Is beer coffee beer or coffee?

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In fact, beer coffee has been popular in the coffee industry for a long time, but people do not call it beer coffee, but call it sparkling coffee or nitrogen coffee. The general practice is to extract the coffee, put it in a cylinder that mixes the whipped cream, then add nitrogen or carbon dioxide, and then press it out of the bottle when drinking it. Most of the foam in this kind of coffee is big bubbles, but it also dissipates quickly, so it's hard to associate it with drinks like beer.

Last year, we began to receive foreign cafes using beer to bring coffee drinking to another level. At that time, it was just a reference. I went to Stumptown Coffee Roasters (Shudun City Coffee) in April this year, and finally drank the legendary Nitro Coffee. When I first got it, the meticulous light coffee foam layer was quite attractive, even black beer!

So is it beer or coffee? It should be explained in this way that coffee tastes like beer, so it is a caffeinated coffee drink without alcohol.

Beer and coffee brings a new drinking experience.

It uses cold bubble to extract the coffee, put the extracted coffee in a steel bucket, and then use gas to push the coffee out of the wine column to produce a dense foam layer. When the wort is replaced by cold coffee, the light roasted coffee tends to be light-colored, with rich fruit aroma and acidity, and the hierarchical feeling is more complex. On the other hand, deep-roasted coffee will prefer dark beer, which is thick, warm and mellow, full and solid.

In addition, I also tried to add the type of hops, ha! More like real beer. The biggest change is that the coffee flavor is reduced, the body is warmer and mellow, and the type of hops added determines half of the coffee flavor, but generally, the aroma is more obvious, with a little bitterness at the end. The selection of coffee producing area, baking degree, extraction time, the type of gas used and the addition of hops are all the key factors that affect the overall flavor trend.

Different cups have different effects.

In addition, the cup presented also has a great impact. It is not a shrinking tulip cup that can perfectly present the aroma of your beer and coffee. After taking the test results from Ethiopia and Kenya, it is considered that the straight cup shape with small caliber is the most suitable for shallow roasting coffee, the small mouth can gather incense, the nose is just completely wrapped in the cup when drinking, and the shape of the straight tube does not appear thin. When drinking, it is best to add a few ice cubes to lower the temperature slightly and make the overall taste more refreshing and open.

Drinking coffee can also be easy and fun. Approachable beer coffee brings another way to drink. Who knows if there will be a more special combination next time?

Note: Stumptown Coffee Roasters (Shudun City Coffee), the third wave of boutique coffee pioneer, was founded in Portland, Oregon, USA in 1999.