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On-ear coffee is loved by the majority of coffee lovers because of its convenience and convenience. Therefore, many novice coffee lovers who are new to on-ear coffee ask FrontStreet Coffee how to brew on-ear coffee. Why does it taste wrong when brewed by yourself? What is the difference between it and instant coffee and Pour over(V60) single-origin coffee? Then in this next article, FrontStreet Coffee will introduce you to how to drink ear-hanging coffee and the specific brewing techniques.
The origin of hanging ear coffee
According to FrontStreet Coffee, the emergence of hanging filter coffee was in 1990. Japan's Yamanaka Industrial Co., Ltd. applied the concept of tea bags to coffee, invented the hanging filter coffee and applied for a patent. However, the ear-hanging bag designed by Yamanaka Industrial Co., Ltd. could not bear the weight of brewing coffee, and it was easy to lose balance during the brewing process, so it was not successfully commercialized. It was not until 1998 that Daji Shoji improved the original invention and extended the ear-hanging part outwards, and today's ear-hanging coffee was born.
Japan itself is a country that loves coffee very much. The reason why the ear-mounted coffee was developed at that time was because with the economic development in that era, the pace of life began to accelerate. Many people who had become office workers did not have much time to brew coffee by hand. If they brewed coffee by hand in a hurry, the coffee brewed would be unpalatable, so the convenient ear-mounted coffee was born.
For example, most of the people who love coffee in China are office workers. Compared with brewing coffee by hand, ear-mounted coffee has greatly improved the convenience. Secondly, the brewing method of ear-mounted coffee is much simpler than Pour over(V60) coffee. Therefore, the cost of ear-mounted coffee also improves the cost performance. However, according to FrontStreet Coffee, many coffee lovers who are new to ear-mounted coffee do not know the correct brewing method of ear-mounted coffee. Then FrontStreet Coffee (FrontStreet Coffee) Coffee) will teach you something!
The correct way to brew ear-mounted coffee
1. Warm cup
To prepare the cup for brewing ear-hanging coffee, first pour some hot water into the cup to warm it. The function is to prevent the brewed coffee from cooling down too quickly, because as the temperature drops, the coffee will produce different flavors, that is, the layering of flavors. Therefore, if the temperature is cooled down too fast, many different tastes will be missed.
2. Water temperature
The temperature of the brewing water is very important. The recommended temperature is between 90 and 99 degrees. If the brewed coffee is too bitter, you can try lowering the water temperature. On the other hand, if it is too bland or astringent, you can increase the water temperature, but the range should still be between 90 and 95 degrees.
3.Hang the back edge
First, shake the ear-hanging bag slightly to let the coffee powder fall down to avoid scattering the coffee powder when tearing it open. Then pour out the hot water in the cup. After tearing off the seal on the ear-hanging bag, open the paper hanging ears on both sides, shake it to make the coffee powder flat, and finally hang it to the rim of the cup.
4. Pre-moistened ear-hanging coffee bags
The first time you add water, you should add just enough water to soak the coffee powder. Too much or too little will affect the flavor. Then wait 20 seconds for the coffee powder to completely absorb the water. The strength of the coffee can be adjusted with the pre-wet time, extending to 40 seconds can result in stronger coffee.
5.Inject water
For the second time, water can be poured into the filter paper until it is 80% full. It is best to use a slender water stream. After the water flow reaches the pre-wetted height, you can continue to fill it up to 80% full until 150 to 180cc is quenched. Once the quenching is completed, there is no need to wait for all the water in the filter paper to flow out, just throw it away.
The above is the correct way to brew ear-mounted coffee. Secondly, FrontStreet Coffee also learned that many people make the following incorrect brewing methods when brewing ear-mounted coffee. The flavor of the ear-mounted coffee brewed in this way will not taste good, so coffee lovers try not to brew like this!
Wrong way to brew ear-mounted coffee
1. The brewing water capacity is too high or too low
First of all, Front Street believes that some coffee enthusiasts who are new to ear-mounted coffee will throw the ear-mounted coffee directly into the cup and soak it with hot water. This is not impossible, but the taste of the coffee will be neutralized by the water, making the coffee taste lighter. Unless you like drinking American light coffee, Front Street recommends that a 10g ear-mounted bag only needs to be filled with 150cc-180cc of water. Otherwise, exceeding this amount will not only weaken the coffee flavor, but also easily extract a bad taste. For coffee lovers who want to drink a lighter flavor, Front Street recommends that after brewing to 150cc, take out the ear-mounted coffee bag and add hot water.
