There are many types of iced coffee, including iced Americano, iced latte, which are popular in many coffee shops, as well as iced hand brew, cold brew, iced drip... Regarding iced coffee, in addition to the fact that it is more expensive, it often triggers various comparisons. The long production time and unique taste also add a lot of mystery to this kind of coffee.
Although both coffee is extracted under low-temperature water, the production steps and principles of ice dripping and cold brewing can be said to be completely different. Cold brew is cold brew. The method is simple and straightforward. You only need to mix coffee powder with water, then put it in the refrigerator for a few hours, and then filter the coffee grounds. Therefore, as long as you have coffee beans (powder), everyone can make cold brew at home.
Ice-drip coffee is just the opposite. A standard cup of ice-drip coffee first requires the use of a specific device - an ice-drip pot. The upper, middle and lower layers of the container are filled with ice water, coffee powder and filtered coffee liquid. It is a continuous coffee extraction method.
Although there are not many requirements for the coffee beans used in ice dripping, if you want to highlight the aroma of fermented wine and rich fruit flavor, it is recommended to give priority to fruity coffee beans. The ice drip coffee made with Front Street Kenya has sweet and sour berries and full of juice; the ice drip coffee extracted with Front Street Chiclaw has the flavor of passion fruit and grape; the other Front Street strawberry candy ice drip coffee has a pink floral aroma and a fermented sense of tropical fruits.
In addition, as we can easily tell from the name, ice-drip coffee not only requires "ice", but also requires "drip" extraction. Therefore, the bottom of the pot containing ice water must be equipped with a valve that can control the dripping of water to ensure that the coffee is always in the extraction state. Finally, until the coffee liquid reaches the target extraction volume, or all the ice water has been dripped into the coffee powder, the extraction is over. However, at this stage, the coffee liquid cannot be drunk directly. It needs to be refrigerated for a period of time to ferment and mature, so that the taste will become rich, smooth, and rich in layers.
To sum up, if we want to make standard ice-drip coffee, we not only need special equipment, but also need to keep an eye on the water droplets to maintain stable extraction. We must also grasp various parameters and details, and wait for a long fermentation process. Obviously, compared with the "hand-made" cold brew, the production elements of ice-drip coffee are much more complicated, which is the main reason why few people choose to make their own ice-drip coffee at home.
Front Street often mentioned in articles that different water temperatures can brew coffee with different flavors, and the astringent substances in coffee at low temperatures are not easily released. Like hand brewing, ice drip coffee is also a drip coffee, but it uses ice water below 5℃ as the solvent, which can be understood as low-temperature drip coffee.
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
