“We have all these great tasting notes in these great coffees, so how can you complement them without milk? The second you get a group of baristas excited about creating something like that, you’ll get things coming out of your shop that you would’ve never thought of.” “It’s that fun challenge of creating something that hasn’t been done before,” says Jeremy Behne, director of coffee at 42 & Lawrence, a coffee lab created by Larry’s Coffee in Raleigh, North Carolina.īehne loves using sparkling water to complement the flavors in coffee. Sparkling Ahead Of The Crowdįor some shops, the complexity of sparkling drinks is part of the allure. But when planned well and incorporated into a cafe menu, sparkling drinks can capture the attention of potential customers no matter the season. Special equipment and ingredients are often needed, as well as an understanding of the processes behind creating sparkling drinks, whether at the foundational level of recipe creation or at a more niche level of cleaning kegerator equipment. Sparkling, fizzy, and bubbly drinks-be they beverages made with actual sparkling water or carbonated with a keg or nitro system-are incredibly popular, but they’re not always simple to make. “Our signature drinks became, ‘Oh, this is the coffee shop that makes those crazy cocktail drinks.’” “We weren’t expecting our signature drinks to take off and define us as much as they do,” says Christos Andrews, co-owner and coffee/beverage director at Ghost Note. And then the more I explored the brew method, the more I was like, beyond efficiency, this is just one of the tastiest ways to make coffee that I know of.At Seattle’s Ghost Note Coffee, 90 percent of the photos customers share online feature signature drinks with sparkling or tonic water. It started as a way just to be efficient, to be totally honest with you.
“The acidity tends to be really nice and juicy, and I just love how as it cools the sweetness develops in a really nice way. “We have pressure transducers on the pump that restrict the flow almost in the way that a Slayer does,” Andrews said of the modification he uses to the generate cups, which he described as having flavor clarity on par with top-of-the-line Fetco batch brew but more body and sweetness. Using a customized Unic Stella di Café espresso machine that was tweaked by the manufacturer in collaboration with Andrews, the owner/barista sends 203.5-degrees-Farenheit water at 5.5 bars of pressure through EK43-ground coffee at a 13:1 ratio over the course of 90 seconds using auto-volumetric controls, dialed in for an extraction yield of 19-20 percent, which he confirms with a scale and refractometer for each new coffee.
“I’ve been working on our specific method of it for probably close to two years now,” Ghost Note Coffee owner Christos Andrews recently told Daily Coffee News. While these concepts are entirely different, it nevertheless makes sense that a new shop in Seattle serves brewed coffees solely by way of coffee shots, and very enthusiastically. Similarly, a ghost note flies in the face of what most people understand about music a musical note, annotated on the staff, yet played so softly as not have any discernible pitch.
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The method’s pioneer, Matt Perger, said so himself in the manual he wrote that was published by Mahlkonig about four years ago. Coffee shots fly in the face of the specialty coffee industry’s accepted brewing practices.
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