Do you use hot or cold water to make cold coffee? How to make cold coffee? can I use hot water?

In addition to being extracted with hot water, coffee can also be made with cold water. Coffee made with cold water is called "cold extract coffee", which is different from hot coffee.

Cold coffee is divided into cold coffee and ice drop coffee, cold coffee is to soak coffee powder in cold water, ice drop coffee refers to the use of drip filtration to extract coffee drop by drop.

A friend asked Qianjie, "should I make cold coffee with hot water or cold water?" Coffee brewed in hot water cannot be called cold coffee. Cold coffee can only be soaked in normal temperature water or ice water, and the soaking environment should be kept at a low temperature.

Cold brewed coffee can avoid the bitter taste of coffee because the extraction rate of cold water is low. It will taste cleaner and refreshing this way.

So how to make cold coffee tastes good? here in front of the street, share one of the easiest ways.

The choice of coffee beans: if you do not want to turn over, Qianjie recommends that you choose medium-to-shallow roasted coffee beans, which will have a higher fault tolerance rate than medium-deep roasting.

Degree of grinding: the grinding degree of cold-soaked coffee is very large, it can be ground very coarse or very fine, which basically forms an adjusting node with the soaking time, for example, if you want to soak for a longer time, you will grind thicker, and if you want to soak, you will grind it finer. Very flexible. Here, Qianjie recommends that the grinding degree is similar to that of hand grinding. For example, the grinding fineness of light roasted coffee is 80% of the pass rate of No. 20 screen.

Soaking time: the principle is the same as above, basically it can be reasonable within 6-24 hours. If the grindness of 80% of the pass rate of the No. 20 screen recommended by Qianjie is used, then the soaking time should be controlled at 12-14 hours.

Powder-water ratio: the powder-water ratio of 1:12 is recommended for soaking in Qianjie. If you feel too strong after soaking, you can add ice to dilute it. In this way, the controllability is also relatively high.

Finally, let's talk about the cold extraction coffee making method in Qianjie. First of all, coffee beans tend to use medium-to-light roasted coffee beans in front of the street. All you need is a clean container that can be sealed. Prepare 40 grams of coffee powder, grind it into a fine grind (85% pass rate of sieve 20) into a container, then pour in 480 ml of cold water, stir with a stick and cover.

After refrigerating for 12 hours, remove the filter residue, filter out the coffee grounds and drink the coffee liquid immediately, or you can put the filtered coffee liquid into a bottle and refrigerate for another 4 hours.

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