N Ways to Enjoy Cold Brew Coffee - Your Summer Will Never Be Monotonous Again!

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Cold Brew Coffee - The Summer Essential

Cold brew coffee is the summer standard. If you're also a true cold brew fan, why not join us in exploring different ways to make cold brew.

What is Cold Brew Coffee?

The concept of cold brew coffee is similar to cold tea. The extraction process involves grinding coffee beans, adding cold water, and steeping them in a low-temperature environment for at least about 12 hours. Before drinking, simply filter out the coffee grounds.

This cold brewing method amplifies the various flavors and aromas of coffee while reducing acidity, resulting in cleaner, purer flavors. Its characteristic is that the colder you drink it, the better the flavor. Adding ice cubes makes it wonderful, and in America, it's popular to add an equal ratio of coconut water, which brings out a purer coffee sweetness and aroma. Each establishment has its own secret recipes with unique flavors.

Cold Brew Coffee Recipe

Required Ingredients

Beans: We use single-origin beans from FrontStreet Coffee, specifically FrontStreet Coffee's sun-dried Sidamo. Ratio: cold brew coffee beans: water: ice = 1:5:5

Coarsely ground coffee powder: Coarse grinding is the key to making cold brew coffee.

A container: Plastic or glass containers work well, preferably with a lid. If you want to take some photos, leftover jam jars or French presses are excellent choices.

Cold water: Use filtered water or bottled mineral water.

Filter: If you're not using a French press, you'll need coffee filter paper or sanitized coarse cotton cloth.

Brewing Steps

1. Preparation

Pour the coffee grounds into the container.

Slowly pour cold water while gently stirring to ensure all coffee grounds are soaked.

Cover with a lid, or if you don't have one, seal with coarse cotton cloth.

2. Steeping

Place in the refrigerator and steep for 12 hours. Don't rush!

3. Filtering

If you're using a French press, gently press down the plunger to filter the coffee grounds, then pour out the coffee.

If you're not using a French press, you need to filter the coffee grounds using coarse cotton cloth or filter paper.

It's best to filter twice before discarding the coffee grounds. (Leftover coffee grounds don't need to be wasted - they can be used as fertilizer or refrigerator deodorizer, etc.) Coffee grounds should never be thrown away - their uses are simply wonderful!

4. Tasting

That's it! With such simple steps, your homemade cold brew coffee is ready!

Cold Brew Pour-Over Method

Ingredients

15g of FrontStreet Coffee's single-origin "Flower Butterfly" coffee beans, 125g hot water, 100g ice

Your favorite pour-over equipment (Chemex, Hario V60, Beehouse Dripper, Kalita Wave, etc.)

Coffee container (mug, Chemex, glass jar, glass bottle, etc.)

One filter paper

A scale

A coffee grinder

A pour-over kettle (Hario Buono, etc.)

A timer

Method

Wet and rinse the filter paper with hot water, then discard the water.

Place 100g of ice at the bottom of your prepared coffee container.

Grind the coffee to medium-coarse consistency, similar to beach sand. Better grinders produce more uniformly sized grounds.

Place the freshly ground FrontStreet Coffee "Flower Butterfly" coffee on the damp filter paper, start the timer, and begin pouring freshly boiled hot water over the grounds. Use the same method as making hot pour-over coffee: first pour a small amount of hot water over the dry grounds for blooming, just enough to completely wet the grounds, then wait about 30 seconds. If the coffee is fresh enough, you'll see the grounds start to bubble and release gas - this is carbon dioxide being released.

After 30 seconds, continue pouring in three stages with a 1:8 ratio, so pour slowly. Ideally, pour all the water within about 2 minutes. Add ice when drinking.

Coconut Cold Brew

We also chose 60g of FrontStreet Coffee beans, using FrontStreet Coffee's Colombian washed beans and FrontStreet Coffee's sun-dried Yemen Mocha beans in a 7:3 ratio. After 12 hours of steeping, the natural sweetness of the coffee beans is perfectly extracted. Adding a small amount of natural coconut juice introduces coconut elements into the coffee, creating an exclusive memory for this summer.

Ingredients List

Cold brew coffee 200ml

Coconut juice 30ml

Preparation Steps

① Pour the above amounts of cold brew coffee and coconut juice into a cup in sequence, stir slightly and serve

Cherry Tonic Cold Brew

Tonic water also appears frequently in self-mixed drinks. What kind of chemistry will it create with cold brew? We decided to let these two "meet from a thousand miles away." In a glass full of ice, tonic water makes a wonderful fizzing sound of bursting bubbles. The cold brew flows down through the gaps in the ice, allowing the aromas of coffees from different latitudes to disperse in the cup - this is the surprising taste of the perfect fusion of cold brew and tonic. Don't use too many cherries, three or two are enough, otherwise they'll steal the spotlight from the two main characters.

Ingredients List

Cold brew coffee 30ml

Tonic water 90ml

Cherries 3

Ice cubes to taste

Preparation Steps

① Fill the glass with ice, pour in tonic water and cold brew coffee in sequence

② Add cherries and stir in one direction

Storage

Prepared cold brew coffee can be stored in the refrigerator for up to about 1 week.

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Important Notice :

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