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As more and more people join the coffee-drinking team, there are many white-collar workers and college students around Front Street, and even high school students are starting to drink coffee. Compared with instant coffee with a single taste, today's young people obviously prefer freshly ground specialty coffee, especially black coffee with rich aroma, and there are many types. However, due to their daily busy schedule, it is difficult for them to have a cup every day. At this time, ear-hanging is generally recognized as the best choice.
Regarding coffee, you can directly buy prepared products on the market. The types of coffee provided by Front Street include many classic flavors, such as the mellow and burnt coffee with Mandheling coffee, the rich and balanced coffee with Brazilian coffee, the fresh and sour coffee with Yirgacheffe, the coffee with elegant floral aroma, Front Street Gesha coffee, etc.
Of course, instead of buying ready-made products, some friends pursue the freshness of coffee. They choose to use roasted coffee beans to make their own ear bags at home. Not only does it retain more aroma, but the tools required are also very simple. You only need to prepare a grinder, ear filter bags, electronic scales, sealers, and a small spoon.
How to make homemade ear hangings at home?
The first step is to select a pack of coffee beans you like, then adjust the grinder to the scale corresponding to hand brewing, and grind it into powder.
Front Street has chosen the Front Street Esser Yirgacheffe red cherry coffee beans that many friends like. Exquisite sun-drying treatment allows the Front Street Yirgacheffe red cherries to show the full sweetness and sourness of berries. When sucked at different temperatures, the coffee beans have soft sweetness and sourness, ripe fruit fermentation, obvious honey sweetness and black tea aftertaste, and a smooth taste. The fine sugar granules used in Front Street's daily brewing are 80% filtered using China's No. 20 standard sieve, so the scale corresponding to the electric grinder EK43s is 10 grids, and the hand grinder C40 is 24 grids.
In the second step, place the ground coffee powder on the electronic scale prepared in advance, then take out the ear-hanging bag, open the mouth, measure 10g of powder per bag, and carefully scoop the coffee in with a spoon.
The third step is to plug in the sealing machine and clamp the heater to the horizontal line of the seal to ensure that the opening is completely sealed. The homemade ear-hanging bag is completed. In order to prevent moisture, Front Street recommends that the finished ear-hanging bag should be placed in a sealed bag that can isolate the air and placed in a cool place away from light to prevent the loss of aroma substances.
How to brew the finished hanging ear?
Many customers reported that they couldn’t taste the flavor after buying ear-mounted earphones when they went home, so they asked Front Street what was going on. As we all know, whether a cup of coffee tastes good or not is largely related to the freshness of the coffee beans, parameters, brewing techniques and other factors. If we confirm that there is no problem with the beans and the grinding degree has been determined, then if the cup of coffee does not taste good, the problem usually lies in the water temperature and technique.
Front Street will boil the water before brewing, and prepare a water-filled pot, a coffee cup, and a pack of Front Street Yirgacheffe coffee. Front Street's ear-hanging coffee bags are made at 10 grams per bag. Excluding the water absorption of the coffee powder itself, each bag can brew a cup of 120 to 130ml of coffee liquid.
First, boil the water in the pot and find a taller coffee cup, such as the mug that Front Street is very fond of.
Next, tear open the sealed outer package, take out the coffee hanging ear bag, tear open the non-woven bag along the upper dotted line, pull the two ears apart, shake gently to allow the coffee powder in the hanging ears to concentrate at the bottom, and then hang them on the edge of the cup.
In the first stage, we first inject a small amount of hot water to completely moisten the coffee powder, wait for about 10 to 20 seconds, and let it steam for a while to help discharge the gas in the coffee powder, in order to make the extraction in the later stage more stable.
The second section of small water flow is injected steadily until the ear-hanging bag is almost filled, and then waits for the coffee liquid to drop. After all the coffee liquid has flowed out, we will inject the last section of water and also fill the filter bag. Front Street measured it and found that the total amount of water injected at this time is about 150g, so there is no need for an electronic scale in the whole process. The extraction will end when all the coffee liquid is dripped.
Before drinking, Front Street will gently shake the coffee liquid evenly and drink it directly to enjoy the pure flavor of black coffee.
Finally, there is another point. Many friends, with the mentality of saving when they can, will refill the ear-hanging bags that have been washed once with water, and then find that the brewed coffee not only has no aroma, but is also very light in color. In fact, no matter which extraction method is used, the aroma substances in the coffee will run out once it encounters water, and the remainder will be the bitter components. Therefore, when the coffee is flushed for the second time, the "coffee liquid" that comes out will most likely have lost its fragrance. Therefore, Front Street does not recommend flushing the ear-hanging bag for the second time.
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
