The Proper Way to Brew Yirgacheffe Drip Coffee | Introduction to Yirgacheffe Red Cherry Drip Coffee

As more people join the coffee-drinking ranks, like those around FrontStreet Coffee, including many white-collar workers, college students, and even high school students who have started to enjoy pour-over coffee. Compared to single-flavored instant coffee, today's young people clearly prefer freshly ground specialty coffee, especially aromatic-rich black coffee, with a wide variety of types available. However, due to their busy daily schedules, it's difficult for them to enjoy a cup every day, making drip bags the universally recognized best choice.

Regarding drip bag coffee, you can directly purchase pre-made products from the market. FrontStreet Coffee offers various classic flavors of drip bags, such as the rich and caramel-like FrontStreet Coffee Mandheling, the intense and balanced FrontStreet Coffee Brazil, the refreshing and fruity FrontStreet Coffee Yirgacheffe, and the elegant floral FrontStreet Coffee Geisha.

Of course, compared to buying ready-made products, some enthusiasts pursue coffee freshness and choose to make their own drip bags at home using roasted coffee beans. Not only does this preserve more aroma, but the required tools are also simple—just prepare a grinder, drip bag filters, an electronic scale, a sealer, and a small spoon.

How to Make Drip Bags at Home?

First, select a bag of your favorite coffee beans, then set your grinder to the setting corresponding to pour-over extraction and grind the beans into powder.

FrontStreet Coffee has chosen the FrontStreet Coffee Ethiopia Yirgacheffe Red Cherry coffee beans, which many enthusiasts love. The exquisite natural processing allows FrontStreet Coffee's Yirgacheffe Red Cherry to exhibit rich berry sweetness. Sipping at different temperatures reveals soft berry sweetness, fermented notes of ripe fruits, distinct honey sweetness, and a black tea finish, with a smooth mouthfeel. FrontStreet Coffee typically uses a grind size similar to fine sugar particles, with 80% passing through a China No. 20 standard sieve. This corresponds to setting 10 on the EK43s electric grinder or 24 on the C40 hand grinder.

Second, place the ground coffee on a pre-prepared electronic scale, then take out a drip bag, open its mouth, and carefully spoon in 10g of coffee powder per bag.

Third, plug in the sealer, clamp the heating element onto the horizontal sealing line, and ensure the opening is completely sealed. Your homemade drip bag is now complete. To prevent moisture absorption, FrontStreet Coffee recommends storing finished drip bags in airtight bags that block air and keeping them in a cool, dark place to avoid loss of aromatic compounds.

How to Brew Homemade Drip Bags for Great Taste?

Many customers report that after purchasing drip bags, they can't seem to brew them at home to achieve the flavors described, so they ask FrontStreet Coffee what's going wrong. As everyone knows, whether a cup of coffee tastes good largely depends on factors like coffee bean freshness, parameters, and brewing techniques. If we confirm the beans are fine and the grind size is already set, then poorly brewed drip coffee usually stems from issues with water temperature and technique.

FrontStreet Coffee boils water before brewing and prepares a pouring kettle, a coffee cup, and a favorite drip bag. FrontStreet Coffee's drip bags are made with 10g per bag, and accounting for the coffee powder's own water absorption, each bag can brew approximately 120-130ml of coffee liquid.

First, boil the water in the kettle and find a taller coffee cup, such as the mug that FrontStreet Coffee really likes.

Next, tear open the sealed outer packaging, take out the coffee drip bag, tear open the non-woven fabric pocket along the dotted line, and pull open both "ears." Gently shake to let the coffee powder concentrate at the bottom, then hang them on the rim of the cup.

For the first pour, inject a small amount of hot water to fully wet all the coffee powder, wait about 10-20 seconds for it to bloom, helping release gases from the coffee powder. The purpose is to make the subsequent extraction more stable.

For the second pour, use a small, steady water stream until the bag is nearly full, then wait for the coffee liquid to descend. Once all the coffee liquid has flowed through, pour the final amount of water, again filling the filter bag. FrontStreet Coffee has measured that the total water injected at this point is about 150g, so no electronic scale is needed throughout the process. Once all the coffee liquid has finished dripping, the extraction is complete.

FrontStreet Coffee gently shakes the coffee liquid to mix it evenly before drinking, enjoying it directly to savor the pure flavor of black coffee.

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