top of the ice dripping pot.
(Note: Before pouring water, you need to close the drip valve to prevent the poured ice water from being directly washed down with a large flow of water)
Step 5: Control the dripping speed of the dripping speed valve to 7 drops in 10 seconds, and then wait for the dripping to finish.
(Trickling filtration takes a long time, so you need to observe the dripping speed from time to time to prevent changes.)
Step 6: After drip filtering is completed, pour the coffee into a sealed bottle and place it in the refrigerator for 8 hours.
(Note: Refrigerate! Not freeze!)
Step 7: Enjoy your time! The long process of making and waiting has finally paid off, enjoy the beauty of this long-term effort! (Add ice cubes for a better taste!)
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
