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What is Coffee Brewing?
If you enjoy great Coffee, you probably know that
you can brew a great cup of coffee in the comfort
of your home, for less than what you spend at a
coffee shop. Owing to the lockdown phase, home
brewing of coffee has become the next favorite
thing and as a result we can see Dalgona Coffee
doing rounds all around. It doesnt require any
expensive equipment but just a few simple
techniques that can greatly enhance the taste of
your coffee. Following are few tips and tricks to
improve your home brewed coffee-
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Choice of Beans- Beans are the most important
and most misunderstood part of the entire coffee
tale. Most people would buy any coffee beans from
any random grocery store, without thinking about
how recently they were roasted. Freshly roasted
coffee contains numerous aromatic compounds. So,
the older the beans are, the less flavored the
coffee is. So, for a better experience for your
taste buds, choose freshly roasted beans. Beans
roasted atleast 2-4 weeks ago, can be considered
as freshly roasted. Roasting date is usually
listed on the coffee beans package at the back of
it. Avoid using the coffee with no date of
roasting mentioned.
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Proper Grinding- You should definitely be
grinding your beans yourself, if you can because
we want to preserve the freshness as much as we
can and post grinding the coffee starts to lose
its freshness much more quickly than before. This
is mainly due to the exposure to atmosphere at
that point. So, the two factors that you really
need to consider while grinding your coffee are,
to grind it fresh ideally before you brew the
coffee and to achieve a consistent grind size,
which means that all the grounded coffee should
be approx. the same size. Using a coffee grinder,
preferably a burr grinder will help you great way
to achieve the same. These grinders consists of
structure called burrs, through which the coffee
runs through while grinding and results into
almost equal sizes. While choosing between
electric and handheld buzz grinder, choose a
handheld grinder will be budget friendly and will
give you a great grinding quality. It only takes
30-50 seconds to grind your coffee beans for 1-2
servings.
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Brewing- There are various methods to brew a
coffee and depending upon what taste, texture and
qualities you're looking for , you can brew your
coffee accordingly. However, make sure that
before brewing the coffee, you use a scale to
measure the amount of water and coffee. The ratio
of coffee to water will help you determine how
strong or light the end product would be. Using a
scale for brewing will also make your coffee the
right amount of delicious. Various brewing
methods are pour over, French press, hot brew and
the cold brew method. Each of these uses diff
concentration and amount of water, different
amounts of and differently grinded coffee beans.
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