Friends often go to the Front Street store to buy coffee beans for making Italian style. Whether they are ordinary coffee lovers or friends who are about to open a shop or even have already opened a shop, everyone always makes the same request: "Please introduce the coffee beans that are most suitable for making Italian style."
As Front Street introduced in the previous coffee bean sharing, all coffee beans can be used to make espresso, but which one is most suitable depends on your needs. Because the coffee extracted from different coffee beans has different characteristics, some have a rich fruity sour aroma, some have a strong roasting aroma, some have a very mellow taste, and some have a very rich oil extraction.
Then here comes the problem! What kind of cup of coffee do you want? Not sour? Not bitter? Rich in fat? Or is it full-flavored? Depending on your needs, the most suitable coffee beans will vary. So today Front Street will share with you which coffee beans are most suitable for making Italian coffee under different needs!
1. Italian coffee beans that are not sour and have a mellow taste, suitable for making latte/latte art.
Many friends' requirements for Italian beans are as mentioned above. They want to make coffee that is not sour, has a mellow taste, and is suitable for making latte/latte art. If we want to find coffee beans that meet these conditions, we only need to choose medium-dark or dark roasted coffee beans.
Because when the coffee beans are roasted darker, the acidic substances in the coffee beans will be less, the roasting aroma will be more, and the taste of the coffee will be fuller. And because there is more carbon dioxide, the coffee oil extracted from beans with this degree of roasting will be richer, which is very suitable for coffee latte art.
Especially medium-dark roasted Italian blend beans are more suitable for making Italian coffee than single products, because they are specially designed to make Italian coffee. Whether it is the base of the blended coffee beans or the degree of roasting, they are more suitable for making Italian coffee.
In addition to being "specially customized", their prices will also be relatively close to the people. "Large quantities and sufficient management" can be said to be extremely cost-effective! So if you want coffee beans that can make coffee that meets the above requirements, medium-dark and dark roasted Italian blend coffee beans will be a very good choice. In Front Street Coffee’s Tmall and Taobao flagship stores, you can see many blended beans specially developed for Italian coffee.
For example, the Front Street Classic Blend is an Italian blend that meets the above requirements! It is a blend of coffee beans from three producing areas: Indonesia, Brazil, and Vietnam. It is a medium-dark roasting level. The espresso extracted with it will not only have a rich aroma of chocolate, hazelnut, and caramel, but also have a very rich fat and full taste. It is not sour and has a long aftertaste. It is very suitable for making latte/latte art and espresso.
Or the Italian Moka Pot coffee bean-Front Street Black Cocoa Blend recommended by many baristas. It is a blend of Brazilian and Yunnan coffee beans. It is also medium-dark roasted. The espresso extracted with it has a very full and soft taste, and you can obviously drink the flavors of nuts, cream, and caramel. It is also very suitable for making latte/latte art and espresso. At the same time, because of its excellent cost performance, it has become the first choice of many friends who open a shop.
2. It tastes sweet and sour, has outstanding flavor, is fresh and smooth, and is suitable for making American-style coffee beans.
If the Italian style you make is mainly Americano coffee, and you like fruity, a little sour, and clean taste, then you can choose medium or medium-light roasted coffee beans for making.
Because lighter roasting can retain more of the acidity of coffee, and the aroma of the coffee itself will not be masked by too dark roasting, when making espresso with medium or medium-light roasted coffee beans, we can get a cup of American coffee with the above advantages.
However, it will be difficult to make delicious latte and espresso with this kind of beans, because the acidic substances in the coffee are retained more, so the espresso and latte produced are prone to have a sharp or abrupt sour taste. If we want to use this kind of beans to make a espresso or milk coffee with a balanced taste and no abrupt sourness, we need to adjust the parameters to make the extraction rate of the coffee slightly higher, so that there will be enough sweetness and bitterness to balance the sourness, thus making a delicious Italian coffee.
There are many beans that meet this condition in the Front Street bean list, such as the Front Street Sun-dried Oiran. The Americano coffee produced by the sun-dried and lightly roasted beans will have a rich aroma, with the sweetness of strawberry, citrus, guava, and a light floral aroma.
Or the Front Street Yirgacheffe Guiting Ding in the Front Street Bean List. It is washed and medium-light roasted to produce coffee with an elegant white floral aroma, fresh lemon, and a clean green tea aftertaste. The overall taste is light and smooth, and the aftertaste is long and full, which is very good.
It is worth mentioning that since this type of coffee beans are roasted relatively lightly, the oil we extract will not be too rich and will be thinner. This is a normal phenomenon and does not mean that the coffee beans are not fresh or of poor quality~
3. Coffee beans with outstanding flavor, not too sour or too bitter, and relatively versatile
There are also some friends who pursue a special flavor from Italian coffee, and then use coffee beans that have good flavor whether they are used to make American style or latte. There are many coffee beans that meet this requirement. We can give priority to medium-light roasted coffee beans, and anaerobically processed coffee beans are the best.
Medium-light roasting can appropriately retain the acidity of coffee, but not too much, and the coffee beans are fully developed during the roasting process, so the coffee produced will taste sweeter, not too sour or too bitter. Then most of the anaerobically treated coffee beans undergo deeper fermentation, so they will develop a richer aroma after roasting. With the combination of these two characteristics, the Italian coffee produced with anaerobically processed, medium-light roasted coffee beans has a rich and unique aroma, while the taste is not too sour or too bitter, and has a wide range of uses~
There are also many beans that meet this condition in the Front Street Bean List, such as the often mentioned Front Street hope Claw! The coffee produced with medium-light roasting and double anaerobic treatment will have rich aromas of grapes, apricots, passion fruit, white flowers, etc., with a balanced taste, full and solid taste, and a long aftertaste. Whether it's made into American style or latte, it's delicious~
Or the Front Street Strawberry Candy espresso in the Front Street bean menu, which is also a blend of coffee beans specially developed by Front Street Coffee for making Italian coffee. However, compared to the previous blends, the roasting degree of this Front Street Strawberry Candy espresso is not too deep. The purpose is to highlight the excellent flavor of strawberry gummy and white floral aroma of this bean. The espresso made with it not only has a unique flavor, but also has a very full taste. The most important thing is that it is very simple to extract, and you can easily extract a delicious espresso~
So the above is all the content shared by Front Street this time! All in all, if we want to buy a bean that is most suitable for making Italian coffee, we can first understand our own needs, and then find coffee beans with corresponding attributes according to our own needs. In this way, the coffee beans we finally find will most likely be the most suitable Italian coffee beans for you~
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
