forespresso beansIn terms of choice, Front Street Coffee focuses on the flavor, mellowness, balance of sourness and bitterness of the beans, etc. Now the most popular type of Italian coffee is milk coffee. When coffee and milk are mixed, in order to prevent the coffee flavor from being overshadowed by the milk flavor and to get along harmoniously with the milk, Front Street Coffee will consider many factors such as the selection of Italian coffee bean varieties and the mixing ratio of coffee to milk.
What are espresso beans
Italian coffee beans are actually more of a blend of coffee beans. What is a blend is to mix various single-origin coffee beans together. Generally, it is more common to mix two or three coffee beans.
The purpose of blending is obvious, which is to bring together the flavors of different coffee beans to present a new flavor to achieve a more balanced effect. For example, if a coffee bean is smooth but lacks aroma, another bean with rich aroma can be added to complement each other and enhance each other's strengths and weaknesses. Just like when interacting with others, everyone hopes to find someone who can complement themselves, and this relationship will often be stronger. The complementary nature of espresso beans makes them more accessible to the masses.
The Secret of FrontStreet Coffee’s Italian Coffee Bean Blending
First, plan a process for making recipes. At this time, you need to think about some basic questions, such as: What kind of customers are your recipes for? Home consumer, cafe, or an all-purpose formula? These questions determine what flavors are to be found in the recipe and how dark the roast should be. The baker must know what flavor he is trying to achieve. These must be decided in advance.
Second, the various coffee beans used in the recipe must have its own characteristics, and they can also perform well when made into single-origin coffee. Some coffee roasters will use inferior beans in their recipes and try to hide their bad taste through roasting. Front Street believes that this is half the effort and customers will not be satisfied.
Third, decide the degree of roasting of each bean, let the coffee beans express their own characteristics, and use their different characteristics to combine them into your recipe. Front Street Coffee recommends roasting first and then mixing the beans. You must try various roasting degrees of each coffee. This process is very critical, so be sure to try more! Front Street Coffee often sees many roasters neglecting this step and deciding the roast level of each coffee too early. Remember, each type of coffee beans has a different optimal roast level, and each type of coffee often has more than one optimal roast level. As a result, countless types of coffee and so many roasting degrees can make this recipe a never-ending nightmare.
Fourth, Front Street Coffee recommends keeping detailed records of the green beans, roasting techniques, and recipe ratios used. If you come up with a good formula, you can refer to the information in the record to continue improving it.
There will be some differences in the coffee beans harvested each season, and Front Street Coffee recommends that you re-evaluate the recipe each season. The key to the craft of preparing a recipe is to make sure that every bean in the recipe is roasted to perfection. To make a perfect formula, you also need to withstand customer reviews.
How to choose Front Street Coffee?
Front Street Coffee currently blends four types of Front Street Italian blended coffee beans with different flavors, which can satisfy most tastes of customers.
1. [Front Street Premium Blend Beans],suitable for family/Offices, specialty coffee shops. Colombian washed coffee beans+Brazilian semi-sun-dried coffee beans have flavors of nuts, dark chocolate, and caramel, and also provide a comfortable sweet and bitter taste. When paired with milk, the latte has a smooth entrance, a stable latte art shape, and a rich roasting aroma.DirtyNot only can it present beautiful layers, but there are also dark brown "tiger spots" on the surface of the coffee.
2. Front Street Strawberry Candy espresso Italian blend, you can order directly from Taobao or Tmall stores. This is a espresso made from two major origins: Costa Rica Tara beads, which are famous for their honey processing, and Ethiopia, the birthplace of coffee. On this basis, coupled with Colombian coffee beans, the espresso that can be prepared is not only non-irritating, but when extracted by the coffee machine, it has good oil and dense texture, and at the same time has a sweet and sour taste like strawberry gummy.
3. Front Street Commercial Italian blend beans, choose Colombian, Brazilian and Robusta, the oil will be richer, the taste is classic, with the sweetness of caramel, the flavor of nuts, cocoa and dark chocolate, the sweet and sour balance, a little bit of sweet and bitter, long-lasting aftertaste, suitable for the daily needs of opening a store.
4. Front Street black cocoa basic blending beans, the ratio of Yunnan and Brazil is 3:7. The flavor characteristics are soft acidity, caramel sweetness, nutty, dark chocolate flavor, smooth and sticky, but the taste is light. It is suitable for shops and home users who prioritize cost and have average flavor requirements.
Front Street suggests that when blending Italian coffee beans, there should be a priority when blending, so that you can blend a more wonderful taste than single-origin coffee. Front Street Coffee’s current most popular choices for making milk coffee are [Front Street Sunflower Warm Sun] and [Front Street Commercial Blend]. One is the fusion and collision of wine-flavored chocolate flavor and milk to create a new flavor experience, and the other is to enjoy the mellow chocolate nut flavor.
