COFFEE BREWING [WITH CHANHO HONG]
Filter coffee has been gradually
nothing except the coffee itself
becoming one of the major trends
and water. However, nowadays, it
in the specialty coffee industry. At
is more popular and easier to grab
some points, it looks like a very
a cup of filter coffee, whether it
Asian thing because it is slow,
is batch brew, which is a kind of
As the quality of coffee gets more
crafty and needs a dedication to
machine brewed coffee, or a pour-
important, baristas are always
brewing. However, it is totally not
over, which is a manually extracted
required to understand what
like that. The approach to brewing
filter coffee by a barista. This new
the key factors of brewing are.
coffee is almost like science. Not
trend pushes the boundary of the
Although there are a number of
only do we taste the brewed
coffee industry to bring a more
different variables affecting the
coffee to evaluate the cup, but also
unique characteristic flavour of
cup, I would like to simplify them
we seriously measure various data
specialty coffee, giving baristas the
to three key factors.
to understand the things behind
opportunity to start a conversation
the numbers and to maintain the
with customers through the flavour
quality of the cup we have been
of coffee, not just talking about
producing.
ordinary things. As the industry
For a better brewing of coffee, we
has been moving forward, general
need to first understand the coffee
6~7 years ago in Australia, there
consumers are slowly getting to
itself. It really matters where it is
were not many cafes doing filter
know what the flavour of specialty
from, what the variety is, how it
coffee or batch brew or a similar
coffee is, the difference between
is cultivated and processed, how
type of coffee which contains
the origins and what is good and
it is roasted and even how long
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what is bad in coffee quality.
KEY FACTORS OF BREWING
Understanding Coffee
