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How to Brew Sweet Coffee? Reasons and Solutions for Pour-Over Coffee Lacking Sweetness
Why are we so determined to brew sweet coffee? Perhaps it's because sweetness triggers dopamine release, making us feel joyful! If you want to brew sweet coffee, you must first understand coffee's sweetness. The sweet sensation in coffee doesn't exist independently—it emerges through the harmony between acidity and bitterness. For instance, in light roast coffees...
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How to Identify Under-Extracted Pour-Over Coffee? What Happens with Over-Extraction and Perfect Extraction
When it comes to coffee extraction, do you know how coffee flavors differ at various extraction stages? FrontStreet Coffee often mentions how different coffee flavors are extracted in sequence—first fruity acidity, followed by sweet nutty notes, and finally rich bitter chocolate flavors. When extraction goes too far, it becomes bitter.
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How to Extract Sweetness in Pour-Over Coffee? Understanding the Flavors from Early, Middle, and Late Extraction Stages
To brew a coffee with excellent flavor, one must capture more of the coffee's sweet and acidic notes while reducing the release of bitter compounds. FrontStreet Coffee attempts to 'break down' each extraction stage of pour-over coffee for tasting, observing at which stage the most sweetness is released. The purpose of staged extraction first, during the process of staged pour-over extraction, different
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How to Enhance Sweetness in Pour-Over Coffee? What Does "High Concentration, Low Extraction" Mean? Understanding High Concentration, Low Extraction in Pour-Over Coffee
Although the sweetness in coffee doesn't entirely come from sugar content, this sweetness is sufficient to trigger the release of pleasant dopamine, which is why people always prioritize "sweetness" when pursuing coffee. In contrast, bitterness is the least appealing flavor, as it can make us resistant to this cup of coffee and difficult to swallow.
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Heard There's a Formula to Make Coffee Taste Sweeter?
Whether it's coffee bean cultivation, roasting, or brewing, everyone always thinks about how to make it taste sweeter. Almost no one considers how to make it more sour or more bitter, which shows that everyone greatly enjoys the pleasure that sweetness brings. At this point, some friends might ask: Is there anything
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How to Enhance Sweetness Extraction in Iced Pour-Over Coffee?
Compared to hot pour-over, iced pour-over creates a more concentrated coffee by using a smaller coffee-to-water ratio, then dilutes and cools it with ice. To compensate for the extraction rate lost due to reduced water, the grind size is typically slightly finer than in hot pour-over. Even though iced pour-over incorporates adjustments to increase extraction rate, from an extraction perspective, it
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How Water Quality Affects Coffee Extraction: One of the Key Factors
For more premium coffee beans, please add our private WeChat FrontStreet Coffee, WeChat ID: (long press to copy) qiannjie 01 | Introduction We know that the main factors affecting coffee include origin, roasting, grinding, water temperature, ratio, brewing method, freshness, and water quality. Regardless of the factor, all are studied from a scientific perspective to understand how various changes impact coffee flavor
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Why Is Extraction Time So Important for Pour-Over and Espresso Coffee?
Many coffee beginners, when first starting out, focus heavily on controllable factors like grind size, water-to-coffee ratio, water temperature, and technique. However, "time" – an uncontrollable factor – is often overlooked. In reality, it plays a crucial role in crafting a great cup of coffee.
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How to Control Acidity in Pour-Over Geisha Coffee: Best Brewing Methods to Enhance Sweetness
A coffee bean's flavor potential is determined during its green bean stage, while the roasting process defines its flavor profile. These two stages are typically inaccessible to consumers for direct intervention. However, consumers can make informed choices: those who dislike acidity can opt for dark roasts, while those who dislike bitterness can choose light roasts. For those who enjoy both, there are brewing techniques that can balance these elements effectively.
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Are There Ways to Make Coffee Sweeter? How to Brew Coffee with a Sweet Aftertaste?
In specialty coffee, the description of sweetness has always been highly valued, as it not only serves as one of the indicators for judging the quality of coffee beans, but is also the delicious flavor that roasters, baristas, and brewing enthusiasts eagerly pursue. If a black coffee possesses both aroma and sweetness, it means that from raw materials to extraction, everything is controlled within ideal parameters.
