Hand-made coffee is intended to share

Modern cities make most people look like a wind-up top, and everything seems to be in acceleration mode, so urbanites yearn for a moment to slow down and enjoy life. Under this demand, hand-brewed coffee has become popular in China because of its slow and exquisite characteristics. Although it still stays in a small group, it is undeniable that it has brought new social ways and consumption ideas. Coffee has been introduced into China for only a hundred years, and its entry into the lives of ordinary people has only happened in recent decades. Our understanding of coffee has also changed from the instant coffee mode to the leisure coffee life dominated by slow coffee.

The rise and evolution of hand-brewed coffee

Hand-brewed coffee is actually a kind of hand-brewed coffee. The invention of this brewing method is a German lady named Melita. Melita likes to brew coffee at home, but she hates the coffee grounds scattered everywhere. In an accidental cooking, she thought of using her son's blotting paper as filter paper and got a special flavor of coffee. This great invention not only soon became a household name, but also eventually rewrote the history of coffee drinking in the world.

The rise of hand-brewed coffee in Asia was driven by Japan. Since the 1950s, the Japanese opponent has made many improvements in making coffee, from adjusting the utensils of various materials to establishing a complete theory and operation technology. it has really laid a precious foundation for the future development of this brewing technique in the East.

It can be seen that hand-brewed coffee has a long history, and we are actually tasting the precipitation of years when we taste its mellow taste.

The unique charm of hand-brewed coffee

In order to fully understand the inherent charm of hand-made coffee, we interviewed Fan Yiming, a barista in the lobby bar of the four Seasons Hotel in Tianjin. His participation made the interview both professional and artistic. Mr. Fan believes that the important thing that distinguishes hand-brewed coffee from other coffee is that it truly embodies the essence of coffee beans, which gives customers' taste buds a rich taste, like a wonderful experience of going back to the origin of coffee beans. And hand-brewed coffee is made on the spot, and customers are not faced with cold machine processing, but baristas who brew for them attentively. In the brewing process, on the one hand, it shows the barista's elegant and skilled production skills, on the other hand, the barista's meticulous explanation will let the customer understand the "character" of his choice of coffee.

Lovers of hand-made coffee have a deeper understanding of this, and they will feel that it is an activity with a strong sense of ritual, which can not help but create a feeling of awe. Looking at the various utensils on the delicate coffee table is reminiscent of the popular British TV series Downton Abbey, which reflects the etiquette of the English aristocracy during George V at the beginning of the 20th century. The sense of ritual they maintain is to use behavior to remind themselves of their honor and responsibility as an aristocrat, which is different from the "ritual of life" pursued by modern people. We hope to achieve a state of serenity and peace through a small ceremony, the tangible carrier of which is a cup of brewed coffee.

Delicate and elegant utensils

Hand-made coffee is also attractive and unique in that it has a variety of utensils, and no matter what style you are, you can find your favorite one in a dazzling variety of products. Generally speaking, if you want to make a cup of coffee with pure taste, you need to prepare: electronic scales, filter paper, filter cups, hand pots, thermometers, bean grinders and other equipment. When introducing the hand-punching pot, Fan said, "We'd better choose a thin-mouth kettle to facilitate the control of water flow and direction." Of course, in addition to the thin mouth pot, there are many other styles, such as: flattened wide mouth kettle, wide mouth crane mouth pot, elephant trunk pot neck, sharp mouth crane mouth kettle and so on. In terms of material, it can be divided into glass, stainless steel, copper, silver and so on, in which stainless steel has won the favor of most people because of its good thermal insulation and easy to control temperature.

After understanding the hand pot, let's take a look at another important instrument-filter cup, the material of filter cup can be divided into ceramic, glass, copper, resin these categories, for beginners can try Carita WAVE filter cup, its flat bottom, will make coffee powder at the same height in the filter cup, even if you can not control the flow of water, you can also make the coffee taste balanced. Melita, the above-mentioned inventor of hand coffee, whose company also makes filter cups, has become the most popular automatic American coffee filter machine in the United States after a long period of modification.

Exquisite method of brewing

Before the formal brewing begins, Mr. Fan prefers different varieties of beans in fine hand-brewed coffee to coffee powder. Of course, the main hit is "Blue Mountain one". Blue Mountain Coffee from Jamaica has always been famous for its quality crown. The reason why it is called Blue Mountain one is that it is divided into NO.1, NO.2 and NO.3 from high to low quality. The selection of this coffee is made of the top No.1, the coffee bean itself exudes elegant fruit aroma, the entrance is delicate and smooth like old Pu'er, Yu Yun Hui Gan lips and teeth stay fragrant. The most domineering coffee, Hushan Mantenin, comes from Sumatra, Indonesia, and gets its name because tigers often haunt the plantation. Its inherent flavors of cocoa, cigars and spices are lightly roasted, giving this coffee a heavy tone. If this is your first time to try hand-brewed coffee, it is recommended that you choose Brazilian sun pectin, which is the most balanced coffee with the sour and sweet taste of Brazilian tangerine and no strong bitterness for public consumption.

Next, enjoy the on-the-spot brewing. After simple preparation, pour hot water from 88 to 92 degrees Celsius in the pot by hand from the center of the coffee powder on the filter paper. This step is similar to the sobering step in tasting red wine. After half a minute, start adding water for the second time. When the trickle hits the coffee powder again, the rich aroma is instantly released like a graceful fairy walking past you in the forest. Continue to brew coffee for about a minute and a half after adding to 240 milliliters, and finally let the coffee taste evenly when all the coffee liquid is dripped and shaken. Barista Fan's production is not only very enjoyable, but also makes people want to make it at home. In fact, hand-made coffee is slowly changing the way we socialize.

Update the way you socialize

In the coffee shop, every hand barista is a craftsman with special skills. They incorporate their understanding of coffee into their works, and customers taste the "taste" formed by their long training.

When we make something with our own hands, it must be endowed with emotion, and it is most obvious in cuisine. In the movie "Dietetic Men and Women", a dinner is used as a bond between father and daughter. Nowadays, we use "hand-made coffee" as a bridge of communication and act as a social catalyst. Friendship developed from a common hobby is by no means an act of haste. Huang Lei wrote in a book to his daughters, "Friendship is a collection, which is not from the collection itself, but by your approval and love; friendship is the support in our lives, some visible, some in the bottom of our hearts." In the moment when we share coffee, we get a kind of emotional pleasure, sensory enjoyment, spiritual relaxation, and physical and mental warmth.

The simpler and simpler your life is, the harder it is to achieve, but you might as well take advantage of the weekend to find a coffee shop for a romantic encounter with hand-brewed coffee, or make a brew at home to entertain a group of friends. No matter how busy life is, we should not ignore and despise ourselves, but should spoil and cherish ourselves.