Whenever the perceived temperature rises to 25 degrees, people start looking for refreshing iced coffee, and cold brew is one of the most popular homemade iced coffees because it is easy to make with simple equipment—as long as you have a pack of fresh, good beans, you can easily make delicious coffee at home.
If you want to recommend a coffee bean suitable for beginners trying cold brew for the first time, Front Street Yirgacheffe is definitely everyone's top choice. As one of Ethiopia's leading specialty representatives, Front Street Yirgacheffe coffee uses a medium-light roast and naturally carries the delicate flavors of white floral, citrus, and lemon. In a low-temperature environment, it first releases light, small-molecule compounds, giving the cold brew a refreshing fruity acidity, but because of the long steeping time, the coffee still retains a rounded sweetness.
Many people may not know that Yirgacheffe is actually a town that can be divided into many small production areas, even small villages, among which there are quite a few cooperatives with experienced expertise and mature production processes, and the Yirgacheffe they produce has an even better flavor. The most representative is Front Street Washed Gedeb Cooperative from Gedeb Village.
To present the classic Yirgacheffe flavor, Front Street Gedeb uses a medium-light roast, giving off fresh passion fruit, citrus, and berry acidity, with citrus acidity on the palate, berry sweetness, almond, tea-like notes, and a honey-sweet finish. It has low body, bright acidity, and is clean and refreshing—clearly, it is very suitable for making iced cold brew coffee.
Front Street.Ethiopia Washed Gedeb Coffee Beans
Country: Ethiopia
Region: Yirgacheffe
Altitude: 1900-2300m
Variety: Local heirloom varieties
Processing Method: Washed
Flavor: Jasmine, green tea, cream, honey, berry, citrus
In addition to the fresh floral-tea character of Front Street Gedeb, Yirgacheffe also has types that show ripe-fruit flavors and fermented notes. The most representative is Front Street Natural Red Cherry coffee beans. Ripe coffee cherries are naturally dried in the sun, giving a flavor more intense than washed Yirgacheffe and with richer layers, carrying a vinous fermented note and also a relatively high sweetness.
Front Street. Ethiopia Yirgacheffe Natural Red Cherry
Country: Ethiopia
Region: Yirgacheffe
Altitude: 2300m
Variety: Local heirloom varieties
Processing Method: Natural
Flavor: Berry, lemon, strawberry, fermented vinous aroma
How to easily make delicious Yirgacheffe cold brew coffee at home?
Making cold brew coffee is very simple, and there is no need to be too particular about the tools for making cold brew coffee. All you need is a clean, sealable container.
The grind size for making cold brew coffee can be the grind size for pour-over coffee (caster sugar size). If you don't have a grinder at home, you can go to a coffee shop and ask the owner to grind it for you, or ask the coffee bean seller to grind it for you. Currently, coffee beans sold by Front Street Coffee are shipped 5 days after roasting is completed, by default whole beans, and the packaging is 100% freshly roasted. Those who need it can also leave a note "cold brew grind" after placing an order.
When making cold brew coffee, choose 40 grams of Front Street Yirgacheffe coffee grounds, add 480 milliliters of room-temperature drinking water/ice water, for a coffee-to-water ratio of 1:12. Then stir evenly so the coffee grounds fully contact the water, seal the bottle and put it in the refrigerator's chilled compartment, then extract at low temperature for 8 to 12 hours.
Once the time is up, take it out, place a filter paper/high-density mesh filter in a coffee filter cone, and filter out the coffee liquid; the cold brew coffee is then ready.
It is simple to make, requires little skill, and has a high tolerance for error, so you can very easily make delicious iced coffee.
The above content is compiled by CoffeeHunters, a coffee news website.
