When Coffee Meets Music

Because of the 90th birthday of NCHU, Coffee Club and Stringed Music Club had held an activity to celebrate it and let more people knew both of clubs. I’m one of coffee club members and I thought the event of the night was interesting and meaningful.

We had prepared it for about a month and all of us were looking forward to it because it was a way for us to show how and what we learned in the club and we can earn some money by the way.







We sold hot coffee such as Blue Mountain and Mocha and flavor coffer like Iced Mocha, Latte, Autumn snow, and Emerald Forest. Although it was really tired of holding an event, it’s fun to prepare for it with many friends. We can make friends here, learned some skills of selling during the process, and urged ourselves to improve our skill of making coffee.







Many people will feel relax when listening to the wonderful music with coffee fragrance, and it will be better if you had one to enjoy. If you won’t been bothered by the caffeine, a cup of hand-made hot coffee can be with you all night through.
Although it was a little bit cold that night, many people especially students liked to order flavor coffee which is sweeter and prettier than hot ones. However, many adults would order black coffee.







We also met out professors here. It seemed that they enjoyed the atmosphere here with our coffee. If you missed the event, don’t worry, we will have another activity in December. Give yourself a chance to relax with my favorite coffee and music, you will find the amazing when they meet each other.

Crush on Percolator!!!

Today I’m going to introduce you another appliance to make coffee- Percolator. It’s not so common comparing to Syphon because of complication, but it is an interesting tool.

Preparation:
A cooper teapot (on the right side)
A filter (the white one)
A little pot (under the filter)
A whiskey glass (in front of the cooper teapot*1)
A thermograph
A piece of filter paper
Coffee powder (*2)
Hot water

First, we have to make sure our applications are put at right place. Put the filter paper on the filter and wet it with hot water. It is an important step because hot water can wash some chemical material of the filter paper that it won’t affect the flavor of coffee. Also, it won’t be over extracted if we use the wet filter paper.

Second, put coffee powder in the filter, and remember to shake it slightly to make the powder flat. At this time, ready to add water! However, before we add water in, we have to make sure the temperature of the water. The best water to make coffee is at 85 degrees and that’s the reason why the big coffee chin store uses 85 as part of the sign name.

Third, the key point of tasty coffee is water, we add water small to large. Initially, put water in the middle of powder and make circles from inside to outside. Furthermore, make about 15 circles in the first, 10 in the second, 9 in the third, 8 in the last, but it is just an approximate number.

This is finished one and I recommend that sway it softly to make it well mixed because the upper coffer is thicker. It’s easy to make coffee by percolator but it’s hard to make it good taste because there are too many factors will affect the flavor. Anyway, I like it much more than Syphon because it is more challenge.

*1 Actually, I do not mention it in the context but we sure have to use it when we make coffee. The whiskey glass is used to let the filter put on because when the coffee is enough we can’t let it continuously extract on the little pot. As a result, we can put it on the whiskey glass. The reason why not to let it extract when we don’t add water is that the coffee flavor is not so good at that time.

*2 Today’s coffee beans: Panama Finca Lerida Washed SHB
This one has chocolate, flower, grease fragrance in dry powder. When you drink it you can taste light lemon sour, sweet tea, chocolate.

Actually, there are many different ways to use percolator. Here is another way to make coffee by percolator, if you are interesting in it you can ask me!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mq--Ln1NLpY