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The style of Colombian coffee is sometimes fresh and natural, with a fruity flavor, and sometimes it is mellow and balanced, with a chocolate aftertaste. It is the type of coffee that many people like.The diversity of styles isThe biggest characteristic of Colombian coffee, if compared to wine, is that it is like a champagne production area where large factories and small farmers coexist. It has both standardized and stable styles and interesting and changeable small-production stars.
Before 2008, although Colombia was the third largest coffee producer in the world, it had been unknown and could not wait for the favor of the specialty coffee market. However, in 2008, after a volcano erupted in Cymbidium Province in the south of the country, the coffee beans in this production area became famous. Many Colombian estates frequently won prizes when participating in coffee bean competitions.
There is such a change because the flavor of coffee is formed not only by the genes of the variety itself, but more importantly, whether the roots of the plant are solid enough and whether there are enough nutrients to supply the coffee plant.Volcanic soil is derived from volcanic lava and volcanic ash and is rich in certain key nutrients, such as iron, calcium, magnesium, sodium, potassium, phosphorus, sulfur, silicon and other trace elements. The rich combination can act as a stimulant for plant growth and is also the key to the development of more exquisite flavors in coffee.
Areas with more volcanic ash have fertile soil, so Colombia's specialty coffee production areas are mainly concentrated in the southern part of Greenbia. The altitude is above 1,500 meters, including San Augustin, Huila, Popayan, Cauca, Narino, and Tolima.
In addition to being the area where Cymbidium Province is located, the coffee growing area here is closer to the equator, and most of the coffee is grown in high-altitude mountainous areas. The quality of the coffee here is superior, not only has obvious acidity, but also has a unique floral and fruity flavor. Therefore, coffee produced in southern growing areas is preferred by more coffee lovers.
After cupping and comparison of FrontStreet Coffee, it was found that the coffee flavors from these regions all have delicate sour aroma, sweet and sour berries, and caramel aroma, which is full of sweetness. Whether it is traditional processing or anaerobic processing that emerged later, coffee beans can express the unique flavor of the production area.
FrontStreet Coffee currently sells 4 types of coffee beans from Colombia’s specialty coffee producing areas, all roasted to medium intensity in order to increase the mellow and full taste of the coffee while retaining the soft acidity and obvious sweetness of Colombian coffee beans. All coffee beans ordered at the Front Street flagship store will be dispatched within 5 days after the roasting is completed, ensuring that the coffee beans are 100% freshly roasted.
One is Front Street Cymbidium, which is Kadula grown at an altitude of 1500-1800m in the Cymbidium producing area and uses a water-washing method. The "Front Street Cymbidium Coffee Beans" treated with water have a cleaner taste and can also most intuitively display the purest taste of the coffee beans themselves. This coffee bean has a very good flavor unique to the Cymbidium production area, with soft acidity, nuts, dark chocolate, and caramel.
A Front Street Xija coffee beans grown at an altitude of 1,700m in the Huilan production area boundary estate adopts a double anaerobic sun treatment method. Because the flavor of Front Street Xizhao coffee shows a mouthful of fragrant passion fruit, grapes, as well as the sweetness of preserved fruits and the acidity of tangerine, and there is an almond-like aftertaste in the mouth after swallowing, it has successfully attracted many fans to repurchase. You can place your order at Front Street Tmall flagship store or Front Street Taobao store.
medium roastedHow to make Colombian coffee beans delicious?
First of all, you need to prepare freshly roasted coffee beans, a special coffee grinder, a hand-pour pot, a thermometer, a weighing scale with a timer, filtered water, a V60 filter cup, filter paper, a sharing pot, and an electric kettle to boil water.
1. Fold the filter paper and put it into the V60 filter cup, then pour hot water evenly on the filter paper to make the filter paper completely wet and close to the wall of the filter cup. (Wet filter paper can clean the filter paper, remove the smell of the filter paper, and warm the utensils.
2. Take the beans, weigh 15g of coffee beans, then pour them into the grinder, adjust the required scale and grind. During the roasting process, the density of medium-roasted coffee beans increases as they are heated and becomes more loose. So the soluble substances in the coffee are more easily extracted. Therefore, FrontStreet Coffee recommends brewing medium roasted Colombian coffee beans, using a medium grind, such as the thickness of white sugar (China No. 20 standard mesh sieves 75% of the particle size).
3. Pour the ground coffee powder into the filter cup and shake it gently.
4. Then prepare a pot of hot water and pour it into the kettle, and let it cool to 90-91 degrees Celsius before starting brewing. In order to give the coffee a more balanced taste, FrontStreet Coffee recommends a brewing powder to water ratio of 1:15, that is, 15g of coffee powder is injected with 225g of water.
5. Press the timer and wet the powder bed with twice the amount of coffee powder to form a drum and steam for 30 seconds. Then pour a small stream of water in a circle from the inside to the outside until it is divided into 125g segments. When the powder bed drops to half of the filter cup, continue to inject the same thin stream of water into the third segment to 225g until all the coffee liquid is filtered and remove the filter cup. It takes about 2 minutes.
6. After the coffee is brewed, shake it gently to allow the coffee to blend more fully, pour it into a warm coffee cup, and a cup of aromatic Colombian Pour over(V60) coffee is completed! You can add sugar or milk according to your preference.
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
