What Exactly Are the Taste Characteristics of Cold Brew Coffee Without Sourness or Bitterness? What Flavor Notes Make Cold Brew Coffee Delicious?

People love cold drip coffee for its rich and smooth mouthfeel, with just the right acidity and sweetness, without any astringency or bitterness. When made with fermented flavor coffee beans, cold drip also presents a rich wine aroma, like drinking a chilled fruit wine.

How to Make Cold Drip Coffee?

Many friends who have fallen in love with the taste of cold drip coffee have purchased cold drip equipment to try making it at home, but have encountered various questions. FrontStreet Coffee first uses store standards as a benchmark to demonstrate how to make cold drip coffee.

Currently, the market offers a wide variety of coffee equipment, but cold drip devices still consist of three main parts: an upper pot for ice water (connected to a valve that can adjust the drip rate), a filter cup for coffee grounds, and a lower pot to collect the filtered coffee liquid. What people see at FrontStreet Coffee store is the Tiamo HG2713, which includes an additional circular diversion glass tube. You can choose according to your needs and budget.

FrontStreet Coffee's cold drip grind size has an 80-85% pass rate on a China #20 standard sieve, with a setting of 10 on the store's EK43s. We all know that if coffee grounds are too coarse, the coffee flavor will be weak; if too fine, it can easily cause blockages that prevent normal drainage and make the coffee bitter. Therefore, choosing the right grind size is very important.

This time, FrontStreet Coffee uses refreshing Kenya Assalia coffee beans for making the cold drip. Since extraction rates are lower at low temperatures, FrontStreet Coffee's barista recommends using a slightly finer grind than pour-over. Here, we use an 85% pass rate on the standard sieve.

Similar to pour-over flow rates, but cold drip flow rate is calculated in drops per second. The slower the flow rate, the longer the total time required, and it's more likely to result in over-extraction. FrontStreet Coffee typically uses 7 drops per 10 seconds for extraction, and everyone can adjust the flow rate according to their preferences. The coffee-to-water ratio is 1:10. Since FrontStreet Coffee's cold drip is served diluted with ice, we use a higher concentration. If making at home, you can use a ratio of 1:10 to 1:12 for extraction.

FrontStreet Coffee makes cold drip using 60g coffee beans ground into powder. Place a circular filter paper in the grounds cup, pour in the coffee grounds, then place another filter paper on top. Next, moisten the coffee grounds with water, which can save dripping time while avoiding uneven extraction. Fill the upper pot with an ice-water mixture (1:1 ice to water) to extract a total of 600g coffee liquid. Finally, pour the filtered coffee liquid into a sealed container and store it in the refrigerator for 12 hours before drinking. FrontStreet Coffee typically drips during business hours, puts it in the refrigerator in the evening, and the next day you can add ice and enjoy it.

What Details Should You Pay Attention to for Great Cold Drip Coffee?

Freshly dripped coffee liquid has relatively weak aroma and thin mouthfeel, so it needs to be stored in a low-temperature, sealed environment for fermentation. This allows the coffee's flavor compounds to become cleaner, richer, and fuller, enhancing the coffee's aroma, sweet aftertaste, and wine-like notes. As storage time increases, the degree of fermentation becomes higher. However, cold drip stored for more than five days can actually have negative effects on mouthfeel, so longer storage is not necessarily better. FrontStreet Coffee recommends consuming within 5 days when stored in the refrigerator. Additionally, when we open the bottle cap, external bacteria can easily invade and cause the coffee to spoil. For the sake of ensuring coffee flavor and health, it should not be consumed. FrontStreet Coffee's cold drip has only a 3-day tasting period.

Coffee Bean Selection

Regarding coffee bean selection, FrontStreet Coffee believes you can choose coffee beans with different processing methods or roast levels according to your preferences, provided they are within their optimal tasting period (2 months). The extraction characteristics of cold drip coffee can highlight the wine aroma, fruit fermentation notes, and fruit aromas in coffee. For example, cold drip made with FrontStreet Coffee's Xu Hu TOH washed coffee beans presents a refreshing sweetness like pomelo tea; FrontStreet Coffee's Honduras Sherry barrel cold drip presents rich fermented wine aroma with honey-like sweetness; FrontStreet Coffee's natural Hua Kui cold drip has vibrant berries and passion fruit acidity, with noticeable juiciness and a black tea-like fragrance in the aftertaste.

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