When you open the coffee bean purchase page, you will always get stuck on the words "single product" and "blending". They all look like coffee beans, so what’s the difference? In fact, it’s very simple: Single-origin beans taste the character of a place of origin, while blended beans taste a stable balance. Understand the logic of these two routes, and you will no longer have to worry about choosing beans as your daily ration.
Single-origin beans: what you drink is the personality of the place of origin
Single-origin beans refer to coffee that comes from a single origin, a single estate or even a single plot, and the flavor is filled with stories of terroir. For example, the Front Street Yirgacheffe diced fruit has citrus, berry and floral aromas taking turns, with a green tea-like aftertaste at the end; the Front Street Kenyan cherry tomatoes fully express the sour aroma of cherry tomatoes and ebony plums, and are full of juice. The charm of this type of beans is that they are "unique", but the disadvantage is that the flavor fluctuates from batch to batch, and the floral aroma of one batch may become something else in the next.
Bean blending: What is important is stability and balance
Blending beans is a blend of beans from different origins in proportion, using their respective strengths to make up for their shortcomings. The Front Street Classic Blend follows the traditional Mamba route, combining the richness of Mandheling with the sweetness of Brazilian nuts, giving it a warm taste with very low acidity; the Front Street Boutique Blend uses Brazilian Cerato and Colombian Whelan to create the familiar Italian taste that everyone remembers. The value of blending lies in stability - no matter which batch, the product can maintain the same level, which is particularly important for stores that produce cups every day and for home users who pursue consistent taste.
Choose according to how you drink it
How to charge depends on your choice. If you mainly brew by hand, French press, and enjoy the flavor levels, single-origin beans are a more appropriate choice. The floral fruit acids are more fully expressed in light extraction. If you have a espresso machine or a moka pot at home, and you drink milk coffee and American style every day, blended beans can handle the task better. They are full of fat and thick in taste, can suppress the taste of milk, and can withstand repeated extractions. If you want to take care of both, you can also prepare a pack of individual products for hand brewing and a pack of Italian-style blends, each performing its own duties.
Choose according to budget and scenario
Budget is also an important reference dimension. When opening a store for commercial use and pursuing cost-effectiveness, Front Street Black Cocoa Blend and Front Street Commercial Blend are market-proven options. The prices are affordable and the taste is stable, making them easy to use for those who control costs. If you drink it at home and occasionally pursue a fresh flavor, it is worth the higher price for single-origin beans. There is no right or wrong, only what suits the current needs.
In the final analysis, single products and blending are not antagonistic relationships, but two parallel routes in the coffee world. If you want to know the charm of the place of origin, start with a single product; if you want to have a smooth drink every day, the blending will not let you down. According to the drinking method and budget, you can hardly choose the wrong first pack of beans.
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
