Detailed Illustrated Guide to Correct Drip Bag Coffee Brewing Method - Is Drip Filter Coffee Pure Coffee? Can It Be Brewed a Second Time?

Recently, many friends have purchased drip bag coffee and asked for brewing recommendations. While drip bag coffee is convenient, it can be unfamiliar to those who have never tried it before. FrontStreet Coffee is here to share the brewing method for drip bag coffee!

The History of Drip Bag Coffee

In 2001, Japan's UCC Ueshima Coffee Company invented drip bag coffee and registered a patent before launching it to the market. In Japanese, it's called "one-cup extraction type coffee." This is because its principle involves putting coffee grounds in a filter bag made of non-woven fabric or filter paper, with two paper clips on the outside. When opened, it can hang on the rim of a narrow-mouthed cup, and after brewing, you can simply remove it to enjoy aromatic black coffee. The advantage is that it's extremely convenient, but the disadvantage is that coffee loses its aroma quickly after being ground into powder—which is why FrontStreet Coffee only ships drip bags made within 5 days of production.

The two paper pieces that hang on the cup rim like "ears" are where the name "drip bag" comes from. Due to its simple operation and portability, the coffee brewed from drip bags tastes much more pure and aromatic than instant coffee. Today, drip bag coffee has captured 15% of the regular coffee market share in Japan. However, in China, even as late as 2010, very few people had heard of "drip bags." In recent years, as coffee culture has continued to spread, drip bag coffee has become widely popular, and we can find it in many offices.

What is Drip Bag Coffee?

Drip bag coffee consists of coffee grounds sealed in filter bags. It's called drip bag coffee because during the brewing process, you need to open the small paper pieces (little ears) on both sides of the filter bag and hang them on a cup for extraction. Due to its main feature of being extremely convenient for getting a cup of black coffee, it has become an essential choice for many offices, homes, and travel situations.

Since drip bags emphasize convenience, although they can be brewed using complex brewing and grinding tools like pour-over coffee, this would mask the inherent convenience advantage of drip bags. Moreover, friends who purchase drip bag coffee love the taste of pour-over coffee. During office hours, at home, or while traveling, when lacking equipment like grinders, electronic scales, pour-over kettles, and filter cups, drip bag coffee can satisfy that coffee craving.

How to Brew Drip Bag Coffee?

1. First, drip bag coffee has a fixed net weight of coffee grounds (usually 10 grams), so it solves the problem of not having a grinder and electronic scale.

2. Next, let's address the water amount and temperature. Like pour-over coffee, use a ratio of 1:15 to 1:16, so the brewed coffee should reach 140-150 milliliters. Choose a water temperature of around 90°C. If you have a thermometer or temperature-controlled kettle, use that preferentially. If not, you can estimate the temperature—generally, after boiling water in a kettle, turn off the heat source and open the lid, wait 2-3 minutes, and the temperature will reach around 90°C (at room temperature 28°C).

3. Once prepared, preheat the mug (cup), take out the drip bag and tear open the sealed edge along the "Open" line, unfold the "ears" on both ends of the filter bag, hang them on the rim of the mug, and shake to level the coffee grounds.

4. For the first pour, simply wet the entire coffee grounds layer and let it bloom for 30 seconds.

5. After blooming, perform the second pour. Use a small water stream in circular motions to fill directly, and as the grounds layer slightly drops, continue pouring until full. Repeat this process until the coffee in the cup reaches about 140-150 milliliters, then remove the drip bag and enjoy!

6. If you want more precise water amount, you can pour 150-160 milliliters of water into the pouring kettle. During brewing, after injecting all the water from the kettle into the drip bag, you can remove the drip bag once all the coffee liquid has flowed into the cup. The entire brewing process takes about 1 minute.

Since drip bag coffee uses pre-ground coffee, its flavor dissipates faster than whole coffee beans. Therefore, to enjoy the coffee's flavor, it's best to consume it as soon as possible.

FrontStreet Coffee's Drip Bag Recommendations

The seasonal drip bags are randomly selected from FrontStreet Coffee's main seven major producing regions, with coffee beans from 5 regions chosen to make drip bag coffee. The seven major regions are: FrontStreet Coffee's Ethiopia Yirgacheffe (citrus fruit notes), FrontStreet Coffee's Indonesia Mandheling (herbal aromatic nuts), FrontStreet Coffee's Brazil Cerrado (clean nuts), FrontStreet Coffee's Colombia Washed Huila (peanut cream), FrontStreet Coffee's Costa Rica Tarrazú (nutty toffee), FrontStreet Coffee's Yunnan Xiao Li (fruity tea-like), and FrontStreet Coffee's Guatemala Huehuetenango (citrus, smoky). Choosing seasonal drip bags is like opening blind boxes—you might get a pleasant surprise!

FrontStreet Coffee · Brazil Cerrado Red Bourbon Drip Bag Coffee

Brazilian coffee beans were introduced in 1720 from French Guiana (a country in northern South America). Brazil was a Portuguese colony at the time, while many other South American countries were Spanish colonies, which is why most South American countries speak Spanish, while Brazil speaks Portuguese.

The Portuguese officer stationed in Brazil, in order to bring Guianan coffee beans to Brazil (coffee export to other countries was strictly prohibited at the time), won the affection of the Guianan governor's wife and successfully brought coffee seeds into Brazil. Since then, coffee quickly adapted in Brazil, spreading from the north to the southeastern state of São Paulo. By 1845, Brazilian coffee beans already accounted for 45% of the world's total coffee beans. Currently, Brazil is the world's largest coffee exporting country.

FrontStreet Coffee not only includes Brazil in its drip bag series but also features Brazilian coffee in its daily bean coffee series. This shows that Brazil, as a coffee-producing country, is indispensable in classic coffee flavors. FrontStreet Coffee's daily beans are the "signature representatives" of regional coffee beans because their basic regional flavors have higher recognition, and they are also low-priced, high-value coffee beans.

Flavor: Nuts, peanuts, sucrose, balanced

FrontStreet Coffee · Panama Flower Butterfly Drip Bag Coffee

Panama is a Central American country, bordering Costa Rica to the west and Colombia to the east. Panamanian coffee is famous in the coffee world for its Geisha coffee from Hacienda La Esmeralda. The entire Panama is filled with a rich Geisha atmosphere, and many estates grow Geisha coffee beans. However, because Geisha coffee is difficult to cultivate, yields are low, and the flavor is excellent, the price is also high. But this FrontStreet Coffee Panama Flower Butterfly has 70% premium Geisha heritage, along with Catuai and Caturra, grown in the Barú Volcano region of Boquete. It grows at 1600 meters above sea level in a volcanic area, where the local special microclimate results in abundant rainfall and large day-night temperature differences. Combined with meticulous harvesting and fine processing, this FrontStreet Coffee Panama Flower Butterfly coffee performs exceptionally well in body, acidity, and floral notes.

What's even more surprising is that despite having such excellent quality and conditions, the price is very affordable, allowing people to experience Geisha flavor at a great value.

The washed process uses machines to first remove the fruit pulp, leaving only coffee beans enclosed in parchment. At this point, the beans still have a layer of mucilage outside, and the washing process is meant to clean this mucilage. However, the mucilage adheres strongly and is not easy to remove, so it must be placed in tanks for about 18-36 hours to ferment and decompose the mucilage.

Flavor: Citrus, floral, tea-like, honey, high sweetness.

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