Can you add milk to hand-brewed coffee? the difference between hand-made black coffee and latte coffee

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A good cup of hand, the color is clear and clear, the aroma to the nostrils, when the entrance of the aroma instantly spread to the whole mouth, you can taste sour, sweet, even with a little bitterness. However, different brewing methods, temperature, and even the speed of water injection will affect the taste of coffee, and it is precisely because of this uncertainty that our opponents will be interested and continue to explore.

Hand-brewing coffee is also the most commonly used hand-brewing technique in Qianjie coffee shops. another is the Italian coffee machine, which is indispensable when making lattes, so you need to use it to extract espresso. Then mix it with different milk ratios or water to make espresso. Generally speaking, hand-brewed coffee is a single cup of coffee, that is, black coffee, so do you add milk when drinking hand-made coffee?

Most people make coffee without milk, but they like it, and no one else has the right to interfere with how you drink your own coffee. There are more than 50 hand-brewed coffee beans in Qianjie coffee shop. Qianjie coffee usually uses the simplest three-stage method to brew coffee, because hand brewing is affected by many factors, such as: warm pot. Qianjie coffee will generally warm the pot before hand brewing, so as not to cool the coffee too fast, especially in the cold winter. Then there is water injection, rinse the filter paper and stick it to the filter cup; wash the sundries and odor off the filter paper for the first time, and through this action, you can make the filter paper stick to the same cup, which is more conducive to extraction.

In addition, it is steaming, which is the first injection of water after putting coffee powder into the filter cup. Qianjie coffee generally uses 30 grams of water to steam for 30 seconds. If the coffee beans are still in the best taste period, when steaming, the coffee will absorb water and expand to form a hamburger. In addition, in keeping the balance between the amount of water injected and the amount of water flowing, the flow should not be too fast or too slow.

The following are the common brewing methods of Qianjie coffee: steaming with 30 grams of water for 30 seconds, injecting water around a circle to 125 grams for segments, continuing to inject water to 225 grams when the water level is about to be exposed to the powder bed, removing the filter cup when the water level is about to be exposed to the powder bed, (steaming starting timing) the extraction time is 2 grams 39 percent 00 ".

With regard to the extracted coffee liquid, Qianjie Coffee generally according to the ratio of coffee powder to water at 1:15, that is, 15g coffee powder, about the amount of coffee extracted in 225ml. The coffee liquid extracted from this kind of hand-brewed coffee will be very different from espresso. Generally speaking, espresso has a stronger taste and higher caffeine content, and the extracted espresso will produce thick oil. for a richer, darker brown substance.

Many espresso shops provide a cup of boiled water when guests drink espresso. If they drink it directly, many people will feel that espresso is too bitter, so they will add different milk ratios to make espresso.

So what's the difference between handmade coffee and espresso? The basic principle of espresso and hand-brewed coffee is the same: by pouring hot water on the coffee powder, the water passes through the coffee and some form of filter, and then falls into the container. But the key difference between filter and espresso is that it is not pressed by pressure, but simply because gravity water is soaked in coffee powder. For this reason, the brewing process takes a little longer and requires more coffee powder and more water.

On the other hand, hand-brewed coffee pays more attention to the coffee flavor of the coffee-producing areas, so it has also become the most commonly used brewing method of single-origin coffee, which is not as strong as espresso, but gently shows the taste of the coffee itself.

For example, for the same 30ml coffee, the hand-brewed coffee is different from what you get in the espresso machine. The taste of hand-brewed coffee is not so sour. We can taste all the flavors and aromas of the coffee. In the case of espresso, it has a higher density and level, until the coffee flavor is very strong. While good hand-brewed coffee is clean, clear, and saturated, and does not have a very sharp flavor, because water absorbs coffee oil and its flavor through pressure within a certain period of time, rather than in a way of high temperature and high pressure, so, the use of different coffee utensils is very important for coffee flavor.

It takes only three minutes to make a latte using an Italian coffee machine from extraction concentrate to milk flower fusion, while hand-brewed coffee takes only three or four minutes, including grinding, to get different flavors in about the same time. Qianjie Coffee thinks this is the charm of coffee. The specific operation process of hand-brewed coffee has been introduced earlier in this article, so come down to Qianjie Coffee and introduce how to make a delicious latte.

A bean used by the Qianjie coffee shop is made up of warm sun, 60% of the Shirley barrel coffee beans are mixed with 40% of the sun, and 20 grams of coffee powder and 40 grams of coffee liquid are extracted for 28 seconds through repeated debugging. Milk mainly depends on the steam stick of the coffee machine to pour the right amount of milk into the milk tank. For example, the latte of Qianjie coffee can be poured into 280 ml of milk with a cup of 300 ml. Then you can send away the milk foam, the general latte milk bubble thickness is moderate, about 1 cm, after the milk surface is shiny, no bubbles, with a certain degree of fluidity.

Finally, the mixed milk and extracted espresso are fused with the espresso, and the embossing action can be made by swinging the arm, because the milk foam is moderate and has a certain fluidity, so it will show a constantly swinging line, and finally pull up and push forward to end to make a basic heart-shaped pattern.

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