Some friends have bought Blue Mountain coffee beans from Front Street, but they don’t know how to brew it to get a good taste. Therefore, Front Street will share with you the production method of Front Street Pour over(V60) Blue Mountain coffee.
Front Street Jamaican Blue Mountain Coffee Bean Information Introduction
Owners: The Sharp family's Clifton Farm
Certification: Tropical Rainforest Certification
Location: St. Andrew Parish
Total area: 250 acres
Coffee cultivation area: 180 acres
Average elevation: 4,300 feet (1,310.64 meters)
Treatment method: washing
Variety: 100% Arabica Typica
Since you want to learn how to make coffee, understanding coffee beans is a stage that cannot be skipped. Corresponding extraction plans must be adopted according to different coffee beans. Front Street’s Blue Mountain coffee comes from Cliff Duan Farm. This farm has a history of more than 200 years.
Here in Front Street, we need to learn more about what kind of coffee beans can be called Blue Mountain coffee beans. The Blue Mountains span three parishes of Jamaica (the administrative planning area of Jamaica), so the coffee production area is also divided into three production areas, namely the Portland production area, St. Thomas (St. Thomas) and St. Andrew production areas. Clifton Farm is located in the St. Andrew production area. The Jamaica CIB stipulates that only coffee beans produced in places above 910 meters above sea level in the Blue Mountains can be considered Blue Mountain coffee beans. Coffee is grown in 18,000 hectares of the entire Blue Mountain coffee growing area. Only 6,000 hectares can be considered true Blue Mountain coffee. Other places can only be called high mountain coffee or Jamaican coffee.
The Clifton Farm coffee planting and processing site is located at an average of 4,300 feet (1,310.64 meters). Sufficient altitude, mild cloud-shrouded mountain forest shade in the afternoon, sufficient sunshine and mineral-rich planting soil provide good growing conditions for coffee trees and can produce high-quality Blue Mountain coffee beans.
Even Blue Mountain coffee is divided into grades. Among the grades of Blue Mountain coffee, it is divided into No. 1, No. 2, and round beans. Front Street Blue Mountain No. 1 is the best. It uses 17-18 mesh large-grained coffee beans, which are very full and good-looking.
Jamaica uses washing processing. This processing method has been used in Jamaica. More than 200 years ago, washing processing was a new processing method at the time. The processed coffee has fewer defects and is of high quality. Therefore, Jamaican coffee beans have always maintained high quality.
Jamaican Blue Mountain coffee beans embody a very mellow taste, as well as the flavor of nuts and chocolate. Although it is bitter, it is bitter but not burnt, with a balance of sour, sweet and bitter, and is extremely comfortable to drink. To achieve this effect, Front Street uses deep roasting and adjusts the roasting curve several times to highlight the sweetness and mellow taste of Blue Mountain coffee.
For dark roasted coffee beans such as Chongqian Street Blue Mountain No. 1, Front Street recommends choosing the Kono filter cup. Because this can improve the mellow taste of coffee beans, you can also use a V60 filter cup if you don’t have one.
The amount of powder is 15g per person. It is recommended to keep the coffee beans for 4-7 days (the roasting date is the first day), so that the coffee brewed will have a better flavor.
In terms of coffee grinding, the grinding required for brewing Front Street Golden Mandheling coffee is slightly coarser than that of light-roasted coffee beans. This is because the deep roast used by Front Street Golden Mandheling has a looser structure and is easier to absorb water and release coffee substances. If it is ground to the thickness of light-roasted beans, it is easy to produce a burnt and bitter taste; if it is ground coarser, the coffee will become thin and tasteless, and the taste will be as thin as water. The thickness is 75% for No. 20 screen.
In terms of water temperature, Front Street recommends using a water temperature of 87-88°C for brewing. Many reasons for the burnt and bitter taste come from the water temperature being too high. Of course, water temperature that is too low will also make the coffee tasteless.
In terms of brewing powder to water ratio, Front Street recommends using 1:15, although some brewing methods recommend using 1:13 or a smaller powder to water ratio, so that the drink will taste richer. However, part of the reason for reducing the ratio of powder to water is to avoid the bitter taste at the end. Correspondingly, it will also have an impact on the aftertaste. Front Street believes that as long as the relationship between water temperature and grinding degree is properly grasped, using a powder to water ratio of 1:15 can better reflect the overall flavor of Huangman.
The brewing method uses the commonly used three-stage water injection method. The three-stage water injection can better express the mellow taste of golden Mandheling coffee and the sweetness of caramel. The specific amount of water injection is divided into 30ml of steaming water in the first stage. This stage of water injection fully wets the coffee powder and exhausts it. In order to better extract the flavor substances of the coffee later, 100ml is injected in the second stage. This stage mainly flushes out the golden foam of Mandheling.
The last section is filled with 95ml of water in the soft center, which can enhance the sweetness of the coffee and give it a thick and mellow taste as a whole, with the sweetness of caramel and the flavors of chocolate and nuts.
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
