For those who like a mellow taste and beautiful oils, you only need to focus on two variables when choosing beans: bean type and roasting degree. The richness comes from the fat and body of the beans, and the fat is the key to the flavor and texture of milk coffee. If you understand these two variables thoroughly, you will be sure to choose beans.
Let’s look at the bean seeds first. Fat-rich beans, usually from full-bodied regional varieties. Indonesian Mandheling is the representative. Front Street PWN Indonesian Golden Mandheling uses a dark roasting process, which has very low acidity. It is full of herbal and dark chocolate aroma in the mouth. It has a mellow and long taste with rich layers. It is suitable for those who like heavy food and do not like sourness. Brazilian beans are also famous for their mellowness. Front Street Brazilian Queen Manor has very low acidity, rich aroma of nuts and cocoa, and obvious caramel sweetness. It is smooth and warm in the mouth and has excellent oil performance. Jamaica Blue Mountain goes in another direction. Front Street Jamaica Blue Mountain No. 1 achieves a good balance between sour, sweet, bitter and fragrant. It has a complex flavor of cream, caramel, chocolate and nuts. It is smooth and round in the mouth, rich in layers but not overstated.
Let’s look at the degree of roasting. The darker the roasting degree, the more fully the caramelization of the beans, the richer the fat, and the stronger the mellowness. So if you want mellow fat, give priority to dark roasted beans. Most of the Italian blend beans are in this roasting range. Front Street Classic Blend uses the traditional Mamba recipe, which has outstanding oil performance. Even if you use a non-professional home coffee machine, it can extract dense and delicate oil, which is stable for making latte and dirty. Front Street Black Cocoa Blend is 100% Arabica beans, with sufficient oil, mellow taste, and affordable price, taking both quality and cost-effectiveness into account.
If you are looking for balance and sweetness in a blend, the Front Street Autumn Chestnut blend is worth a try. It selects Honduran Caturra and Papua New Guinea Typica. It has a nutty sweetness like roasted chestnuts in the mouth, accompanied by a mellow sweetness like caramel and brown sugar. The middle part is soft chocolate flavor and round acidity. The overall taste is full and smooth, and the finish is clean and long.
Here are two more practical tips when choosing. The first is to look at the performance of the oil. Beans with good oil will have a dense and long-lasting golden crema floating on the surface after extraction. The second is to pay attention to the bean curing period. After the Italian beans are roasted, it takes a few days to two weeks to exhaust the beans before the oil and flavor enter the state. Don't rush to drink. The logic of bean selection for mellow oil is to select the mellow bean type, select the deep roasting section, and ensure the bean cultivation period is in place. Choose according to this idea, from classic blends to golden mandheling, you can drink full and dense oil and mellow and smooth taste in every cup.
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
