The difference between American Coffee and hand-brewed Coffee. Does American Coffee need single beans? Introduction to American Coffee beans

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I like hand-brewed coffee, and I think I can drink the taste of different coffee beans, and I can even feel the "mood" of hand-made coffee, but I am sometimes confused that since the principle of hand-brewing coffee and American coffee machine is the same, why don't we use the machine to extract coffee directly?

The difference between ● American Coffee and hand Coffee

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Put aside the fun and "sentiment" of the process of making coffee by hand

Today

Let's do a detailed decryption of this confusion.

I believe that after reading this article

No matter what level of understanding you are in about fine coffee.

You will have different feelings.

In fact, the American coffee machine and hand brewing have something in common as well. Let's start with the American coffee machine, that is, American drip coffee. Bunn successfully developed the first commercial American coffee maker in 1963 and entered the American home after improvement and 1967.

The drip filter coffee machine is very easy to use, and anyone who has never made coffee can easily make a cup of American drip filter coffee: put filter paper in the filter cup, pour the ground coffee powder into the filter cup, install the filter cup with the dripping machine, and add pure water or soft water on top of the coffee machine (remember not to add tap water, the hardness is too high, scale will reduce the life of the coffee machine, TDS under 100 soft water is the best) Set the temperature, and when the water reaches the temperature you set, it will be extracted evenly (as shown below).

● by the way, the purchase of American coffee machine, do not recommend that you buy a treasure two or three hundred American trickling filter, the production of American either uneven extraction or excessive extraction, drink will have a bitter taste, if you want to enjoy a cup of delicious coffee will be greatly discounted.

The low-end drip filter does not need to use filter paper, most of which are such a filter, which is easy to let the water flow through the filter quickly, resulting in insufficient extraction. If the powder is ground too fine, it will allow the water to stay in the coffee powder for a long time, resulting in excessive extraction. The coffee you drink is easy to feel bitter.

The professional American coffee drip filter uses a filter cup that needs filter paper. The advantage of having filter paper is that it can make coffee extraction more slowly. For example, if you use a coffee powder with coarse grind, because there is filter paper, the extraction speed of coffee powder will be slower. On the contrary, it will achieve uniform extraction.

After talking about the filter cup and then talk about the water hole, the low-end American trickling filter mostly has only one water outlet in the middle to save the cost, which will cause the middle water hole to be injected only from the middle of the coffee powder, while the hand-brewed coffee can be uniformly injected with water in order to evenly inject water from the inside to the outside in order to evenly extract coffee, which will not lead to excessive extraction of some coffee powder and insufficient extraction of some coffee powder.

So how does the American trickling filter simulate the brewing process of hand-brewed coffee? You should have found that it has ten holes, that is to say, its outlet holes are evenly distributed over the filter cup, the purpose is to ensure the uniform extraction of coffee powder and maximize the simulation of the hand-brewing process.

Professional American drip filtration will also use a more professional thermostat system, coffee is very sensitive to water temperature, the temperature is too high or too low will affect the extraction of coffee flavor.

At present, international cup testing competitions are made with American drip filters, because many American drip filters meet the gold cup standard of SCAA American Fine Coffee Association and can make a perfect cup of coffee.

In order to visually show the difference between hand-made coffee, let's look at the picture and talk.

Ps: as we all know, to make hand-brewed coffee, you must first have a handy pot. Some people are used to the Japanese style of the sucking pot, while others like the American style of hand grenades, but no matter how they are made, the taste is in line with their own taste.

●-- here's the whole process of hand flushing--

Ground coffee powder (small Fuji scale 3.5)

20 grams of coffee powder, about 1-2 people.

The first 30g water steaming, from the inside to the outside uniform injection of water, the amount of steaming water should be as thin as possible slow flow, as close to the powder layer as possible.

When the coffee powder no longer expands, it will start the second water injection.

The second water injection, uniform circle, from the inside to the outside, do not let the water come into contact with the filter cup wall, because the water will flow down the sink along the filter cup wall, which will cause insufficient extraction.

The third time of water injection, to reach the appropriate amount of water, the water-powder ratio used here is 1:15, that is, 300g of water injection.

After 300g, stop the water injection and wait for all the drip filtration to be completed in about 2 minutes and 20 seconds.

A cup of hand-made coffee is finished.

The brewing process of ● hand-brewed coffee is more complicated than that of American coffee machine, so there are more possibilities and uncertainties, which is one of the reasons why we are keen on hand-brewing. American coffee machine is so stable that every cup of coffee meets the standard of gold cup, too rigid and boring. The coffee made by hand shows a more open flavor, you can drink more flavor, and the flavor is more delicate, while the coffee made by drip filter coffee machine has more compact flavor and less flavor, which is why it is more difficult to find a different cup of coffee during the World Cup test contest. the coefficient of difficulty of finding a different cup of coffee is higher, and the water temperature of the drip filter is relatively higher than that of hand brewing, and the flavor is not so open. If people with an insensitive sense of smell and taste, it is difficult to tell the difference between two beans with the same treatment from the same state.

Hand-brewed coffee with the same bean with different methods of flavor performance is also different, of course, its spindle flavor is unchanged, and the production of drip filter is relatively rigid, its extraction can only meet the standard of gold cup, but it is difficult to change greatly, but it is stable.

● American coffee bean brand recommendation

The best-selling American coffee beans roasted on Qianjie Coffee: Yega Chuefei Coffee, Golden Manning Coffee, Brazilian Coffee and so on are fully guaranteed in terms of brand and quality. And more importantly, the performance-to-price ratio is extremely high, a pack of half a pound 227 grams, the price is only about 70-90 yuan. According to the calculation of 15 grams of powder per cup of hand-brewed coffee, 15 cups of coffee can be made in a bag, and each cup of American coffee costs only about 5 or 6 yuan, which is very cost-effective for cafes to sell dozens of yuan a cup.

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