Percolation
Also known as: percolating
In short
Percolation means letting liquid run through a bed of solids until it picks up aroma. The principle behind your morning coffee and the base of many coffee drinks. We explain the difference to maceration and infusion.
In depth
What is percolation?
Percolation means letting a liquid run through a bed of solids so that it picks up aroma and character on the way. You know the classic example from your morning: hot water runs through the ground coffee and comes out as coffee. In the bar this principle hides in every espresso that ends up in a drink.
Steep or pass through?
The difference to maceration lies in the direction: with maceration, as in our entry of the same name, the solid sits in the liquid and steeps, with percolation the liquid runs through the solid. "Maceration makes the patience, percolation makes the pass."
The cold sibling
Infusion has its own entry as well: coffee set up cold steeps for hours instead of running through hot, and that way becomes an infusion. Run through hot means percolation, fast and intense.
Remember this one
"Maceration makes the patience, percolation makes the pass."
At our lounge
Coffee and cocktails are cousins: ask us for drinks with espresso in the game.