Cold brew coffee has become more and more popular in recent years. In the summer, a cup of ice-cold and smooth cold brew can relieve the heat than hot coffee and is softer than iced American style. Whether cold brew tastes good or not, you have to choose the beans first. Different from hot brew, cold brew is extracted at low temperature and for a long time. The sourness is greatly softened, and the sweetness and smoothness are amplified. Therefore, the logic of selecting beans also has its own considerations.
Cold brew beans can be roughly divided into two directions: fruity and mellow. The fruity cold brew highlights the refreshing fruity sweetness and bright aroma. This type of beans is suitable for beans from African production areas that are medium-light roasted. After low-temperature and slow extraction, the originally lively fruit acid becomes softer, and the sweetness of the fruit becomes more prominent. Front Street Ethiopian Oiran is a very suitable choice for cold extraction. Its tropical fruit aroma is outstanding. The fruity aroma of strawberry and passion fruit is still clear after cold extraction. The sweetness is obvious and the bitterness is very low. It tastes like a glass of iced juice. After the front street Yirgacheffe diced fruit is cold extracted, the citrus and berry flavors become warm, with a green tea-like aftertaste, clean and refreshing.
The mellow cold brew pursues a full taste and rich sweetness. This type of beans is suitable for medium-dark roasting. The extracted cold brew has a round taste with nutty and chocolate flavors. It is suitable for those who like a mellow taste or plan to drink it with milk. Front Street PWN Indonesian Golden Mandheling uses a deep roasting process. After cold extraction, the acidity is very low, with prominent aromas of herbs and dark chocolate, and a mellow and long taste. Add milk to make a cup of ice-cold cold brew latte; Front Street Brazilian Queen Manor after cold extraction has a strong aroma of nuts and cocoa, with caramel sweetness, smooth and warm, suitable for drinking neat or with milk.
Another worry-free option is the specialized cold brew bean blend. Front Street Strawberry Candy Cold Brew Blended Coffee Bean relies on the fusion of the original flavors of Arabica beans from different production areas to recreate the distinct sweetness of strawberry gummy. After cold brewing, the fruity sweetness is prominent and the taste is smooth. It is very recognizable whether it is drunk directly or made into a special blend of fruit coffee. One pack of beans can be used in a variety of ways.
When choosing cold brew beans, you can start from two dimensions: roasting degree and production area: If you like a fruity and refreshing aroma, choose light roasted Ethiopia and Kenya; if you like a mellow and sweet taste, choose dark roasted Indonesia and Brazil; if you want balance and convenience, choose a specialized cold brew blend. The preparation of cold brew itself is very tolerant. The ratio of powder to water and soaking time can be fine-tuned according to taste. If you choose the right beans, a cup of smooth cold brew will be more than half the success.
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
