As more and more people join the coffee-drinking team, there are also many white-collar workers and college students in the Front Street store, and even high school students are starting to drink hand-made coffee. Compared with the single-flavored instant coffee, today's young people obviously prefer freshly ground specialty coffee. Some like fast-paced American style, others like ice-drip cold brew, and others prefer Pour over(V60) coffee. They feel that this kind of black coffee not only tastes good, but also has a wide variety of choices. However, because of their busy daily life, it is difficult for them to have a cup every day. At this time, ear-hanging is generally recognized as the best choice.
Regarding coffee beans, you can directly buy prepared products on the market according to your own taste. For example, the coffee beans provided by Front Street include many classic origins on the coffee list, such as the mellow and burnt coffee beans from Mandheling coffee beans, the balanced nutty coffee beans from Brazil, the refreshing and acidic Front Street Yirgacheffe coffee beans, the elegant and floral Front Street Gesha coffee beans, and so on.
Friends who often make coffee should know that freshly roasted coffee beans have a tasting period of up to thirty or forty days. However, once they are ground into powder, the aroma substances will be lost at an accelerated rate, and the tasting period will also be reduced.
Therefore, rather than buying ready-made products, friends who know that freshly ground coffee is more fragrant will choose to buy the beans directly and grind them at home to make ear-hanging bags. This not only retains more aroma, but also makes it less likely to worry about deterioration due to storage issues. Moreover, the tools used to make your own hanging ears are also very simple. You only need to prepare a grinder, a hanging ear filter bag, an electronic scale, a sealer, and a small spoon for powder.
The first step is to select a pack of coffee beans you like, then adjust the grinder to the scale corresponding to hand brewing, and pour the coffee beans into the grinder into powder. You know, the thickness of the grind directly determines the flow rate during brewing and the flavor of the coffee, so this step is particularly critical.
Generally speaking, when we choose coffee beans with a light to medium roasting degree, the flavor description is mostly floral, fruit, honey, tea, etc. At this time, they should be ground into fine sugar particles. The sieving rate of using the Chinese No. 20 standard sieve is 80%. The corresponding scale of the electric grinder EK43s is 10 grids, and the hand grinder C40 is 20 grids;
When the coffee beans you buy are medium roasted or dark, and the flavor description usually states nuts, caramel, dark chocolate, cocoa, wine aroma, etc., you need to use medium thickness. The sieving rate of using the Chinese No. 20 standard sieve is 75%. The corresponding scale for EK43s is 10.5 grids, and the hand-cranked grinder C40 is 24 grids;
But if you are using beans for Italian blending, or you can see the coffee beans are obviously oily when you open the package, it means that the roasting degree is darker and the taste is mostly bitter. At this time, we have to use a coarser grinding to prevent the coffee from being over-extracted. The sieving rate of using the Chinese No. 20 standard sieve is 70%. The scale corresponding to EK43s is 11 grids, and the hand grinder C40 is 28 grids.
Front Street has chosen a coffee bean from Essé Yirgacheffe Red Cherry that many friends like. Exquisite sun-drying treatment allows the Yirgacheffe Red Cherry to show the full sweetness and sourness of berries. When tasted at different temperatures, the coffee beans have soft sweetness and sourness, ripe fruit fermentation, obvious honey sweetness and black tea aftertaste, and a smooth taste. The thickness of the fine sugar granules used in Front Street's daily brewing is 10 grids corresponding to the EK scale.
In the second step, place the ground coffee powder on the electronic scale prepared in advance, then take out the ear-hanging bag and open the mouth into a square shape, measure 10g of powder per bag, and carefully scoop the coffee in with a spoon.
The third step is to plug in the sealing machine, clamp the heater to the horizontal line of the seal, and ensure that the opening is completely sealed. The homemade ear-hanging bag is completed (be careful not to make the temperature too high when sealing, as it will easily burn the non-woven fabric).
In order to prevent moisture, Front Street recommends that you put the finished ear-hanging bag into a sealed bag that can isolate the air, and store it in a cool place away from light to avoid the loss of aroma substances.
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
