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What is a Coffee Powder Bed, and How to Raise the Powder Bed in Pour-Over Coffee: Causes of Under-Extraction
In FrontStreet Coffee's articles, you'll often find the term "raising the powder bed." Many readers wonder how to raise the powder bed and why it's necessary. In the final stages of pour-over coffee brewing, sometimes coffee grounds accumulate heavily in the center of the filter, sinking to the bottom and causing "flooding" in the brewing process.
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Does Tapping the Dripper Affect Coffee Extraction?
A single coffee bean is composed of various flavor compounds, including acidity, sweetness, bitterness, aroma, and more, each dissolving at different rates—some quickly, others slowly. To achieve a pot of coffee that captures all these delightful flavors without exhibiting the negative taste of over-extraction, we draw upon our previous brewing experience, perfecting the "fundamentals"
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Summer Cold Brew Coffee Recipe! Super Simple Iced Coffee Method Tutorial with Illustrated Guide
For professional coffee knowledge exchange and more coffee bean information, please follow Coffee Workshop (WeChat public account: cafe_style). For more specialty coffee beans, add FrontStreet Coffee's private WeChat account: qjcoffeex"My life! Iced coffee gives it to me!" Although this statement might be a bit exaggerated, it's undeniable that iced coffee is absolutely essential during hot summer days.
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What Does Origami Mean? What's the Difference Between Origami Dripper and V60? What Filter Paper Does Origami Dripper Use?
As is well known, most filter drippers have fixed filter paper combinations. For example, cone-shaped drippers can only be paired with cone-shaped filter papers, while flat-bottom drippers can only be used with flat-bottom filter papers. If you want to use a cone-shaped dripper with flat-bottom filter paper, you would need to use auxiliary devices such as LilyDrip to alter the functionality
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What Are the Differences in Brewing Techniques for Dark and Light Roast Coffee? Unlock the Secrets to Perfect Coffee Brewing!
Friends often ask FrontStreet Coffee for the optimal brewing parameters after purchasing beans from our physical store, aiming to minimize brewing failures and directly achieve delicious coffee. FrontStreet Coffee then introduces the characteristics of the beans to customers and shares the best brewing parameters. For example: since this particular bean is lightly roasted...
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A Guide for Pour-Over Coffee Beginners! Can You Brew Coffee with 100°C Water? What's the Purpose of Flow Restriction in Pour-Over Coffee? Is the Bitterness Really Most Concentrated in the Final Stage?
With its high tolerance for error and excellent flavor performance, pour-over coffee has become one of the top brewing methods since the rise of specialty coffee. Additionally, because it's simple to operate and has a low entry barrier, many people have purchased their own pour-over equipment and started learning how to make pour-over coffee at home. To be honest, learning pour-over coffee on your own can be challenging, but with the right guidance and techniques, you can achieve professional-quality results in the comfort of your own kitchen.
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Must Pour-Over Coffee Create a "Deep Crater" to Taste Good?
For some beginners in pour-over coffee brewing, the "expansion" during coffee blooming and the "deep crater" that forms in the coffee bed after brewing always generate enormous attraction. It's as if a good cup of pour-over coffee must exhibit these two brewing phenomena! Without these elements, the resulting coffee seems less
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Is Pressing Necessary for Espresso? The Correct Method for Making Espresso!
Just as coffee enthusiasts pursue a deep and uniform coffee bed when brewing pour-over coffee, most "perfectionist" coffee aficionados also strive to produce a complete coffee puck when extracting espresso. Similar to the coffee bed, the appearance of a complete puck doesn't necessarily indicate whether the coffee tastes good, but the puck that comes out
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How to Make Cold Brew Coffee at Home? What's the Difference Between Cold Brew and Cold Drip? Sharing Cold Brew Coffee Making Methods!
As the weather gradually gets warmer, the cold brew coffee at FrontStreet Coffee store has recently fallen into a state of supply shortage. Through interviews with FrontStreet Coffee, it was found that many friends choose cold brew among various iced coffees not only because its taste and flavor differ from other regular iced coffees, but also partly because they can make it at home.
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How Should Sun-Dried Yirgacheffe Red Cherry Coffee Be Brewed? Introduction to the Red Cherry Project
Professional coffee knowledge exchange, more coffee bean information, please follow Coffee Workshop (WeChat public account cafe_style). Speaking of Yirgacheffe, many coffee enthusiasts will immediately think of its floral notes and lemon acidity. Today, FrontStreet Coffee would like to share with everyone this bean from the Yirgacheffe sun-dried process - the Red Cherry Project~ What is the Red Cherry Project? In Ethiopia's coffee
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Why Does Brewed Coffee Taste Weak? What is Bypass Water? How to Make Pour-Over Coffee?
