The AeroPress is a coffee brewing device born out of a desire for simplicity, created by an inventor weary of cumbersome brewing routines. By combining immersion, stirring, and pressing, it allows users to obtain a rich, flavorful single-origin coffee in a very short操作 time. The AeroPress is highly versatile: it can be used with the officially recommended upright (standard) method, or with the inverted method by flipping the chamber, and by adjusting grind size, water temperature, coffee-to-water ratio, and stirring time, a wide variety of brewing recipes can be developed. Interestingly, although the official recommendation is the upright method, most enthusiasts prefer the inverted method. Front Street Coffee will explain in this article what upright and inverted mean, and discuss why the inverted method is more popular. [more…]

The AeroPress looks like an oversized syringe, and at first glance it's hard to associate it with coffee brewing, yet it happens to have its own world-class competition. This article begins with the story of the AeroPress's invention, then breaks down its structure into three main parts: the chamber, the plunger, and the filter cap, and explains how it combines immersion extraction and pressure extraction in one device. It then focuses on the more stable inverted brewing process, from Front Street Coffee's Papua New Guinea · Bird of Paradise bean selection, grind size, coffee-to-water ratio, and water temperature, to the timing of each step—adding grounds, stirring, flipping, and pressing—reconstructing step by step the process of making a full-bodied cup of coffee in 1 minute 30 seconds. Finally, it includes adjustment ideas for a 1:8 iced coffee. [more…]

The AeroPress brewing method is versatile, with no absolute rules—use your imagination to make a great cup of coffee. Use it however you like. It is precisely because of the AeroPress's varied techniques, its operability, and the controllability of coffee extraction factors that the World AeroPress Championship exists today. [more…]

"Boss, the funnel you use for pouring beans looks pretty unique—where'd you buy it?" "It's just something that came free with the AeroPress." Only then did I remember that in a corner of Front Street Coffee, there was a long-dust-covered AeroPress. Its syringe-like shape makes it hard to imagine that it's a brewing device. There's even a dedicated AeroPress brewing competition, which [more…]

For more specialty coffee knowledge, please follow our WeChat official account: Front Street Coffee (FrontStreet Coffee). The AeroPress looks like a syringe; without really looking into it, you wouldn't think it's a coffee brewing device, and if you do look into it seriously, you'll also discover that there are competitions specifically for brewing with the AeroPress. [more…]

For more specialty coffee knowledge, please follow our WeChat official account: Front Street Coffee (FrontStreet Coffee). The AeroPress is not just a passing fad; its appearance is quite unlike typical brewing equipment, and the company that invented this brewing device doesn't even have coffee equipment as its flagship product. [more…]

Without any hints, Front Street Coffee believes that it would be hard for anyone to imagine that this syringe-like tool is actually used to make coffee. That's right, it is the very popular little coffee "toy" in the coffee world—the AeroPress. The reason Front Street Coffee calls it a "toy" is not because it cannot reliably make [more…]

Have you ever noticed that, aside from some large chain brands, we hardly ever see trapezoid drip cups in coffee shops? Compared to trapezoid drip cups, cone-shaped and flat-bottom/cake drip cups appear much, much more frequently. So quite a few friends are curious: why do drip cups that use trapezoid [more…]

Unlike pour-over, the AeroPress uses immersion combined with pressure for extraction. It can brew strong coffee, is easy to clean, and is relatively simple to operate. Where did the AeroPress come from? In 2005, Alan Adler, who was an engineer, physicist, and lecturer at Stanford University, found that he really had no patience to use [more…]

For more specialty coffee knowledge and tips, follow Front Street Coffee (FrontStreet Coffee). Making coffee at home is actually not all that complicated—it basically comes down to your needs and budget. Coffee is a beverage, and in nature it's almost the same as tea. Many of us [more…]

For more specialty coffee knowledge and tips, please follow Front Street Coffee (FrontStreet Coffee). Making coffee at home to drink is actually not a very complicated matter; it basically depends on your needs and budget for coffee. Coffee is a beverage, almost the same in nature as tea. Many of us [more…]

Front Street Coffee has recently welcomed many new faces to its stores. People are no longer just drinking coffee—they're also learning different brewing methods. The simplest brewing method is none other than pour-over coffee. Compared to the expensive and space-consuming espresso machine, a simple [more…]

For more specialty coffee knowledge, please follow our WeChat official account: Front Street Coffee (FrontStreet Coffee). Do you like the icy coolness of iced latte, with its rich coffee flavor and sweet milk, but you don't have an espresso machine? This article teaches you how to make a simple iced latte using an AeroPress, just by following ten steps. [more…]

At Front Street Coffee shops, we often meet friends who have been teaching themselves pour-over coffee at home and come to discuss brewing-related questions with us. Many of them say that although the parameters they use are exactly the same as those we recommend in the shop, the coffee they brew always tastes inconsistent—sometimes good, sometimes bad—and they have no idea where the problem lies. In cases like this, [more…]

As the saying goes: "Bloom well, and brewing is trouble-free." For pour-over coffee, blooming is a very important preparatory step. So-called blooming is the step where, before we formally extract the flavor compounds from the coffee, we use a small amount of hot water to pre-wet the coffee grounds and wait for a certain period of time. [more…]

If you want to order an espresso at a coffee shop, besides saying "I'll have an espresso," you can also say "I'll have a shot." A shot is the unit for espresso; 1 shot espresso means one serving of espresso, and sometimes "sin" is also used. [more…]

Dirty coffee has always existed as a hidden menu item at Front Street Coffee, because in Front Street's view, Dirty is simply a "special" way of drinking a latte. Until one day, I happened to overhear a customer explaining it to his friend, which boiled down to "Dirty is made with ice bock milk [冰博克奶] as the base, then pouring espresso over it." [more…]

The choice of origin for cold brew coffee determines whether the cup leans toward fresh fruit juice or rich cocoa. The long-steep cold water extraction method makes origin flavors express themselves differently than in hot brewing, and some origins perform better in cold brew. For fruity cold brew, Ethiopian origins are a good choice. Huakui natural beans made as cold brew, hot [more…]

When summer arrives, the internet-famous iced coffee comes to mind. Indeed, in this scorching summer, a glass of iced coffee instantly makes you feel refreshed. Today, Front Street Coffee is going to talk about one such iced coffee: cold brew coffee. Cold brew coffee has become a favorite among office workers. Why is that? Front Street Coffee believes that cold brew coffee [more…]

For more specialty coffee knowledge, please follow our WeChat public account: FrontStreet Coffee. Recently, many friends have been asking about cold brew coffee, so Front Street is taking this opportunity to talk about "cold brew coffee." Cold brew coffee is essentially different from the usual hot water brewing. It uses [more…]