What is hand-brewed coffee and what kind of coffee powder is suitable for hand-brewed coffee

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What is hand-made coffee?

Hand-brewed coffee, you can literally understand its meaning: hand-brewed coffee. This brewing method was first invented by Ms. Melita in Germany at the beginning of the 20th century. At that time, when she was making coffee at home, she suddenly used her son's blotting paper as filter paper, put coffee powder in the filter paper, injected water into the coffee powder in a kettle, and extracted a cup of coffee with a different taste.

The fact that slow workers can make fine hand-made coffee is really popular, but it is caused by the Japanese. Since the 1950s, Japanese opponents have almost become obsessed with brewing coffee. Various kinds of filter cup appliances of various materials have emerged one after another, and a whole set of theory and operation technology of hand-brewed coffee have been established. It also makes the traditional way of hand-brewed coffee take root and bloom in the oriental land, and get unprecedented prosperity.

The taste of hand-brewed coffee: "clean taste"; the more fully filtered, the smoother, full-bodied and clear taste that passes through the tip of the tongue and throat, especially fresh coffee, which can show the difference between different beans.

Main points:

See a friend said to buy coffee powder directly, I personally recommend people in large and medium-sized cities, it is better to buy fresh coffee beans and grind them themselves. To make a good cup of coffee, the most fundamental thing is to have fresh and high quality coffee beans.

If you buy better by hand mill, you can make sure that the coffee powder is evenly ground. If the grinding is not uniform, it will make the coffee taste not "pure". Because of the different contact area, hot water extracted from coarser coffee powder is much less than from fine powder at the same time. When the extraction time is just enough to fully extract the "good taste" from the coarse powder, it is already over-extracted from the fine powder-there will be some flavors that we do not want to appear. The main purpose of hand-made single product is to taste the original flavor of coffee, and it is to enlarge a certain characteristic of coffee flavor to taste it carefully. Therefore, we should try our best to ensure that the extraction is uniform rather than mixed with various flavors.

water. Now everyone pays attention to the soft water for drinking water, and the soft sailor tastes better. The water temperature is 85-95 degrees Celsius, too high temperature will cause coffee to have a scorched taste, and too low temperature will give coffee an unpleasant sour taste (just right coffee will also have a light sour taste, but this sour taste is pleasant, such as light fruit acidity.)

Pay attention to the warm cup. All utensils used in the process of hand brewing should be kept warm so that the taste of the coffee is warmer and moist.

The thin-nosed pot for hand flushing can be purchased separately, or you can choose some common utensils instead, as long as you ensure that the flushing flow is fine and stable. Of course, try to keep warm as much as possible.

According to my experience, 250 milliliters of coffee for every 15 grams of coffee powder is an appropriate proportion.

The rest is some simple process: put the filter paper into the filter bowl, add a small amount of water, let the filter paper "dress", and there are no air bubbles between the filter bowl and the filter bowl; grind the coffee powder and load it evenly (this process is called cloth powder, some people think that the uplift in the middle of the powder pile can make better coffee, while others think that a hole should be dug in the middle of the powder pile. ⋯⋯this depends on personal understanding.) Slowly pour the hot water of about 92 degrees into the coffee powder, controlling the amount of water just one drop from the bottom of the powder pile; let the coffee powder fully absorb the hot water for about 40 seconds (at this time, if the coffee powder is fresh enough, you will see the coffee powder obviously expand); empty the utensils that hold coffee under the filter bowl (including hot water for warm cups and a drop of hot water just dropped for soaking coffee). The water temperature drops to about 90 degrees in these 40 seconds, just right to start hand flushing; slowly flush the water in one direction from the center of the powder pile and draw a circle, circle after ⋯⋯, drink.

PS1. Contrary to some people's view that hand brewing is less dependent on craftsmanship, I also admire espresso, but I still regard making a good cup of hand-brewed coffee as more technical. To put it simply, hey egg fried rice is the simplest and most difficult-it's easy to make a cup of hand-made items for yourself, but it takes a lot of practice to make a good cup. Moreover, you can only know how to make coffee if you know what the coffee will taste like when you make coffee.

What kind of coffee powder is suitable for hand-made coffee?

Coffee extraction is affected by the chemical composition of raw coffee beans and the degree of roasting. Different extraction temperatures will produce different extraction effects. Generally speaking, deep-roasted coffee will achieve the best taste with less extraction, while higher temperature water and cooking time within two minutes will produce less extraction.

In fact, it is more appropriate to say what coffee powder is suitable for hand brewing. Compared with espresso made with cold coffee mechanism, hand brewing coffee can better retain the original flavor of coffee. Moreover, hand-brewing coffee can bring us the kind of enjoyment of hand-made coffee, that is, the experience is better. Based on flavor and experience, hand-brewed coffee is obviously better than espresso. Coffee powder is recommended not to be ground with coffee beans, which is commonly used in Italian practice. Coffee is the first choice.

In addition, it is recommended that you buy coffee powder and go home to grind it. Fresh coffee powder can add a lot of color to hand coffee. Bean grinders are also very cheap now. As for the choice of origin of coffee powder, is Rose Summer or G7, this depends on individual taste. The thickness of coffee powder should be selected well. Generally speaking, the thicker coffee powder is suitable for hand brewing, and the fine one is suitable for Italian style.