How to Make Luckin Plum Iced Americano? Is Plum Juice Americano Coffee Delicious?

If you were to ask which childhood snack still tastes exactly the same as it did back then, FrontStreet Coffee would answer: preserved plums. The three flavors of sour, sweet, and salty intertwine in your mouth, creating a refreshing sensation that cuts through richness. When you're feeling drowsy, placing one in your mouth releases the preserved fruit aroma that gradually spreads across your tongue, then your entire mouth becomes tangy as your taste buds are activated, salivating and returning to sweetness, quickly reviving you completely.

In fact, preserved plums, as a common daily snack, also appear in the world of coffee. For example, when FrontStreet Coffee cup-tests washed Kenya coffee, the intense fruit aroma detected in the dry fragrance often reminds people of preserved plums. Preserved plum iced Americanos always rank among the popular homemade coffee options. When developing new beverages, some baristas also try incorporating preserved plum elements to give their specialty drinks rich layers of complexity.

However, since preserved plums are pickled products and mostly rather firm in texture, they often require heating or prolonged soaking to soften during preparation. This process releases strong salty and sour flavors, so FrontStreet Coffee believes that preserved plums are better suited for thoroughly chilled iced coffee rather than hot beverages. Below, FrontStreet Coffee presents three methods for making preserved plum iced coffee for you to choose from.

Preserved Plum Cold Brew

When it comes to which coffee brewing method is the simplest yet most popular among the "lazy crowd," the answer is undoubtedly cold brew. Adding preserved plums to cold brew not only enhances its sweet and sour taste profile but also, through time's magic, imparts a layer of plum-like aroma to the iced coffee. Just like FrontStreet Coffee's previously shared "So Easy Anyone Can Do It" series, as long as you select suitable coffee beans and use the corresponding parameters, making a refreshing and delicious preserved plum cold brew coffee at home is incredibly straightforward.

First, grind 30 grams of Panama Natural Process "Mariposa" coffee beans and add them to a cold brew pot. The grind size should be similar to raw sugar (FrontStreet Coffee's EK43s setting is 9.5), while also adding 5 of your favorite preserved plums.

Next, add 300 grams of room temperature water using a 1:10 coffee-to-water ratio. Stir well, cover with plastic wrap, and place in the refrigerator to steep for 6 hours. Finally, filter out the coffee grounds using filter paper, add ice to your preference, and enjoy.

After several hours of waiting, the resulting preserved plum cold brew not only has abundant fruit aroma but also carries a solid sweet sensation. What surprised FrontStreet Coffee was that the combination of preserved plums and natural process Mariposa actually developed a special complex aroma reminiscent of perilla, cherry, raspberry, and black grape, leaving a particularly memorable impression.

Preserved Plum Sparkling Americano

When FrontStreet Coffee was learning how to make this preserved plum sparkling americano, they noticed that many online tutorials use preserved plums + syrup and let them steep overnight, or add water and rock sugar to simmer into preserved plum syrup. However, here FrontStreet Coffee focuses on those who don't prefer sweet drinks, creating a sugar-free version of the preserved plum sparkling americano.

Step one: Prepare 4 preserved plums, add hot water, shake well, and place in the refrigerator to steep for one hour (no specific water requirement, just enough to submerge them).

Step two: Find a sufficiently large glass, fill it about 2/3 with ice, then add all the preserved plum water you just prepared. Next, pour in sparkling water until it's 7/10 full.

Step three: Use 20 grams of Sunflower · Warm Sun Blend coffee to extract 40 grams of espresso, then pour it gently over the top.

Because carbonated beverages naturally have abundant foam, even without high-temperature simmering, the carbon dioxide effectively brings out the characteristics of preserved plums. This gives the entire americano both the pleasant aroma of iced coffee and the stimulating sensation from sparkling water, along with a touch of salty, sour, and sweet comfort.

Preserved Plum Iced Pour-Over

Here it comes, the iced pour-over with a "creative twist" has arrived~

Just like the orange peel filter cup FrontStreet Coffee experimented with yesterday, adding ingredients to pour-over coffee is nothing new these days. Ingredients such as flower petals, fruits, and tea leaves have long been "veteran players." Although success or failure ultimately depends on luck, everyone still enjoys the experimentation. Today, let's try adding preserved plums to pour-over coffee and see how it turns out.

Considering that preserved plums are predominantly salty and sour, they pair well with coffee beans that have stronger sweet notes. To coordinate the final flavor profile of the entire coffee, FrontStreet Coffee has chosen Panama Elida Estate's natural process Catuaí as the brewing coffee. As for the other main character—the preserved plums—we'll add them in two parts: first, "hide" 3 plums in the filter cup to participate in extraction along with the coffee grounds, then place 2 more plums in the ice in the server, allowing them to continuously infuse into the coffee liquid.

Iced pour-over parameters: 15 grams of coffee, 1:10 coffee-to-water ratio, 75 grams of ice, fine grind: EK43s setting 9.5, water temperature: 91°C, filter cup: V60, brewing method: three-stage pour (30g, 60g, 60g).

The Elida brewed with preserved plums ultimately didn't fail. The first sip of the pour-over coffee reveals a delicate preserved plum aroma, followed by tropical mature fruit flavors of mango and guava, along with the sweet and sour taste of pickled plums. The mouthfeel is light and delicate. However, compared to the previous two coffee combinations, the pour-over version of preserved plum iced coffee is somewhat milder in flavor.

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