9 simple brewing tips to improve your coffee drinking experience immediately!

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Many people drink a strong cup of coffee in order to reduce stress or improve their spirits, but no matter how good the beans they choose, they always feel bad and would rather spend money on them outside. In fact, as long as they master some tips, they can easily brew coffee at home as good as the coffee sold by the store!

1. Find the perfect cup.

Choose a mug or glass, different shape, size, mouth thickness, material will affect how you taste coffee, may have additional points for aroma and flavor, may also have the effect of deducting points.

For example, in the cup shape design, the design of the top space and tilt angle will affect the feeling of the aroma, the diffusion rate of aromatic molecules in the mouth space of different sizes of cups is different; the surface area and heat preservation effect of coffee liquid in contact with the mouth will also make the flavor of the drink different; different materials will affect the stability, comfort and durability of coffee temperature. Even different colors can affect the judgment of taste senses.

Finding the perfect cup for your coffee is really good for the drinking experience. Of course, choosing a coffee cup does not require choosing the cup that best suits a particular type of coffee, but choosing a cup that can concentrate or magnify some of your favorite flavor characteristics. Besides, appreciation is also very important, isn't it? The stereotyped white ceramic cup may not be the most suitable for you.

2. Add some unique ingredients to your coffee

If you really like fruit flavor, why not try banana milk coffee? The coffee industry has always been full of creative and interesting ideas, such as lemon coffee, turmeric coffee, sparkling coffee and banana milk coffee. Not to mention dark or not dark, these unique "creative coffee" can provide you with as much caffeine, and through the collision of different materials, stimulate a completely different taste and flavor experience from ordinary coffee. As long as the proportion and manner of coffee and accessories are reasonable, it may not be able to become a delicious "coffee special".

Of course, if you are still very satisfied with the current taste of coffee, the editor does not advise you to "superfluous".

3. Match coffee with the right food.

There are two types of coffee and food. One is a similar relationship, such as the pairing of fruity coffee with fruity food, and the other is complementary, such as the pairing of nutty / spicy coffee with fruit food.

Choosing the right collocation can, on the one hand, "awaken the hidden flavor" or "relieve stagnation and greasy", on the other hand, it can also avoid the impact of drinking coffee on the stomach on an empty stomach.

In addition to desserts, there are some foods that are naturally ideal for coffee, such as dark chocolate, almonds, dried cranberries or fruit corn.

4. Use high quality water.

Because coffee contains 98% of the water, the quality of the water can have a huge impact on the taste of your coffee. Water varies widely around the world, and the ingredients in the water affect the taste of the water, which in turn affects your coffee.

To make sure you get the best flavor out of your coffee beans, if you make coffee at home, be sure to pay attention to the water quality at home. It is good to use bottled or bottled mineral water, or filtered water. If the coffee maker has a water tank, be sure to change the water in it every day.

5. If you like milk coffee, buy an electric milk foam machine.

If you like to get up every morning and drink a warm and delicious cup of milk coffee, you might as well buy a milking machine. As for manual or electric, milking machine or milk bubble cup, then abundance and frugality is up to people. Compared with ordinary frozen milk, hot milk with milk foam can significantly improve the flavor and taste of coffee.

Before adding coffee, heating the milk and stirring up the milk foam can stimulate the lactose aroma of the milk itself, and it can be sweet and delicious without adding sugar. at the same time, the smooth and smooth milk foam is also beneficial to improve the taste of the coffee, a thin layer of milk foam can also lock the temperature of the coffee, making the coffee warm for a longer time!

With the foam maker, you can also try to make a simple pull coffee. Oh, put it on moments. It's a bunch of "666".

6. Try different hand flushing schemes.

In an era when all kinds of coffee machines are springing up everywhere, hand-held coffee with simple utensils and hand-feeling skills is like a clear stream of returning to nature, expanding from Japan, which pursues exquisite culture, and fascinates many coffee experts and people in life.

There are many different utensils for making coffee by hand: Kalita, Hario V60, KONO, Chemex. Either way, each has its own characteristics, and these unique designs will have a different impact on the taste of coffee. It is no accident that every classic filter cup and every detail design must have its unique beauty. When choosing a filter cup, we usually take personal preference as the principle. But when using the filter cup, you might as well pay attention to the design concept of the filter cup, try and compare that design concept, and show the flavor of the coffee more in line with your heart.

7. Add and lose. alcohol?

For a more adventurous taste, or can you try adding a little alcohol to your coffee?

Of course, what we want to add is serious drinking wine, not just alcohol. Like all kinds of whisky, rum and liqueur, it is very suitable to go with coffee to enhance flavor and flavor and make coffee stronger.

In the cold winter, or before going to bed at night, have a cup of homemade special "coffee cocktail" to paralyze yourself and stay awake at the same time. It's really cool to think about it.

8. Try to make your own cold coffee.

After soaking coffee powder at a cool temperature for 12-24 hours, you can get a cup of self-made cold extracted coffee, which is very simple and convenient!

This cold-extracted coffee soaked in low temperature has a completely different flavor and taste experience from the usual hot extraction. The cold-extracted coffee will become sweeter, less sour, softer, caffeine stronger and less irritating to the stomach. And the preservation time of cold-extracted coffee is longer, you can make a large bottle of spare at one time, making utensils is not complicated, French pressure pot can do it! Convenient, simple and quick!

9. Try homemade iced coffee

In this hot summer, you really don't want to drink hot coffee, and if you don't even want to go out to buy iced coffee, try homemade iced coffee.

You don't have to wait for more than ten hours. You can quickly get a cup of iced coffee that relieves summer heat and thirst by washing with ice hands.

You can choose coffee beans according to your taste and cook them by hand. However, unlike hot hand flushing, you need to first replace 40% of the water with ice cubes, using a slightly finer grinding degree than usual, or a higher boiling water temperature, just like a normal hand flush.

Let the hot coffee drop directly on the ice, quickly cool down and lock the aroma of coffee, according to the degree of dissolution of the ice, you can also adjust the ratio of ice to hot water, this is the essence of "Japanese" ice hand!

Last

There are many ways to brew and drink coffee, each of which has its own advantages and disadvantages. In fact, what the editor wants to say is that we don't have to stick to any iron rules, many of which are products of rules of thumb. Maybe you can get delicious food that you have never had when you hit it by mistake, and delicious food has always been a very subjective feeling. Just like stinky tofu, some people love people deeply but regard them as monsters; so, find your own way of making gold and keep trying, and you will also be your own master of coffee.

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