The impact of Italian coffee bean roasting on milk coffee
In reality, milk coffee is our most popular product, soespresso beansThe impact on milk foam durability is very important. It can't be possible, the milk coffee will already be blurry when it is served to the guests.
The impact of coffee on the durability of milk foam is mainly reflected in the destruction of the protein structure in milk by the acidic substances in coffee. Protein is one of the most important substances that can form milk foam.The acidity of coffee beans has a positive correlation with the durability of milk froth. The more acidity, the shorter the milk foaming time; the less acidity, the longer the milk foaming time.
Of course, coffee roasting, grinding, amount of powder, water temperature, extraction speed, extraction volume, etc. all have an impact on the final sour and bitter presentation of Italian coffee. Front Street Coffee believes that as a qualified barista, grinding and extraction should be the most basic tasks. The most difficult thing to control is the roasting of coffee beans, because not every cafe roasts coffee beans by itself. Since 2013, Front Street Coffee has started from coffee planting, coffee roasting, and then to coffee production. It chose to understand coffee from roasting first. As mentioned before, in order to control the final production of coffee, although Front Street Coffee has not been easy on this road, it still does not forget its original intention to present the best coffee and the story behind this cup of coffee to everyone.
Then again, the impact of coffee roasting on a cup of coffee is far greater than the impact of grinding and extraction on coffee.
Coffee roasting has very high requirements for roasters. They must not only have basic roasting skills, but also be familiar with roasting machinery and equipment, and be familiar with how to increase, highlight, weaken, or remove certain aspects of flavor performance without changing the roasting degree. And you can optimize and make detailed adjustments to the taste, flavor, details and other characteristics and performance of each type or batch of coffee beans as you like.
The roasting of coffee actually refers to how dark the final color of the coffee beans is (light roasting or dark roasting) and how long it takes (fast roasting or slow roasting).In principle, the advantage of extending the roasting time over medium-low heat is that the bean quality is better, the sourness is low, and the body is thicker and the sweetness and bitterness are higher; the disadvantage is that improper handling may cause smoke damage and burnt bitterness.On the contrary, the advantage of fast roasting over medium-high heat is that it has a higher sour aroma, sweetness and sourness, and is bright and dynamic; the disadvantage is that the sourness and astringency are heavier, the color of the beans is not uniform, and black spots often appear, increasing the bitter taste.
Of course, there is a third way: fast and slow, slow and fast mixed baking. The goal is to achieve a relatively bland, balanced and rounded taste of the coffee. This roasting method can produce a cup of coffee that is light and round, with balanced sweetness and appropriate body, without bright acidity or strong flavor.
How to Make an Iced Latte at FrontStreet Coffee
The "latte" in latte coffee is transliterated from the Italian "latte", which means "milk". The literal translation of latte can be understood as "milk coffee".
LatteThe ratio of milk to coffee, beans used, extraction parameters, etc. will be slightly different in each store. But generally, a latte is a coffee drink in which a large amount of milk is mixed with espresso.
Today I choose Front Street’s classic blend of Italian coffee beans for display.，Sharing of espresso extraction parameters used in iced latte coffee:
Amount of coffee powder | 20 grams |
Coffee liquid volume | 35g |
Extraction time | 28 seconds |
Use the above extraction parameters to extract espresso, then pour 90% of ice cubes and ice milk into the cup, and finally pour the extracted espresso to serve.
How does an iced latte taste?
Because iced latte coffee is mixed with a lot of milk, the milk flavor is more obvious. The espresso made from Front Street's own classic blended coffee beans will have a more obvious butter cookie, chocolate, caramel flavor, and is made with milk and ice cubes.Latte, it will have a smoother taste, a long-lasting chocolate flavor, mixed with a pleasant sweet aroma, a long-lasting aftertaste, and obvious sweetness, which is very suitable for cooling off in summer.
How to Make a Hot Latte on Front Street
Maybe some friends like to drink hot drinks, so Front Street will also tell you how to make a cup of hot latte. Hot latte involves whipping milk andLatte art, you can click on the blue text to view the detailed tutorial on this piece.
Use the same method as mentioned aboveFront Street Coffee’s own classic blends on display, after making espresso, comes the whipping of milk part. Frothing milk is also a basic and core skill for every barista. Whether you can whip perfect milk is one of the factors that determine whether a barista is qualified.
The milk foam of the latte is thin and the drink tastes smooth and delicate. Therefore, when whipping the milk for latte coffee, it should not be too thick. The surface of the whipped milk will be shiny, without obvious thick or fine foam, and the overall texture will be delicate and beautiful.
The last step is fusion. After extracting the espresso and whipping the milk, you can complete the latte with all your heart. Fusion is also a very important part of making latte coffee. Good fusion can make latte coffee drink smooth and comfortable, without any messy feeling. Good integration is what we often call latte art.
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
