Authentic Vietnamese Coffee, Made for a Phin Filter
At Peak Flavor Coffee, we understand that every coffee maker offers its own distinct brewing method. This is why we have crafted our Phin coffee specifically for a genuine Vietnamese Phin coffee filter.
We meticulously choose a blend of naturally sweet coffee beans with a touch of Robusta beans, sourced from the Vietnamese highlands to enhance creaminess. By employing Italian-style roasting techniques with prolonged caramelization, we roast in small batches to achieve rich notes of caramel, honey, and vanilla?
We grind with accuracy to 900 microns and make sure that medium-course grind size is 98% consistent across all coffee grounds to avoid bitterness. Instead of using a conventional home coffee grinder, we use professional burr grinders, so your phin filter automatically extracts the best flavors for authentic Vietnamese coffee.
We dispatch on the roast's very day, enabling you to effortlessly brew and achieve Optimal Taste, as though you're relaxing in the highlands of Vietnam.
What are the right beans for Phin coffee?
Authentic Vietnamese coffee filters need a bean blend with Vietnamese coffee beans and some Arabica from Brazil and Honduras to yield the best taste in cold brew of Vietnamese iced coffee. Here is a little bit more detail about how we select our bland for phin coffee:
- Traditional Vietnamese coffee needs strictly high grown coffee beans, picked at peak ripeness for low acidity.
- Our blends for phin coffee contain Vietnamese high-grown robusta for more natural coffee oils and a little extra caffeine. Robusta beans are known to be richer in coffee oils, where all the best coffee flavors are stored. Robusta beans from the mountain regions in Vietnam (such as dak lak) contain twice the caffeine levels as compared to standard arabica beans.
- We always include some naturally sweet arabica beans, ideally grown at high altitudes for more natural coffee sugars such as fructose.
What is the right roast for Phin coffee?
from the many different coffee roasting techniques, we employ traditional Italian coffee roasting, also when we design coffee for a phin coffee filter. Here is how we roast for Phin coffee:
- Small batch, Slow roast for caramel vanilla and honey note. Just like the perfect Phin coffee brew takes patience and time, the perfect roast for Phin coffee takes about twice as long as the average industrial drip coffee roast that you’ll find on the grocery shelf. The extra time in a small batch, slow roast develops sugars in the beans into rich natural caramel, vanilla and honey flavors.
- Medium dark is best for a Phin filter. At Peak Flavor, we stay away from blond or light roasts because there is just not enough time to caramelize the natural sugars if your roast is light. Especially when you make Vietnamese iced coffee, use a medium dark roast for natural sweetness and abundant coffee intensity.
What are the right grinds for Phin coffee?
The key to Phin-tastic Vietnamese coffee is a consistant roast. Find out what coffee grounds we use for Phin-ominal phin coffee:
- Coffee grounds for a phin filter should have 900 microns with 98% accuracy or consistency to get the right coffee strength without bitterness
- The Coffee Brewing Chart as published in 1963 indicates that small variations in coffee grounds consistency can have a big negative impact on coffee taste. Coffee scientists report that only 2% inconsistency can lead to bitterness. Reaching this type of grind accuracy and grind consistency with a conventional home coffee grinder is impossible. Only a Professional burr grinder can achieve the consistency required of perfect coffee grounds for a Vietnamese Phin coffee filter.
- A Phin coffee maker can only extract enough coffee strength from coffee grinds sized 900 microns. Coffee strength and intensity is needed, especially when you make Vietnamese iced coffee with condensed milk and ice. Without enough strength, you’ll be tasting a lot of water and little coffee.
A fresh brew vs a fresh roast
It's impossible to brew a good cup of coffee at home with an old roast. Here is how we make sure you get a fresh roast when you order your phin coffee:
- Brewing good Vietnamese Phin coffee is impossible without a fresh roast. A roast is fresh when the coffee was roasted within the past 8 days. Research by the national coffee association indicates that coffee reaches its best or peak flavor on day 8 after roasting. A fresh brew requires a fresh roast.
- You can recognize a fresh roast when you see abundant bloom as you pour hot water on the bed of coffee grinds in your phin. Fresh roasted coffee contains some gases, which escape as soon as you slowly pour water on the coffee grounds. coffee degases or loses its gases during the first week after roasting which explains why old coffee grounds do not have bloom.
How to make authentic Vietnamese iced coffee?
Brewing best iced coffee requires a little guidance on how to make Vietnamese coffee. Preparing a Vietnamese coffee with a Phin filter dripping away on condensed (caramelized) milk yields an iced coffee of the quality you only find in a phin cafe. Here are some tips on making the best iced coffee:
- Utilize a genuine Phin filter: Authentic Phin coffee filters from Vietnam are essential for brewing authentic Vietnamese coffee. Thus, prior to beginning, acquire a coffee filter manufactured in Vietnam. We recommend Thank Long's apparatus, but other brands can also suffice.
- Use Phin coffee grounds with consistent (98%) accuracy (900 microns), to get the coffee strength you need for authentic Vietnamese iced coffee with condensed milk and abundant ice. To enable your phin coffee filter to draw out the genuine taste of Vietnamese coffee, utilize precision-ground coffee, customized to optimize your phin cafe experience.
- Utilize coffee that has been roasted within the last 8 days: Coffee achieves its optimal or Peak Flavor approximately 8 days post-roasting. For effortlessly deriving the genuine taste of Vietnamese iced coffee from your phin, opt for a roast that showcases the roast date on the package's front for optimal results.
Regardless of whether you utilize your brew for hot coffee or for Vietnamese iced coffee served over ice, allow it to rest for a few minutes prior to stirring. This lets the coffee blend with condensed milk and evolve flavors of caramel, vanilla, and honey.
Disover our phin coffee collection and enjoy a summer afternoon sipping on vietnamese iced coffee as if you are in a phin cafe.
Phin Coffee Hugs,
Melicent
Peak Flavor Coffee
