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In different European countries, iced coffee is also different! Some add ice cubes to hot coffee, some add ice cream to hot coffee, and some use cold water immersion extraction. For example, in the United States, the basic combination is: espresso + water + ice cubes. This method has now become the most common way of making iced Americano in coffee shops around the world.

For example, in Italy, the basic combination is: espresso + ice cubes, then put into a shaker and shaken to make the coffee produce foam and enrich the texture of the whole drink; for another example, in Germany, the basic combination is: espresso with extended extraction time + vanilla ice cream scoop + cream + caramel sauce or chocolate chips. The deluxe version also adds a little rum.

But the iced coffee making methods mentioned above all require the use of an espresso machine, which is not so convenient. So how can you make delicious iced coffee simply and conveniently at home? This article will follow Front Street Coffee (FrontStreet Coffee) to learn about summer iced coffee that can be made with cold water!!

Cold Brew/How to Make Cold Brew Coffee

Compared with other coffees extracted with hot water, cold water immersion coffee lacks heat to promote the movement of water molecules, and the bitter and astringent substances in coffee are difficult to release at low temperatures, so the taste of cold brew coffee is cleaner and more refreshing. The long extraction also allows the good flavor substances in the coffee to be fully released, so the taste is also very full.

Due to the long extraction time, the caffeine content of cold brew coffee will be higher than that of drip coffee and espresso-type coffee, so friends who urgently need to wake up can give priority to cold brew~

The method of making cold brew coffee is very simple!

To make a home version of cold brew coffee, Front Street Gudingding Cooperative is recommended. This is a lightly roasted bean using washed processing, produced in Ethiopia, which everyone knows well. No matter which form of extraction is used, it can always express the flavors of white floral, citrus, green tea, and cream, with a fresh sweet-and-sour taste, so there is basically not much extraction threshold, making it especially suitable for beginners who have just started.

Coffee-to-water ratio: 1:12 (1g coffee, 12g water)

Water temperature: room temperature

Equipment: cold brew pitcher

Steeping time: 12-16 hours

Cold brew (cold steeped) coffee can be said to be the most worry-free and least technique-testing way to make iced coffee. The only downside is that the preparation time is relatively long, so you cannot drink it immediately. You can start steeping at dinner time, and the next morning you can drink full and clean cold brew coffee~

Since the cold brew pitcher used by Front Street has a 1L capacity, this time 60g of coffee grounds will be used for demonstration. You can increase or decrease the coffee grounds according to the size of your own cold brew pitcher. The ratio remains unchanged, but you must ensure that the coffee grounds can be completely submerged after the water is added.

Prepare a clean cold brew pitcher, pour the ground coffee into the filter basket of the cold brew pitcher, then pour 720g of room-temperature water into the coffee grounds to achieve full wetting and steeping. After that, cover the lid of the filter basket part, and finally put on the lid of the cold brew pitcher. Then place it in the refrigerator's cold storage compartment for low-temperature extraction for 12-16 hours~

At the end of extraction, lift the filter basket and let it hang over the mouth of the pitcher to drip the remaining coffee liquid. After that, discard the coffee grounds and it is ready to taste. If you think 1:12 is too strong, you can make it 1:13, or dilute it with ice cubes/clean water when tasting.

Recommended Coffee Beans Suitable for Making Iced Drinks

[Front Street Ethiopia Natural Red Cherry Coffee Beans]

Medium-light roast, flavor: mixed berries, caramel, black tea, slight fruity fermentation aroma

Red Cherry refers to the "Red Cherry Project" carried out by a Dutch green bean merchant in 2007. The project was established mainly to raise the purchase price of fully ripe coffee cherries, thereby encouraging coffee farmers to harvest only coffee cherries that are already ripe and whose outer skin is red.

The effect of doing this not only greatly improves the overall quality of the coffee beans, but also, because fully ripe fruit has relatively higher sugar content, after the whole fruit is sun-dried, the coffee beans can also obtain excellent sweetness and a slight fermented feel, bringing a soft and smooth texture to the coffee. It is one of the coffee beans with very good sweetness in the Ethiopia region.

[Front Street Panama Elida Estate Natural Catuai Coffee Beans]

Medium roast, flavor: peach, orange, raisin, caramel, green tea

When it comes to Elida Estate, the first thing everyone may think of is the ASB slow natural Geisha coffee beans that the estate won an award for in the 2019 BOP competition. However, the estate does not only grow Geisha variety coffee beans, but also grows the common Caturra and Catuai varieties of Central and South America, as well as the Typica variety, which itself has a clean and tranquil flavor profile.

The biggest feature of this Elida Catuai coffee bean is that it has both the rich fruity flavor brought by the terroir of the producing region and sun-drying, and the clean characteristic of Typica coffee beans themselves, so the coffee tastes very smooth and full.

 [Front Street Colombia Finca La Divisa Sidra Coffee Beans]

Medium roast, flavor: grape, passion fruit, dried apricot, citrus, fermented aroma

The Sidra variety attracted widespread attention because last year, in the 2022 WBC competition, champion barista Anthony Douglas selected Colombia's Sidra coffee beans in the competition.

Front Street Sidra coffee is actually a laboratory variety, bred by crossing Typica and Red Bourbon. Later, based on genetic comparison, it was found that Sidra coffee has similar genes to Ethiopian native varieties, so some scholars also speculate that Sidra was developed from an experimental research variety exported from Ethiopia crossed with local Bourbon coffee varieties in Ecuador.

Sidra variety coffee beans have floral and fruity characteristics comparable to Geisha, expressing flavors such as peach, citrus, grape, honey, etc., with moderate acidity and a rounded texture. Key point! Excellent value for money.

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