White floral aroma, citrus fruit notes, and fresh tea flavor are the main flavors of traditional Geisha coffee. Because it doesn’t taste like a cup of coffee, Geisha has been sought after by thousands of people since its launch, and has become the “white moonlight” of coffee in the hearts of countless people.
Under normal circumstances, we make Gesha coffee by hand brewing, French press, etc., because this method has a very high error tolerance rate and can more easily dissolve the excellent flavor of Gesha coffee.
But occasionally friends want to use Gesha to make espresso, because they also want to experience the different performances of Gesha, such as latte. So friends often ask Front Street when buying Gesha: "Can Geisha be used to make espresso?"
If price is aside, Geisha can still be used to make espresso. After all, the difference between an espresso machine and other appliances is just a different coffee extraction medium, and any coffee can be extracted with it. If you want to use Gesha to make a delicious Italian coffee, such as American style or latte, of course you can, but you need to pay attention to two details when making it, so that the Gesha American style and Gesha latte will be more delicious~
1. Let the coffee be fully extracted
The first thing you need to pay attention to is to ensure that the coffee can be fully extracted! We cannot extract Gesha according to the usual extraction parameters for espresso. Why?
Because most of the coffee beans used by most friends to make espresso are medium-dark roasted, those parameters are mainly formulated around the extraction of medium-dark roasted coffee. Usually the Gesha we buy is medium or medium-light roasted, because if we want Gesha to show its excellent floral aroma, the roasting cannot be too dark.
Because the density of medium-dark roasted beans is relatively low, the soluble substances in the body are easier to dissolve, so it does not require much effort to be fully extracted. The density of medium-light roasted Geisha is usually higher. In order to fully extract the floral and fruity flavor of Geisha, we need to use parameters that are more efficient than extracting traditional medium-dark roasted coffee. Otherwise, the result will be a cup of coffee with very high acidity.
2. Pay attention to proportions
The second detail that needs to be paid attention to is often shared on Front Street, which is to pay attention to the proportion of coffee and other ingredients. For example, when making an Americano, pay attention to the ratio of coffee to water, and when making a latte, pay attention to the ratio of coffee to milk.
The reason is also very simple, because medium-light roasted coffee does not have as strong a flavor as medium-dark roasted coffee, especially those medium-light roasted coffees with floral aroma, washed processing, and fresher taste, such as Gesha. Because their taste is relatively fresh, if too much other ingredients are used, it will be easy to cover up the taste of the coffee itself, making it more difficult for us to taste the floral and fruity notes.
Therefore, Front Street usually recommends that when making espresso coffee with medium or medium-light roasted coffee beans, slightly increase the proportion to avoid excessive dilution of the taste and aroma of the coffee.
After knowing the above two points, it is basically difficult for us to make a bad cup of Gesha Italian coffee. The only remaining question that needs to be faced is to ask your wallet to see if it agrees. After all, apart from its unique flavor, the characteristic of Gesha is that it is expensive...
But it doesn't matter! Front Street’s bean menu happens to have some cost-effective Geisha beans that are suitable for both Italian and Pour over(V60) coffee. For example, Front Street Costa Rica Strawberry Candy is often mentioned in Front Street articles. It is a Gesha blend. In addition to the Gesha flavors such as white flowers and citrus, it also has sweet aromas such as strawberry fudge and raisins. It is very good!
If you plan to use Gesha to make espresso, you may wish to refer to the extraction parameters used in Front Street. It should help you avoid "detours" and quickly make a delicious cup of Gesha espresso.
Gesha Espresso Extraction
The coffee beans used by Front Street in this demonstration are the Front Street Costa Rica Strawberry Sugar Geisha blend mentioned above. When using it to extract espresso, the grinding of Front Street will be slightly finer, allowing the extraction time to be slightly longer, thus improving the extraction efficiency and increasing the dissolved coffee flavor substances. When making different espresso coffee, the parameters used will be slightly different, as follows:
For making American espresso: powder amount 18~20g, powder-liquid ratio 1:1.1.7, extraction time 30~35 seconds.
Since many friends prefer to drink a cup of Americano with less bitterness, when extracting the concentrate used in Americano coffee, we can extract less liquid and reduce some bitter substances. The espresso extracted by this parameter mainly tastes sweet and sour. Add an appropriate amount of water according to the ratio of 1:3.5 to become American style. When you drink it, you will have the sweet and sour taste of strawberry and citrus, a light white floral aroma, and a slight raisin aroma, which is very refreshing.
Conventional concentration/concentration for making latte: powder amount 18~20g, powder-liquid ratio 1:2, extraction time 30~38 seconds. If you expect to drink a cup of espresso with a balanced taste, or espresso used to make a latte, then the extraction liquid weight can be slightly larger, and more bitter substances can be extracted to balance the acidity, so that the coffee will not be easily masked by the taste of milk.
The concentrate extracted using this parameter has a very balanced taste! When making latte, we can add an appropriate amount of milk in a ratio of 1:4. The latte made in this way will have the sweet aroma of strawberry chocolate, butter cookie, and caramel, and the taste is silky and mellow, which is very good~
So the above is all the content shared by Front Street this time. Friends who are interested can try it at home. It is really good~
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
