1/6/2024 0 Comments Flavoured nice shot![]() Until then, we’re on two-way Extraction Street! ![]() Then once you’re all over it, I’ll be adding a layer of complexity that rounds everything out. A street where we always try to steer the coffee towards the middle avoiding both over and under-extraction.įor the next two Hustles, this simple analogy will be enough. Most people understand extraction as a two-way street. Under-extraction tastes terrible as well (more on this in a moment). We also can’t just use more coffee grinds and extract less of them to avoid those over-extracted flavours. Not all of the coffee’s flavours are good, so we have to control the amount of flavour that we extract in order to make a palatable cup. Unfortunately, this results in a terribly bitter and awful cup of coffee. In an ideal world, we’d crush the coffee into an extremely fine powder, throw water at it and dissolve all of its delicious flavours. It crushes the beans into a powder, exponentially increasing their surface area and allowing the water to do its work. This is achieved rather handily by the use of a coffee grinder. To help, we have to increase the surface area of the coffee beans we need to ‘open them up’ so the water can easily get at all of the flavour. This is because the coffee bean’s structure is incredibly dense and complex water can’t just pass through and collect all the flavour on its way. If you throw a handful of coffee beans in hot water, you don’t extract much more than the outside layer. Water is pretty good at dissolving those soluble chemicals, but it needs help. The rest is pretty much cellulose and plant stuff that forms the structure of the seed. This means that you can extract ~28% of the coffee bean’s mass in water. Roasted coffee beans are ~28% (by weight) water-soluble. This is mostly very very small coffee grinds that affect mouthfeel, but can’t be included in extraction because they’re just floating around in the water. These dissolved flavours make up (almost) everything you taste when you drink a cup of coffee. ![]() The most relevant and easy to understand of all these things is that water dissolves a lot of coffee’s flavours. When you mix coffee and water, a lot of things happen. I want to communicate useful and relevant information, like how to taste extraction and how to manipulate it. It’s pretty easy to sum up, but a lot more difficult to understand and apply.įor now, I don’t want to delve into fats and lipids and the micro-componentry of extraction. Without extraction, you don’t even get a cup of coffee. Here’s my super simple and not 100% accurate definition: Extraction is everything that the water takes from the coffee. That means you can pour as slowly and smoothly as you want.This post will cover some basic extraction theory and the tastes associated with over, under and ideal coffee extractions.Įxtraction is arguably the most important and least understood aspect of coffee brewing. Attach them to the tops of bottles, and you can easily control the stream of liquid from your bottle. If you struggle with the spoon layering technique, these pourer spouts are your best friends. It has photos and detailed instructions, or a video if you prefer it. If you’ve never tried to layer a cocktail before, check out our guide to layering cocktails. So let’s get on to the main work of making this drink: layering. This is okay – it’s all about specific gravity and it’s going to taste great no matter what. Note that if you make brand substitutions, the layers might settle in a different order. That way, the ingredients of your B52 shot are all mixed together, and you can drink it nice and slow. Don’t tell anyone I said this, but you can even stir the layers after it’s been served. The delicious flavor of this drink definitely deserves savoring, nice and slow.
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