Can I add milk to my hand coffee? How good is the proportion of hand-brewed coffee with milk?

When you made a cup of coffee and handed it to the guest, the guest said, "could you add some milk to it for me?" How do you feel inside?

Maybe we should look at a picture first.

Of course, Qianjie believes that people in the coffee circle are very inclusive. Many friends often change their drinks of the five kinds of coffee in the picture. This picture is more about self-teasing and self-entertainment in the coffee circle. This seems to be a "disdain chain", but it is actually a process of slowly changing coffee rookies. When you don't know what coffee is at first, the easiest thing to get in touch with is instant coffee, which sells the most and sells the most goods. Then it was found that some coffee powder could not be completely dissolved, and the aroma of that kind of coffee was more obvious, so it turned to hanging-ear coffee. Later found that the original coffee powder is made of coffee beans, the first grinding will be more fragrant, so they stepped into the hand brewing coffee. The process from milk coffee to American style is mainly from coffee drinks to pure coffee, probably just as tea drinkers do not think that drinking milk tea is the same as drinking tea. Now the basic way to make milk coffee is to use espresso as the base and mix it with milk. no one has a problem with this drinking method, because everyone is used to it. While hand-brewed coffee with milk, this combination appears novel in people's cognition, and it will feel strange. But, in fact, this way of drinking is older than today's Italian latte.

In France in the 17th and 18th centuries, there was a very popular coffee called "Cafe é Au Lait". In fact, it was a French milk coffee, which was directly translated into "coffee and milk". The domestic translator took the second half of the transliteration as the name of this coffee-Oulei Coffee. The coffee base of Ole Coffee is very similar to hand-brewed coffee, using immersion or filtration extraction to extract the coffee liquid, which is directly soaked or boiled in hot water, and then filtered with flannel to remove the coffee grounds. Wash the coffee powder into the flannel and rinse the coffee powder in the flannel repeatedly with hot water. Then pour the coffee and hot milk into the cup at the same time at 1:1 and you are done.

Later, this kind of milk coffee was also brought back to China by the Japanese, and it was transformed by a series of craftsmen to extract a high concentration of coffee liquid by hand flannel, and then make it in the same way as Ole Coffee. Therefore, hand-made coffee with milk is not a bizarre behavior, there is a historical basis. Some people think that the purpose of hand-brewing coffee is to drink the original flavor of coffee, and the addition of milk destroys the flavor of coffee. In front of the street, we need to clarify some concepts. The purpose of pursuing the original flavor of coffee lies in coffee beans, which depends on coffee beans, not hand-brewed coffee. Hand-brewed coffee is just a very simple and good way to show the flavor of these boutique coffee beans. Those coffee beans with good flavor can also be extracted from the "original flavor of coffee" by means of pressing pot, siphon pot and so on, which is not the patent of hand-brewed coffee. So it is necessary to distinguish the relationship between hand-brewed coffee and boutique coffee beans. Secondly, what we want to discuss is not whether hand-brewed coffee can be made with milk, but how hand-brewed coffee tastes good with milk! The most important thing to drink coffee is to taste good, mainly the roasting degree of coffee. Like medium and deep roasted coffee, its flavor is bitter, the bitterness of the coffee can be neutralized by adding milk, and the mellow taste of the milk also improves the taste of the whole cup of coffee. Now most light-roasted coffee is mainly sour, and this kind of coffee is very low with milk.

Finally, there is the question of how much milk to add. In fact, it is the same as what Qianjie said about how much milk to add to the latte. It all depends on whether the taste is right or not. For example, using a pine house type of highly extracted coffee liquid, you can add 1:1-1. 5% milk to balance the coffee and milk. And like the usual 1:15 powder-to-water ratio of extracted coffee, about every 120ml coffee liquid added 20ml milk will be better.