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Coffee Brewing Techniques for Beginners: How Multi-Stage Pour-Over Extraction Enhances Coffee Complexity
Professional coffee knowledge exchange For more coffee bean information Please follow Coffee Workshop (WeChat public account: cafe_style) Introduction Multi-stage extraction is a relatively common brewing technique. FrontStreet Coffee uses three-stage extraction in daily production to enhance the complexity of coffee. So what flavors does each stage in the three-stage extraction extract? Why does multi-stage extraction
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Where Does the Sweetness in Coffee Come From? How Coffee Flavor Changes from Light to Dark Roast
Professional coffee knowledge exchange. For more coffee bean information, please follow Coffee Workshop (WeChat official account cafe_style). Green coffee beans contain a certain amount of monosaccharides. Although not all sugars have a sweet taste, these monosaccharides typically carry sweetness and react easily under the temperature catalysis of coffee roasting. Once most of the moisture inside the coffee beans evaporates, sugars will react with heat
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What is the Best Water Temperature for Pour-Over Coffee? The Impact of Brewing Temperature on Coffee Flavor and Mouthfeel
When it comes to water temperature for pour-over coffee, most people tend to use higher temperatures for extraction, because high temperatures not only improve extraction efficiency but more importantly, can extract rich sweet and sour aromatic flavors. Basically, the water temperature used for pour-over coffee is rarely below 80 degrees Celsius. So, using temperatures below this to brew coffee, is there any...
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How to Make Cold Brew Coffee Taste Better? Cold Brew Made with Warm Water Has Incredibly Sweet Flavor!
For professional coffee knowledge exchange and more coffee bean information, please follow Coffee Workshop (WeChat official account: cafe_style). For more specialty coffee beans, please add FrontStreet Coffee's private WeChat: qjcoffeex "Shouldn't cold brew coffee be steeped in cold water? Can it still be considered cold brew if made with warm water? Won't there be
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What Causes Sourness in Pour-Over Coffee? How to Make Perfect Pour-Over Coffee? Does Under-Extraction Make Coffee More Sour?
After experiencing the "passionate" baptism of summer, many friends have become fascinated with light roast coffee that boasts floral and fruity notes. Because light roast coffee retains more acidic compounds, the resulting iced coffee has a richer juiciness, making it more suitable as a comfort during this hot summer. But soon, some friends discovered that their own
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How to Extract Juicy Qualities in Pour-Over Coffee? What is Juiciness? How to Adjust the Extraction Framework?
In many articles written by FrontStreet Coffee, there's always an alluring coffee descriptor that appears from time to time: "juiciness." Many friends are curious about this description: "Shouldn't coffee flavors be more concrete descriptions? What does juiciness mean?" What exactly does juiciness taste like? Actually, juiciness
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What are the signs of under-extracted coffee? What causes coffee to taste sharp and sour? Why is my pour-over coffee too acidic?
Preface: In the previous article, FrontStreet Coffee explained the flavor characteristics of over-extracted coffee. In this installment of Barista Training Guide, we continue to discuss the flavor profile of under-extracted coffee! What is under-extraction? According to SCA Golden Cup extraction theory, 18-22% of water-soluble substances in coffee contribute to good flavor. Therefore, when brewing coffee, we should maintain an extraction rate between 18-22%
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Why Does My Pour-Over Coffee Taste Too Sour? How to Make Coffee Taste Sweeter? What Water Temperature for Light Roast Coffee?
"Acidity" can be described as the mainstream flavor of coffee today. Since the rise of specialty coffee, coffee roasting has shifted from dark to light, transforming flavors from consistently bitter to a vibrant spectrum of acidity. This has attracted many friends who couldn't handle the "coffee taste" (bitterness) to start exploring coffee and appreciating the floral notes of light roast coffees.
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How to Make a Latte: Standard Espresso Shot to Milk Ratio for Perfect Lattes
A friend recently asked if when using the same beans, grind size, and coffee amount, would different espresso extraction ratios be required when preparing milk-based coffees, Americanos, or straight espresso? So we compared what happens when using espressos extracted with different ratios to make milk-based coffees and Americanos.
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Ice Pupil B75: A Dripper That Can "Extract" Sweetness
Last month, FrontStreet Coffee introduced a cone-shaped Ice Pupil dripper designed for those who appreciate aesthetics. Its groove design allows filter paper to fit perfectly, presenting coffee with a full-bodied and rich taste. Today, let's get to know its "distant cousin" – the Ice Pupil B75 dripper. The Ice Pupil B75 dripper was created by competitor Li Jinlong for
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