How to make a cup of coffee? Five key tips for brewing fine coffee!

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What kind of taste can coffee have?

If you have only drunk instant coffee, you must think that coffee will only taste bitter. (because many people are used to drinking coffee with sugar and milk.)

But when you really enter the world of boutique coffee, you will find that the taste of coffee is richer, more frequent and more abundant than you think.

Some coffee tastes like Darjeeling black tea, some like tropical fruit juice, some like light jasmine tea, some like cocoa nut milk. By current standards, there are more than a hundred adjectives used to describe the taste of coffee.

In fact, every producing area, every treatment, every variety, and even beans created by different elevations and rainfall will have different flavors, waiting for you to explore.

So, with a little bit of beans and a little more attention when brewing, the taste of coffee can completely subvert your imagination.

Now, getting rid of traditional coffee can only bring bitterness and astringency, and the better thing is the idea of bringing bitterness back to sweet.

Here are five key points to show you how to make a fine cup of coffee:

1. Buy quality coffee beans

Although large shopping malls also sell coffee beans, and cheap and large bags, but the quality of the supermarket is still a long way from the boutique coffee.

If the bean itself does not have any special flavor, then no matter how expensive the cooking equipment is and no matter how good the skill is, the taste will always be unsatisfactory.

Then what is the quality of coffee beans?

There are a few small key points to refer to this article:

[beginner] how to find high-quality coffee beans? How to choose the coffee beans that suit you?

2. Grind before cooking

Have you ever thought of being lazy: "the ground coffee powder is so convenient that you can brew coffee at home without buying a bean grinder at all"?

No! The above is a misconception, and the concept of "freshly ground coffee" will never be out of date. The use of coffee powder for convenience is a big failure in making coffee.

Coffee beans need to be ground fresh to maintain their aroma and flavor.

Long ago ground coffee powder, the flavor is completely scattered, disappeared without a trace, so brewed coffee, there is no taste left, of course, only plain two words can be described.

So it is very important to buy a bean grinder!

However, if the budget is limited and you can only cook one cup a day and drink it yourself, it is recommended that you buy a hand bean grinder, which is much more expensive than the electric one. If you choose carefully, you can also choose the grinding quality as good as the electric one.

If you want to know the key points of choosing hand bean grinder and electric bean grinder, you can refer to this article:

Bean grinder | how to choose a bean grinder with high cost performance

Four tips to tell you-how to choose a hand grinder?

3. Measure the proportion of powder and water cooked

Some people will encounter a situation: why has used very expensive beans, brewed coffee is often not tasteless, otherwise it is very bitter?

Let the editor pinch and calculate. The above problems may be caused by the wrong proportion of cooking!

Only when the powder-water ratio is right, can we have a balanced taste and taste the best flavor.

The focus of cooking proportion is "quantification". A simple electronic scale can solve many problems.

And please use grams to calculate the proportion, do not use a few spoonfuls of coffee powder to calculate oh (really not stable)!

As for how much coffee powder is used and how much water is used, it is actually determined by the equipment used for brewing, but generally speaking, the powder-to-water ratio will fall between 1:10 and 1:18.

You might as well try different ratios to choose the most suitable powder-to-water ratio. For details, please refer to:

Gold cup extraction | extract espresso, how to adjust the degree of grinding and the ratio of powder to water

4. Try different cooking methods

Each kind of brewing equipment has its own characteristics, looking for equipment that suits your preferences can help you make better coffee.

Coffee brewed from French presses and mocha pots is usually thick, while hand brewing is cleaner and brighter.

The advanced method of playing is to choose the cooking equipment according to the characteristics of different beans, so as to give full play to the characteristics of the beans.

Please refer to this article: comparison of coffee brewing methods: how to make coffee at home?

5. Try to taste the original coffee

A good cup of coffee, in fact, does not need to add sugar or other ways to add flavor, it can have a variety of flavors.

Therefore, the first step into boutique coffee is to put down the sugar bag and milk and taste the original flavor of the coffee. Even if you are not used to it at first, please give these hard-won coffee a chance to try.

Of course, coffee and sugar, milk can also be perfect match, boutique coffee is not absolutely can not add sugar, milk, as long as you drink happily, it does not matter.