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If you often read Front Street’s articles, you should be familiar with the brewing time of “2 minutes”. It is a reference value based on countless past extraction experiences and can help us judge the speed of the flow rate. Recently, a friend bought a bunch of different types of beans at a Front Street store and curiously asked: Does he buy a bunch of beans every time?
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When describing the flavor of coffee, Front Street found that many people like to use the word "roasted sweet potato", "This xx smells like roasted sweet potato", "xx coffee brewed like this has the aroma of sweet potato", "This cup of coffee is very sweet in the mouth, like carrots"... Why is there a food that can't be found on the flavor wheel at all?
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Readers who often read Front Street articles should know the term "golden planting belt". The cultivation of coffee has extremely high requirements on the climate and environment. Therefore, not all land can grow coffee! These places on the earth between 25° south latitude and 25° north latitude have a suitable climate, no frost, and annual rainfall.
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Among the endless variety of creative coffees, Dirty is definitely the unbeatable one. In addition to appearing frequently in stores and coffee festivals, Dirty is also often featured in home-made coffee tutorials. Precisely because it has a celebrity aura that is different from other drinks, Dir will be received every now and then in the front and back offices.
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Coffee filter cup - an important part of hand-brewed coffee. With the advent of the third wave of coffee, the prevalence of single-origin specialty coffee has begun to become popular in Japan. Drip coffee, that is, hand-brewed coffee, is also becoming more and more popular. It is not difficult to enter the field of hand-brewed coffee. The utensils prepared are about a hand-brewed pot, filter paper (metal filter)
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Last week, Front Street briefly introduced the Nordic "very light roast coffee". I believe everyone has a basic understanding of this roasting style. Today, we continue to fill in the gaps and talk about another roasting level that roasts coffee beans until they are black and shiny - Japanese dark roast. What is Japanese dark roast? Why is it called Japanese dark roast?
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Customers often ask Front Street after buying coffee beans: Why can’t they get the “burger” when they brew their own coffee? Are the beans stale? In order to ensure the flavor of the coffee, the coffee beans shipped from Front Street are all freshly roasted within 5 days. Sometimes it takes two or three days to grow before brewing.
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Speaking of immersion extraction, Smart Cup and French Press are often mentioned on Front Street. One can be said to represent the "new generation" and the other represents the "classic". So will the coffee flavors extracted by the two be very similar? Or are they different styles? Let’s take a closer look at Front Street today. What is legal pressure
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It can be said that everyone knows Blue Mountain Coffee, but not many people may have heard of Little Blue Mountain Coffee. Question, is Little Blue Mountain Coffee Blue Mountain Coffee? No, Little Blue Mountain is actually a bean from the Papua New Guinea production area. Due to historical reasons, the Typica variety was introduced from Jamaica, and the planting altitude and island type were
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Guest: "What is the roasting level of your (coffee beans)?" Front Street: "Medium-light roast" Guest: "Are there very light roasted coffee beans?" Front Street: "No!" In the world of Chinese cuisine, "cooking" is usually the first priority, and most ingredients will be ensured to be completely cooked, because we believe
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A friend said: "Did you know? I heard that Coke can make coffee." Front Street (thinking): This person must not be stupid! How could you add everything to coffee... But what I never expected was that after searching online, I actually found this method. Although I don't know who "developed" it,
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Over the years, Front Street has shared at least a dozen kinds of espresso. In addition to the most common fancy coffees, there are also many unpopular categories that almost never appear on the menu. Due to similar structures and very different cooking methods, novices including baristas will also confuse them. For example, the piccolo is also known as the "little latte"
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Because it is pre-made, the aroma of hanging coffee is usually less than half of that of freshly ground coffee. Therefore, it is often rejected by those "picky" coffee lovers who think that besides being convenient, hanging coffee is "useless". It doesn't produce much flavor anyway, so just brew it casually.
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Since the Moka pot is a pressurized extraction machine like the Italian machine, it can make black coffee with a higher concentration. Because of this, many friends will add milk to drink it together, which is a simplified version of latte coffee. The method of adding milk to the Moka pot is very simple. Just like the traditional latte, you first extract a "concentrate" and then
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Yesterday, when a customer came to the Front Street store to buy coffee beans, he asked a very tricky question: Should the flow of water in hand-brewed coffee in a circle be from the inside to the outside or from the outside to the inside? Do different routes have an impact on the taste of coffee brewing? Many people may think that there is no need to be so exaggerated when making coffee, it is just like pouring water.
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Exquisite patterns float on the fragrant coffee, which is coffee latte art. Front Street believes that if you want to learn how to make perfect coffee latte art, you must first prepare the required materials and equipment in advance, which are mainly inseparable from the following five items: 1. Coffee beans, grinder, and coffee machine: making coffee latte art, milk foam and Espresso
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There are more and more fancy ways to drink coffee. In addition to the traditional drinks, different countries will also combine local tastes to create new combinations, such as Vietnamese egg coffee, Vienna coffee with cream, Spanish latte with sweet condensed milk... and Italians' favorite dessert - Affoga.
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The taste and texture of ice-drip coffee is very special. In the words of fans, it means that there is a "wine" taste in ice-drip coffee. Some friends who drank it for the first time were surprised and asked Front Street whether alcohol was added to the ice drops, or did the coffee beans themselves have a "wine flavor"? In fact, it’s not the case. The “alcoholic flavor” in most ice-drip coffee comes from it.
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When Front Street introduces the flavor of coffee beans to customers, he will gain a lot of relevant knowledge. From a coffee bean to the coffee we taste, it needs to go through picking, drying, shelling and screening, roasting, and finally extraction. Each link will more or less affect the flavor performance of the coffee. Roasting degree is a question that many people are most concerned about.
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For many coffee enthusiasts, coffee latte art can be said to be very attractive. It seems quite simple. When you pour it, you will see a little heart, tulips and so on... But in fact, when you do it yourself, you will find out why the milk is poured out in lumps? Don't say it's a pressure
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