Filter Kaffee
This writing
was made for enhancing the knowledge about coffee notably for the baristas
steeping into the world of manual brewing. There are many factors and there are
no right or wrong in the coffee world because it will eventually depend on
coffee lovers. However, there are several main factors to do the manual
brewing.
In this
writing, writer will discuss about brewing from the basic.
What we need
for brewing?
1.
Fresh
and good coffee
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When we start drinking and brewing
coffee, it will be good if we select a fresh coffee seed and we already know the
type of the seeds (Arabica or Robusta), how the seeds are harvested, and how those
seeds are dried.
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We can also plunge into the coffee
farms and we can get a satisfaction by sharing knowledge about how do they harvest
the coffee seeds, drying process, how do they market those seeds, and how do
they fix their life.
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From the writer’s experience, Roster
can be found almost in every big cities from the small Roster to the bigger one
that already provide all kinds of coffee from the local area to abroad. There
are also Roster or coffee shop providing 3rd-Wave-Generation from coffee.
a. Roster
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Coffee has a tons of aroma. There are
1,000 aroma that a coffee seed has and many of the customers do not know much
about this. Biology process is the first step of the roasting process and there
are a million reaction in a single process. The coffee seeds goes through a
color, shape, texture, and aroma changing. The coffee seeds that often use for
coffee filtering are bright coloring seeds. By using those seeds, we will get
an aroma, sourness, and the flavor that we want.
b. Grinder
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A grinder is a process that coffee
seeds turn smaller and be ready to use. The grinder process determines whether
the coffee that we brew will produce a nice aroma or not. We should use the
seeds right after the seeds are grinded because it will lose the 65% aroma
within 15 minutes.
2.
Water and temperature
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Water is an important element that we
use in brewing coffee. A cup of coffee actually only has 2% coffee and 98%
water. The temperature that we use for brewing coffee is 90-93 degree Celcius.
That is a standard temperature that baristas use, and the length of water and
coffee extraction depends on what type of brewing that we use.
3.
Scale and Timer
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A good coffee is a coffe that has a
right size and precision. These two elements is important for making a cup of
coffee that we want.
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Brewing coffee has a different time
length. It depends on what type of coffee that we use. The more course the
coffee seeds are grinded, the more time that we need for brewing and vice
versa. For example, the time that French Press needs is 3,5 to 4 minutes.
a. Kettle
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In manual brewing process, we have to
own a special kettle built for enriching us to do an extraction process. The
purpose of which is for us to get a perfect timing for brewing. The amount of
water and coffee have a significant influence on the result. If the extraction
process produced a big amount of water, the result will be sour. However, the
result will be bitter if the process takes a long time to produce water.
Those are the
basic things of the process of manual brewing that we need to prepare. We can
develope it along with our’s experiences and the routines because barista is
passion, love, and experience.
Stay tuned
for the next interesting writing!
