How do you like ice drop coffee, ice drop coffee or hot coffee? how does ice drop coffee taste?

How to distinguish between iced coffee and chilled coffee

It is precisely because of this that I often find that baristas in some bad coffee shops or hotels add hot coffee to ice cubes to cool down, pretending to be authentic ice-drop coffee to deceive consumers to make high profits.

In fact, the difference between them is easy to distinguish, there are two ways:

First, after at least dozens of hours of full dripping and fermentation, the real ice drop coffee will have an unspeakable and strange aroma immediately after opening the bottle, which is the kind of aroma that hot coffee absolutely does not have, and this aroma cannot be copied in any other way. Unforgettable. So when you doubt whether it is a real ice drop coffee, ask the barista to bring up the original ice drop coffee without sugar and milk and smell it first.

Second, the taste and feeling, ice drop coffee does not have any astringency, very little caffeine content, taste very clean and refreshing, that is, even drinking a few cups will not have any palpitations or insomnia and other negative effects. Hot coffee with ice only lowers the temperature, but caffeine and tannin are not reduced, and there will be a significant difference in taste and feeling after drinking.

The origin of ice drop coffee

On the Indonesian island of Java, which was once a Dutch colony in the 17th century, it is said that the coffee extraction method used here was introduced by Dutch businessmen, so it was named Dutch coffee Dutch Coffee. This kind of coffee drips with ice water for a long time, so it is also called "coldbrew coffee cold" or "water drip coffee".

Ice drop coffee is a coffee that is dripped in ice water for 8-12 hours at room temperature. although the aroma is not strong, it emits a unique aroma, which is not available when extracted with hot water. The biggest advantage of this kind of coffee is that it is quite pure and has no extra flavor, but it can give full play to all the ingredients in the coffee.

There are two ways to extract ice-drop coffee. One is the traditional method that is still used in many parts of Indonesia today-- putting the coffee in a lead bucket and dripping. The other is to use the all-in-one machine to drip (that is, the ice drip kettle we often see in coffee shops, it consists of a glass kettle containing ice water with a drip switch, a glass pot containing coffee powder and connected to a glass serpentine bend, and finally dripping to a glass flask. Using the dripping principle of ice drop coffee utensils, people can not help but think of laboratory tools, the function is good, the appearance also looks quite spectacular, just these can stimulate my curiosity. Ice droplets are made with a variety of tools, but the price is quite high, mainly made and sold by Japanese businessmen.

From this point of view, "coldbrew coffee cold" or "water drip coffee" both refer to the same meaning, and there is no essential difference, just different expressions and names of the same thing.

If there is a difference, I think the word "ice brew" covers a wider scope, which can refer to either ice droplets or cold bubbles.