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What are the most cost-effective home coffee machines? How to choose a home coffee machine and espresso beans? The difference between espresso beans and SOE

2026.10.20 FrontStreet Coffee 23

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Basic information about home coffee machines:

 

1. Electric coffee machines currently used at home are generally divided into two forms, home Italian coffee machines and American coffee machines:

 

Espresso machine: It can make the American style, cappuccino or latte flavors that you usually drink in cafes, and can meet the functions of extraction, concentration and milk foaming.

 

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American coffee machine: Also called a drip coffee machine, it allows hot water to pass directly through the coffee powder and extracts it in a drip filter. You can get black coffee with a simple operation.


Professional commercial Italian coffee machines are generally more expensive and suitable for those who pursue strong coffee and have sufficient budget; American coffee machines are relatively cheap and simple to operate, making them more suitable for use by many people at home.


The ten best tasting coffee beans for home use


1. Rich and mellow taste: Front Street’s classic Italian blended coffee beans


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Most coffee lovers have only heard of Mamba coffee, but they don't know the formula and origin of "Mamba". In fact, Mamba is a combination of Indonesian Mandheling beans and Brazilian coffee beans. The taste can play a complementary and harmonious role. Mamba blending was very popular in Taiwanese cafes in the early years, and it can be regarded as an ancient coffee flavor. Front Street's classic Italian blend is based on the Mamba recipe and adds Robusta, which fully improves the oiliness of the coffee and makes the Italian coffee body stronger. It is suitable for home production and used for latte art.


2. Rich floral and fruity aroma: Front Street Strawberry Candy espresso Italian blended coffee beans


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If you want to make an espresso with a floral and fruity aroma, you should use medium roasted coffee beans. We recommend Front Street Strawberry Candy espresso coffee beans. You can order directly from Taobao or Tmall stores. This is a espresso made from 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 you can prepare is not only non-irritating, but also has good oil and dense texture when extracted by the coffee machine. It also has a sweet and sour taste like strawberry gummy, suitable for making American style or latte.


3. Rich nutty flavor: Front Street Premium Italian blended coffee beans


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As the world's top coffee-producing countries, Brazilian coffee and Colombian coffee have long been famous. Front Street combines coffee beans from the two production areas. The nutty aroma and balanced taste of Brazilian coffee and the chocolate tonality of Colombian coffee perfectly achieve the effect of one plus one greater than two. The extracted espresso has the flavor of butter cookies, cocoa, and roasted nuts. Suitable for friends who don't like sour taste, used for making American style and latte.


4. Same style as the coffee shop: Front Street Commercial Italian blended coffee beans


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If you want to replicate the same American style and latte from the coffee shop, you can buy the Front Street commercial blended coffee beans. It is made from three major production areas: Brazil, Colombia, and Vietnam. After medium-dark roasting, it has rich coffee oil and roasting aroma. The American style has a sweet taste and is very easy to drink. The latte is rich and smooth, leaving a fragrance on your lips and teeth after drinking. It is also affordable and can become a daily ration bean for families.


5. High cost performance: Front Street basic Italian blended coffee beans


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For those who are just getting started, of course we first consider cost-effectiveness, and this coffee can meet the needs of most home users. It has soft fruit acidity, caramel sweetness, nutty and dark chocolate flavors, smooth and viscous, and has a favorable price. It is suitable for shop owners and home users who prioritize cost and have average taste requirements.


6. Fragrant floral and fruity aroma: Front Street.Columbia Xizhao SOE


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A Front Street Xija coffee beans grown at an altitude of 1,700m in the Huilan production area boundary estate adopts a double anaerobic sun treatment method. Because the flavor of Front Street Hija coffee shows a mouthful of fragrant passion fruit, grapes, as well as the sweetness of preserved fruits and the acidity of tangerine, and there is an almond-like aftertaste in the mouth after swallowing, it has successfully attracted many fans to repurchase.


7. Sweet and sour tropical fruits: Front Street. Ethiopian Oiran SOE


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Front Street Oiran has an elegant floral fragrance, and the aroma of i fruits is particularly prominent, such as creamy strawberry, mango, jackfruit, citrus, blueberry, etc. It has the unique ripe tropical fruit tones of Front Street Sidamo sun-dried beans, so it often leaves a deep impression on people. It is this fragrant berry fragrance that made "Oiran" win the first place in the TOH green bean competition that year.


8. Overflowing with juice: Front Street. Costa Rica Mozart SOE



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Front Street Mozart coffee is one of the famous musician series. It is processed with raisin honey. After being roasted to a medium level, it has the fermented aroma of berries and fruit wine when brewed with an espresso machine. The entrance is the flavor of raisins, sweet orange and pineapple. The aroma of fermented wine and osmanthus is more obvious under the change of temperature.


9. Rich and mellow fragrance: Front Street. Front Street PWN Gold Mandheling SOE


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PWN Company has strict screening standards for the golden Mandheling coffee beans sold externally. The company only selects Mandheling coffee beans with specifications above 18 mesh and less than 3 defective beans (300g green bean sample). It belongs to the highest grade G1 grade, is dark green in color, and is a neatly shaped flat bean. The brewed flavor of Front Street PWN Gold Mandheling is varied, mellow and clean. Rich nutty and caramel aroma with hints of chocolate, long lasting finish and high balance.


10. Buttery nutty flavor: Front Street. Brazilian Queen’s Manor SOE


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Yellow Bourbon is also a genetic mutation of Bourbon. Bourbon has always been considered the leader in coffee due to its high yield and good quality. Yellow Bourbon is a bourbon variant unique to the state of Sao Paulo, Brazil. When the coffee berries mature, they do not turn red like red Bourbon, but turn orange, so it is named after Yellow Bourbon. Front Street Queen Estate Yellow Bourbon has nuts and chocolate, with balanced and smooth acidity, weak and clean bitterness, and an obvious aroma of cocoa beans, with a sweet aftertaste of sugar cane.



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

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