2. The ear-hanging bag has been soaked in water
Although the tea bags are inspired by tea bags, it does not mean that they are the same as tea bags. Although the longer you steep them, the stronger the flavor, but during long-term soaking, caffeine will continue to be released, resulting in over-extraction problems, which will cause bad substances in the coffee to come out, namely bitterness and odor. Therefore, Front Street recommends that the ear bags should be thrown away after brewing for 4 minutes or used as fertilizer.
3. The temperature of the hanging ear coffee is not within the optimal extraction range
Hanging ear coffee is actually single-origin coffee ground into powder. Its temperature requirements are the same as Pour over(V60) coffee. Therefore, you cannot brew at a too low temperature, otherwise the coffee will be insufficiently extracted. Therefore, you must also control the water temperature. Front Street recommends using freshly boiled water and leaving it for 1-2 minutes to brew hanging ear coffee.
4. Brew hanging ear coffee repeatedly
How many times can I make coffee with hanging ears? The answer, of course, is that it can only be used once. Just like the second point of FrontStreet Coffee, the hanging ear coffee cannot be soaked for a long time. This of course means that it cannot be brewed repeatedly, otherwise you will end up with a cup of coffee that is unpleasant to drink and harmful to your health.
Advantages and disadvantages of hanging ear coffee
From the above discussion of FrontStreet Coffee, we can see the advantages and disadvantages of hanging coffee. The advantage is portability. In addition, the coffee beans used in the hanging coffee bags are also single-origin coffee beans, but the grinding step is omitted after making the hanging bags. The flavor is also comparable to single-origin coffee. The disadvantage is that it cannot be brewed repeatedly, and it cannot be dissolved by brewing directly like instant coffee.
At the same time, one thing that needs to be noted is that the best tasting period of hanging ear coffee is half the time shorter than that of single-origin coffee. Let’s take a look at the reasons why this is the case with FrontStreet Coffee below.
Is Blue Mountain hanging ear coffee the real Blue Mountain?？
Some friends want to drink Front Street Blue Mountain Coffee, but they don’t have coffee equipment to brew it, so there is a simple and quick product like Blue Mountain Hanging Ear Coffee on the market. But it also makes people wonder whether such expensive Qian Street Blue Mountain coffee will taste good when made into hanging ears.
Basically, as long as it is made from real Blue Mountain coffee beans, you can get a good Blue Mountain flavor. As for the Blue Mountain coffee that costs tens of dollars, most of them are not produced in the Blue Mountain producing area of Jamaica. In Front Street, Front Street Blue Mountain hanging coffee is generally not put on the shelves directly. If you need to buy it, you can directly buy Front Street Blue Mountain coffee beans. One pack is 158 yuan/100 grams, and then make a note to make the hanging coffee and make up for the hanging ear production fee of 20 yuan. Another thing to note about the hanging ear coffee made from Front Street Blue Mountain coffee beans is that it needs to be drunk as soon as possible, otherwise the flavor will dissipate quickly.
How long is the best tasting period for hanging ear coffee?？
As mentioned by Front Street above, hanging coffee bags are actually single-origin coffee ground into coffee powder in advance, so the shelf life should be about the same. However, in fact, the tasting period of hanging coffee will be shorter than that of coffee beans. This is because the making of hanging coffee first involves grinding the coffee beans into powder, which increases the surface area of the coffee in contact with the air, making it more difficult to preserve. According to Front Street Coffee Coffee) practice has shown that the original aroma of the coffee can be fully drunk within two weeks, but this requirement is only for coffee lovers who have requirements for flavor. If there are no high requirements for the aroma and flavor of coffee, in fact, according to China’s food law, the shelf life of coffee products is one year, and drinking coffee beans during this period will not deteriorate.
It is actually very difficult to extend the tasting period of ear-hanging coffee. According to the practice of Front Street, even the use of vacuum packaging cannot prevent the disappearance of the coffee aroma, because carbon dioxide will be released from the moment the coffee beans are roasted. Therefore, careful coffee lovers will find that the packaging of ear-hanging coffee will be a little bulging when they receive it by mail from Front Street. This means that the bag of coffee was packaged when it was fresh, so coffee lovers will get it during the best tasting period.
When the carbon dioxide in the coffee is released (about two weeks), it will begin to release the aroma. No change can be seen on the surface, but the coffee has slowly deteriorated. If it is left at room temperature for more than two weeks, the aroma of the coffee will probably be gone. However, because the ear-hanging bag is a sealed package, you can still smell the aroma when you open it, but it will not be so fragrant after brewing. Therefore, Front Street recommends that coffee lovers drink the hanging ear coffee within two weeks after receiving it to enjoy its best flavor.
