If you walk into any serious coffee shop, the Italian machine in the back kitchen will almost always contain blended beans. Why do coffee shops have so many high-quality single-origin beans that they don't use, but they prefer "blending"? Today, I will explain the secret of blending beans in one go.
Mixing, what exactly is "matching"?
Blending is to mix coffee beans of different origins and flavors together in proportion, so that they can complement each other to form a coffee bean with stable flavor and clear personality.
Single-origin beans are like a solo performer, with a distinct personality but also a big "temper". The taste will be erratic when changing seasons and batches; blended beans are like a band that works well together. No matter which year or batch of raw materials comes in, they can calibrate back to the same tune. This is what coffee shops value most:Today's latte should taste the same as yesterday and tomorrow.
The first advantage of blended beans: the oil performance is more controllable
For espresso, fat is the soul. The dense texture of latte, cappuccino, dirty, and beautiful latte art are all based on good fats.
The blended beans will be optimized for oil when designing the formula - selecting beans with good oil performance as the base and adjusting the roasting curve to make the oil dense and long-lasting. This is one of the reasons why coffee shops produce stable products, but you often can’t extract the oil when you buy a bag of beans at home.
The second advantage of blended beans: the balance between cost and quality
The price of high-quality single-product beans is high and the supply is small, making it difficult to support daily consumption in stores. The blended beans can flexibly combine beans of different price points to ensure the flavor level while controlling costs - this is also the key to a successful store business.
Understand the ideas of blending from three classic blends
Front Street classic blending - the standard answer to "born for Italian style".It is specially designed for Italian cooking and Moka pots. Its outstanding advantage is that the oil is excellent. Even a novice using a non-professional household machine can easily extract dense and delicate oil. It adopts the traditional mamba blending formula and has a mellow and moist taste, which is acceptable to both novices and veterans. It is suitable for home and commercial use. It is the first Italian blending for many people.
Front Street Boutique Blend - the classic recipe of "Ten Years of Stores".This is the Italian bean blend that has been used the longest in the Front Street store. It has been in use for almost ten years and has been responsible for the production of core drinks such as American style and Italian latte in the store. It is paired with Brazilian Cerato and Colombian Whelan coffee beans, and has a classic flavor - the most familiar Italian coffee flavor in my memory. If you want to know what the "classic Italian flavor" is, it's the right place to start.
Front Street Commercial Mixing - "the main force in opening stores" is responsible for the cost performance.This blend has long been a popular choice for bean selection in stores. The price is lower than that of high-quality blends. The formula has been specifically optimized to ensure taste while controlling costs. It is suitable for various commercial scenarios and is the "ballast stone" of many stores.
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The reason why blended beans have become the standard in coffee shops is that it solves three things at the same time: stable flavor, controllable fat, and reasonable cost. For those who open a store, it is the foundation of their business; for those who use it at home, it is a good helper for stable production every day.
Starting with a pack of Front Street Classic Blend or Front Street Boutique Blend, you will slowly understand the design logic behind the "classic Italian flavor" - it turns out that the stability of a good cup of coffee comes from someone carefully "blending" it.
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
