How to make a cup of hand-brewed coffee?

Nowadays, instant coffee is everywhere, and even automatic coffee machines are everywhere, but it still can't stop some people's love for hand-brewed coffee. It may be like "walk slowly and wait for your soul," enjoying the process of manually brewing coffee and pursuing inner peace.

However, the problem is that not everyone who enjoys hand-brewed coffee will brew their own coffee, and more and more questions about how to make a cup of coffee with color, aroma, and taste are flooding in. Today, we will explore together how to make a good cup of hand-brewed coffee, in-depth grasp of those hard knowledge of hand-brewed coffee, and make the most profound and rich coffee!

As the saying goes, it is hard for a skillful woman to cook without rice, so we must prepare well before making hand-brewed coffee!

1. Fresh and properly roasted coffee beans

Good coffee beans are the prerequisite for making hand-brewed coffee. Choosing coffee beans that suit your taste is the most important thing. If the coffee beans are under-roasted, they will have a bitter taste. Therefore, as a beginner, we still choose medium-dark roasted coffee beans as the best choice.

Of course, if you are already an experienced pour-over coffee drinker, then you can try to challenge yourself and try beans with a light roasting degree.

2. A high-quality coffee grinder

With coffee beans, you must master the correct degree of grinding. It is not good to grind it too fine or too coarse. Coffee beans that are too fine will taste very bitter, while coffee beans that are too coarse will taste very light. Moderate grinding can give the coffee a good taste. If you can't master the heat, try buying an automatic grinder.

If you are a person who likes to explore, try to choose a manual grinder, you can enjoy the process of adjusting the scale again and again until you are satisfied.

3. A good pour-over pot

With good ingredients, cooking tools are also very important. Similarly, with good coffee beans, don't neglect the pot for brewing coffee beans. It is not enough to be beautiful like a flower; construction and material are the key. Therefore, a fine-bore pot is the correct way for beginners to learn to brew coffee. The fine-bore pot is generally the same thickness from top to bottom, so the water flow is relatively slow, the water flow and water shape are relatively stable, and it can greatly improve the success rate of brewing delicious coffee.

Similarly, if you have been on the road of learning hand-brewed coffee for a long time and have become an advanced player, then you may not care about the crane's hand-brewed pot!

4. Practicing basic skills is the way to go.

Compared to skills, mastering basic skills such as stable water flow is the shortcut to success for beginners. Be sure to pay attention that the water column of water injection should not be too large, because it will cause insufficient coffee extraction; similarly, the water column should not be pulled too high, which is easy to cause uneven coffee extraction. Therefore, beginners must practice how to create stable water flow well!

5. Control the steeping time

The biggest difference between hand-brewed coffee and ordinary instant coffee or coffee made by automatic coffee machines is its taste. The degree to which the steeping time is controlled is very important. Generally speaking, less water is used for steeping, and the water is poured in circles from the center to the outside until the coffee powder is wet, and then let the coffee powder do its own thing. Generally speaking, the steeping time is 20-35 seconds, and the time needed is less as the beans are roasted deeper.