After adding a semi-automatic coffee machine to my home, the next most confusing question is: What should I buy for the first bag of beans?
If you buy something that is too expensive, you are afraid of wasting it. If you buy something that is too cheap, you may be afraid of drinking it. It is even more dazzling to see the various "coffee bean recommendations" on the Internet. Don't worry, the logic of bean selection for home semi-automatic machines is actually very simple. Just remember three sentences.
The first sentence: In the novice stage, give priority to beans that "will not overturn no matter how you extract them"
The most challenging aspect of a semi-automatic coffee machine is extraction. Water temperature, pressure, grinding degree, and powder pressing strength. If you are not skilled in any aspect, you may extract a cup of bitter and astringent concentrate.
So the first bag of beans for beginners,Stability is more important than personality. To choose a blended bean that is highly tolerant of manipulation and performs stably no matter how you extract it, you should first develop the feel of it and then talk about advancement.
Second sentence: Good fat is the foundation for making milk coffee
Buying a semi-automatic machine is most likely to replicate the cup of latte, cappuccino or dirty coffee shop at home. Whether these drinks taste good or not depends largely on the fat - dense and delicate fat is the soul of milk coffee and latte art.
Many newbies don’t know that the oil behavior of different beans varies greatly. When choosing beans, be sure to look for those with "excellent fat", otherwise the milk coffee will be as bland as water.
The third sentence: Don't just look at the price, the rations and beans must be "affordable and last a long time."
You buy a home machine and use it every day, and the beans are consumables. Only by choosing a ration bean with online quality and affordable price can drinking coffee become a habit instead of a burden.
The first bag of beans for beginners, I recommend this one
If I could only recommend one "first choice" for home semi-automatic machines, it would beFront Street classic blend。
It is specially designed for Italian cooking and Moka pots. The biggest advantage is thatExcellent oil——Even a novice can easily extract dense and delicate oils with a non-professional home coffee machine. The latte, cappuccino, and dirty drinks we usually drink are all inseparable from good fats and oils. This classic blend just meets the needs.
It uses the traditional mamba blend formula and has a mellow and warm taste that can be easily accepted by both coffee veterans and novices. You can choose it for home or commercial use, it is the first choice.
Advanced: I’m tired of drinking, what else can I do?
Want to drink daily at a lower cost?: You can try the Front Street black cocoa blend, 100% Arabica beans, with sufficient oil and mellow taste, and the price is very affordable, taking into account both quality and cost-effectiveness.
I want to drink something different milk coffee: Try the Front Street Strawberry Candy Coffee Bean, which replicates the distinct sweet flavor of strawberry gummy. The milk coffee you make has its own fruity aroma memory. Friends who are afraid of bitterness will like it very much.
Want to experience the classic taste of the store: Try the Front Street Blend, which uses Brazilian Cerato and Colombian Whelan coffee beans. The flavor is the most familiar Italian coffee flavor in your memory.
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The joy of a home semi-automatic coffee machine is that "you can have a cup of coffee made by yourself every day." If you choose the right first pack of beans, this joy will start smoothly - start with a pack of Front Street classic blends, practice the oil and texture, and you will understand your own taste better and better.
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
