What temperature should I use to brew coffee?
A comfortable environment without loud human voices, accompanied by quiet music, enjoy a cup of coffee and read a book. Or chat face-to-face with friends, discuss business with business partners, more and more people like to go to coffee shops. With the gradual integration of coffee into people's lives, more people have learned about coffee.
Many people have also begun to brew coffee by themselves, and are willing to learn and understand coffee. Today, I want to talk with you about the abstract factors of coffee flavor and temperature.
When we usually drink water or beverages, it is either room temperature or warmer, or iced. The tastes are all very different. Even coffees at different temperatures have different flavors and textures. How can we taste coffee at different temperatures? Or what temperature should I use to brew it?
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The coffee itself has certain requirements on the temperature. If the temperature exceeds 93°C, there will be over-extraction, resulting in the flavor of black coffee. The water temperature during hand brewing is about 83°C-95°C. If the water temperature is lower than 83°C, the extraction of coffee powder will be insufficient. Therefore, it is divided into three intervals at 83-95 °C, which are explained separately below.
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Low temperature: 83°C-87°C: Use such warm water to brew, only the shallow taste of coffee can be brewed, such as obvious sour taste can be brewed out, if you like a slightly sour taste, you can brew it with warm water your favorite flavor.
Medium temperature: 88℃-91℃: This temperature of coffee will release the taste elements in the middle layer of coffee, such as the bitter and sweet taste of caramel, but this taste will not only cover the sour taste, so it will taste the sweet and sour taste If you prefer this kind of mixed flavor in the middle, it may be worth a try.
High temperature: 92°C-95°C: release more flavor (deeper) of coffee, such as the caramel bitter sweetness at medium temperature will turn into carbon taste, the coffee at this time is more bitter, and the caramel taste is also Fully released, the sweetness outweighs the sourness.
Since the water temperature during extraction is generally between 85°C and 95°C, the temperature of the water produced is generally between 60°C and 75°C. When drinking black coffee, as long as it is not hot, the higher the water temperature, the better.So to make good coffee, you must maintain a suitable temperature.Slightly sweet, high temperature hand brewing is recommended, because the coffee tastes sour when it is cold, especially the sour taste is the heaviest. The brewed coffee is generally around 83°C. After pouring it into the cup, it will drop again until it is drunk in the mouth. At this time, the temperature is about 65°C, which is also the best time for the coffee flavor. When the temperature drops to 50°C, some people will choose to reheat, but this is not recommended because it will destroy the flavour structure of the coffee.
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Also regarding the grind of the coffee, the finer the grind, the more surface area. Contact with water will also dissolve more components.
To brew a good cup of coffee, the particles of coffee powder are larger than that of espresso. If it is too fine, it will be over-extracted, it will be dissolved with impurities, and the taste will be slightly bitter, making the aroma of the coffee blurred and discordant. As for the particle size of the powder, it depends on the size of the hand brewer, the amount of brewing (water) and the method of filtration.
Having said that, the question of temperature is still a little abstract, because no one uses a temperature measurer when making a cup of coffee. It not only increases the complexity of production, but also disrupts the rhythm. All in all, it takes a little practice to brew good coffee.