Golden Mandheling Iced Pour-Over: A Dark Roast Tutorial
Making iced pour-over with dark roast beans requires adjustments to avoid bitterness and weakness. Using Front Street Coffee's Golden Mandheling as an example, this tutorial covers grind size, water temperature, coffee-to-water ratio, and pouring rhythm. The goal is a refreshing yet rich cup that balances the deep flavors of dark roast with the cooling effect of ice.
Start with a medium-coarse grind and water just off the boil, around 90°C (195°F). Use a ratio of 1:10 coffee to water, with half the water as ice in the server. Pour in slow circles, allowing the bed to drain before the next pour. This method extracts sweetness while preventing harsh bitterness, yielding a vibrant iced coffee well-balanced for summer.
The scorching heat of midsummer makes you want to ice everything, and even customers who normally only drink hot coffee can't resist ordering an iced pour-over to cool down. However, making iced pour-over with dark-roasted beans is not quite the same as with light-roasted beans—water temperature, coffee-to-water ratio, and the amount of ice all need to be readjusted, otherwise it's easy to end up with a brew that's both bitter and weak. This article uses Front Street Coffee's Golden Mandheling as an example to break down in detail the complete process of making iced pour-over with dark-roasted coffee beans, explaining everything from grind size and water temperature to pouring rhythm, helping you reliably recreate a cup of refreshing yet rich iced pour-over coffee this summer.
This summer has been absurdly hot! At Front Street's stores, many customers head straight for iced coffee the moment they walk in. Even those friends who normally never touch cold drinks can't withstand this rolling heat wave and are ordering iced pour-over one after another, to soothe their bodies and minds tormented by the blazing sun.
Front Street Coffee (FrontStreet Coffee)
No. 10, Bao'an Front Street, Yandun Road, Dongshankou, Yuexiu District, Guangzhou, Guangdong Province
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