Today a new sensation is sweeping through the cafes of the world- filter brew. But does filter coffee live up to the hype?
If you can choose a fresh espresso, or cafe lungo or americano, it is superior for experiencing the coffee bean in it’s optimal expression.
Who would filter coffee bean good for? Church functions, office parties, etc. and for nostalgic purposes.
If you want to experience a coffee in the most ideal way, it espresso, because fresh steam extracted coffee aka espresso is a fresh extract in the most true sense of the word: fresh. Fresh crushed, fresh brewed. The older the bean, the more stale. The more time the voletile oils are allowed to sit in the hot water after brewing, the more denatured they will be. As filter coffee is dripping through a paper filter- right there the filter adds or rather reduces the flavor of the coffee- so not ideal for the coffee purist. While there may be cold extraction and glass distilation methods which some prefer- the paper filter automatically produces an inferior coffee due to the paper, and because the beans used in filter drip and espresso and derived beverages- uses the premium most ripe heavy red coffee beans on the plantation. Here again the filter coffee aka drip coffee is the suboptimal choice. Therefore logically in most cases in a decision between filter and espresso coffee- always espresso based for the best taste. Naturally it is possible for preference to vary, and for individual reasons anyone may contest my assertion that espresso is best as it captures the purest freshest flavor of the best beans.
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