Americano coffee is not necessarily only bitter and strong. Using light-roasted fruit-sour beans to make Americano can give you a floral and fruity aroma, as well as bright sour-sweetness, which completely subverts the traditional impression of Americano. By choosing the right beans and adjusting the brewing parameters, the floral and fruity American style can taste as good as juice.
Lightly roasted African beans are the mainstay of floral and fruity American style. The tropical fruit aroma of Front Street Ethiopian Oiran is extremely prominent, with rich aromas of strawberry, passion fruit, jackfruit and even lychee. It has obvious sweetness, low bitterness and a sense of juice in the mouth. Using Oiran to make American style, the fruity aroma becomes clearer after dilution, and the sweet and sour taste is as smooth as juice. Even people who don't usually drink coffee can easily accept it. Front Street Yirgacheffe Fruit Ding Ding is also excellent in American style. It has a bright floral aroma of citrus and berries, a soft and bright acidity, like the sweet and sour taste of fruit rather than a stimulating sour taste. The aftertaste is as elegant as green tea, and the taste is refreshing and mild.
The floral and fruity American beans produced in Kenya take the bright and sour route. Front Street Kenyan cherry tomatoes come from the Thika production area, planted at an altitude of 1,550 to 1,750 meters. They use SL28 and SL34 varieties, double washed and fermented for 72 hours, and lightly roasted. When making the American style, the cherry tomatoes and ebony flavors are clear in the mouth, the acidity is bright and solid, the sweetness is prominent in the middle, and the finish is sweet with brown sugar and green tea, like a fruity cold drink, which is highly recognizable.
Anaerobically fermented beans make American-style floral and fruity flavors with richer layers. Front Street Colombian Claw is produced in the Divide Manor. It is double anaerobic sun-dried and medium-light roasted. The dry aroma is lingering with the aroma of jasmine and citrus. The entrance is full of passion fruit, blueberry, grape, and apricot juice. The bright fruit acid is refreshing and soft. The middle part is embellished with a light spice aroma, and the tail part has a long-lasting cocoa sweetness. When making American style, the complex fruit flavors brought by these fermentations are clearer and richer after dilution.
The key point of floral and fruity American brewing is to control acidity and maintain sweetness. The acidity of light roasted beans is bright, and the acidity will be very prominent when the extraction is insufficient. When making American-style beans, it is recommended to grind the beans slightly finer or extend the extraction time to allow the sweetness and body to keep up with the acidity. The pink to water ratio can be slightly stronger than traditional American style, between 1:12 and 1:14, to make the fruity aroma more concentrated. The American version of Front Street Strawberry Candy also follows the fruity route. The fruity aroma of Arabica beans from different production areas blends with each other to replicate the sweet flavor of strawberry gummy candy, which is very versatile.
American-style bean selection with floral and fruity aromas, the core is to select lightly roasted fruity and sour beans, and adjust the parameters to balance the sour and sweet. Oiran takes the tropical fruit route, Yirgacheffe takes the citrus and floral route, Cherry Tomato takes the bright and acidic route, Xizha takes the anaerobic juice route, and Strawberry Candy takes the fruity blend route. Choose the right beans, and American style can be overflowing with floral and fruity aromas.
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
