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Friends who often read Front Street articles know that in addition to using hot water to extract coffee, it can also be made with cold water. Coffee made with cold water is called "cold brew coffee" and has a different style compared to hot brewed coffee.
Cold brew coffee is divided into cold brew coffee and ice-drip coffee. Cold-brew coffee is to soak coffee powder with cold water, and ice-drip coffee is to extract coffee drop by drop in the form of drip filter. A friend asked Front Street: "Should cold brew coffee be brewed in hot or cold water?" Coffee brewed in hot water cannot be called cold brew coffee. Cold brew coffee can only be soaked in room temperature water or ice water, and the soaking environment must be kept at a low temperature.
Since the whole process is only in contact with low-temperature cold water of 4-10°C, the extraction efficiency is very low and bitter macromolecules are not easily released. Long-term low-temperature soaking allows compounds such as sugars and organic acids to be more fully extracted, so the acidity, sweetness and mellowness of the coffee are more balanced.
So how to make cold brew coffee so that it tastes better? Here Front Street will share with you some operational details.
Coffee bean selection
If you don’t want to overturn, Front Street recommends choosing light roasted or medium roasted coffee beans, which will have a higher fault tolerance rate. There are currently a dazzling array of coffee beans on the market with various processing methods and different roasting degrees. As long as they are single-origin coffee beans marked for hand brewing, they can be used to make cold brew coffee. Dark roasted coffee is extracted with hot water and exhibits a strong coffee aroma, which is mellow and bitter at first and then sweet later; when made into cold brew, it tastes rich and bitter when drunk at an icy temperature.
Recommended cold brew coffee beans 1: Front Street Washed Yirgacheffe
Flavor: Refreshing lemon citrus sourness, with honey sweetness, clear taste and clean aftertaste;
Recommended Cold Brew Coffee Bean 2: Front Street Kenyan Cherry Tomatoes
Flavor: cherry tomatoes, ebony plums, blackberries, full juice, suitable sour and sweet taste;
Recommended Cold Brew Coffee Bean Three: Front Street Strawberry Candy
Flavor: rose, grape, strawberry candy, dried blueberry, fruity and sweet;
Recommended Cold Brew Coffee Beans Four: Front Street 90+eleta Geisha
Flavor: longan, preserved fruit, grape, fermented aroma, chocolate, mellow taste;
Recommended Cold Brew Coffee Bean Five: Front Street Bird of Paradise
Flavor: Nuts, cocoa, low acidity, not obvious bitterness, balanced taste.
Finally, let’s talk about Front Street’s cold brew coffee making method! First of all, when coffee beans are sold on Front Street, they tend to use medium-light roasted coffee beans. Here we use Front Street Panama Butterfly coffee beans. Choose a clean container that can be sealed and stored. Then prepare 40 grams of Front Street Butterfly coffee powder, grind it into fine sugar (No. 20 sieve pass rate is 85%) and pour it into the container. Then add 480 ml of cold water according to the powder to water ratio of 1:12, stir evenly with a wooden stick and close the lid.
After stirring evenly, seal it with plastic wrap and place it in the refrigerator for 8 to 12 hours. After filtering out the coffee grounds, you will get clear coffee liquid and you can drink it immediately. You can also put the filtered coffee liquid into a bottle and continue to refrigerate it for 4 hours. The flavor will be better.
Generally speaking, for the sake of flavor experience and health and safety, whether it is ice dripping or cold extraction, as long as the extraction method is carried out in a low-temperature environment, Front Street recommends that you drink it within 5 days (counted from the production date).
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
