As American’s taste pallets change and become more demanding for better quality tastes, a surge of gourmet products have gained the spotlight. Iced coffee is one of these specialty treats in which the demand keeps rising, especially during the summer time. According to the National Coffee Association, the percentage of Americans who drink iced coffee increased 9% from the year 2003 to 2004. But how does one make iced coffee like the coffee shops? If you have not tried to make it yourself without proper direction, consider yourself lucky, as most people give up because the quality of home made iced coffee is no where near comparable to that of a coffee shop’s. In this article, we will write about three easy methods to use to produce great, coffee shop tasting iced coffee at home.
Important For All Methods It is important that for all the methods listed below that you use dark roasted coffee beans to make your iced coffee.
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When one makes a cup of drip coffee, it is easy to figure out how this machine brews the coffee. Water is pumped from a reservoir into the coffee grounds. This water is then filtered by a paper (or gold) filter and drips in to the carafe. The carafe is sat on a heated plate, which in turn heats up the coffee within the carafe and we have coffee!
Espresso on the other hand is a different beast. Being able to compact the equivalent of one cup of coffee into one shot of espresso requires a different brewing mechanism.
The Basics of Espresso
Espresso machines need the coffee to be ground much finer than the grind of drip coffee. The ground coffee should look and feel like sugar. But be careful: coffee which is grinded too fine will cause the espresso to come out slowly. This results in a bitter cup of espresso.
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