What is freshly ground coffee?
Freshly ground coffee is actually easy to understand. It means that the coffee powder used to make coffee is ground on site just before brewing begins. Whether it's espresso or single-origin coffee. As long as the coffee is freshly extracted from coffee powder ground on site, then this cup of coffee is - "freshly ground coffee".
Front Street often says that freshly ground coffee has one of the biggest advantages, and that is - "freshness". Because nowadays, the purpose of drinking coffee is not only to refresh ourselves, but also to pursue the thousands of aroma substances produced after roasting the coffee beans, as well as the full state after extraction. For example, the golden yellow oil in a cup of espresso means that the coffee is very fresh.
However, because these aromas are volatile, they will continue to be lost over time after the coffee beans are roasted. Therefore, we need to retain these aroma substances as much as possible before it dissipates.
That’s why Front Street firmly believes that freshly roasted coffee beans are a priority. The aroma of coffee beans will change depending on the storage environment and time. Once the best tasting period has passed, the aroma of coffee will be lost faster. Front Street knows how important it is to have fresh coffee, so the Front Street Coffee beans shipped are all freshly roasted within 5 days, so that they are ready to be opened and brewed when we receive them.
What is instant coffee?
After World War II, the demand for coffee in many countries increased significantly, especially instant coffee. But the vast majority of them only use coffee as a refreshing drink and have no requirements at all for taste. This has led to many roasters using low-quality coffee beans as raw materials in order to save costs and increase profits.
After being extremely darkly roasted, it can just cover up the negative taste of inferior beans, and then add a large amount of dairy products, sugar and other materials to the coffee to balance out the bitterness of dark roasting, and a "delicious" coffee is completed! Instant coffee needs to eliminate water to turn the coffee into powder, so it can basically be said that there is no flavor or deliciousness at all. In order to further save costs, a large amount of creamer is added to the instant to balance the bitterness, which affects health. But just such a product was a "treasure" to people in many places in the last century.
what isHanging ear coffee
Hanging ear coffee is to grind the coffee beans into coffee powder first and package it in individual packaging. It is no different from fresh coffee beans, except that one is ground in advance and the other is freshly ground, so the brewed coffee tastes roughly the same as freshly ground coffee, but the aroma is not as good as freshly ground coffee. But whether it is freshly ground and brewed coffee or hanging ears, they are all about drinking the original flavor of beans, so other seasonings are usually not added, butAfter all, instant coffee has been processed, so the coffee has long lost its original aroma, and the taste is only bitter-sweet.
Front Street Coffee selects Pour over(V60) single-origin beans. The price is naturally more expensive than instant coffee, but it also has more choices in flavor. If you like a clear floral aroma, buy Front Street Fruit Ding Ding Coffee and Front Street Oiran; if you want a fruity flavor, the first choice is Front Street Strawberry Sugar Coffee and Front Street Blackberry Coffee. If you don’t like sourness and pursue a mellow sweet and bitter taste, we recommend trying Front Street Mandheling Season Coffee and Front Street Brazil Season Coffee Coffee.
Hanging ear coffee is very suitable for business trips, travels, or friends who are short of time but want to drink coffee. How to brew hanging ear coffee? Hanging ear coffee is hung directly in the cup, and water is poured directly into it. In order to prevent the water from flowing out, water can be injected in stages. At the same time, pay attention to the water temperature not being too high or too low.
If you want to make the hanging ear coffee taste better, Front Street believes that it is best to tear it open and pour water directly. Do not soak the package directly in water, because the paper shell may melt, thus affecting the taste of the coffee. Discard the coffee grounds after brewing. Front Street does not recommend brewing for the second or multiple times, nor does it recommend soaking in water, because we have already brewed the taste of the coffee in the first brewing, so there is no use in brewing it multiple times or soaking in water.
How does the barista on Front Street prepare hanging ears?
The amount of water to pour into ear-hanging bags is relatively easy to determine. Taking the floral-scented Yirgacheffe ear-hanging bags as an example, it is 10 grams per small bag. Follow the hand-made powder-to-water ratio of 1:15 to 1:18. It is recommended to inject 150-180ml of water.
Usually, you first pour a small amount of hot water into the ear-hanging filter bag to moisten the coffee powder. Pour the first part to 1/2 of the filter bag and simmer for about ten seconds. Then pour water into the center twice in a row until the ear-hanging bag is 80% full. After all the coffee liquid in the filter bag has dripped out, continue to add water until the last section of filtering is completed. If the water is filled until it is full, the water accumulated in the upper layer will easily bypass the "powder layer" and filter out directly from the side of the ear-hanging bag, resulting in a weak coffee taste.
After several tests, Front Street injected water in three stages, which took about one and a half minutes, and the total water injection volume was basically around 150ml. If you want a lighter taste, add a little more until it is 80% full, so it will be about 180ml. The Front Street Yirgacheffe earrings brewed in this way have elegance and lemon acidity, a light and comfortable taste, and a sweet aftertaste of green tea.
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