Bypass water refers to the water that doesn't participate in extraction during coffee brewing, but is directly added to the coffee liquid. Generally, there are only two reasons for bypass water to appear in the brewing process: intentional choice and passive addition. Intentional choice refers to when we specifically design a coffee preparation method that includes the addition of bypass water
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How to Brew Mocha Coffee Powder? Detailed Tutorial and Brewing Parameters for Yemen Mocha Coffee
Professional coffee knowledge exchange. For more coffee bean information, please follow Coffee Workshop (WeChat public account: cafe_style). Yemen coffee grows on steep terrain with minimal rainfall, poor soil, and insufficient sunlight—conditions that are challenging and unfavorable for coffee cultivation. However, these unique harsh conditions have nurtured the irreplaceable Yemen Mocha coffee in the coffee world. The main coffee-producing region is Sanani.
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How to Brew Panama Blue Label Geisha Coffee Beans for Best Taste - Geisha Pour-over Coffee Parameters and Flavor Characteristics
Professional coffee knowledge sharing. For more coffee bean information, please follow Coffee Workshop (WeChat official account: cafe_style). When Geisha is mentioned, Panama La Esmeralda's Geisha always comes to mind first. Today, let's explore various brewing methods for Blue Label Geisha from La Esmeralda Estate~ | Bean Introduction: Panama...
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Pour-Over Coffee Watering Techniques! Drip Coffee Pouring Tips and Methods! How to Add Water to Coffee?
FrontStreet Coffee often welcomes friends who are learning pour-over coffee at home to discuss brewing-related topics. Many of them mention that although they use parameters completely consistent with what FrontStreet Coffee recommends in-store, their coffee's flavor often varies in quality, leaving them uncertain about where the problem lies. In such cases
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Have You Noticed These Details in Pour-Over Coffee?
Many people find pour-over coffee difficult because although they set up a brewing framework, the taste is always unsatisfactory once they start brewing. The coffee is either tasteless or over-extracted, but they can't figure out the problem after much thought. As the saying goes, details determine success or failure! If the general direction of the brewing parameters is correct,
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The Correct Methods and Techniques for Brewing Coffee: What to Do When Your Coffee Tastes Too Bad?
For any coffee enthusiast, regardless of individual flavor preferences, the goal of learning to brew coffee is consistent: deliciousness. We carefully select equipment and beans, pay attention to parameters, pursue techniques... isn't it all to make the coffee in our hands more delicious? But compared to professional
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What are the tips and considerations for brewing 30g of coffee powder? How to make delicious 4-serving pour-over coffee
Recently, some friends have asked FrontStreet Coffee, "I'm used to brewing single-serving coffee, but suddenly tried to make a double-serving, and the taste turned out different from my usual brew." So they came to ask FrontStreet Coffee how to brew this two-serving coffee. For most brewers, the amount of coffee powder is a relatively fixed parameter.
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Kalita Wave Brewer Tutorial & User Experience Guide
Professional coffee knowledge exchange and more coffee bean information. Please follow Coffee Workshop (WeChat official account: cafe_style). Advantages and disadvantages of the Kalita Wave brewer. Perfect use of the wave brewer. The star of this article is the Wave brewer launched by Kalita. While some people call it a cake brewer, I personally prefer the name Wave brewer. First of all, because that's what it
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Can Espresso Grind Be Used for Pour-Over Coffee? What Should You Pay Attention to When Making Pour-Over Coffee with Fine Grind?
For more professional coffee knowledge and coffee bean information, please follow Coffee Workshop (WeChat official account: cafe_style). Yesterday, a customer asked FrontStreet Coffee about what to do when they bought coffee beans that were ground into espresso grind. Many friends have probably encountered this situation - the coffee grounds they bought are very fine, and if using them with
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Pour-Over Coffee Bean Recommendations: Selection Guide & Unique Japanese Brewing Methods
For professional coffee knowledge exchange and more coffee bean information, please follow Cafe Style (WeChat official account: cafe_style). Japanese people love pour-over coffee, with the general technique emphasizing using the upper arm to drive the lower arm, circling slowly while keeping the wrist still. The water flow speed is then adjusted according to the desired clarity and body of the coffee.
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