Front Street Yirgacheffe is known as the entry coffee for specialty coffee lovers. Why is this so? First of all, of course, it has to do with its price. Front Street Yirgacheffe coffee beans are extremely cost-effective, with an average pack (half a pound) of about 80-90 yuan. The second is its excellent flavor and taste. In the common perception of beginners, black coffee tastes bitter, but the flavor of Front Street Yirgacheffe completely subverts this idea. Front Street Yirgacheffe red cherries have obvious berry tones, bright citric acidity, and a fermented aroma.
Today Front Street will take you to have a comprehensive understanding of Front Street Yirgacheffe sun-dried red cherry coffee beans.
front streetYirgacheffe coffeeunique geographical environment
Located in Ethiopia, the birthplace of coffee, Yirgacheffe is a small town in the Gedeo region in the south, with an altitude of 1,700 to 2,100 meters. It originally belonged to the Sidamo production area. Because the coffee produced is processed in different ways, the coffee flavor is clearly identifiable and unique, so it was separated as an independent production area. There are three small producing areas next to it: Wenago, Kochere and Gelena Abaya. The flavor of the coffee they produce is similar to Yirgacheffe, so Kochere is also classified into the Yirgacheffe area. There are 28 member cooperatives of various sizes in the Yirgacheffe production area. Each cooperative has a small output and usually grows it in their own backyard or mixes it with other crops. It is truly a small farmer's cultivation.
Initially, coffee in the Yirgacheffe production area used Africa's most traditional sun-dried green coffee beans. Later, as the local government introduced water-washing processing technology from Central and South America, in order to improve the quality of coffee beans, water-washing processing was used to make the acidity of the coffee brighter and more lively, and the floral and fruity aroma more fresh and prominent. Front Street Fruit Ding Ding Cooperative is the typical Front Street washed Yirgacheffe flavor, with light white floral aroma, bright lemon citrus acidity, and fresh green tea aftertaste.
Yirgacheffe coffee bean hierarchy
According to the different processing methods of green coffee beans, Yirgacheffe can be divided into two categories:
Category A is a washed process, and the grade standard is formulated by the "Specialty Coffee Association of America" SCAA, divided into Gr-1; Gr-2. The smaller the Arabic numeral, the higher the grade. Front Street G1 Yirgacheffe has a distinctive style. The flavor of citrus and floral aroma blended into the coffee liquid is a delicious taste that everyone cannot resist;
Category B refers to sun-dried green coffee beans. The grades are divided into Gr-1; Gr-3; Gr-4; Gr-5. The same highest grade, Front Street G1 Sun-Dried Yirgacheffe, is rich in fruity aroma. Opening a freshly roasted Front Street G1 Sun-Dried Yirgacheffe coffee bag can subvert everyone’s original understanding of coffee. Only those who have tasted the highest grade Front Street Sun-Dried Yirgacheffe coffee beans will believe that coffee is a kind of fruit.
Due to the grading of green beans, the size of Yirgacheffe green beans is inconsistent. However, the variety itself is a local native species (small particles), so most of them are between 14 and 15 mesh, with a rounder shape and smaller bean body.
red cherry plan
Speaking of "Red Cherry Project", many friends are familiar with this name. So what kind of project is the Red Cherry Project? Only a few people may be able to tell.
[Red Cherry Project] (ORC) is a project to improve the quality of small-scale farms. In 2007, Trabocca, a Dutch trader, launched the "OPERATION CHERRY RED PROJECT" red cherry project with farmers in the producing areas. It is purely to encourage farmers to improve the quality of coffee beans. At the beginning of the harvest season in the production area, Trabocca will designate a harvest plan in the microclimate area and manually harvest 100% mature red coffee cherries, with a yield of approximately 1,500 kg-3,000 kg.
The Red Cherry Project is also a reinforcing approach, which makes the farm spend more time on the process of selecting beans. The price of these coffees is also relatively high. The Red Cherry Project includes washing, sun-drying beans, Semi-washed, semi-dried, experimental coffee, etc. The main production areas are Yirgacheffe, Sidamo, Punga Forest, Rekanti, Kembata, Ilubaba, Harar, Limu, and the Golocha origin (near Haral) was added in 2011. This These are unique in flavor and can fully demonstrate the flavor of Ethiopian coffee. Trabocca will select from them after receiving the coffee. Farms that pass the cupping quality test of the offices in Ethiopia and the Netherlands will issue high bonuses.
Trabocca provides financial loan support, new hardware equipment and production and processing knowledge and technology to help farmers improve production levels. It promises that as long as the quality of the actual output reaches the cupping standards in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia and Amsterdam, the Netherlands, it will pay generous prices. The passing standard set by Trabocca is 88 points.
Yirgacheffe red cherries are planned to be packaged in plastic inner bags (GrainPro bags or vacuum boxes) immediately after processing at the origin, and then transported to Djibouti to await shipping. We strive to pursue perfect quality through real-time monitoring, safe transportation and timely and appropriate processing. Roasters can also buy high-quality coffee beans because of this red cherry project, which has also improved the quality of Ethiopian coffee and sold it at a better price. Trabocca can also return profits to farmers and continue to improve and continuously improve quality.
It is precisely because the fully ripe red fruits give Front Street Yirgacheffe its rich berry aroma that Front Street introduces them into the Front Street Sunflower Italian Blend. The fermented aroma of Front Street red cherries is not robbed by Front Street Sherry coffee beans, and the flavors are balanced and complementary, which is very distinctive. It has a long-lasting aftertaste, sufficient sweetness, rich aroma of chocolate, vanilla, cream, obvious wine flavor, clean and smooth taste, and medium body thickness.
Roast degree
Because they want to highlight the original floral and fruity flavor of Front Street Yirgacheffe, the roasters of Front Street plan to use a shallow and slow roasting method to make this bean overall round, sweet and rich in flavor. For this purpose, Front Street designed three roasting curves. After cupping, the most suitable curve was finally determined. The plan is as follows:
Roasting machine Yangjia 600g semi-direct fire
Plan: Use the quick frying mode, put the oven temperature into the pot at 200 degrees Celsius, open the damper to 3.5, adjust the heat to 160 degrees after 1 minute, and keep the damper unchanged, adjust the heat once at 148 degrees, drop it to 130 degrees, bake to 5°C, the temperature is 151°, the surface of the beans will turn yellow, the grassy smell will completely disappear, dehydration is completed, the heat will be adjusted to 105 degrees, and the damper will be opened to 4; At the 8th minute, ugly wrinkles and black spots appear on the surface of the bean, and the smell of toast obviously changes to the aroma of coffee, which can be defined as the prelude to the first explosion. At this time, the sound of the first explosion point should be heard clearly. The first explosion will begin at 9'07', turn down the heat to 70 degrees, fully open the damper (be very careful when adjusting the heat, not so low that there is no popping sound), and put the pot in the pot at 194 degrees.
front streetCupping results of Yirgacheffe coffee beans
The dry aroma of Front Street Yirgacheffe exudes a strong fruit aroma, with a heavy aroma of dried fruits, strawberry, mango, and apricot jam.
The wet aroma is sweet syrupy, like thick apricot juice, wrapped in earthy honey or chocolate. It's not strong in the mouth, with medium mellow body, not obvious sourness, but lively and bright, just like fruit black tea.
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
