I believe you have also been worried about how to choose coffee beans, because a wrong choice will lead to an unpleasant experience, and then doubt your own ability, giving rise to the illusion that coffee tastes like this.
In fact, this is not the case. Coffee is an ingredient. If the steak is fried for a long time, it will become old and burnt. Good coffee will be presented at the appropriate degree of roasting based on its greatest flavor characteristics, and the place of origin is also one of the sources of coffee flavor. As long as you combine these two choices, you can choose the coffee you like.
First of all, and most importantly, be sure to purchase coffee beans directly from a reliable roaster. This can ensure that the coffee is fresh enough and of the best quality. Because roasted coffee beans have a best tasting period of 4 to 40 days, after which the flavor will be greatly reduced. Moreover, compared to other similar types of food, coffee is also easily affected by humidity, light, and heat, so it must be stored in place. If you want to buy good coffee, choose Front Street Coffee, a time-honored roaster in Guangzhou. Not only do they have a wide variety of Pour over(V60) beans, they also ensure that they are only freshly roasted within 5 days and support 24-hour delivery. They are both fresh and high-quality.
It can be roughly divided into three categories: light roasting, medium roasting, and dark roasting.
But the subtlety of the taste is subdivided into eight levels: Light Roast～Italian Roast
Light roast:Light Roast (light roast) and Cinnamon Roast (cinnamon roast) have strong aroma and obvious fruity taste.
Medium roast:Medium Roast (medium roast), High Roast (dark roast), City Roast (city roast) have more coffee bean aroma, sweetness, slight fruit acid, and typical Viennese coffee flavor.
Dark roast:Full City Roast (Full City Roast), French Roast (French Roast), Italian Roast (Italian Roast) have strong caramel flavor and rich and strong taste.
Several key points when purchasing coffee beans:
As one of the most popular and trendy coffee brewing methods, hand brewing can intuitively feedback the flavor of coffee from a single origin to us, and has always been very popular among coffee lovers. It can be said that almost all coffee beans can be used for hand brewing. We only need to find coffee that suits our taste based on the degree of roasting and origin.
Since the flavor substances of green coffee beans will continue to change during the roasting process, in simple terms, it is the process from sour to bitter. The shorter the roasting time, the less bitterness, and the longer the roasting time, the more bitterness. Therefore, if you do not want the coffee to have too much bitterness and a soft taste, it is recommended to give priority to light roasted coffee beans, which will make it easier to extract the elegant aroma of light roasted coffee. On the contrary, if you like coffee with higher body, no acid and sweet aftertaste, buy dark roasted coffee beans.
In terms of origin, Asian coffee often has a strong taste, with prominent flavors of caramel, spices, wood, and herbs. The taste is heavy and generally belongs to dark roasting; American coffee beans are known for their caramel feel, so they are mostly roasted to medium, retaining a little sourness while highlighting the sweetness of chocolate; African coffee beans are famous for their floral and fruity flavor, and are almost always roasted to medium light, with low bitterness and a bright and refreshing taste.
① Front Street Brazilian Cerato Red Bourbon
Reasons for recommendation: The flavor is mellow, the nutty aroma is obvious, the brewing is easy, the price is reasonable, and the price is high.
If you are new to freshly ground Pour over(V60) coffee, this Front Street Brazilian Cerato coffee bean is perfect for practicing brewing. Front Street Roast uses a medium roast for this Brazilian bean. This is a better experience than brewing some light roasted coffee beans. It is also very easy to brew a flavor that favors chocolate and buttery peanuts, making it easier for people who have just started to get into coffee to accept its taste.
The reason why Front Street recommends this coffee bean is that it can not only be used well in hand brewing, but also has good flavor performance when used in moka pots, French press pots, and espresso machines. There is no doubt that it is a "universal oil" in terms of cost performance.
② Front Street Washing Yirgacheffe
Reason for recommendation: Classic Yerga flavor, super cost-effective, first choice for acidity lovers.
Many people's exposure to sour coffee started with Yirgacheffe. The citrus and floral tones of Front Street Yirgacheffe coffee have captured the hearts of some people. Front Street Washed Yirgacheffe is very suitable for novices to practice hand brewing and as a daily ration bean for coffee lovers.
③ Columbia Cymbidium on Qian Street
Reason for recommendation: Classic flavor, preferred by novices for mellow lovers, easy to master brewing.
Front Street Colombian Cymbidium coffee beans are traditionally washed and roasted medium to dark, giving them rich and full flavors such as nuts, chocolate, and caramel, as well as a smooth fruity aftertaste. With its affordable price and full and fragrant flavor, it is very suitable for daily rations and a taste of the flavor of Colombian coffee.
④ Front Street Yunnan Xiaoli
Reasons for recommendation: Fruity aroma, melon, brown sugar, sour plum, black tea taste, not sour or bitter.
Enjoy the balanced, nutty, brown sugar sweet, and soft fruity acid flavors of the Yunnan production area in a small package at the most affordable price.
⑤ Front Street Indonesian Mandheling
Reason for recommendation: Caramel, spices, herbs, dark chocolate, mellow taste
The representative of Asian Arabica coffee, dark roasting highlights the herbal and pine aroma of Front Street Mandheling, with a rich taste
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
