How to make barista styled coffee

How to make barista styled coffee? From the aromatic smell to that delicious first sip, nothing beats a fresh cup of coffee in the morning. Whether you’re looking to brew your coffee at home or want to upgrade your office caffeine routine, you don’t need a barista to make an incredible brew. With the right tools and ingredients, you can create café-worthy coffee drinks at any time!

Ready to learn how to make barista styled coffee? We’ll show you six unique ways to brew those beans and introduce you to flavour-boosting coffee additives so you can tailor the perfect drink for your taste buds.

TIPS FOR MAKING THE BEST COFFEE

Fine-tune your process for making hot coffee to banish bitterness, improve ingredients and adjust measurements so you can enjoy a better, more flavorful cup. Level up your coffee-making skills with these pro tips:

• Buy fresh coffee beans: The best coffee starts with choosing the best beans. Avoid inexpensive bulk options sitting for weeks on shelves at the supermarket. Try to buy fresh beans from trusted, quality-conscious providers to guarantee you’re brewing the most flavorful coffee available. Light and oxygen exposure deteriorates coffee quality, so make sure you buy beans professionally packaged in light-blocking, vacuum-sealed bags.

• Choose high-quality coffee: Flavorful Arabica is generally considered the better quality bean, while Robusta offers higher caffeine content but a harsher finish. Great blends harness the best characteristics of both. Different roasting methods will affect the taste, too. To pick the best coffee for you or your employees, research flavour preferences. Choose premium beans and ground coffee from trusted brands and your coffee drinkers will keep coming back for more!

• Grind your beans: Coffee quality starts to diminish almost immediately after grinding. The best-tasting coffee drinks are crafted from beans ground right before brewing. Use a quality burr grinder to control the particle size. Choose the grind size based on your desired drink — coarse for French Press, medium for pour-overs and fine for espresso. Generally speaking, finer ground coffee yields the most flavour.

• Store coffee properly: The best way to guarantee freshness is to choose prepackaged coffee solutions measured for your machine and specific brew needs — whether it’s a single cup or brew for the entire office’s afternoon coffee break. Contrary to popular belief, you should never freeze or refrigerate ground coffee. Store them in an opaque, airtight container at a cool room temperature to keep coffee beans and grounds fresh after opening.

• Check your water quality: Every cup of coffee starts with two components — coffee beans and water. While the beans are important, water quality is often overlooked and affects the flavour outcome more than most people realize. Chlorinated, softened and unfiltered tap water can ruin an otherwise fine brew, and distilled water strips away minerals necessary for good taste. Coffee connoisseurs only use bottled spring water and filtered water.

• Select better quality filters: Those standard inexpensive coffee filters might not be such a great bargain if they reduce the quality of your brew. Switching to better-quality oxygen-bleached and dioxin-free paper filters can elevate your coffee’s flavour. Serious coffee drinkers swear by gold-plated stainless steel mesh filters known for delivering maximum taste, but they sometimes let sediment through if the ground coffee is too fine.

• Measure the correct amount of coffee: Using 2 tablespoons of coffee for every 6 ounces of water isn’t always the best ratio. Because coffee types have different sizes and densities, a tablespoon of one kind of ground coffee might weigh less than another, so use a scale for precision. The more coffee you add to water, the stronger the flavour intensity, so experiment with adjusted ratios to find what works for your favourite drink.

• Use the right water temperature: If you’ve ever brewed top-notch beans and experienced a bitter aftertaste, the water temperature was the likely culprit. Because too-hot water extracts bitter compounds, most coffees should be brewed between 195 and 205 degrees Fahrenheit. Good coffee machines can automatically regulate temperature, but if you’re manually pouring, let the boiling water cool to the appropriate temperature before adding it.

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