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"Drink your coffee while it's hot" is a saying that's often said to everyone for no reason! I remember a coffee drinker on Qian Street described the cold coffee like this: "After taking a sip, my head hurt so much. The bitter/sour + woody taste lingered in my mouth and made me shut up for a long time~" Let the hot coffee cool down
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A few days ago, Front Street talked about extraction while chatting with friends. When it comes to extraction, there are two situations that make many coffee drinkers feel melancholy - under-extraction and over-extraction. What is the difference between these two situations? How should we improve it when hand flushing? Extraction First, let’s do
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Many people will strictly follow the "scientific noodle soaking method" when making instant noodles. They hold a stopwatch and soak the instant noodles in 100°C boiling water for 3 minutes. The purpose is to give the noodles the best taste. And when we brew coffee, we also hold on to the time. The purpose is the same, which is to be able to brew a cup of delicious coffee stably.
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Cold brew ~ Cold brew ~ as the name suggests, is coffee made with low-temperature cold water. The most common method is to soak the coffee powder with normal temperature water (cold boiled water) and put it in the refrigerator, then wait for the cold water to extract the flavor substances, and finally filter it to obtain the coffee liquid. Because cold brew coffee has its own icy taste, it’s more about pursuing richness when drinking it.
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For more knowledge about specialty coffee, please follow the WeChat public account: FrontStreet Coffee. When it comes to brewing coffee, many people like to ask how many grams of coffee powder are used, and what is the ratio of powder to water. At the end of the day, what people care about is the extraction rate of the coffee. need
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For more knowledge about specialty coffee, please follow the WeChat public account: FrontStreet Coffee. When it comes to brewing coffee, many people like to ask how many grams of coffee powder are used, and what is the ratio of powder to water. At the end of the day, what people care about is the extraction rate of the coffee. need
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We often hear this sentence from some more experienced coffee guys or bloggers: "If you manage the powder bed well, hand-brewed coffee will taste better!" Some friends are very confused by this! Since I have just started, I haven’t had time to figure out exactly what a powder bed is, let alone conduct research on the powder bed.
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For more knowledge about specialty coffee, please follow the WeChat public account: It is a common phenomenon that the coffee produced by FrontStreet Coffee is too strong or too light. Not only newbies, but also experienced coffee people who have been in the coffee field for many years have a certain chance of brewing it.
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Have you ever had the experience of using the same bag of beans, which taste bitter and astringent when brewed hot, but are sweet and delicious when made into cold brew? This is not an illusion, but the principle of extraction at work. Understand "why cold brew is not bitter", and you will know what kind of beans to choose in summer, and you will no longer be afraid of buying "cold bitter water". The bitterness of coffee
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What is "hand-brewed coffee"? After coffee beans are roasted at high temperatures, a series of chemical reactions will occur to generate various aromatic substances. When we make coffee, we use water and equipment to release these aromatic ingredients. For hand-brewed coffee, the coffee beans are first ground into powder, and then hot water is injected into the powder layer to "dissolve" the substances in the coffee.
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The thickness of the grind in coffee will directly affect the contact area between coffee and water and the extraction time of coffee. It will directly affect the taste of coffee. But at the same time, the grinding degree of coffee is also the biggest headache for many people! This article will talk about how to determine the grinding thickness of different coffee beans. first
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A pot of freshly brewed black coffee consists of a small amount of flavor substances and most of the water. If you want the coffee to taste good, in addition to the water temperature, the water quality also plays a vital role. Experienced friends should know that different brands of drinking water will have different ingredients in the water, including different hardness and pH.
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The arrival of autumn makes the sultry weather cooler, but many friends in the south can still feel the enthusiasm of Uncle Sun at noon. Drinking hand-brewed coffee in this dry season often makes your throat feel dry. At this time, ice-cold cold brew coffee has become everyone's favorite. Some friends will ask about cold brew coffee.
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The thickness of the grind in coffee will directly affect the contact area between coffee and water and the extraction time of coffee. It will directly affect the taste of coffee. But at the same time, the grinding degree of coffee is also the biggest headache for many people! This article will talk about how to determine the grinding thickness of different coffee beans. first
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No matter what method we use to make coffee, whether it is hand brewing, cold brewing, or Italian style, we need to grind the coffee beans into powder before starting to make it. The purpose of this is to increase the water contact surface area of the coffee, speed up the dissolution of flavor substances, and give the brewed coffee a fuller taste.
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For more knowledge about specialty coffee, please pay attention to: The thickness of the grinding in Frontsteet Coffee coffee will directly affect the contact area between coffee and water and the extraction time of coffee. It will directly affect the taste of coffee. But at the same time, the grinding degree of coffee is also the biggest headache for many people.
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As one of the representatives of iced coffee, cold brew is usually made with normal temperature water (about 20-30℃). However, due to the low extraction efficiency, it needs to be soaked for a long time to obtain more flavor substances to highlight the sweetness and body of the coffee. Experienced friends all know that making a pot (cup) of cold brew is quick and easy.
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If you ask whether water temperature is important for extraction, Front Street thinks it is important, but not that important. As a tool to adjust the extraction speed, the higher the temperature, the easier it is to extract soluble substances. However, because coffee with too high a water temperature will quickly release bitterness, a conservative range should be chosen. Generally speaking, most of the
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The difference between a French press and hand-brewed coffee, to put it simply and crudely, is the difference between soaking and filtering. French press is an immersion extraction, while hand brewing is a drip extraction. Let’s compare the two coffee brewing methods below. The difference in taste between French press coffee and hand-brewed coffee. Hand-brewed coffee is the most common in specialty coffee shops today.
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For more knowledge about specialty coffee, please pay attention to: The thickness of the grinding in Frontsteet Coffee coffee will directly affect the contact area between coffee and water and the extraction time of coffee. It will directly affect the taste of coffee. But at the same time, the grinding degree of coffee is also the biggest headache for many people.
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