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Since cold brew coffee is made differently from regular hot-brewed coffee and needs to be prepared a day in advance, the cold brew sold at Front Street stores won't have as rich a selection of coffee beans to choose from as pour-over.

But precisely because of this, when steeping cold brew, Front Street carefully selects coffee beans that are particularly suitable for cold brew and have a broad appeal in flavor, so that customers can get a relatively outstanding experience from the limited choices available.

And because these cold brews really suit most people's tastes, friends often quietly probe Front Street after drinking them for the ingredients and recipe used to make the cold brew, so they can replicate the same deliciousness at home.

Although Front Street just shared a rough approach to bean selection a couple of days ago, many friends have been messaging privately on the back end wanting a more detailed recommendation for cold brew beans. Because, as mentioned earlier, cold brew coffee is made differently from hot-brewed coffee, so the coffee made from the same coffee bean will be very different in style from regular hot-brewed coffee.

How to Make Cold Brew Coffee

Cold brew coffee is a very easy method to master. Front Street Coffee's cold brew method uses 50 grams of coffee grounds as the base, with the coffee grounds ground to a coarseness where the passing rate through a No. 20 standard sieve is 85%. Put the coffee grounds into a glass bottle, then add 400 milliliters of room-temperature water and 200 grams of hard ice cubes to the bottle (totaling 600 grams of ice-water mixture), for a coffee-to-water ratio of 1:12. Then use a stirring rod to stir the coffee grounds and water evenly, seal it, and place it in a refrigerated fridge.

After placing it in the fridge for 12-24 hours, use filter paper to filter out the coffee grounds and obtain a clean coffee liquid. Then use a clean sealed bottle to store the coffee liquid and refrigerate it for about another 4 hours before drinking.

The characteristics of cold brew coffee are mainly that it's not bitter, has low acidity, a soft flavor, and at the same time carries the fermented feel produced by "low-temperature aging." As long as we combine the performance of the coffee bean with the characteristics of cold brew coffee and use our imagination, we can get a rough idea of how a coffee bean will perform once made into cold brew coffee. If you can't imagine it, that's fine too—Front Street will next share the coffee beans commonly used for making cold brew coffee, so everyone can just copy the homework directly and steep a cold brew coffee that suits their own preferences~

Rich Fruity Cold Brew

If we had to choose one type of cold brew coffee to get through this hot summer, then Front Street believes that the vast majority of friends would choose a sweet-and-sour, rich fruity cold brew coffee. Because this type of coffee not only has little bitterness, but its pleasant sweet-and-sour taste can also fully dissolve the heat of summer.

If we want to make a cup of cold brew coffee full of juicy fruitiness, we recommendFront Street Huakui Coffee, Front Street

which fit the bill perfectly. The cold brew coffee steeped from them will carry a rich mango aroma, rounded citrus acidity, and a slight fermented feel of pineapple; or Front Street Ethiopia Aito, which can steep a cold brew coffee with the aromas of lychee, mango, and blueberry.

Fresh Floral-Fruity Cold Brew

Some friends prefer something with floral notes—those relatively fresh and light, not-too-rich cold brew coffees—so they can choose washed.Washed-process beans undergo relatively less fermentation, so the coffee beans can better retain their original flavors. In particular, washed coffee beans from Ethiopia and Panama are famous for their fresh fruity notes; Geisha needs no elaboration, as its rich floral aroma is almost known to every household.

We recommend Front Street Yirgacheffe·Guddingding. Washed-process, the cold brew steeped from it will have: the fresh flavors of lemon, white flowers, and green tea; or Front Street Boquete·Washed Geisha, Washed Butterfly, whose cold brew will carry the flavors of white floral notes, citrus, and honey.

But note that the white floral note can sometimes be mistaken for a bitter or medicinal taste because it's too rich, so when we use beans with white floral notes to make cold brew, we can appropriately increase the amount of water used and slightly reduce the concentration of the coffee.

Rich and Deep Cold Brew

Because some friends quite enjoy the rich, deep taste brought by dark roasting, Front Street shared some time ago how to use dark-roasted, espresso-blend coffee beans to make cold brew coffee. So if you also like this kind of "acid-free," fragrant, and extremely rich cold brew coffee, then you might as well try making it with dark-roasted coffee beans.

Front Street Jamaica Blue Mountain Coffee and Front Street Indonesia Golden Mandheling are both very good choices. The cold brew steeped from them will have a rich chocolate flavor, caramel sweetness, and a very full body.

"Tipsy" Boozy Cold Brew

Boozy cold brew is a must-have type of cold brew coffee at Front Street stores, because its audience is really, really large. The reason many friends like cold brew is not just that it has a richer taste, but also that it has a fermented feel different from the usual. And when we use some coffee beans with a relatively deep degree of fermentation to make cold brew, the resulting coffee often has a richer boozy aroma—one sip feels as if you've taken a mouthful of liquor, making people call it utterly satisfying.

So if you're a friend who likes cold brew coffee with a rich boozy aroma, Front Street would relatively recommend using anaerobic-process coffee beans to make it. Because most anaerobic processing causes the coffee beans to undergo deeper fermentation, thereby generating an obvious fermented feel.

Generally, Front Street uses two beans to make boozy cold brew. One is the Front Street 90+ Eleta Geisha Coffee on the bean list. Since it is a medium-roasted anaerobic-process coffee bean, the cold brew coffee extracted from it has almost no acidity, and is more about the high sweetness of vanilla and cream, while carrying a very rich whisky aroma!

Then if what friends like is a boozy cold brew with fruity notes and fruity acidity and higher sweetness, then the Front Street Strawberry Candy on the bean list is definitely the one and only choice!

Raisin honey-processed, it has the fermented aromas of strawberry, berries, and raisins. After being made into cold brew, the coffee's sweetness will be enhanced, and the aromas of strawberry and raisin will evolve into the taste of fruit wine—very nice; or Front Street Mozart, which uses the same process, also works. Besides the aromas of berries and raisins, we can also taste a purple floral note similar to lavender~

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