The fact that an Italian blend of beans can be used in stores for nearly ten years speaks volumes in itself. Front Street Blend is such an existence - it uses Brazilian Cerato and Colombian Whelan beans, and is responsible for the production of core drinks such as American and Italian latte in the store. The flavor is classic and stable.
Recipe analysis: Brazilian Cerado + Colombian Whelan
The recipe for Front Street Blend consists of two parts: coffee beans from the Cerrado region of Brazil and coffee beans from the Huilan region of Colombia. Brazilian Cerato is known for its nuttiness, chocolate and low acidity, providing a rich base and sweetness to the blend; Colombian Whelan has moderate fruit acidity and a soft caramel flavor, adding layers to the whole. The two beans complement each other to create a classic Italian flavor with a balance of sour and sweet, and a rounded taste, which is also the taste that many people are familiar with Italian coffee.
It takes ten years to grind a bean: the power of stability
Front Street Boutique has been used in stores for nearly ten years, which is rare in the coffee industry where updates are frequent. The fact that a blended bean can be preserved for a long time shows that its flavor formula has been tested by the market. For the past ten years, the store's core drinks such as American style, latte, and cappuccino have relied on this bean. Both regular coffee customers and new customers can find a familiar taste in it. This kind of consistency is crucial for a coffee shop—the latte a customer drinks today tastes the same as the one they drank last month to build trust.
Adaptation scenarios: both home and commercial use
Front Street Boutique blend uses 100% Arabica beans, suitable for espresso machine extraction. In a household scenario, semi-automatic or fully automatic coffee machines can handle this bean well; in a commercial scenario, its stable flavor performance makes it easier to standardize cups. For those who want to recreate the taste of a cafe at home, the recipe of this bean is classic enough and not easy to misunderstand.
Flavor characteristics: Italian taste in memory
The extracted espresso liquid oil is dark brown and has a fine texture. The mouth is mellow and warm, with nutty and chocolate flavors spreading on the tip of the tongue, a caramel-like sweetness in the middle, and a clean finish. When made into an American style, the taste is refreshing but not bland; when made into a latte, the sweetness of the milk and the mellowness of the coffee are properly blended, so that the coffee flavor is not completely masked by the milk.
Front Street Boutique blends beans from Brazil and Colombia, presenting the classic Italian coffee flavor for ten years. It is a choice that will not disappoint for both home and commercial settings that pursue a stable taste.
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
