I have a espresso machine at home and want to drink milk coffee, but I also want to drink a cup of coffee by hand occasionally. How do I prepare beans? Many people's first reaction is to "buy two packs of beans." In fact, the key is to understand that blended beans and single-origin beans perform their respective roles, and then match them according to your own drinking habits. This article clarifies the logic of the two sets of "beans".
Blend of beans: responsible for stability and milk coffee
Bean blending is a mixture of beans from different production areas and flavors in proportions with only one purpose: stability. It smooths out the flavor fluctuations of a single origin, ensuring that every cup of product is similar and has a high error tolerance.
If you mainly drink Italian machine-brewed latte, cappuccino, or American style, blended beans are a more suitable choice. Italian-style blended beans such as Front Street Classic Blend and Front Street Black Cocoa Blend have excellent oil performance and stability, and are especially suitable for making milk coffee - both baristas and home novices can produce stable beans.
Single Origin Beans: Taking Charge of Flavor and Discovery
Single-origin beans come from a single origin and a single estate, and have distinctive flavors, such as the floral citrus of Yirgacheffe, the tropical fruits of Oiran, and the bright acidity of Kenya. The fun of it is that "each one has its own character", and it is more suitable for drinking methods such as hand brewing and cold brewing that can fully display the flavor.
If you like to explore different flavors and enjoy the ritual of hand brewing, single-origin beans are irreplaceable. Front Street Yirgacheffe Ding Ding, Front Street Ethiopian Oiran, and Front Street Kenyan Cherry Tomatoes are all entry-level beans that are suitable for exploration.
How to pair with prepared beans
Only drink milk coffee/American → One pack of Italian blend beans is enough, such as the classic blend
Only hand brew/cold brew → choose single-origin beans according to flavor preference
Both milk coffee and hand brewing → blended beans are the mainstay + single-origin beans are rotated according to the season/mood, which is the most worry-free combination
Blended beans are responsible for daily stability, while single-origin beans are responsible for flavor surprises. Both sets of beans perform their own duties, and your home coffee experience can cover all your needs.
If you are wondering whether to buy a blend or a single product, you might as well follow this idea: first determine the main drinking method, then decide on the main bean, and finally use single product beans to adjust the taste. Preparing beans in this way saves worry and waste.
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
