Why is hand-made coffee so popular? What does it mean to make coffee by hand?

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Leaving the mainstream of Italian coffee, which has dominated for many years, there is a trend of hand-brewing coffee in China. In more and more professional coffee shops, you may no longer see the glittering and magnificent Italian coffee machine, but only see the owner holding an elegant hand to flush the pot and slowly rotate and inject water. As a result, many people begin to understand what is meant by hand-made coffee and imagine that they will be able to make a cup by hand one day.

In fact, the method of making coffee by hand is very simple. Put the coffee powder into the filter paper and the filter cup, fill it with hot water at 82 to 92 degrees Celsius, and put any pot or cup under the filter cup to hold the dripping coffee, so it is also called "dripping coffee".

The hierarchical flavor hidden in coffee beans

For the first time, black coffee brewed by hand with shallow roasted manor beans is quite different from fully extracted espresso. Not so much coffee, more reminiscent of tea or scented tea, sour taste is much more bitter, but from the coffee fruit, light and pleasant acidity, in addition, as sweet as tea. In fact, if there are good coffee beans, using filter paper to filter out coffee oil impurities, hand-brewed coffee can give people a clearer, natural and bright feeling, and taste the multi-level flavor hidden in coffee beans more clearly and completely.

The technology of hand-brewing coffee has been carried forward in Japan, and it has also set off a new wave in Europe and the United States in recent years. The taste of espresso extracted under high pressure is magnified, and many fine flavors are masked because the concentration is too high. Although the hand-brewed coffee is light, it can taste the complete flavor and level.

In May this year, the New York Times reported that Stumptown and Intelligentsia, two pioneers of the coffee industry in the United States, had set up various hand-flushing devices in their new coffee shops this year. Including the V60 hand brewer and the classic Chemex coffee maker, which are popular in the United States, customers can choose to brew any kind of coffee in the store in their own way.

When the coffee reaches a level, such as manor coffee from all over the world, it will have rich flavors and levels from the local culture, so it is very appropriate to choose to taste the black coffee by hand. Therefore, you can start drinking coffee in the way of tasting red wine.

Gentle average precision control of water injection volume and time

For coffee professionals, to let guests drink coffee of the same quality and flavor every time they visit, water should be injected gently and evenly into the coffee powder in each position. The water column must be maintained at the same thickness, and the amount of water and time injected must be carefully controlled. In addition, the water temperature and the thickness of coffee powder are also factors that affect the flavor of coffee. As long as more than 10 CC of water, it will make the coffee less flavor.

For many people, making coffee by hand also has a healing effect. Holding an elegant copper, enamel or stainless steel hand pot, holding his breath and watching the coffee powder spin slowly in the water. That two or three minutes of concentration is a small healing ceremony that makes people forget their worries. When others see it, they will be infected and even moved by the attentive mind. Tired heart, so warm up. Making a cup of coffee by hand is not only a kind of attentiveness and concentration, but also a kind of leisure and relaxation. It has the meaning of practice, really need to hold your breath, so people who just start to learn will forget to breathe and find out after a minute when they are out of breath.

For ordinary people, hand-made coffee is easy to learn and can be made at home.

The smell of coffee in the room rushes out the smell you like.

After the coffee beans are ground, smell its dry aroma first, and then smell its wet aroma after injecting hot water. The aroma will slowly come out until the whole house is full of coffee, which is different from brewing coffee with an Italian coffee machine. Every time I make coffee by hand, I feel slow and relaxed, and every time because of the difference in water temperature and coffee powder, the subtle changes always bring a little sense of surprise.

The convenience and immediacy of hand-brewed coffee on the equipment is also high. The price of the equipment is also amiable, and you can get started as long as you spend one or two thousand yuan. It's okay to be less particular. You don't have to flush the kettle by hand, you can pour it out with the kettle at home.

You can see the latest trend of coffee in the game. Two years ago, the United States began to hold hand-brewing coffee competitions, it can be seen that hand-brewing coffee will be the mainstream of the trend in the next coffee era. With this retro, low-tech, slow approach out of the clear flavor, the next will be more coquettish.

The method of making coffee by hand

1. According to the best proportion of hand-brewed coffee from 1:10 to 1:12, prepare ground coffee powder and hot water. That is, every 10 grams of coffee powder, rush into 100c.c. To 120c.c. Hot water. Hot water should be between 82 and 92 degrees, and 88 degrees can be used as the benchmark. The higher the temperature, the higher the extraction degree, and the lower the temperature, the lower the extraction degree.

two。 Put the filter paper into the filter cup, pour the coffee powder into the filter paper, and gently pat or shake the filter cup to smooth the coffee powder. Hot water can be used to flush the filter cup and filter paper to preheat and remove the pulp smell.

3. For the first time, start from the central point and inject a small amount of hot water by drawing concentric circles inside. As long as you soak all the coffee powder, you can stop the water injection. This step is called "steaming".

4. After the end of the first water injection, the expanded coffee powder begins to dry and sink, and the second water injection can be carried out. Inject water by drawing concentric circles outward from the center and then from the outside to the inside.

5. Wait for the coffee liquid to drop to the proportion of practice 1, that is, complete.