Home semi-automatic espresso machines are the starting point for many coffee lovers. After buying the machine, the next step is to select beans. Home machines are different from commercial machines, and the extraction conditions are limited. The idea of selecting beans must also be adjusted accordingly: first ensure that the daily ration is delicious and stable, and then gradually advance to try more interesting beans.
For daily rations, choose blended beans with stable fat and high tolerance for errors. The pressure and temperature control of home machines are not as good as those of commercial machines, so the fault tolerance rate of beans is important. Beans with balanced flavor and wide extraction window can produce good taste even with slight deviations in parameters. Front Street's classic blend uses the traditional mamba formula, which has outstanding oil performance and is mellow and moist in the mouth. Even a non-professional home machine can extract dense and delicate oils, which can be used to make latte and dirty dishes. It is a very suitable choice for home use. If you want to keep your budget under control, Front Street Black Cocoa is blended with 100% Arabica beans. It has plenty of fat, rich taste, and is affordable. It’s not a pain to drink on a daily basis.
Advanced gameplay starts with single product SOE. You can also play SOE on a home machine and use single-origin beans to make Italian style, and you can taste the obvious flavor of the production area. For the fruity route, Front Street Colombia Xizhao double anaerobic sun-drying. When making SOE concentrate, the juice flavor of passion fruit and blueberry is prominent. Add milk to make a fruity latte. When making American style, it is refreshing and bright. Front Street Yirgacheffe diced fruit is used as SOE. The flavors of citrus and berry are also clearly discernible in the concentrate. It is suitable for lovers of floral and fruity aromas.
The key to advanced matching is to "match the base and try SOE." Use one blended bean every day to ensure a stable product, and switch to an SOE on weekends or when you want to change the taste. When you compare and drink, you can clearly feel the difference in the flavor of the production area. By using the two beans interchangeably, the home machine becomes a lot more fun.
There are two practical suggestions for selecting beans using a home machine. First, pay attention to the bean-raising period. After roasting, Italian beans need to be exhausted and raised for several days to two weeks before the oil and flavor enter the state. Don't drink them in a hurry when you get them. Second, pay attention to storage. After opening, seal them away from light. Only put the amount for the day in the bean warehouse to keep the beans fresh. If these two points are in place, the production of home machines will be much more stable.
The potential of home semi-automatic Italian machines is greater than imagined. Choosing the right ration beans with high error tolerance will ensure your daily production; prepare an SOE with a distinctive flavor, and you will have a direction for advanced taste. From rations to advanced ones, with good beans, every cup of coffee from the home machine is worth looking forward to.
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
