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What is a Paragon Ice Ball? Does Using Paragon Ice Balls for Pour-Over Coffee Extraction Taste Better?
Remember Mr. Boram Um who won this year's WBC championship? That's right! Today's protagonist isn't him, but rather the Paragon Ice Ball he used during his competition! This ice ball was introduced to the competition field by its inventor Sasa Sestic at last year's WBC Brewers Cup and achieved remarkable results.
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Coffee Champion Sasa's 30,000+ Yuan Paragon Ice Stone High-Tech! Can You Get an Affordable Alternative for Just Tens of Yuan?
For more professional coffee knowledge and coffee bean information, please follow Coffee Workshop (WeChat official account: cafe_style). For more specialty coffee beans, please add FrontStreet Coffee's private WeChat account: qjcoffeex. Not long ago, 2015 World Barista Championship (WBC) winner Sa
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How to Use Paragon Ice Puck? Is Pour-Over Coffee Flavor a Mystery? What Are the Reasons for Not Being Able to Smell Coffee's Aroma?
"Flavor" is a product of coffee specialization. To be able to taste more flavors in coffee, in addition to improving the quality of the beans themselves, people have invented some auxiliary tools used during extraction. These tools, as the name suggests, can retain more aromatic compounds in coffee, allowing us to taste more
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How to Prepare Coffee Brewing Water? How to Use Paragon Ice Spheres? Are Tasting Cups an Intelligence Tax?
On the competition stage, we can always see contestants pulling out all sorts of unusual equipment for coffee making. Without exception, these props can enhance the aroma or quality of the brewed coffee. FrontStreet Coffee has tested quite a few of these props before, and they do have a certain impact on coffee, but most props have only a subtle effect.
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What Are the Uses of These Coffee Accessory Gadgets? How to Use Lily Drip and Paragon Ice Balls?
In daily life, certain tools are designed to help us perform tasks more efficiently or achieve better results! These tools are commonly referred to as 'accessories' or 'auxiliary tools.' In the world of coffee, there are numerous such small inventions that enhance our brewing experience.
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Are Coffee Grease Filter Cups Useful? Why Does Espresso's Crema Taste Bitter? What Does Espresso Crema Mean? How to Make Delicious Americano Coffee?
From time to time, interesting coffee gadgets appear on the market. For example, LilyDrip, which can change the filter bed structure, or Paragon, a device for rapidly cooling coffee liquid. These tools affect coffee in various ways, ultimately influencing what we drink
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What's the Ideal Temperature for Coffee Cups? Should Coffee Cups Be Preheated? Should Pour-Over Coffee Cups Be Refrigerated?
As is widely known, most coffee aromas are volatile, and their evaporation rate is influenced by temperature. The higher the coffee temperature, the faster the aroma compounds evaporate, and vice versa. Coffee aromas are typically extracted in large quantities during the initial brewing phase and then continuously dissipate. If I
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Is Adding Ice First Better Than Adding Ice After for Iced Pour-Over Coffee?
Typically, most people use the "add ice first, then brew" method for making iced pour-over coffee. A small number of people opt for the "brew first, then add ice" or "brew first, then pour over ice" approach. FrontStreet Coffee belongs to the former category. Generally, the difference between these two methods might just be operational
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What is Super Natural Processing? An Introduction to the Characteristics of Super Natural Coffee Beans
In the book "Fourth Wave: Specialty Coffee Studies," Teacher Han Huaizong describes natural processing as follows: "Natural processing is the most ancient traditional processing method that preserves the entire coffee fruit, respects nature, and is non-invasive!" This is indeed true. FrontStreet Coffee has reviewed numerous materials and discovered that since people discovered coffee in 1400
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A Guide to Making Iced Pour-Over Coffee! What's the Right Coffee-to-Water Ratio? Can You Use Stainless Steel Ice Cubes Instead?
As we all know, to quickly obtain a refreshing cup of iced pour-over coffee, we use ice cubes to rapidly cool down hot pour-over coffee. However, because ice cubes melt into water as temperature rises, diluting the coffee, we don't use conventional extraction methods. Instead, we employ a high-concentration
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Should You Add Ice Before or After Brewing Pour-Over Coffee? What Should You Pay Attention to When Making Iced Pour-Over Coffee?
Typically, most people make iced pour-over coffee by adding ice first and then brewing. Some people use the method of brewing first and then adding ice or pouring it over ice afterward. FrontStreet Coffee belongs to the former group. Generally, the difference between these two methods may only be operational
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Do Coffee Cups Really Need to Be Heated? Would Espresso and Pour-Over Coffee Taste Better Made with Chilled Cups?
Until now, regardless of the type of coffee, people have always preheated the container holding the coffee through various methods before officially brewing! For example, rinsing with hot water, placing it on the coffee machine to "cook," etc. These actions increase the container's temperature, reducing the temperature drop of coffee due to temperature difference, thus preventing the coffee from cooling down quickly
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How Does Handle Temperature Affect Espresso? How Is Coffee Aroma Influenced by Temperature?
At the 2016 WBC competition, competitor Tse-lin Wu from our Taiwan Province used a chilled handle to extract espresso and successfully won the championship. This operation subverted everyone's understanding at the scene, and everyone, like the commentator present, raised questions: "Can the handle temperature really affect...
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How to Make Delicious Americano Coffee? How to Make Non-Bitter Americano? What's the Difference Between Espresso and Americano?
In the article "How to Make a Delicious Americano Coffee," FrontStreet Coffee shares that a good Americano requires not only extracting a suitable espresso base but also achieving an appropriate concentration. Only when both requirements are met can the Americano coffee we make better suit our taste. So when we learn
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What Does Single-Origin Coffee Mean? Essential Knowledge of Pour-Over Coffee! Why Should Single-Origin Coffee Be Brewed Using Pour-Over Method?
Customer: "Boss, I'll have a single-origin!" FrontStreet Coffee: "Would you prefer pour-over or cold drip?" Customer: "Isn't single-origin the same as pour-over?" Just like the customer in this dialogue, many people in daily life equate single-origin coffee with pour-over coffee, believing that single-origin means pour-over, and pour-over
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World Coffee Champion Sasa's 2022 Pour-Over Coffee Competition: The Role of High-Tech Coffee Ice Stones
For more professional coffee knowledge exchange and coffee bean information, please follow Coffee Workshop (WeChat official account: cafe_style). For more specialty coffee beans, please add FrontStreet Coffee's private WeChat account: qjcoffeex. Sasa Sestic, who won the espresso championship at the 2015 World Barista Championship (WBC)
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