Panama Sun-Dried Apollo Pour-Over Experience_Sharing Panama Apollo Coffee Flavor Characteristics

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Panama Coffee 【Natural Apollo】Panama Apollo

Cupping notes: Pineapple / Tropical fruits / Brown sugar / Berries

Optimal brewing temperature: 90°C

Origin: Barú Volcano Region

Altitude: 1600-1650 meters

Varieties: Catuai / Caturra

Processing method: Natural

Roast level: Medium-light roast

For the Panama Apollo coffee beans we're introducing today, we've chosen pour-over brewing. Pour the ground coffee into a pre-warmed filter paper. Add 90°C hot water, first pre-infusing for about 10 seconds. Sitting at the bar, you'll smell the coffee aroma slowly drifting up, warming your nasal passages. After that, the general water-to-coffee ratio is 1:15, with fine water flow divided into two to three stages of pouring, extracting for about 2 minutes and 30 seconds. A cup of Panama Apollo is now brewed.

The Apollo, upon first sip, carries a wine-like aroma. Take a sip and the wine fragrance fills your nasal passages, slightly tinged with coffee's bitterness, after which the flavors slowly unfold. The sweet and sour notes of tropical fruits emerge, gentle, not as obviously acidic as African beans. This also represents the characteristics of Latin American single-origin beans—everything is so harmonious and balanced, just like the name Apollo, with bright and distinct layers of flavor. It's simply irresistible.

How to brew Panama Coffee 【Natural Apollo】 perfectly?

FrontStreet Coffee's pour-over reference: Weigh 15g of Natural Apollo coffee powder, pour into a grinder for medium grinding. The ground particles should be slightly coarser than table salt—we use BG grinder setting 5R (standard sieve pass rate 60%). Water temperature at 90°C, extract with V60 dripper.

Pour the hot water from the gooseneck kettle in clockwise circles around the center of the dripper. Start timing when brewing begins. Within 15 seconds, brew the coffee to 30g, then stop pouring. When the time reaches 1 minute, begin the second pour. For the second pour, just like before, pour in clockwise circles around the center of the dripper, making sure the water flow doesn't hit where the coffee grounds meet the filter paper to avoid channel effects.

Leave a circle when pouring to the outermost edge of the coffee grounds, then continue pouring in circles toward the center. By 2 minutes and 20 seconds, the coffee should be brewed to 220g. The brewing is now complete.

Ice Brewed 【Natural Apollo】

FrontStreet Coffee's ice brew reference for Natural Apollo:

Panama Coffee Natural Apollo, light-medium roast, BG grinder setting 4B, grinding level 3, 20g beans, 87°C water temperature for 3-minute pre-infusion in a Chemex, then ice-brewed with ice water, total water volume 200ml.

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