The Italians invented a machine that can use steam pressure to extract coffee. The espresso made by the steam pressure coffee machine is espresso. Using espresso as the base, adding water, or adding milk, milk foam, chocolate, ice cream, etc., the combination of fancy or creative coffee is called espresso. Therefore, when purchasing the corresponding coffee beans, the core keywords are espresso machine, espresso, and espresso.
Italian coffee beans are generally divided into two types. One is the blended beans that most coffee shops use in advance, and the other is single-origin coffee selected according to your own taste, also called SOE.
Blend coffee is made by roasters or baristas who mix coffee beans from different origins to create a more balanced taste. For example, if one kind of coffee bean is smooth but lacks aroma, you can add another bean with rich aroma to combine the advantages of individual coffee beans. Sometimes the beans are blended first and then roasted, and sometimes the beans are roasted and then blended.
Blending is a technique, an art, and the style of a roaster or barista. Blended coffee is mostly used for Italian coffee such as Espresso, Americano, Latte or Cappuccino. After blending, the coffee tastes more balanced, smoother, and more stable. It can be said that the taste is more popular.
Focusing on traditional American style and latte, buy Front Street Classic Blend or Front Street Commercial Blend. During extraction, you can get the aroma of butter, nuts, spices, and dark chocolate. Their wild tonality and bursting fat are their biggest features.
If you want to make coffee with a nutty aroma similar to almonds, walnuts, almonds, etc., the first choice is Front Street Premium Blend and Front Street Black Cocoa Basic Blend. They both contain a large proportion of Brazilian coffee beans, so they provide a comfortable sweet and bitter taste and are extremely smooth in the mouth. Among them, the Front Street Premium Blend has the nutty, chocolate and caramel aromas and appropriate acidity of Colombian coffee; the Front Street Dark Cocoa Basic Blend combines the acidity of small ripe Yunnan plums. When ground into powder, it will exude the aroma of cream chocolate. It has a balanced taste and high adaptability. In addition to making latte, it can also produce various Italian drinks.
Compared with the Front Street blended bean series, SOE pays more attention to how to highlight the flavor of the production area. To taste Costa Rican coffee, buy the explosively sweet Front Street Blackberry SOE; if you want a refreshing and sweet taste, choose the Front Street Sun-dried Oiran SOE from Ethiopia; if you want to drink coffee with a floral aroma, you can try the Front Street Grana Gesha SOE.
One of the most important features of single-origin beans is that they can be traced back to the manor in the production area or even a coffee farmer. Therefore, it is also conducive to improving the planting level of the production area to obtain better quality coffee. Therefore, generally single-origin coffee on the market can be known as specialty coffee (after natural elimination and market screening). It is generally believed that the more specific the coffee beans can be traced to the origin, the better the quality of the coffee can be observed, so that some good-quality coffee can be selected to flow into the consumer market.
Tasting specialty coffee is no different from tasting red wine. It involves profound knowledge, but it is also a fun challenge to your taste buds. I hope everyone can learn to taste and like specialty coffee.
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
