The easiest way to brew fine coffee is to make coffee by hand.

Hand-brewed coffee is the "third wave", that is, the most popular way of brewing coffee in today's boutique coffee era. both its production method and coffee flavor are worthy of in-depth study and discussion.

For this popular way of brewing coffee in the world, we should thank Bentz Melitta, a German housewife. She invented the coffee bubble method more than 100 years ago, rewriting the history of coffee drinking in Germany and the world. Before this invention, people used cloth bags to filter coffee grounds. However, the cloth filter bag is troublesome to clean and unhygienic after being used many times, and the coffee grounds left in the gap in the cloth bag are also easy to destroy the original mellow taste of coffee. On June 20, 1908, Melita registered her invention with the Royal Patent Office: a copper coffee filter cup with a water outlet at the bottom, the world's first follicular coffee cup. At that time, Melita Benz set up the "Melita Company" in her own home with a small amount of money, and used her autograph Melitta as a registered trademark of the product.

Like siphon coffee, with the rise of boutique coffee culture, hand-brewed coffee has ushered in a new spring. This ancient way of brewing coffee has miraculously taken root and blossomed in the eastern land, especially in Japan, South Korea, Taiwan and inland, especially since the Japanese began to make coffee in the 1950s. Various kinds of coffee filter cup utensils of follicle type and drip filter type emerge in endlessly, and a whole set of theory and operation technology of hand-brewed coffee have been established, which is loved by more and more people, which really corresponds to the proverb that "the west is not bright and the east is bright".

☆ this time we use HARIO V60 three-person sharing pot and filter cup to make coffee for two, usually the ratio of powder to coffee liquid is 1 120~150ml 1215, which means 10 grams of coffee powder out of 120~150ml coffee liquid (usually marked 100ml, 200ml, etc.).

The thickness of ☆ coffee powder is about the thickness of sugar, and the thickness is uniform.

Need equipment: hand flushing pot, sharing pot and filter cup, filter paper, bean grinder, thermometer, gram scale

On the bean grinder: it is suggested that friends who like to drink freshly ground coffee should invest in a reliable bean grinder, whether electric or hand-operated, the quality of the product is much better than that of buying coffee powder, and the price for household use is not very high.

About hand punch: there are many kinds of hand punch, and different brands, different materials, different styles and different prices are dazzling. It seems that it is not an easy task to choose a suitable hand punch among many hand punch pots. This requires everyone to do more homework to understand different hand punch pots. It is best to have a try in person to choose your own suitable "magic pot". Recommended here are Japanese brands KALITA, HARIO, Taguchi, Moon Rabbit, etc., of course, the price is also relatively high, domestic TIAMO, Zhengzheng line and other prices are relatively cheap, but I have said, as long as coffee is not deceptive, more is a penny, so we choose according to their own actual situation. Here we choose HARIO 1.2L stainless steel hand punch, which is also the most common hand punch in the international barista competition.

About sharing pot and filter cup: the choice of sharing pot and filter cup is also varied, the sharing pot is mostly made of transparent glass, it is easy to observe the amount of coffee, the filter cup is different, like a hand pot, we do not repeat, we choose our own choice, here we choose HARIO V6001 ceramic filter cup.

Operation steps:

1. Folding filter paper:

Take out a fan-shaped filter paper, one side of which is pressed by the machine, and its edge is thicker. (selection of filter paper: filter paper is divided into size types, according to the selected filter cup, bleached filter paper and raw pulp filter paper, bleached filter paper pulp taste is small, we choose bleached filter paper)

Fold the thickest side and flatten it.

Open the filter paper to align the two center lines and press it gently. Do not press the two fan faces into a broken line!

Put the folded filter paper in the filter cup

two。 Weigh coffee beans: 20g coffee beans (there is a saying that you can use 10g for one cup and 15g or less than 20g for two cups. In fact, it is not in line with the extraction principle. If you want to get light coffee, you can reduce the amount. But it is incorrect to make two cups of coffee and the coffee beans can be reduced. Players can try it on their own, and the taste is really very different.)

3. Grinder: hand grinder grinds coffee beans

4. Heating water: it is best to use a thermometer to measure the water temperature to make the water temperature accurate. The water temperature range of hand flushing is relatively large from 83 to 95, but the taste of different water temperatures must also be very different. Different beans with different baking degrees require different water temperatures, which need players to adjust themselves to find their most suitable water temperature.

5. Wet filter paper: rinse the hot water evenly on the filter paper, make the filter paper wet, stick tightly to the filter cup, and then pour out the hot water in the sharing pot. Many people are not used to wet filter paper and think that it is superfluous. In fact, the biggest effect of wet filter paper is three: 1. Flush out the impurities and smell of the filter paper 2. Attach the filter paper to the filter cup 3. Warm filter cup and sharing pot)

6. Pour the ground coffee powder into the filter cup and gently pat flat.

7. Stew:

Evenly pour water on the coffee powder about 1.5 times the number of grams of coffee powder (be sure to pour thoroughly, but don't drop too much water in the sharing pot)

There is no fixed time for stewing, fresh coffee powder will begin to absorb and expand after water injection, and when all coffee powder absorbs water, the expansion stops and then the steaming process stops, at this time you can inject water. (whether the coffee is expanded or not or the size of the expansion is closely related to the baking degree and freshness of the coffee. The fresher the coffee powder is, the bigger the expansion is, and the deeper the roasting is, the greater the expansion is.)

8. Water injection: novice hand flushing to uniform, do not need to deliberately pursue what flushing method, as long as uniform will not taste bad, it is recommended to start from the midpoint of water injection, and then along a direction to draw concentric circles to the periphery, but do not rush to the filter paper, and then draw concentric circles until the center is so repeated on it, the current should be stable, water injection can be divided into two or three times, the middle is not divided into many players dispute As for the taste of any different aesthetics did not drink, so do not elaborate here, players can try their own.

9. Finish the extraction: finish the extraction, get the coffee liquid about 240ml, finish the water injection, remove the filter cup, and share our delicious coffee in the pot.

10. Enjoy the coffee: pour the coffee from the sharing pot into a warm coffee cup and you can enjoy a cup of warm and delicious coffee.