Ice coffee in Japan Culture

Ice coffee current to use the coffee beans that have been roasted in the ice coffee. The deep roasted, finely ground medium to good. It is said that Arabica beans are also suitable. Cream down phenomenon cloudy white with crystallization tannins combined with caffeine Reducing gradually the temperature of hot coffee occurs. Therefore, after the extracted coffee, is how to reduce, poured onto ice, cool rapidly is good. If you are cool and poured into ice, the taste becomes thinner ice merges, it is preferable to make the coffee taste of dark in the lot the amount of flour minus the beans. If it is to make such a drink bar, in the machine, it is set to dark coffee out in advance in many cases. Also, it can be made even with the instant coffee, but whether soluble in cold water, in some cases it is different depending on the product, it was dissolved in hot water a small amount of good flavor.

The ice to be used for iced coffee, there is such as those made ​​by hardening the iced coffee crushed ice More info, or ice block,. Some of the shops that use the ice block, few bubbles, there is also a shop that stick to hard ice. By the ice melts over time, coffee would generate dilute, but if you use the ice frozen iced coffee, the concentration of coffee does not change even when melted. In addition, since there is a product that is wrapped in glass refrigerant, concentration does not change even using such things. Is not used for normal, slightly soluble sugar or granular solid, to use the gum syrup.

Ice coffee is drunk in favor in the summer in Japan, but the country hot climate, for example, Chile and Israel Saudi Arabia and South America in the Middle East, the Philippines in Southeast Asia, Thailand and Vietnam, etc., is one of the drinks very popular from the previous, it is drunk all year round. Because it was not drunk too much conventional United States, the United Kingdom, in such as France, drinks belief, that iced coffee and that worldwide, of Hawaii in the United States, Japanese ignorant to ice coffee situation of the rest of the overseas, it it there often are described as did not exist in the Waikiki area other than a lot of Japanese tourists.

Water extraction out without using hot water requires a few hours, but can be made at home, such as bottles. There are a method to put put the flour minus the beans in water, is a way to drip water into the powder minus the beans. The former's possible a simple instrument, and to use special tools often the latter. Dutch coffee See also.