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Vietnamese Drip Coffee and Vietnamese Dropping Coffee – Kopi luwak

Visitors to coffee shops in Vietnam know that Vietnamese-style coffee is sweet, unique and delicious. Our coffee supplier, Weasel Premium Vietnamese Weasel Coffees, based in San Franciso and Hanoi, has become world-famous for its fine coffees. The traditional Vietnamese metal coffee filters, or phin, are also becoming more widely available outside Vietnam. Now, everyone has the opportunity to brew their own cup of Vietnamese coffee at home.

At its simplest, Cà Phê Sữa Đá is made with finely ground Vietnamese-grown dark roast coffee individually brewed with a small metal Vietnamese drip filter (Cà Phê pha phin) into a cup containing ½ sweetened-condensed milk, stirred and poured over ice.

The small metal phin filter looks like a tiny cup and saucer. This is a three or four-piece item, consisting on the filter body itself, a metal Saucer that sits on top of the coffee cup, a press to tamp the coffee, and a lid to cover the phin

Following the Coffee phin instruction from weaselcoffees.com will help you produce a great cup of coffee!

How to Make Vietnamese Coffee

1. Put 2-3 teaspoons or rounded tablespoon of coarsely-ground coffee (about 20 grams) into the Vietnamese coffee maker filter body.
2. Gently shake the coffee to level it, then insert the press and tamp the coffee lightly. Leave the tamping device in place.
3. Pre-heat the cup with boiling water and sit the cup spanner or saucer on top of the empty cup. Sit the coffee filter chamber on the saucer.
4. Pour just 20 ml of boiling water into the filter and leave it until the coffee has absorbed the water. This is the secret step! If all the water is simply poured straight in, weak coffee will flow through the filter with lots of grounds. By allowing the coffee to swell and absorb the small amount of water first, a good cup is assured.
5. Once the first 20 ml of water has been absorbed, fill the chamber with boiling (not just hot) water and put the lid on to retain heat. Be prepared to wait 4-6 minutes for the water to drain through. Lift the unit to check after 3-4 minutes. You will have a great cup of weasel coffee after all water has been absorbed through coffee in the phin.

Enjoy !