What brand of specialty coffee beans is best for hand brewing? Some customers will directly ask the barista on the front street. In fact, with the expansion of China's coffee market and the continuous expansion of the specialty coffee field, consumers have more and more coffee brands to choose from. Including many platforms, relatively professional people will introduce to you the specialty coffee brands that they think are good. You can try it with a try attitude to find a specialty coffee brand that suits you or that you think is of excellent quality.
Having said that, Front Street believes that to truly be called a specialty coffee brand, it needs to meet a rigid condition, that is, the coffee sold is all specialty coffee. It may seem like nonsense, but do you know what kind of coffee can be called "specialty coffee"? In fact, the first person to use the term specialty coffee to package coffee was Ms. Ona Knudsen, known as the "godmother of specialty coffee." In 1974, she introduced the concept of specialty coffee in a tea and coffee interview to distinguish high-quality coffee beans from mediocre commercial bulk coffee beans. It is emphasized that the soul of specialty coffee is that coffee from different production areas will present different regional flavors due to differences in altitude, water and soil, climate, processing methods and planting intentions. But it is worth noting that the term specialty coffee did not spread around the world until the Specialty Coffee Association of America was established.
In 1982, after being inspired by the Godmother of Coffee, 48 people including Ted Ringo, Donald Schoch and others co-founded the National Specialty Coffee Association (SCAA). In 2009, the definition of specialty coffee was refined: only a cupping score of 80 or above can be called specialty coffee. As for how to score, you can check it yourself on this website or the official account: Front Street Coffee.
Nowadays, many cafes or coffee bean brands have begun to popularize single-origin coffee, but Front Street believes that single-origin knowledge represents the transparent and traceable origin of the coffee, which is not enough to guarantee high-quality coffee. Specialty coffee, on the other hand, not only attaches great importance to the impact of coffee cultivation in the land of origin, but also emphasizes the flavor and taste characteristics of coffee.
The above is just an introduction to specialty coffee brands. If you want to build a good brand, Front Street believes that only stores that can guide consumers and bring them real benefits can survive in the market for a long time or be loved by the public. Front Street Coffee started in 2013, so it should have a history of more than ten years. After more than ten years of accumulation, Front Street’s bean list has been continuously enriched and now has more than 50 types of single-origin coffee beans. This ensures that every customer can find coffee beans that suit their taste on Front Street Coffee’s bean menu. But more is not always better. Front Street believes that too many choices will make coffee novices feel intimidated, and too much information input will prevent consumers from finding the coffee beans that really suit them. Therefore, every coffee bean selected by Front Street can represent the classic flavor of the production area or have special significance.
Fresh baking is also a major promotion point on Front Street. Even coffee novices should know that fresh roasting is very important for coffee beans. After roasting, the coffee beans release carbon dioxide and other gases generated during the roasting process for a period of time. When the release reaches a certain level, the coffee flavor reaches its peak, and the coffee tastes best at this time. Therefore, Front Street demands freshly roasted coffee. Generally speaking, after customers place an order on Taobao, Front Street’s roasters will roast and deliver the coffee on the same day. Ensure that the baking date is no more than 5 days when delivered to the customer.
Everyone should have discovered that there are thousands of high-quality coffee beans, and the one that suits you best is the best. Some coffee lovers seek coffee beans with floral and fruity aromas, others pursue fermented wine aromas, and others prefer the traditional full-bodied coffee flavor. For different consumer groups, Front Street here briefly introduces 10 types of coffee beans.
First of all, Front Street Township will introduce to you the entry-level coffee beans for coffee lovers: Front Street Yirgacheffe. What needs to be noted here is that Hengduo coffee beans are named after the production area, place name, manor, and variety. Yirgacheffe is no exception. It is the administrative center of Sidamo Province in Ethiopia. Because the coffee flavor here obviously has strong terroir characteristics, it is separately classified as the Yirgacheffe production area. Here, a Yirgacheffe Coffee Farmers Cooperative Alliance has been established. There are currently 28 cooperatives with more than 45,100 farmers. Front Street would like to introduce to you the four types of Yirgacheffe currently available in the store: Front Street Sun-Dried Red Cherry, Front Street Dingding, Front Street Woka, and Front Street Konga.
Front Street Recommendation: Front Street Yirgacheffe Red Cherry
In 2007, Trabocca's Dutch traders launched the Red Cherry Project to incentivize coffee farmers to produce the highest quality coffee and reward these farmers for their efforts, whether washed, semi-washed, sun-dried or semi-dried. (approximately 1,500 to 3,000 kilograms) of coffee, 100% ripe red coffee cherries are carefully hand-picked in batches (so it is called the red cherry project). The sun-dried red cherries on Front Street participate in this project, and the quality of the green beans is very excellent. There are citrus berry flavors and some fermented fruit flavors in it.
Front Street Recommendation: Front Street Yirgacheffe Fruit Ding Ding
The Fruit Tintin Cooperative is located in the Woka production area at the southeastern end of Yirgacheffe. It was originally part of the Woka Production Cooperative under the Yirgacheffe Alliance. However, as people pursue the traceability of green coffee beans, independent [single production areas] were discovered one after another and independently became the Guodingding Cooperative. The Guodingding Cooperative was the first village area to be treated independently. Many small farmers are also members of the Woka Cooperative, so the technology for producing coffee is not a problem. The Guodingding Cooperative is known as the last pure land of Yirgacheffe, so the green beans processing method used is also a very traditional processing method.
