Sunday, 3 July 2016

Only Make Use Of The Nicest Home Brew Ingredients

By Douglas Scott


The heart of any home is the aroma of freshly brewed morning coffee coming from your kitchen. So try to ensure that the first smells to hit the rest of your house are the best ones you can make. They always say the best cup of the day is the first, and that requires quality home brew ingredients.

You all know that the key to good coffee is the base ingredient, the bean. Without the basic raw material, you would have no end result. So don't consider buying the ground mix, always start with the full roasted bean. Decide whether you prefer the Robust flavor, or the musical aroma. This will determine the choice between the Coffee Robust, or the Coffee Arabica. It will also help you decide to take a light, medium or dark roast.

Your end result is totally dependent on the starting ingredients. Beans should be used within 1 month of their roasting date. Don't buy product that has no roasting date on the packaging material. This could be extremely old material.

It is about personal taste and smell. Both blends have beans available that have been fired for longer and on a higher heat, determining whether you are using a light or dark roast. Caffeine content in the darker roast is generally less.

When your water is at the correct temperature for the coffee making process, ensure that you leave the grinds to infuse correctly, to absorb the water and take the fullness of the flavor into your cup as you pour it. Water that is too hot, will burn your coffee and taint the taste.

When the brewing process is complete you are ready to pour your cup, adding milk or cream, with sugar, syrup, or your sweetener of choice. Try not to add too much as the bitterness of the coffee is part of the pleasure.

Your Ingredients are important but if you fall on any part of the brewing process, even the most exclusive items used will not rescue the inevitable disaster that will result. A coffee too strong can be watered down, but one too weak is not saveable. By equal measure, a perfect brewing process will not bring the best cup if the contents are of inferior quality.

For Vanilla Latte, non dairy, just add a few drops of vanilla extract, if you prefer a coconut flavor, add coconut milk, but mixing the coconut milk with vanilla extract you create a vanilla homemade coffee creamer. There are many other options to create your own perfect blend, taste and texture of coffee but whatever you chose, that first cup will be perfection in liquid form.




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