Whether you are just planning to set up a semi-automatic coffee machine at home or are planning a small cafe, selecting beans is an unavoidable step. Dark-roasted blended beans are stable, delicious, and highly adaptable. They are almost a "safety brand" among Italian products. What we want to talk about today are Front Street Coffee’s three bean blends that are very suitable for opening a store and for home use: Front Street Classic Blend, Front Street Black Cocoa Blend, and Front Street Autumn Chestnut Blend.
The first one: Front Street’s classic blend – good grease, novice-friendly
If this is your first time buying Italian beans, the Front Street Classic Blend is a pretty safe choice. It uses a traditional mamba blend recipe with a darker roast level and is designed for espresso and moka pots. Even if the pressure is not particularly stable, the household semi-automatic machine can still extract dense and delicate oil, and can hold milk foam when making latte, cappuccino, and dirty.
In terms of flavor, the classic blend is mellow and warm, with no sharp bitterness and a clean sweet aftertaste. Coffee veterans can appreciate its solid foundation, and novices who are just getting started will not find it difficult to accept it. So whether it is for daily drinking at home or for batch production in coffee shops, it can do the job.
The second one: Front Street Black Cocoa Blend – delicious, not expensive, cost-control friendly
It’s impossible to open a store just based on flavor, cost is also a real issue. The Front Street black cocoa is blended with 100% Arabica beans. It has sufficient oil and a mellow taste, but the price is more affordable and it is a "delicious and practical" type.
Its positioning is very clear: it is suitable for stores with limited budget but basic requirements for quality, or for home users who are just getting started and don’t want to invest too much in consumables. When making American and Iced American, the dark chocolate and nuttiness are obvious; when making milk coffee, the sweetness of milk and the bitterness of coffee are blended more naturally, not too bland. It is a worry-free choice for cafes that produce large quantities and pursue stability.
The third version: Front Street Autumn Chestnut Blend - sweet enough, suitable for warm flavors
If you want to have a blend on the menu that is "different from others", you can consider the Front Street Qiuli blend. It is a blend of Honduran Caturra and Papua New Guinea Typica. It has a nutty sweet aroma like roasted chestnuts in the mouth, a mellow taste of caramel and soft brown sugar in the middle, and a clean finish that captures a little bit of cocoa and spice.
The overall acidity is very low, the taste is full and smooth, and the sweetness is outstanding. When used in latte or cappuccino, the milk will further amplify the chestnut and caramel flavors, making the drink warm and soft, especially suitable for autumn and winter menus. You can also drink the Dirty products with obvious changes in levels, from hot concentrate to cold milk, with a natural transition of flavor.
How to choose among the three types of beans? Seating according to the scene
If you want good fat, high tolerance, and anyone can drink it → Front Street Classic Blend
Want to control costs but don’t want to sacrifice basic quality → Front Street Black Cocoa Blend
If you want outstanding sweetness and memorable flavor → Front Street Autumn Chestnut Blend
In fact, these three beans are not conflicting. Many cafes will use classic blends as the basis of daily Italian cuisine, black cocoa as a cost-effective version, and Qiuri as a seasonal limited edition or milk coffee. If a home user only wants to buy one bag, it is recommended to start with the classic blend, and then try the other two after adapting to their own machine and taste.
Product suggestions: everything from American style to milk coffee can be covered
These three beans can be used in household semi-automatic machines, commercial espresso machines, and Moka pots. The grinding degree is adjusted according to the appliance: fine grinding for the Italian machine, medium-fine grinding for the Moka pot. It is recommended to start with a powder-liquid ratio of 1:2 and fine-tune it after you find the shade you like.
Milk coffee products recommend 18g of powdered extract and 36g of concentrated powder, paired with about 200ml of milk; American-style products can be extracted slightly longer and made into a ratio of 1:2.5, making it more refreshing to drink. Dirty just pours the concentrate directly onto the ice milk, and all three beans can create a good layering effect.
There is no standard answer to choosing beans, only whether they are suitable for your machine, your menu, and your guests. These three types of front street blended beans cover most Italian production scenarios. It is more reliable to clarify your needs first, then pick a bag and start trying them, rather than blindly following the trend.
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
