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How to Choose Coffee Bean Grind Size: Perfectly Grinding Your Favorite Coffee Beans
It's no secret that drinking coffee has its benefits. However, flavor is the crucial factor that determines whether coffee drinkers truly enjoy their coffee. Purchasing coffee beans helps maintain the freshness and flavor of your favorite coffee for months to come. Many coffee enthusiasts choose to buy coffee beans and grind them immediately at home before brewing specialty coffee; this extra step creates superior coffee quality
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Coffee Fundamentals: 3 Steps to Brew the Best Coffee at Home
When it comes to specialty coffee, FrontStreet Coffee has published numerous articles about how to make better coffee at home. We could spend hours outlining the process of making delicious coffee, but there are three simplest and most accessible methods that consistently stand out and can significantly improve your home coffee brewing. Purchase a quality grinder Having a grinder is important because coffee...
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Coffee Bean Grind Size Comparison Within 9 Settings: Reference for Pour-Over Coffee Grind Adjustment
Professional coffee knowledge exchange and more coffee bean information. Please follow Coffee Workshop (WeChat official account cafe_style). How to judge and set the coffee bean grind size for espresso. The image below shows the names of each part of the grinder, where 9 is the threaded adjuster. 1. Thread spacing 1.8mm 2. Part 1
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What is the Ideal Water Temperature for Brewing Coffee|How to Master Coffee Water Temperature for Consistent Results
For professional coffee knowledge and more coffee bean information, please follow Coffee Workshop (WeChat public account: cafe_style). Theoretically speaking, during the entire brewing and extraction process, the hot water temperature in contact with coffee grounds should be maintained between 91-94°C, which is considered the optimal extraction temperature range. The 91-94°C temperature zone
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Pour-Over Coffee Brewing Principles: How Bean Freshness, Grind Size, Water Temperature, and Extraction Time Affect Your Brew
Beginners exploring pour-over coffee are often intimidated by the variety of equipment and considerations. With countless pour-over kettles and filter cups available, it's hard to know where to start. However, regardless of the brewing equipment used, coffee extraction fundamentally revolves around wetting, dissolving, and releasing. FrontStreet Coffee is here to explain the principles of pour-over coffee brewing. Brewing coffee is essentially the process of extracting molecules from coffee cells...
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Why is Immersion Coffee More Consistent Than Drip Coffee? How to Use a Clever Dripper? What Are the Characteristics of Pour-Over Coffee?
"Is brewing coffee difficult?" "Not at all, anyone can do it!" "But what about brewing a delicious cup of coffee..." "That's a bit more challenging!" To brew a delicious cup of coffee, we not only need to ensure our extraction parameters are reasonable, but also develop the ability to freely control the water flow. FrontStreet Coffee often mentions
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Why can't an 18g portafilter hold 18g of coffee grounds? What's the ideal grind size for espresso? How to determine if coffee beans are ground to the right consistency?
Many friends took advantage of shopping festivals to purchase home coffee machines, but when they installed the coffee machines at home, they discovered that operating them wasn't as simple as imagined. Either no water comes out from somewhere, or something doesn't fit properly. As a result, some friends who live near FrontStreet Coffee's store directly visit to consult...
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Espresso Water-to-Coffee Ratio: Characteristics and Golden Ratio Extraction Methods
Espresso Water-to-Coffee Ratio - To master the espresso extraction golden ratio, you can use a consistent coffee dose (18g as an example) in your practice and experiment with different total coffee weights. Then compare the differences in texture, clarity, and body across various ratios. You need to decide based on personal preference
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What is WBC? What are the categories in world-class coffee competitions? What do the World Coffee Championships consist of?
Just as the film industry has the Oscars, the music world has the Grammys, and sports has the Olympics, the coffee world also has its own world-class competitions symbolizing supreme honor. These events are not only grand stages for coffee professionals worldwide to showcase their skills and techniques, but also trendsetters guiding the specialty coffee community's popular trends, while simultaneously driving industry advancement.
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How Tightly Should Coffee Grounds Be Tamped When Making Coffee-What Happens if Coffee Grounds Are Tamped Too Tightly
How Tightly Should Coffee Grounds Be Tamped When Making Coffee-What Happens if Coffee Grounds Are Tamped Too Tightly? Grind settings are just reference points - different brands have different grind settings, and even grinders of the same brand and model don't perform identically at the same setting. It's better to understand this way: grind settings merely indicate which direction is coarse and which direction is fine.
