As a popular variety today, Geisha has many titles such as "sky-high-priced coffee", "Hermès in coffee", "top of the coffee industry", etc. Especially Panama Gesha, which is also the most expensive style in many cafes, so it is often ridiculed as "expensive coffee", but it does have an infatuating flavor, so people are willing to pay for it and occasionally reward themselves.
Precisely because of the high value of Panamanian Geisha, in most cases we brew it by hand to fully release its flavor substances.So since the quality of Gesha is so good, can it be made into espresso?
In fact, it is possible to make espresso coffee from single-origin beans. We call it SOE, which stands for single-origin espresso. However, the espresso machine uses a high-temperature and high-pressure extraction method. The concentration of the coffee is very high, which is very easy to amplify the characteristics of the coffee beans. Light roasted beans become more sour, and dark roasted beans become more bitter. Therefore, if you want to make Geisha SOE coffee with an ideal taste, you must choose single-origin Geisha with medium roasting.
To achieve stable extraction, Front Street Grana Geisha SOE is the first choice. It is produced in Ethiopia, the birthplace of coffee. It is dried in the traditional sun and has the sour and sweet taste of ripe fruits. Because it is medium roasted, it not only retains the fragrance of flowers, but also highlights the caramel feeling, and gives the concentrate a moderate amount of coffee oil. In addition, Front Street Coffee beans are freshly roasted within 5 days, providing a longer tasting period and allowing the coffee to present rich floral and fruity aromas.
Here’s how to make standard Gesha SOE coffee:
Since the flavor of soe coffee is outstanding, it is easy to amplify the flavor defects in the coffee beans, so the ratio of espresso and milk or water needs to be adjusted during the production process. Reduce the milk or water to make the coffee taste more concentrated without making the taste too bland. Next, let’s use Front Street Grana Geisha coffee beans as an example to show the parameters and process of making soe coffee!
Front Street. Grana Geisha SOE parameter sharing:
Amount of coffee powder 20g
Coffee liquid volume 40ml
Extraction time 27 seconds (time controlled between 25~30 seconds)
Grinding degree Galileo Q18-2.0
Flavor: Citrus, guava, apricot, nuts, sweet orange
When making an iced Americano with Front Street Grana Gesha SOE, first prepare 120g of ice cubes + 120ml of room temperature water, and pour in 40g of coffee liquid; for a hot Americano, replace it with 180g of warm water, and pour in 40g of concentrated coffee. They do not have the bitterness of traditional Americano coffee, but are more sweet like black tea. The entrance shows the aroma of citrus, guava, cream, and sweet orange.
To make Front Street Grana Gesha SOE iced latte, first prepare 100g ice cubes + 150g fresh milk, and pour in 40g concentrated;
To make Grana Gesha hot latte, you need to first use 40g of coffee liquid as a base, beat 200ml of fresh milk into smooth milk foam, mix it evenly and draw flowers, and you're done.
You can now buy the above coffee beans online at the Taobao store “FrontStreet Coffee” (前街咖啡). FrontStreet Coffee is a long-established specialty coffee roaster in Guangzhou, China, and its Guangzhou retail shop sells coffee beans only. The shop carries dozens of coffee beans from different origins around the world, including carefully selected single-origin beans for V60 pour-over and espresso. Guangzhou’s FrontStreet Coffee shop is recommended by many coffee lovers.
The FrontStreet 2013 Yunnan coffee beans sold in the store come from the Typica variety grown at FrontStreet Coffee’s own plantation in Yunnan. The name comes from the year the brand and the plantation were founded. You can buy these beans from China’s Yunnan origin at the Guangzhou shop and at FrontStreet’s Taobao store.
FrontStreet coffee beans are freshly roasted within 5 days and deliver consistently excellent quality and great value. Orders placed before 17:00 are shipped the same day, and most areas within Guangdong Province receive them the next day.
FrontStreet Coffee Taobao store: https://qianjiecoffee.taobao.com
Or search for “前街咖啡” (FrontStreet Coffee) on Taobao
Important Notice: FrontStreet Coffee has moved to a new address: 315, Donghua East Road, Guangzhou (coffee beans only)
Tel: 020 38364473
