What are the characteristics of hand-brewed coffee? what should I do with hand-brewed coffee?

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Being able to immerse themselves in the aroma of coffee every day should be a dream that many people have had, but hundreds of thousands of coffee machines are really not affordable for everyone. Maintaining a coffee machine is difficult. Xiao Bian once worked in a coffee shop, cleaning the machine is really time-consuming, so compared with the coffee machine Xiao Bian more want to start in fact will be a hand-made pot ah! Hand brewed coffee is really easy to be fascinated by the details and techniques. Xiao Bian today will introduce some basic knowledge and skills of hand-brewed coffee_

If you are not drinking coffee, you may be full of question marks when you hear hand-brewed coffee. Take a look at the picture below and you may understand a lot. Hold the hand-brewed pot, spread the coffee powder evenly in the filter paper, and then slowly pour hot water into it. A cup of fragrant hand-brewed coffee is fine.

The basic things you need to make coffee by hand are: a hand brew pot, filter paper, filter cup, thermometer, timer, electronic scale and bean grinder. Not only the taste of the coffee beans themselves, but also the temperature, flow rate, direction of the water, the choice of filter paper, the particle size of the powder and many other factors will affect the taste of the brewing. Xiao Bian originally wanted to stabilize the size and speed of the water column flow, so he practiced it a few times, because all of these would affect it! Therefore, the brewer's skill can be said to be very important.

For beginners, the size of the pot mouth of the hand washing pot will be better to control the amount of water column, that is, the small mouth pot, and the handle is not ergonomic design is also very important, because when the brewing person injects hot water, the hand should maintain a certain posture, if it is not easy to hold it, it will be very tired, more advanced people can choose the crane mouth pot, although it is more difficult to control but the taste of brewing is also more variable Oh!

The quality of the filter paper is also very important, if the choice is too poor, it will dissolve the pulp flavor together with the coffee. In addition, after checking the Internet, it was discovered that the thicker filter paper can filter out more impurities, and can also change the bad coffee flavor. XD really long knowledge!

The shape of the filter cup is mainly fan, cone and wave, and there is also a metal filter. Different filter cups will affect the flow rate of extracted coffee, resulting in different tastes. Fan filter diameter is small, so the flow rate is usually slow, coffee taste is more mellow; cone can be selected according to the groove design, the flow rate is fast to drink refreshing, slower is more concentrated alcohol; wave filter cup is also quite popular in recent years, it uses special wave filter paper creases to replace the groove, so that coffee powder can be evenly extracted Oh! If you think it's a waste to use filter paper every time, there are metal filters to choose from. Metal filters can retain more coffee grease! Just fine coffee powder may sneak into the coffee XD in addition to cleaning special attention, so as not to wash clean affect the flow rate oh!

brewing step

Grind coffee beans → Prepare hot water → Brew filter paper → Pour powder → First water injection → Steaming → Second water injection → Enjoy

Ground coffee beans: no matter what, please remember to be "freshly ground," and particle size like No. 2 sugar is the best for hand brewing coffee oh-can be uniform is the best. The best ratio of coffee powder to water is 1:10, but remember to look at the size of your filter cup, don't accidentally add too much and cause the water to fill up-and put too little will not flush well.

Prepare hot water: the suitable temperature is about 85℃ --92 ℃, but Xiaobian has checked on the Internet that there are really many ways to say it, and the temperature suitable for deep baking and medium shallow baking is not the same. You can consider it yourself, but remember to take out your temperature measurement anyway! Too low temperature brewing out of the taste of acid, high temperature is bitter.

Brewing filter paper: After folding the filter paper, try to make it close to the filter cup, then add water, wet the filter paper with a circle, and at the same time in the hot cup, it is also to eliminate the pulp smell Oh--

Pour powder: When pouring coffee powder, remember to gently tap the filter cup, so that the surface of the coffee powder is flat, flatness will affect the performance of water injection and steaming!

First injection: Start from the center of the filter cup, then slowly circle around to the periphery and back to the center. After soaking all the coffee powder, you can stop! Remember the thickness of the water column and the water flow rate must be stable! And remember not to pull the water column too high, bubbles will be easily injected, coffee extraction is therefore uneven.

Steaming: When you add water, you will find that the coffee powder gradually expands, and some liquid will begin to filter out! Steaming time depends on the variety of beans, from about 20--40 seconds.

Second water injection: When the steamed hill begins to collapse, you can start the second water injection-the same from the center to the outside circle, and repeat several times, flush to the required amount. The following suggestions can be placed electronic scales and coffee cups, always pay attention to grams.

Pour it into a coffee cup and enjoy!