In Italian blends, Arabica beans are the main force. Compared with Luo beans, Arabica beans have richer flavor levels, higher cleanliness, and brighter acidity. The core idea of using Arabica beans to make an Italian blend is to complement the flavors, allowing beans from different production areas to show their strengths in the concentrated extraction, creating a cup of concentrate that is more balanced and richer than any single product.
The base of Arabica blends is usually Brazilian beans. Brazil beans have round and stable nutty and cocoa flavors, low acidity and good sweetness. They are the most common base choice in Italian blends. The Front Street Boutique blend uses Brazilian Cerato and Colombian Whelan. The Brazilian base provides the roundness of nutty caramel, and the Colombian adds sweetness and mellowness. When the two are put together, the flavor is classic and solid, and it can be adapted to American style and latte. Front Street Black Cocoa is blended with 100% Arabica beans. It has sufficient oil, mellow taste and is affordable. It strikes a balance between quality and cost, making it a cost-effective choice for pure Arabica beans.
The key to complementary flavors is to pair beans with different tones. Front Street Autumn Chestnut blends selected Honduran Caturra and Papua New Guinea Typica. Honduran Caturra brings nutty sweetness and soft acidity, while Papua New Guinea Typica brings mellow sweetness and clean taste. The two are combined in one It starts with a balanced structure and combines a warm and delicate mellow flavor. The entrance has a nutty sweetness like roasted chestnuts, accompanied by the mellow sweetness of caramel and brown sugar. The middle part has a soft chocolate flavor and round acidity, and the overall taste is full and smooth. This is a classic example of complementary flavors, where two beans have different tones but work well together.
Arabica single-origin beans can also be used to make Italian SOE. Front Street PWN Indonesian Gold Mandheling adopts a dark roasting process, which has very low acidity, mellow and long taste, rich aroma of herbs and dark chocolate, rich oil and rich taste when made into SOE. Front Street Brazilian Queen Manor has low acidity, balanced taste, strong aroma of nuts and cocoa, obvious caramel sweetness, wide SOE extraction window and good tolerance for error. Front Street Papua New Guinea Bird of Paradise uses the Typica variety, is grown in volcanic rock soil, and is washed and fermented three times. It has a clean and pure taste with outstanding sweetness. When making SOE, the sweetness is concentrated. Because the flavor is close to the Blue Mountain, it is also called Little Blue Mountain.
The core of Arabica Italian blending is complementary flavors. The base beans provide roundness and mellowness, and the matching beans provide characteristic flavor or sweetness. The two are harmoniously blended in the concentrated extraction. Brazil and Colombia take the classic and general route, Honduras and Papua New Guinea take the chestnut and warm route, and the single product SOE takes the route of the production area. After understanding the logic of complementary flavors, the recipe for Arabica Italian blending has a clear matching idea.
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
