For more specialty coffee knowledge, please follow our WeChat official account: Front Street Coffee (FrontStreet Coffee). Pour-over coffee has become deeply loved by enthusiasts with the development of the third wave of specialty coffee. Many enthusiasts enjoy brewing pour-over coffee at home. Is pour-over coffee difficult? Actually, to [more…]

The ancients said: The plan for a day lies in the morning. In the early morning, preparing a hearty breakfast for yourself and your family, and brewing a pot of fragrant coffee, not only benefits our physical and mental health and refreshes our minds, but also gives us a perfect start to the day. The technique of pour-over coffee is based on the same principle as brewing Kung Fu tea; different teas [more…]

After the typhoon passed, the temperature didn't drop but rose instead, and the air was filled with so much water vapor that everything around began to feel muggy and hot. Thanks to this, the iced coffee at Front Street Coffee's shop became "hugely popular" once again. Iced pour-over coffee in particular, since there's a much wider variety of coffee beans to choose from, is practically a "bestseller" that gets ordered at almost every table. [more…]

The iced pour-over coffee I've shared with you before is the Japanese-style iced pour-over method, which is essentially hot coffee cooled with ice. In this article, Front Street Coffee will introduce a true iced pour-over coffee brewed with ice water—don't blink! Can ice water really brew coffee? A normal cup of pour-over coffee takes only 2-3 minutes to brew, using just [more…]

For more specialty coffee knowledge, please follow: Front Street Coffee In an era where all kinds of coffee machines are blooming everywhere, pour-over coffee, with its simple equipment and emphasis on hand-feel technique, stands out as a refreshing return to simplicity. Spreading from Japan, which pursues a refined culture, it has won over many coffee [more…]

Pour-over coffee is a type of drip brewing, where a coffee dripper paired with filter paper or another filtering medium traps the coffee grounds, ultimately yielding a clean, clear cup of coffee. Pour-over typically uses single-origin coffee beans, but with so many varieties on the market, how do we quickly pick the one that suits us? The simplest way [more…]

With the rapid development of the specialty coffee market, more and more people are beginning to explore pour-over coffee. Many beginners feel completely lost when it comes to making pour-over coffee—the dazzling array of brewing equipment, coffee brewing techniques, and so on make many people feel it's a hassle. Quite a few friends have also come to Front Street Coffee asking how to get started with pour-over coffee, how to brew [more…]

I wonder if everyone has heard this saying: pour-over is easy to get started with but hard to master. It means that anyone can brew coffee, but wanting to brew a delicious cup of coffee freely and according to your own vision is actually very difficult. There aren't many factors that affect pour-over coffee, and among them, water temperature is one of the four major elements of brewing. Hand [more…]

Regarding the making of iced pour-over, Front Street Coffee has already shared many different brewing methods. However, for beginners, it is still somewhat difficult to master most of these methods. This is because most iced pour-over methods require the use of ice cubes to achieve a rapid cooling effect, and we also need to make it by reducing the amount of water. [more…]

I wonder if everyone still remembers that last year Front Street shared a very interesting topic with you all—"Why do some coffee shops charge extra for iced pour-over." The reason was that in some coffee shops, iced pour-over is priced higher than hot pour-over, which has led some customer friends recently, when ordering, to always [more…]

Pour-over coffee is becoming more and more common. Besides the many people who try their hand at brewing pour-over coffee at home, many others buy coffee machines, such as American-style drip coffee makers. This kind of coffee machine is very similar to pour-over coffee: both rely on a slow, steady drip without high pressure. The difference between them is that one is manual, while the other [more…]

For more specialty coffee knowledge, please follow: Front Street Coffee (Frontsteet Coffee). Do people who drink pour-over coffee not drink drip bag coffee? Do people who drink drip bag coffee not understand pour-over coffee? If you think so, you are greatly mistaken. In fact, there is no essential difference between pour-over coffee and drip bag coffee. At Front Street, there are [more…]

For more specialty coffee knowledge, please follow: Front Street Coffee (Frontsteet Coffee). The most charming thing about pour-over coffee is its adjustability. Many customers who often come to Front Street for coffee also try making pour-over at home, and they always say that pour-over coffee is too difficult. [more…]

Now coffee drip bags are becoming increasingly popular in the market, and more and more people are beginning to discover the flavor enjoyment that single-origin coffee brings. From instant coffee, which you can drink just by adding hot water and stirring, to drip coffee, which you hang on a cup and brew with hot water—it's quick while also letting you enjoy the process. When you're tired from work, brew a [more…]

Pour-over coffee is a brewing method that places great emphasis on technique and coffee expertise. Factors such as the amount of coffee beans used for pour-over, the coffee grind size, the coffee-to-water ratio and time, and the brewing technique all affect the flavor extracted in pour-over coffee. So how can you brew a perfect-tasting pot of pour-over coffee? In the rest of this article, Front Street [more…]

With the growing popularity of coffee culture in China, more and more office workers choose to enjoy a cup of coffee before work to refresh themselves and sharpen their minds, making it a part of their daily routine. Many people have also equipped their homes with various brewing devices. However, because the process of making pour-over coffee is relatively cumbersome, many people prefer to choose a more cost-effective [more…]

Many friends have come to visit Front Street Coffee, drawn by its reputation. Besides marveling at the wide variety of coffee beans, they also greatly admire the baristas' brewing skills. Among them, many want to discuss pour-over brewing with the baristas. So Front Street Coffee takes this opportunity to share some thoughts on how to improve coffee brewing skills. Before that, Front Street Coffee asked [more…]

For pour-over coffee, most people tend to use higher water temperatures for extraction, because high temperatures not only improve extraction efficiency but, more importantly, bring out a rich, sweet-and-sour aroma and flavor. Basically, the water temperature used for pour-over coffee is rarely below 80°C. So, if you brew coffee below this temperature, is there any [more…]

Anyone who has visited a Front Street Coffee (FrontStreet Coffee) store will easily notice that Front Street's baristas generally use only two types of filter cones when making pour-over coffee: one is the Hario V60, and the other is the KONO. However, these filter cones all have certain requirements for the brewing technique. [more…]

Front Street Coffee uses a standard dose of 15 grams of coffee per serving, so when sharing brewing methods, 15 grams is always used as the demonstration standard. However, the dose used to brew coffee varies widely. Based on Front Street Coffee's observations, the most common doses are multiples of 6—12 grams, 18 grams, and 24 grams—and these are mostly used to make a single serving of 120 [more…]