Coffee Knowledge Basics: How Much Water Should You Use to Make Coffee

Coffee is familiar to Chinese people. Drinking some coffee can refresh you, and the taste is also very good. Everyone has drunk it more or less. But how can you make a cup of delicious coffee? What degree of water is suitable for making coffee? Here is a brief introduction to coffee knowledge: What degree of water is suitable for making coffee to drink delicious coffee.

The secret to a perfect brew is balancing a variety of variables, one of the most critical of which is water temperature. But water temperature is also arguably the easiest variable to control, and once you get the hang of it, you can be assured of it.

Water temperature is closely related to brewing and extraction. It not only affects the degree of extraction, but also the quality of extraction. In theory, during the entire brewing and extraction process, the temperature of the hot water in contact with the coffee powder should be maintained at 91-94°C, which is the so-called optimal extraction water temperature. If the water temperature is lower than this range, the coffee will have a more obvious sour taste; if it is higher than this range, it will have a more obvious burnt bitter taste, which means that the most appropriate extraction water temperature should be lower than the boiling point of 100°C. In other words, the term "boiling coffee" is actually a wrong term in the professional coffee system - good coffee cannot be boiled.

Of course, the optimal extraction water temperature is only an ideal range, and we still need to consider other factors in actual operation. Today, we take the cold brew coffee of "Vilavie" as an example.

Vilavie's cold brew coffee is made from high-quality Arabica coffee beans, which are extracted by vacuum freezing at -40℃. Ultra-low temperature freezing can perfectly preserve the flavor and taste of coffee, and lock in the nutrients of coffee itself. The coffee produced in this way has a rich aroma and a pure taste. Therefore, we must not destroy this aroma and taste when brewing.

When brewing, we first pour 180ml of water (85℃～90℃) into a special coffee cup, then pour a small bag of coffee into the cup, stir it gently and then enjoy it. It is worth noting that when you finish a cup of hot coffee, the temperature of the last sip of coffee should not be lower than 40℃, which is the "optimal ending temperature" or "optimal purchase temperature".

Finally, brewing coffee is not an art that can be left to personal play. It is actually a science that requires strict steps to make a delicious cup of coffee.