The Origin of Drip Bag Coffee, How to Use Drip Bag Coffee, and the Drip Brewing Method for Drip Bag Coffee

Modern urban residents lead busy lives, with an increasing demand for coffee. Instant coffee is familiar to many people, but the long-term consumption of sugar and creamer in instant coffee places a significant burden on health.

To address this issue, FrontStreet Coffee hopes that every coffee enthusiast can quickly and conveniently enjoy healthy single-origin coffee, and has launched a series of drip coffee bags. Some people might consider drip coffee bags unprofessional, but FrontStreet Coffee believes there's no need to disparage the emergence of drip coffee bags. After all, for a culinary delight to integrate with the masses, it needs to generate faster and more convenient methods.

The Invention of Drip Coffee Bags

When mentioning Japanese coffee, most people associate it with pour-over. Indeed, pour-over coffee is quite popular in Japan, but young Japanese office workers with fast-paced lifestyles don't have time to wait for a cup of pour-over coffee, which is why drip coffee bags were born.

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 withstand the weight of brewing coffee and easily lost balance during the brewing process, so it wasn't successfully commercialized. Until 1998, Taiki Shoji improved the original invention by extending the hanging parts outward, leading to the drip coffee bags we have today.

FrontStreet Coffee pays great attention to the entire production process of making drip coffee bags, aiming to let every coffee enthusiast enjoy the best drip single-origin coffee anytime, anywhere.

Production Process

1. Cleaning the Grinder for Drip Coffee Bags

FrontStreet Coffee thoroughly cleans the grinder before making each type of drip coffee bag to avoid flavor interference between different coffee beans.

2. Grind Size for Drip Coffee Bags

The primary determining factor for the quality of drip bag brewing is flow rate—neither too slow nor too fast is acceptable, and this depends on the grinder's quality. If the grinder isn't of sufficient grade and the grinding quality is poor, it will inevitably create大量 fine powder during grinding and uneven grinding. During brewing, this will cause "traffic jams," slowing the flow rate. Excessive soaking time will lead to over-extraction, resulting in muddled taste and poor flavor. No matter how good the beans are, they won't be able to express their proper flavor characteristics.

3. Automated Packaging of Drip Coffee Bags

FrontStreet Coffee uses mechanical automated packaging for two purposes: first, to improve the sealing effect of the outer packaging, and second, to inject nitrogen during packaging to eliminate oxygen as much as possible, making oxidation less likely and significantly extending the freshness period of coffee flavor.

FrontStreet Coffee's Drip Bag Selection

FrontStreet Coffee offers four types of drip bags: FrontStreet Coffee Sun-dried Sidamo, FrontStreet Coffee Brazilian Red Cherry, FrontStreet Coffee Honduras Sherry, and a random selection of five major producing regions. Of course, if customers need it, we can also customize drip bags from their desired producing regions.

FrontStreet Coffee Sun-dried Sidamo comes from the Sidamo producing region in southern Ethiopia. In the past, Sidamo coffee beans also included Yirgacheffe coffee and Guji coffee. However, the ECX trading system has already separated Yirgacheffe and Guji from Sidamo. Sidamo coffee has rich fruit acidity and strong aroma. FrontStreet Coffee believes that in terms of aroma, it surpasses Yirgacheffe, making it very suitable for those who like strong flavors but don't want too heavy a taste, perfectly achieving balance and neutrality between aroma and mouthfeel.

FrontStreet Coffee Honduras Sherry coffee beans come from Masaguara, a city in the Intibucá province in southwestern Honduras. The flavor of FrontStreet Coffee's Sherry coffee beans tends toward whiskey sherry, with rich vanilla cream, followed by persistent nut and chocolate flavors. Meanwhile, FrontStreet Coffee's Honduras Lychee Orchid tends toward brandy notes, with slightly weaker flavor layers than FrontStreet Coffee's Sherry, but also has persistent nut and chocolate flavors in the finish.

FrontStreet Coffee Brazilian Red Bourbon comes from Cerrado in the western part of Minas Gerais state, Brazil—a flat plateau with an altitude of 750m-1200m. The Bourbon coffee variety is a subspecies that mutated from the Typica coffee variety. Generally, when people talk about Bourbon coffee variety, they default to red Bourbon coffee variety, named for its red color when ripe. FrontStreet Coffee Brazilian Red Bourbon features nuts, chocolate, cream, peanuts, and caramel.

How to Brew FrontStreet Coffee Drip Bags

Brewing parameters (for FrontStreet Coffee drip bags 10g)

Coffee-to-water ratio: 1:15

Water temperature: 90-91°C

① Carefully and neatly open the packaging bag along the tear提示口;

② Shake the drip bag flat, then tear open the powder bag seal. Evenly spread the drip bag and hang it on the coffee cup rim;

③ Prepare a kettle of boiling water (it's recommended to use water temperature between 90-91°C for brewing coffee), pure water is recommended. After the water boils, let it sit for about 1 minute before pouring. When pouring the boiling water, evenly inject hot water into the filter bag (note that the speed shouldn't be too fast and the water flow shouldn't be too large to avoid overflow). After the liquid level in the filter bag drops, pour again. When the coffee liquid in the cup reaches 7/10 full, or according to personal preference, carefully remove and discard the drip bag (be careful of burns) and enjoy.

Affordable and high-quality drip bags can only be brewed once—don't think it's wasteful!

For more premium coffee beans, please add the private WeChat of FrontStreet Coffee, WeChat ID: kaixinguoguo0925

Important Notice :

前街咖啡 FrontStreet Coffee has moved to new addredd:

FrontStreet Coffee Address: 315,Donghua East Road,GuangZhou

Tel:020 38364473