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If someone hands you a cup of hot coffee and a cup of iced coffee, you will taste two different flavors. This is because when making coffee, changing the temperature affects how much soluble matter the water extracts. Different from high-temperature hot water, cold-brew coffee is made by mixing room-temperature water with coffee powder and then placing it in the refrigerator to extract black coffee. Since the entire process is carried out in a low-temperature environment, the acidic and bitter substances in the coffee are not easily released, and the taste of the coffee is therefore more balanced, with less sourness and foreign flavors.
So, how to make delicious cold brew coffee? Now Front Street will show you how to make a standard cup of cold brew coffee~
Step One: First, prepare a cold brew bottle. If you don’t have a cold brew bottle, it doesn’t matter. Just find a large enough container or a clean cup, and then prepare plastic wrap for sealing.
Step 2: Choose a coffee bean you like, grind it, and make cold brew coffee. We used Front Street Costa Rica Mozart, which is a bean with multiple flavors such as sweet floral, raisin, and orange. It is suitable for moka pots, coffee machines, hand brewing and other brewing methods. You can place an order at Front Street Tmall flagship store or Front Street Taobao store.
Weigh 50g of Front Street Mozart coffee beans, and then grind them to the size of fine sugar, which corresponds to a No. 20 mesh sieving rate of 82 to 85%. The grinder used by Front Street is EK43s, and the corresponding scale is 9 grids. If you use a hand-cranked grinder C40, the grinding scale is 22 grids. You can adjust it according to your own equipment.
Step 3: Pour the ground coffee powder into the built-in filter of the cold brew pot and fill it with room temperature drinking water. (The ratio used this time is 1:12, that is, 50g of coffee powder: 600ml of water. You can adjust the concentration according to your preference. Pay attention to the height of the water level to soak the coffee powder.)
Step 4: Tightly cap the bottle and place it in the refrigerator for 8 hours. (Note: Refrigerate! Not freeze!)
Step 5: Take out the coffee that has been refrigerated for 8 hours and filter it to make it taste cleaner.
Step 6: After filtering with filter paper, you can start drinking! Add ice cubes for a better taste~
How long can you keep cold brew coffee?
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).
If you operate like the previous article on Front Street, using warm water to make cold brew quickly, the tasting period will be shorter. Since the higher water temperature results in a greater release rate of flavor substances, the warm water version of cold brew is more likely to breed microorganisms in the refrigerator than the cold brew made with room temperature water. Therefore, Front Street believes that in2It is best to drink it within a day to avoid intestinal discomfort.
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
