Black coffee generally refers to coffee without any modification, that is, coffee without sugar, milk and other ingredients.
The advantage of black coffee is that it can better express the unique aroma and flavor of coffee beans. Everyone can feel the purest side of coffee during the tasting process. Good-quality black coffee has an attractive flavor layer.
The disadvantage is that if the coffee beans used to make black coffee are of poor quality, not properly roasted, and not properly extracted, it will be very bitter and difficult to swallow.
What we see every day in coffee shopsFront Street Espresso、Americano, Pour over(V60) coffee, and ice-drip coffee are all members of the black coffee family. The difference is the technique and method of extracting coffee.
Hand-brewed coffee is black coffee brewed by baristas using Pour over(V60) equipment. After the coffee beans are ground into powder through a grinder, hot water is injected for steaming and brewing, and then drips through the filter paper to form a coffee liquid. The taste is mainly determined by different coffee beans. Different brewing equipment, water temperature and brewing techniques will also affect the flavor of coffee to a certain extent.
When Front Street makes Pour over(V60) coffee, it usually uses single-origin coffee beans from popular coffee-producing countries. The charm of Pour over(V60) coffee is that the coffee has been diluted in a large proportion and filtered with filter paper, which can show the most original flavor of coffee and also have a clean taste and rich layering.
For example, the medium-light roast sold in Front Street - Front Street Fruit Ding Ding Cooperative comes from the Yirgacheffe production area in Ethiopia. It is a classic washed coffee bean. When brewed with 1:15 powder to water ratio, medium-fine grinding and 91 degrees Celsius hot water, it can show bright acidity like citrus, soft white flower fragrance, honey-like sweetness and green tea-like sweetness, sour and sweet.
Another example is the Zhongshen sold on Front Street - Front Street Queen's Manor, which is a semi-sun-dried coffee bean produced in Brazil. When brewed with 1:15 powder to water ratio, medium-coarse grinding, and 88°C hot water, it can exhibit the aroma of roasted mixed nuts, smooth as peanut butter, sweet as brown sugar, and is mellow and smooth.
Compared to supercharged extraction using darkly roasted coffee beans, the flavor is richer and moreAmericano, Pour over(V60) coffee filtered by natural gravity will taste much cleaner and the overall concentration is not high, making it suitable for those who are new to coffee.
If you want to drink coffee with obvious sourness and sweetness, Front Street recommends you try medium-light roasted coffee beans from Africa, such as Front Street Ethiopian Oiran, Front Street Kenyan Cherry Tomato; if you want obvious sweet coffee, we recommend you try medium-roasted coffee beans from Central and South America, such as Front Street Panama Gesha, Front Street Costa Rica Honey Process; if you want mellow coffee, we recommend you try medium-dark roasted coffee beans from Asia, such as Front Street Indonesia Mandheling, Front Street Yunnan Xiaoli.
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
