Excerpts from "How to Brew Great Tasting Coffee."
Key Items for Great Tasting Coffee include:
Coffee:
- Use FRESH Beans!
- Limit exposure to oxygen, light, heat and mositure.
- Buy only as much coffee as you’ll need in a week
- Grind just before brewing
- Store beans in an airtight container kept in a cool, dark, dry place.
Equipment: Clean and Calibrated
Grind:
- FRESH! Grind beans just before brewing
- Use a fine grind for short brewing processes (drip)
- Use a coarse grind for long processes such as percolated (not recommended)
Storage:
- Brewed coffee should be used right away or transfered to an airtight thermal carafe
- "Cooking" the brewed coffee on a hot plate to keep it warm in an open glass container should be avoided.. This rules out most low cost coffee makers.
Water:
- Use fresh, impurity-free water (filtered) water
- Heat water temperature to just off a boil (195°-205° F)
- If the water is too hot, then bitter oils are extracted from the bean.
- If the water is too cold, then not enough of the good oils are extracted from the beans.
FRESH!
- Did I mention using FRESH beans ground just before use?
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2 comments:
Good article.
No mention of a permanent gold filter?
I used to use Gold Filters but they waste so much water trying to clean and I wondered about dishwasher soap and food residue effecting the taste if you use the dishwasher.
I found the unbleached brown paper filters at Trader Joes are not supposed to add chemical taste and I believe the coffee shops use unbleached paper filters too. I sure feel better not wasting so much water.
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