Since coffee began to develop rapidly in the Chinese market, more and more young people choose coffee to refresh themselves and treat it as a workplace tool. Precisely because it has become so widespread, a daily cup of coffee seems to have become a habit for office workers. When a café is not downstairs from your office building, many people choose instant coffee for its better value.
But the growth of China's coffee market has gradually cultivated many coffee enthusiasts, who have begun to pursue coffee quality. Many try single-origin coffee beans from different regions. Visiting specialty cafés often requires significant expense and consumes time and energy, so many people choose to brew pour-over coffee at home. But you should know that the steps for pour-over coffee are also quite cumbersome, so customers often ask Front Street Coffee what brewing method produces coffee that is both tasty and simple. Front Street strongly recommends drip bag coffee.
Drip bag coffee is now very common. On Taobao, almost every coffee bean merchant offers a service for making drip bags, and Front Street is no exception. Many roaster cafés also offer drip bag service. This makes things convenient for many coffee enthusiasts, and also for many office workers who travel frequently. At Front Street Coffee stores, drip bag coffee has always been one of the must-have items for nearby neighbors when traveling. But did you know? Even drip bag coffee, which is easy to use and quick and convenient, still requires some technique when brewing. Many customers who come to buy drip bags ask Front Street Coffeethe correct brewing method for drip bag coffee. In fact, the correct way to brew drip bag coffee is to brew it like pour-over coffee. Next, Front Street will explain to everyonethe advanced version of brewing drip bag coffee.
When Front Street brews coffee, people ask why the cup should be warmed before brewing. Preheating the coffee cup with hot water before pouring in the coffee liquid sounds very simple, but would you believe it can produce subtle differences in the flavor of the coffee you brew? The purpose of preheating the coffee cup in advance is to maintain the coffee's temperature. Everyone knows that as the temperature of a delicious cup of coffee changes, its flavor also changes. If you directly use a room-temperature coffee cup to extract drip bag coffee, when the coffee liquid touches the cup, the temperature will drop significantly, causing you to lose the coffee flavor performance at high temperature.
Before we tear open the outer packaging of the drip bag coffee and the opening of the drip bag, we should make sure of the brewing water temperature. This depends on your type of coffee. You can follow the instructions on the drip bag, or you can try Front Street Coffee's usual practice: control the water temperature for dark-roasted coffee beans at 86-89°C, and for light-roasted coffee at 90-93°C. When everything is ready, we begin the correct brewing method for drip bag coffee: the first step is blooming. Use twice the amount of water as the coffee grounds. Generally, a drip bag of coffee weighs about 10 grams, so about 20 grams of water is enough for blooming. Pour from the center outward, making sure all the coffee grounds are wet.
Why bloom? Because the main purpose of blooming is to release the carbon dioxide in the coffee grounds as quickly as possible. Not only that, after all the coffee grounds come into contact with water, the subsequent extraction will more easily extract the flavor substances in the coffee. After that, simply pour water in a circular motion from the center outward until you reach the amount of water you need. If you do not have a scale, you can mark the capacity of the cup.
Besides these, Front Street also has other drip bag coffee brewing techniques. Everyone knows there are three major factors affecting pour-over coffee: grind size, water temperature, and coffee-to-water ratio. Earlier, Front Street introduced water temperature to everyone. Here we will discuss the coffee-to-water ratio and grind size. When you receive a drip bag coffee packet, the coffee inside has already been ground, and the grind size is decided by the merchant. At Front Street, the grind size for drip bag coffee is the same as for pour-over coffee, because they are both drip-filter coffees. But if you make coffee at home yourself, be careful to change the coffee bean grind size according to the brewing device, because the suitable grind size for each type of coffee brewing device is different. Front Street has compiled the following chart here for everyone to refer to and use:
The coffee-to-water ratio is a commonly discussed topic. If the water proportion is too high, the coffee's mouthfeel will become lighter, which Front Street generally calls "watery." If the water proportion is too low, its concentration will increase, making the overall mouthfeel heavier.
If the steps and method are all the same, then what is the difference between drip bag coffee and pour-over coffee? Front Street believes the biggest difference between pour-over coffee and drip bag coffee is that the form of coffee brewing is different. Pour-over coffee requires certain equipment, such as a dripper, gooseneck kettle, and grinder. In comparison, drip bag coffee only requires carrying a small coffee packet to enjoy delicious coffee. Another point is that drip bag coffee uses coffee grounds that are pre-ground in advance, while pour-over coffee generally does not use pre-ground coffee; it is best to grind the coffee within the two minutes before brewing.
Some neighbors come to Front Street and ask whether drip bag coffee can be brewed repeatedly. It is best not to. Everyone drinks coffee for the taste. After the first brew of drip bag coffee, the essence has already been extracted, and what remains is bitterness and astringency. A second brew will not harm your health, but its taste will become watery and the astringency will increase, so Front Street strongly does not recommend repeated brewing. If you really do not want to waste it, you can reuse the coffee grounds to absorb odors, fertilize plants, and so on. Coffee grounds have infinite possibilities, and everyone can try to discover the possibilities for recycling coffee grounds.
Although drip bag coffee has, in Front Street's view, already become widespread, Front Street is looking at it from the perspective of people within the coffee circle. The Chinese market is very large, and coffee has actually only just begun, so there will still be many people who have not come into contact with drip bag coffee, and therefore wonder whether drip bag coffee is black coffee. In fact, drip bag coffee is made by putting ground coffee powder into a non-woven bag, sodrip bag coffee is black coffee.
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