Front Street Recommendation: Front Street Yirgacheffe Voka.
Woka Cooperative was established in 2005 and joined the famous Yergacheffe Coffee Farmers Cooperative Union (YCFCU) that year, and is famous for its production of high-quality sun-dried Yergacheffe. The Woka cooperative has about 300 coffee farmers. Front Street Woka coffee has the acidity of lemon, the aroma of jasmine, a light black tea flavor and the sweetness of sucrose in the finish.
Friends who like sweet coffee beans have also come here. Honey processing is a method of picking and sorting coffee cherries, removing their skin and pulp like other coffees, and then drying them instead of washing off the pectin layer. Therefore, there is less fermentation, and the amount of sugar in the milk is not converted into acid. There are more coffees processed with honey in Costa Rica. Here are two types to introduce to you:
Front Street Recommendations: Front Street Costa Rican Blackberry
Front Street Costa Rican Blackberry is a coffee bean that many friends love. It has a sweet floral aroma accompanied by the flavor of dried blueberries, grapes and other berries. It has a distinct fermentation aroma and a finish that smells like blackcurrant juice, which makes people very heady. According to Front Street, Front Street Blackberry coffee was grown in the Tarazhu producing area of Costa Rica. The environment here is very suitable for coffee cultivation: sufficient precipitation, fertile volcanic soil, and an average altitude of 1,700-1,800 meters. In addition, Front Street’s honey-processed coffee beans also include the Front Street Costa Rican Musician series.
Front Street Recommendation: Front Street Costa Mozart
This is one of the coffee beans in the Front Street Musician series. This coffee comes from the Tarazhu producing area in Costa Rica. There are 8 major coffee producing areas in Costa Rica. This coffee is grown in the Canet Estate. It has a complex floral aroma with a small memory, the sweetness of raisins and the tonality of berries, making this coffee popular among many customers. Of course, the same is true for other coffee beans from the Front Street Musician series purchased by Front Street. You can try it to find out the difference between the three.
For those who like traditional coffee flavors, the next two beans are good news for heavy flavor lovers. Everyone knows that China is most influenced by textbook coffee writers. Traditional Japanese coffee prefers dark roasted coffee. Although light roasted coffee with more flavor has not been popular in China for a long time, it soon occupied half of the Lada coffee market. At present, almost all young consumers in the past few years prefer light roasted coffee beans with more flavor. If you are an exception, please be sure not to miss the Front Street PWN Golden Mandheling coffee on the Front Street bean list. Compared with other Mandhelings, the Front Street Golden Mandheling has a stronger aroma of sweetness and sucrose.
But you know what? Not all Mandhelings are called Golden Mandhelings. Only the Mandhelings acquired by PWN can be called true Front Street Golden Mandhelings. How to prove that the gold Mandheling you purchased is authentic? Front Street here gives you two methods:
Just ask the merchant for two things: the PWN on the coffee sack and the factory certificate of PWN Gold Mandheling on Qian Street.
Front Street baristas believe that Front Street Golden Mandheling has a high-quality herbal flavor, the sweetness of caramel is more obvious, and the sour fruit taste will be more calm and elegant, with rich sweetness, mellow, and wild spice flavor. Generally, Front Street Lindong Mandheling is best baked after the second crack, which can reduce the odor, but Front Street Golden Mandheling will have good transparency and sweetness when baked before the second crack, and the room for roasting interpretation is wider.
If you feel that the taste of Front Street Mandheling is too strong for you, then I recommend you try Front Street Brazilian Coffee. The difference from Mandheling is that Brazilian coffee beans do not have the natural herbal flavor of Indonesian coffee, but have more nutty flavor characteristics. But they are all low-acid. The difference is that Brazilian coffee will be slightly acidic at low temperatures.
And if you are looking for coffee beans with a balanced flavor, then Front Street Blue Mountain Coffee is your best choice. The Blue Mountain Coffee purchased by Front Street is a Front Street Blue Mountain No. 1 coffee bean from Clifton Estate, Blue Mountain, Jamaica. The flavor is elegant and the sweetness and sourness are very balanced. For many coffee lovers, the price of 198 yuan for 100 grams is a bit unfriendly, but don’t worry, Front Street has prepared Front Street Bird of Paradise coffee beans, known as the Little Blue Mountain, for everyone. This coffee comes from Papua New Guinea, and the price given by Front Street Street is 88 yuan for 227 grams. Like Front Street Blue Mountain Coffee, it belongs to the iron coffee bean variety. The difference is that it is a bit more acidic than Blue Mountain Coffee, but the tongue-pressing feeling is still there and it has enough body.
The above are just the top ten most suitable and most popular single-origin coffees selected and recommended by Front Street based on the flavor of the production area. I hope it can help you get started with specialty coffee in front of the screen and allow you to drink delicious coffee that suits your 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
