Which Brand of Drip Bag Coffee is Best? How to Brew Drip Bag Coffee? Flavor Profiles of Different Origins

Some people might feel that drip bag coffee is unprofessional, but FrontStreet Coffee believes we can view drip bag coffee from a different perspective. After all, for any food to become widely popular, it needs a more convenient and accessible form. To help more customers easily enjoy delicious, fresh coffee at home without too much effort and expertise, FrontStreet Coffee updates its seasonal drip bag coffee selections from time to time.

The Invention of Drip Bag Coffee

In 1990, Japan's Yamanaka Industrial Co., Ltd. applied the concept of tea bags to coffee, inventing filter-hanging coffee and applying for a patent. However, the drip bag designed by Yamanaka Industrial couldn't support the weight of coffee brewing and easily lost balance during the brewing process, so it wasn't successfully commercialized. Until 1998, Daiki Shoji improved upon the original invention by extending the hanging parts outward, creating the drip bag coffee we know today. The Japanese originally designed drip bags as a simplified version of "pour-over coffee." The process of brewing drip bags has a certain ritualistic quality similar to pour-over coffee, but without the need to prepare a bunch of complex equipment.

FrontStreet Coffee's Drip Bag Series

FrontStreet Coffee's drip bag series features various regional flavors, such as Sidamo, Brazil, Honduras Sherry, and more. Of course, there are other types of coffee beans, and if customers want to make them into drip bags, FrontStreet Coffee can also prepare them according to demand. For example, a few days ago, a customer tried a Golden Mandheling in the store and was satisfied with the taste but didn't want to bother grinding beans at home, so we made drip bags on the spot for the customer.

FrontStreet Coffee is introducing two seasonal drip bag coffees and the consistently popular Sherry drip bag coffee. FrontStreet Coffee's current seasonal drip bags include Sun-dried Sidamo drip bags and Brazil Red Cherry drip bags.

Brazil Red Cherry Drip Bags

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 Guiana's coffee beans to Brazil (when exporting coffee to other countries was strictly prohibited), won the affection of the Guiana governor's wife and successfully brought coffee seeds into Brazil. From then on, 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 production. Currently, Brazil is the world's largest coffee exporter.

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 "flagship" of regional coffee beans because their basic regional flavors are more recognizable, and they are also affordable, high-value coffee beans.

Sun-dried Ethiopian Sidamo

The Sidamo region is located in southern Ethiopia. Agriculture dominates the industry here, with coffee growing areas situated around the Great Rift Valley. The largest town in Sidamo province is Hawassa, an important local coffee export hub. Sidamo's coffee flavors are extremely diverse due to different soil compositions, regional microclimates, and countless native coffee varieties, creating obvious differences and characteristics in the coffee produced by each town area. Sidamo has balanced flavors with higher sweetness, and its body thickness is greater than Yirgacheffe's, especially the wine-like acidity and sweetness produced during the sun-drying process of fruit pulp fermentation. Sun-dried Sidamo has a light floral aroma, rich berry acidity, and a fermented feeling, with a smoother mouthfeel than washed Sidamo.

Honduras Sherry Barrel Drip Bags

This Honduras Sherry coffee bean comes from Masaguara, a city in the southwestern Intibucá province. FrontStreet Coffee's bean list also features another barrel-aged coffee bean from Moca Estate—Lychee Orchid. Sherry coffee bean flavors tend toward whiskey sherry taste, with rich vanilla cream and a lasting nutty chocolate flavor in the finish. Lychee Orchid tends toward brandy notes, with slightly weaker flavor layers than Sherry, but also has lasting nutty chocolate flavors in the finish. According to FrontStreet Coffee's sales rankings, Sherry is indeed more popular than Lychee Orchid.

How to Brew FrontStreet Coffee Drip Bags (FrontStreet Coffee's drip bags weigh 10g each)

1. Open the outer packaging bag, take out the inner drip bag, tear open the drip bag's opening, and pull the small "ears" on both sides to hang them on the cup.
2. For cup selection, try to choose cups with mouths that aren't too large, otherwise the drip bag's two ears might not hang properly. FrontStreet Coffee uses cups with a mouth diameter of about 8-9cm.
3. The brewing technique for drip bags is actually the same as pour-over coffee, just not as strict as pour-over coffee, but basically water temperature, blooming, and circular pouring are still necessary. FrontStreet Coffee's drip bag brewing parameters can be referenced as follows: water temperature 90°C, bloom for about 10s, with bloom water amount matching the coffee powder amount.
4. After blooming ends, directly pour water until finished. If you're more particular, you can also pour in two stages. The water amount is determined by the selected cup. FrontStreet Coffee chose a 300ml glass cup, pouring in small circular streams until the cup is 7/10 full.
5. After brewing is complete, remove the drip bag. It can only be used once because the substances inside the coffee powder have already been extracted. Brewing again would yield little to extract, resulting in a watery taste. Don't feel that brewing only once is wasteful. The drip bags sold on the market today basically guarantee fresh grinding, and the prices are reasonable.

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