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How to Make Iced Americano? Which is Better for Americano: Single-Origin Coffee Beans or Blend Coffee Beans?
In the blink of an eye, the weather has already entered autumn. We believe that friends in many regions are still enjoying the company of the sun. Many friends who visit FrontStreet Coffee love to order a glass of cool and refreshing Americano to beat the heat. Many friends have mentioned that FrontStreet Coffee's Americano always has a faint wine aroma, a very memorable flavor
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How to Adjust Extraction Efficiency in Pour-Over Coffee? Why Baristas Take a Sip of Your Coffee Before Serving?
In the world of coffee, there are always behaviors that seem incomprehensible to outsiders. For example, many people share one cup of coffee, or use a spoon instead of a cup to drink coffee, or make "whooshing" sounds while tasting coffee. Such phenomena leave those outside the coffee circle amazed and bewildered.
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What Happens When You Brew Costa Rican La Diosa Estate Geisha with High Water Temperature?
FrontStreet Coffee recently acquired a Costa Rican La Diosa Estate Geisha. This bean exhibits rich floral notes, with raw beans appearing elongated and pale green. Unlike the typical grassy aroma of raw beans, the La Diosa Geisha offers distinctive fragrances of bergamot and berries alongside subtle grassy notes. The cupping profile reveals complex layers of jasmine, orange blossom, and tropical fruit notes, creating an exceptionally refined and elegant coffee experience.
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The Relationship Between Pour-Over Coffee Grind Size and Extraction Time - What Mesh Size Should Your Coffee Sieve Have?
Professional coffee knowledge exchange. For more coffee bean information, please follow Coffee Workshop (WeChat public account: cafe_style). Pour-over coffee is black coffee made by pouring water through a filter cup with its matching filter paper. Common filter cup brands include Kono, Hario, Kalita, and Taiwan's Clever Dripper is also excellent. Of course, to have more control over the taste of your coffee, you need to understand the impact of coffee grind size on your brew.
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How Fine Should Espresso Grind Be? How to Achieve the Perfect Espresso Grind?
How fine should espresso grind be? How to achieve the perfect espresso grind? This remains a significant challenge for home enthusiasts. One point we must clarify is that adjusting espresso grind is not a one-time fix. Changes in coffee bean condition and air humidity constantly affect espresso extraction. Therefore, regular
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Causes of Inconsistent Espresso Extraction - Does Espresso Grinder Bean Hopper Pressure Affect Coffee Flavor?
This situation is particularly noticeable in busy coffee shops. After completing all morning preparations, filling the bean hopper, and adjusting the day's espresso extraction parameters, as espresso extraction volume increases, you'll notice the flow rate becomes faster and extraction time is several seconds shorter than the planned parameters. Normally, a stable reference point is expected...
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[FrontStreet Coffee Barista Notes] The Impact of FrontStreet Coffee's Espresso Grind Adjustment on Espresso Flavor
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In order to extract a delicious cup of espresso every day and present guests with a tasty latte, we believe that many shop's baristas, like our editor, insist on adjusting espresso parameters daily. Even coffee beans from the same batch are affected by different temperatures and humidity each day, which influences the quality of every cup of coffee we serve. Therefore, we persist in daily adjustments to our espresso
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How Fine Should Espresso Be Ground: Beginner's Guide to Grinder Settings for Espresso Machines
Learn how fine to grind coffee for espresso extraction with beginner espresso machines and grinders. If your cup doesn't have measurement markings, you'll need to measure the total coffee weight (28-32g). Measuring weight helps you determine whether your coffee extraction is too fast or too slow, which is more accurate than visually estimating the flow rate.
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How to Extract a Balanced Espresso? Why Doesn't Your Espresso Taste Good?
Professional coffee knowledge exchange. For more coffee bean information, please follow Coffee Workshop (WeChat public account: cafe_style). While previous articles mentioned the basic sequence of espresso coffee extraction, in reality, the contents within the coffee grounds are extracted simultaneously. Acidity, sweetness, saltiness, bitterness, astringency, oils, various aromas, and mouthfeel are all released at the same time, just that the substances within
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What to Do When Drip Coffee Bag Gets Clogged and Won't Drain? How to Brew Drip Coffee Bags Without Waste?
After reading the title, many of you are probably nodding in agreement thinking "Yes, that's exactly what happens to me!" Scroll down quickly to solve your confusion. You clearly followed all the tutorial steps: tear open - hang - boil water - pour water - wait for it to finish dripping... Yet, so much time has passed, why is the water still floating on top, while the coffee...
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