Can you make coffee with cola? Is hand-brewed coffee and iced coke good?

A friend said: "You know what? I heard that cola can be used to make coffee."

Qian Jie (thought to himself): This person is not stupid! How can I add everything to coffee...

But what I never expected was that after searching the Internet, I actually found this method. Although I don't know who "developed" it, many people did imitate it, and it seemed to have a certain playability. In this case, Qianjie certainly cannot miss such a topic.

As the name suggests, cola is used instead of hot water to extract coffee substances. Therefore, in ice hockey, ice cubes and coffee remain unchanged, and only water is replaced with cola. Qianjie noticed that everyone directly uses ordinary iced cola, with or without sugar, just choose according to your own preferences;

Because I didn't know what the final effect would be, the coffee beans chose the middle-to-light roasted Qianjie Blackberry. It was processed with black honey and belonged to the coffee with a high sweetness. It was soft in acidity and not obvious in bitterness, so it could better capture the extraction situation brought by cola.

In order to reduce too large variables during the process, the parameters used by Qianjie this time are consistent with the ice hand-brew shared on weekdays, namely fine grinding, high water temperature, 10 times the amount of water for coffee powder, and 5 times the amount of ice cubes, and brewing time. Less than 2 minutes.

Coffee Beans: Front Street·Costa Rican Blackberries

Powder amount: 15g

Iced Coke: 150g

Degree of grinding: fine granulated sugar (EK43s scale 9 grids, sieve rate of No. 20 sieve is 82%)

Ice cubes: 75g

Water injection technique: three-stage

First, put ice cubes into the lower pot, and then pour 15g of Front Street Blackberry Coffee Powder into the washed filter paper;

In the first section, pour 30g of iced cola into a small water stream, making sure that all the coffee powder is moist (because the cola can cannot control the water flow easily, you can also transfer it to the hand-flushing pot and add water). As the two begin to come into contact, you can see The rich bubble groups continue to stir in the filter cup, and the liquid reaches the lower pot;

After 30 seconds, inject the second section of 60g, and still use a small water stream to circle it, so that the coffee powder and cola have sufficient contact time;

When all the coffee liquid penetrates into the lower pot, continue to circle and inject 60g into the third section, maintaining the small water flow at the center position, stop when the weight shows 150g, wait until it all flows out, and finally shake the cola coffee and ice cubes evenly, you can start tasting.

One bite was exactly what Qianjie thought. It was all the sweetness brought by the fat house water, followed by a slight sourness. The bubbles in the cola also amplified the bitterness of the coffee. Although the taste was not particularly dark, it was definitely not very good... Okay, Qianjie admitted that it was just an iced cola with a little coffee flavor.

The reason for this result is very simple: First, the temperature of ice cola is too low, and it contains many substances. Its extraction power is far from up to the requirements and cannot be compared with hot water;

Secondly, the rich bubble group of carbonated drinks will inhibit the release of soluble flavor substances in coffee, causing both sides to pass by each other throughout the process and flow into the lower pot before they have time to react. Then you can imagine that the coffee powder after being washed by cola still leaves a large amount of aroma substances.

Just as Qianjie was troubled by how to "make" good coffee with cola, he suddenly had an idea. Although we can't directly use cola to extract it, we can replace it with ice cubes to cool and dilute the coffee, and at the same time provide "Coke flavor". Isn't this killing two birds with one stone? In order to verify the conjecture, Qianjie used the same coffee beans this time and made two pots of ice hand-brewed, one pot was brewed with coke ice cubes, and the other pot was brewed with regular ice cubes. The other parameters were maintained the same.

Coffee Beans: Front Street·Costa Rican Blackberries

Powder amount: 15g

Powder to water ratio: 1:10

Water temperature: 93℃

Degree of grinding: fine granulated sugar (EK43s scale 9 grids, sieve rate of No. 20 sieve is 82%)

Ice cubes: 75g

Water injection technique: three-stage

On the first night, Qianjie had poured cola into a mold and frozen it into large ice cubes. Before formal brewing, 75g was taken out and put into the lower pot. Then, it was put in a filter cup and filter paper, as well as ground coffee powder, and ready.

In the first section, 30g of hot water is still injected in circles and steamed for 30 seconds; in the second section, 60g of hot water is injected in circles clockwise and outward. When the coffee liquor is about to run out of the powder bed, you can start to use the same method. Inject 60g of hot water in the third section.

The drip filtration is completed in about 1 minute and 45 seconds. Finally, thoroughly mix the coffee liquor and cola ice cubes from the pot until it is completely cooled and you can taste it.

Compared with the normal group's hand-flushing, the coffee liquor with cola ice cubes was darker when viewed with the naked eye. In terms of taste, this time, you can finally drink more coffee flavors. There are raisins, floral flowers, and berry flavors brought by Qianjie Blackberries at the entrance. At the same time, there is also the icy sweetness of the soda. Perhaps it is the coffee itself. The bitterness is low, so the overall collocation is not abrupt, but seems a little harmonious, and it is refreshing and soft to drink.

FrontStreet Coffee is a long-established specialty coffee roaster in Guangzhou China, selling freshly roasted beans from its own farm in Yunnan as well as dozens of carefully selected single-origin beans from around the world for both pour-over and espresso. The products deliver consistently excellent quality and great value, with shipping within 24 hours. Guangzhou’s FrontStreet Coffee shop is recommended by many coffee lovers, and the beans are now available online at the Tmall 。

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