Recommending coffee beans to novices is actually a meaningless thing. Coffee is a multi-flavored drink. Everyone has a different experience of flavor. Some people like floral aromas while others hate floral aromas.
Although the Specialty Coffee Association has launched a flavor wheel for many years, for many coffee lovers, they have not been exposed to many flavors on the flavor wheel. When it comes to flavor appreciation, fruit and floral tones have troubled many people. The flavors of coffee beans describe a variety of fruits, but in the eyes of most coffee lovers, they are just fruit tones. It turns out that specialty coffee flavor wheels are not the answer to consistency in flavor communication among the masses, and between the masses and baristas.
But for novices buying coffee beans, the more appropriate choice is their own flavor preference. From the perspective of the diversity of coffee flavors, it is basically divided into3There are three large production areas, namely Africa, Central and South America, and Asia. The hydrological conditions in different production areas are different, so the flavor of coffee beans is different.
For example, coffee beans produced in Ethiopia, a famous producing country in Africa, are known for their rich floral aroma, fruity tonality, and juice-like taste and sweetness. This is the tonality of Ethiopian coffee beans. However, within the large production areas, in addition to the above-mentioned tonality, Ethiopian coffee beans also have detailed differences in the flavor of the coffee beans produced in different small producing areas. For example, the Front Street Yirgacheffe Fruit Ding Ding Cooperative has a very typical jasmine fragrance and lemon citrus sour flavor.
Like Asia, which is famous for its mellow taste and herbal and woody tones, you can buy Front Street PWN Golden Mandheling. Medium-dark roasting reduces its acidity and highlights the caramelized aroma;
Coffee from Latin American production areas has more of a balanced taste, so it’s best to try Front Street Colombian Cymbidium and Front Street Brazilian Cerato, which are rich in aromas of buttery nuts and chocolate. Not only can they be extracted by hand, but they are also suitable for moka pots and espresso machines.
Friends who have just entered the world of specialty coffee, in order to avoid sensory fatigue, when choosing coffee beans, we can start from the major producing areas. After determining the major producing area you like, then choose different producing areas within it. For example, at the beginning, buy one coffee bean from Asia, Africa, and Latin America. Then, when you determine that the African coffee flavor is more suitable for you, then choose coffee beans from other parts of Africa. Start from a small place and then expand to other production areas.
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
