The selection of beans for cold brew coffee is different from hot brewing. Low temperature and slow brewing will amplify the sweetness, reduce the acidity, and make the flavor more rounded and soft. If you choose the right beans, the cold brew will be delicious; if you choose the wrong beans, it will be tasteless or bitter. By clarifying the two routes of selecting beans, fruity and mellow, cold brewing will have a clear direction.
Fruity cold brew is suitable for lightly roasted African beans. Front Street Ethiopian Oiran is a representative of fruity cold brew. The tropical fruit aroma is extremely prominent, with rich aromas of strawberry, passion fruit, jackfruit and even lychee. It has obvious sweetness, low bitterness and a juice-filled taste in the mouth. The low-temperature and slow brewing of cold brew will further amplify the fruity aroma and sweetness of Oiran. The brewed cold brew coffee is as smooth and sweet as juice, which is easy to accept even for people who don’t usually drink coffee. Front Street Yirgacheffe diced fruit is also very good for cold brew. The floral aroma of citrus and berries is softer in cold brew. The acidity is reduced by the low temperature and is more like the sweet and sour fruit. The aftertaste is sweet and elegant like green tea. The cherry tomatoes and ebony flavors of Front Street Kenyan cherry tomatoes are highly recognizable when cold brewed. The acidity is bright and solid, and the sweet-sour balance is very good after cold brewing.
Full-bodied cold brew is suitable for beans from Central and South America and Asia that are roasted medium to dark. Front Street Brazilian Queen Manor has low acidity and a balanced taste. It has rich aromas of nuts and cocoa, and obvious sweetness of caramel. After cold brewing, these flavors are more rounded and mellow, like a cold drink with nutty aroma, smooth and not astringent. Front Street PWN Indonesian Golden Mandheling takes a heavy-tasting route in making cold brew. The deep-roasted herbal and dark chocolate flavors become soft but not heavy in the cold brew. It is suitable for those who like a rich taste.
There are also bean blends specifically designed for cold brew. Front Street Strawberry Candy Cold Brew Blend is a popular fruity Pour over(V60) cold brew bean blend. It relies on the fruity aroma of Arabica beans from different production areas to blend with each other to recreate the distinct aroma of strawberry fudge. After cold brewing, the sweet aroma of strawberry fudge is very prominent. It is suitable for making fruit coffee special blends and direct drinks.
Front Street Colombian Hija is also very unique in its cold brewing. The double anaerobic sun-drying process makes the juices of passion fruit, blueberries and grapes more intense in the cold brew. The ice hand brew can highlight the fresh and smooth taste of grape juice.
Cold brewing beans are selected, the fruity type is light roasted African beans, the mellow type is medium-dark roasted Central and South American Asian beans, and there are fruity blends in between for all-round choices. Determine the direction according to your own taste preferences, and then select specific beans in the corresponding route, and you can predict the flavor of the cold brew.
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