Therefore, coffee lovers can see that many coffee bean packages in the coffee market are equipped with ventilation valves. The purpose is to release the carbon dioxide of the coffee to prevent the package from rupturing due to the expansion of carbon dioxide. On the other hand, it can prevent a large amount of air from entering. However, many coffee lovers who do not know it will squeeze the ventilation valve to taste, but in fact, when squeezing out the aroma, the life of the coffee is shortened. Therefore, even if a ventilation valve is installed on the ear-hanging bag, it is not only costly, but also cannot extend its best tasting period.
The above is the relevant content about the brewing methods and characteristics of ear-mounted coffee compiled by FrontStreet Coffee. I hope it can help coffee lovers better understand the ear-mounted coffee so that they can use the correct brewing method in the future. Finally, many coffee lovers asked FrontStreet Coffee to recommend single-origin coffee beans suitable for making ear-mounted coffee. Then FrontStreet Coffee (FrontStreet) Coffee), let’s recommend some of the more popular ear-hanging coffee brands.
Recommended brands of hanging ear coffee
1. FrontStreet Coffee Ethiopian sun-dried red cherry hanging coffee
Origin: Yirgacheffe
Altitude: 2000-2200m
Variety: native species
Treatment method: Sun treatment
Flavor: Tropical Fruit Strawberry Berry Cream
FrontStreet Coffee's red cherry coffee beans are produced in Yirgacheffe, a famous production area in Ethiopia. The origin of the name red cherry involves a local project called the Red Cherry Project, which is a plan to improve coffee quality proposed by a Dutch green bean company.
This company is called Trabocca Company. The reason why this project was founded was that the quality of Ethiopian coffee at that time was uneven, so there was not much room for improvement in price, and the income of coffee farmers was also very low. In order to substantially help them, we launched the Red Cherry Project in cooperation with local coffee farmers to solve quality problems at the source. Using manual hand selection, only fully mature coffee cherries are picked and purchased at a higher price. This can improve the quality requirements of coffee farmers and grow better quality coffee.
2. FrontStreet Coffee Sidamo Oiran Hanging Ear Coffee
Country: Ethiopia
Origin: Sidamo
Altitude: 2250-2350m
Variety: Local native species
Treatment method: Sun treatment
Flavor: berry, floral tea, honey, lemon, black tea
Front Street Coffee The Front Street Oiran coffee beans introduced by Coffee were the champions of the sun-dried category of the Ethiopian TOH Coffee Competition in 2017. They appeared in front of everyone with their unique strawberry cream flavor and became a blockbuster. Therefore, this batch of green beans was introduced to China by Hongshun, a green bean trader in Beijing. In the same year, Li Jianfei used this bean to win the runner-up in the 2017 World Brewing Competition in China. This Ethiopian bean stood out among the many Gesha participating beans, so it was named Oiran.
3. FrontStreet Coffee Honduran sherry hanging coffee
Origin: Massaguara
Manor: Moka Manor
Altitude: 500-1700 meters
Varieties: Kaduura, Kaduai, Pacas
Processing method: Exquisite washing + whiskey sherry barrel fermentation
Flavor: Vanilla cream, fermented wine aroma, nutty dark chocolate, maple sweetness
This Front Street Honduran sherry coffee bean is very popular among coffee fans because its flavor has the aroma of whiskey, but also tastes like vanilla cream, which is very charming. Therefore, coffee fans strongly hope that FrontStreet Coffee will launch this hanging ear coffee bean of sherry coffee bean. This Front Street Honduran sherry coffee bean is also one of the blending beans used to produce Italian coffee in FrontStreet Coffee store, which is enough to prove its popularity.
4. FrontStreet Coffee Indonesian Gold Mandheling Coffee
Production area: North Sumatra Aceh Gayyu Mountain
Company: PWN
Altitude: 1100-1600 meters
Variety: Ateng
Treatment method: wet planing
Flavor: Herb, caramel, dark chocolate, mellow and clean, high balance, long lasting finish
The Front Street Indonesian Gold Mandheling coffee beans purchased by FrontStreet Coffee have specifications of more than 18 mesh and less than 3 defective beans (300g green bean sample). They belong to the highest grade G1 grade. The color is dark green and the shape is a neat flat bean.
Moreover, qualified Front Street Golden Mandheling coffee beans have to go through three manual screenings and one machine screening; and the Mandheling Coffee processed in this way not only lacks the earthy smell unique to ordinary Mandhelings, but also tastes cleaner and more translucent.
The above are the more popular ear-mounted coffee brands in FrontStreet Coffee. We hope to help coffee lovers choose the ear-mounted coffee that suits their taste. Secondly, in terms of the choice of hanging coffee, coffee lovers can choose according to their usual single-origin coffee preferences. For example, Front Street Guatemala Flora coffee beans, Front Street Blue Mountain coffee beans, etc. Front Street can help make hanging coffee bags.
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
