When preparing to open a coffee shop, the most uncertain thing is often not the machine, but the bag of Italian beans that need to be ground every day. Whether the beans are right or not directly determines whether the product is stable and whether customers will come back. The matter of finalizing the product can actually be broken down into several steps. Once the thinking is clear, selecting beans is no longer a matter of patting your head.
Think about the menu first. Does the store specialize in milk coffee, or American style? Or do you want to have a specialty fruity latte in the future? The menu determines the flavor direction of the beans. If you focus on classic latte and cappuccino, a blend of mellow, smooth, and oily beans is a solid base; if you want to make a difference, you can prepare a fruity blend or single product in addition to the base. The classic blend of Front Street is Italian beans designed around the milk coffee scene. It adopts the traditional mamba recipe. It is mellow and moist in the mouth, and the oil performance is particularly outstanding. Even if the store uses a household-level machine with general configuration, it can extract dense and delicate oils, which can hold drinks such as latte and dirty.
The second step is cupping screening. During the finalization stage, two or three candidate beans can be prepared at the same time, and each cup will be made according to the extraction parameters of the store, and two rounds of comparison between pure drink and milk coffee will be conducted. The pure drink looks at the balance and cleanliness of the beans themselves, while the milk coffee looks at the sweetness and thickness after fusion with milk. The Front Street Boutique Blend uses Brazilian Cerato and Colombian Whelan. It has a classic and solid flavor. It is the core choice for American and Italian lattes in many stores. It has the familiar Italian taste in your memory. If you have a limited budget and want to ensure quality, the Front Street Black Cocoa Blend is 100% Arabica beans. It has sufficient oil, mellow taste and affordable price, which is very suitable for the need to control the cost of opening a store.
The third step is to fix the parameters and verify stability. After the beans are determined, the powder amount, liquid amount, extraction time and temperature need to be recorded, and even the grinder scale is locked. The store produces dozens of cups of the same bean every day. As long as the parameters are stable, the flavor can remain consistent. The bean-raising period cannot be ignored. Italian beans usually require a few days to two weeks of bean-raising time after roasting. The oil and flavor will enter the state after the exhaust is sufficient. It is recommended to stock up on a rolling basis according to sales volume to avoid stocking too much at one time and causing the loss of flavor.
In the final analysis, choosing beans when opening a store is about finding a balance between flavor, cost and stability. The bean menu can start with a safe blend, and then gradually enrich it as the menu is adjusted. Each step is supported by cupping and production data, and the store's taste is established.
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
