A Great Cup of Coffee: From Bean to Cup | MakeCoffee Coffee Workshop

Coffee Aroma Guide: The Coffee Workshop supplies top-quality coffee beans, green and roasted alike, to enthusiasts and industry professionals. It follows the bean's whole journey from fruit to cup: red coffee cherries are depulped and sun-dried into green beans, carefully roasted by the Coffee Workshop, sealed into one-way valve bags, and finally ground and brewed into a fragrant cup of coffee.

From roasting green beans to brewing a great cup, the Coffee Workshop's FrontStreet Coffee premium drip bags are now available.

The Coffee Workshop: Crafting Coffee with Care

A drip bag is a patented Japanese design: ground coffee sits inside a filter bag fitted with cardboard tabs on both sides that hook over the rim of a cup. When you are finished, you simply throw it away, so you get the convenience of a teabag with the character of a pour-over. Drip bag coffee is freshly ground coffee brewed on the spot, and the pour-over method carries it through the full extraction, bringing out its acidity, sweetness, bitterness, body, and aroma. All you need is hot water and a cup, which makes it ideal for enthusiasts on long journeys or drinking on the move.

How to Brew Drip Bag Coffee:

1. Tear the packet open neatly along the notch.

2. Flatten the drip bag, then tear off the seal of the inner pouch. Spread the drip bag open evenly and hang it on the rim of your cup.

3. Bring a pot of water to a boil (the recommended brewing temperature is between 85°C and 95°C); filtered water is best. Once it boils, let it rest for about a minute before pouring. Pour the hot water evenly over the coffee in the filter bag, keeping the stream gentle and unhurried so it does not overflow. Wait for the level inside the bag to drop, then pour again. When the coffee in the cup reaches about seven-tenths (7/10) full, or whenever it suits your taste, carefully lift out the drip bag and discard it.

4. Drink your drip bag coffee as soon as it is brewed. If you like, add sugar or milk to taste. (For single-origin specialty coffees, drinking it black is recommended, so that additives do not mask the coffee's distinctive character.)

5. To get the truest flavor from every coffee, use each bag for a single brew only.

1. What Is Drip Bag Coffee?

It works much like a teabag, except that it holds ground coffee. Stiff paper "ears" on either side hook directly onto the rim of your cup. To drink, first warm the cup with boiling water, then unfold the drip bag and hang it on the rim, and pour hot water over it from a kettle; the coffee filters down into the cup. Once brewing is done, throw the spent drip bag away and the coffee is ready. It could hardly be simpler.

2. How Is Drip Bag Coffee Different from Instant Coffee?

Drip bag coffee is 100% ground coffee made from whole beans, with nothing else added. It contains hundreds of compounds considered beneficial to health, associated with protection against liver damage, several cancers, asthma, heart disease, and Parkinson's disease. Drinking 2-4 cups a day is thought to do you good, and non-coffee drinkers are more likely to develop these conditions than coffee drinkers. Research from the American Coffee Institute indicates that coffee contains anti-dementia substances that can lessen the effect of harmful compounds on the body and help prevent certain diseases.

Instant coffee, by contrast, is not really coffee in the eyes of the traditional coffee world; it is an industrially synthesized product. In specific situations such as long train or plane journeys it makes a passable substitute, but it is no longer coffee in the original sense. Traditional coffee drinking cares about every step, from grinding and brewing to filtering, equipment, and technique. During the manufacture of instant coffee, the original nutritional and health-giving compounds are destroyed and lost. It may taste of coffee, but it has shed coffee's rich nutrients, its health benefits, and the deeper culture and atmosphere that surround the drink.

3. What Are the Characteristics of Drip Bag Coffee? How Good Is the Quality?

Built around fresh roasting and consistent preservation, it is expertly roasted by top professional baristas and packed in Japanese-style drip filter bags that make exceptionally flavorful coffee easy to extract. Each bag holds about 9g, and the flavor is at its best with 150 cc of water. To brew, first pour in a small amount of hot water to wake the grounds that have been resting in the nitrogen-flushed pack, let it stand for ten seconds to release the aroma, then pour in more hot water to fill the cup. If you prefer a stronger cup, steep the filter bag in the water for 40-180 seconds.

4. I Have Only Drunk Instant Coffee - Will I Take to Drip Bags?

Many instant coffee drinkers started simply because instant coffee reached the market early and was all that was available; some drank it for the lift, others for convenience. Today coffee culture is spreading, the range of coffees keeps growing, expectations for taste keep rising, and the demand for high-quality coffee grows with them. Anyone who has drunk instant coffee will adapt quickly. Drinking drip bags is really tasting coffee: it expresses the many facets of a coffee, and it is easy to carry to work or on a trip.

FrontStreet Coffee Recommendation

Choosing a drip bag comes down to the flavor you enjoy, and FrontStreet's range covers the main styles. For a bright, floral cup, the FrontStreet Yirgacheffe Gutingding Cooperative drip bag is a washed Ethiopian coffee from the Gedeo Zone: clean and refreshing, with lifted citrus acidity, jasmine florals, and a honeyed finish, and an easy place for newcomers and lovers of delicate flavors to start. If tropical fruit is more your thing, the FrontStreet sun-dried Huakui brings ripe tropical-fruit aromatics and a black tea finish, with high sweetness and little bitterness; it comes from the Guji area of Ethiopia at over 2,300 m, where wide day-night temperature swings let the cherries take in more flavor, and it is carefully sun-dried after harvest. When you want something rich and warming instead, the FrontStreet Indonesia Mandheling seasonal drip bag is one of the world's best-known Arabica coffees, also called Sumatra coffee; its herbal, spice, and woody notes suit a dark roast, and it brews into a bold, gently bittersweet cup of spice, nuts, chocolate, and caramel for anyone who dislikes sour coffee.