Pour-over coffee bags are becoming increasingly popular in the market, and more and more people are beginning to recognize the flavor pleasures brought by single-origin coffee. From instant coffee, which can be drunk by simply adding hot water and stirring, to pour-over coffee bags that hang on a cup and are brewed with hot water, it is quick while also allowing you to enjoy the process. When work is tiring, brewing a cup of pour-over coffee can comfort both the soul and the taste buds. In addition to the 10 types of Front Street pour-over coffee bags available online, Front Street Coffee also allows every customer to choose the coffee beans they want and then have them processed into pour-over coffee bags to meet their needs. Having said so much, how should pour-over coffee be brewed?
 

The Origin of Pour-Over Coffee
In 1990, Yamanaka Sangyo Co., Ltd. of Japanwas inspired by tea bags with strings and invented filter-bag coffee,and applied for a patent. However, the earliest version of the pour-over bag could not bear the weight of brewing coffee, and it was easy to lose balance during brewing, causing uneven coffee extraction, so it was not successfully commercialized. In 2001, UCC Ueshima Coffee of Japan extended the hanging parts outward and registered a patent, which led to today's pour-over coffee, and it was subsequently introduced to the market. The emergence of every convenient product comes from repeated failures and repeated experiments before the best result is achieved. The appearance of pour-over coffee was to make it convenient for everyone while also making it possible to drink high-quality single-origin coffee, rather than remaining stuck with low-quality and unhealthy instant coffee powder.
      

The Principle of Pour-Over Coffee
The principle of pour-over coffeeis to place pre-ground coffee powder in a non-woven bag and complete extraction by pouring hot water through the coffee powder layer. Compared with hand-brewed coffee, pour-over coffee does not require preparing a dripper, filter paper, or grinder, the operational complexity is reduced, and the brewing technique does not need to be too particular.

      

Why can't pour-over coffee be soaked?
The coffee powder in pour-over coffee bags is ground relatively finer than the grind for hand-brewed coffee, which means that during brewing, the coffee's flavor is released into the water more quickly. When brewing with a pour-over bag is completed, 30% of the flavor substances in the coffee beans will have been released, and the remaining 70% is the coffee beans' woody fiber. If the pour-over bag is not removed promptly after brewing is completed, the taste of the woody fiber will be released into the brewed coffee, making the coffee bitter and woody. Therefore, after brewing the coffee bag, remember to take it out promptly, and do not brew it a second time. Front Street Coffee's pour-over bags are good quality and inexpensive, so everyone does not need to feel it is wasteful; this is originally the "mission" of coffee beans.
 

How to brew pour-over coffee?
To brew Front Street pour-over coffee bags, we only need three things: pour-over coffee, a cup, and hot water.

Yes, you read that correctly, it is just that convenient. At this point someone asks: "No electronic scale? No thermometer? No pouring kettle?" Really, no! Of course, if you have these tools, it will definitely be better. The coffee powder in pour-over coffee bags is itself somewhat finer in grind compared with hand-brewed coffee. When the coffee particles become smaller, the flavor is released faster, so you can brew a delicious cup of single-origin coffee without being too particular.
 

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The above content is compiled by CoffeeHunters, a coffee news website.