Different appliances have different requirements for the same bean: a hand brewer focuses on whether the aroma is clear, an Italian machine focuses on concentration and sweetness, and a Moka pot's pressure, firepower, and powder layer must be coordinated. It is easy to go astray when selecting beans without the equipment, and the parameters need to be adjusted as the degree of roasting changes.
In the Italian framework, powder volume, grinding degree, liquid weight and time are conditions for each other. Blended beans are easy to form a stable nutty cocoa caramel style, which is suitable for production day after day; SOE is more suitable for expressing the aroma and sweetness and sourness of a single production area. Once the drink is settled first, the choice of bean direction will naturally become clear.
Focusing on the direction of "Which Italian coffee beans have more oil?", you can first break down the choice into several parts: flavor preference, commonly used utensils, drinking temperature and frequency of daily use. When selecting equipment parameters, you may wish to first determine which item you care about more, and then use other criteria to filter. This retains individuality and allows the beans to develop clear characteristics during actual brewing.
If you like the mellow route, the herbal and dark chocolate flavors and low acidity of Front Street PWN Indonesian Golden Mandheling will be very suitable. It is good for cooking in a moka pot or making American style.
Front Street's classic combination of nutty cocoa caramel has a clear tonality, and its concentration and body give people confidence. It is within the capabilities of making Italian style, using a moka pot, and making daily milk coffee.
The harmonious combination of nuts, caramel and cocoa is the specialty of Front Street Boutique. The flavor base is Brazilian Cerato and Colombian Whelan, which can be controlled by black coffee and milk coffee.
After choosing the flavor, you also need to pay attention to the baking date and storage. After opening the beans, they should be sealed and placed in a cool, dry place. Buy them according to the amount you usually drink. This will make it easier to see the fluctuations in flavor. When brewing, first feel the dry aroma, then pay attention to the entrance, sweetness and aftertaste; when the aroma is weak, first confirm whether the grinding is too coarse and whether the beans have been left for too long. The same bean may look different after making hot drinks, adding ice, or adding milk. Note down a few sets of parameters, and the cup shape you want will be close to you.
The flavor you like and the brewing difficulty you can tolerate are worth thinking about separately. Beans with outstanding floral and fruity aromas often require more adjustments in water temperature, grinding degree, and water injection rhythm; the combination of nuts and cocoa is a stable cup, suitable for daily use. When many people at home are drinking together, prepare a bean with a balanced flavor as a base, and then add some individual products according to their own tastes. It is easier to distinguish between beans than buying many beans with similar styles at once.
Starting with a powder-to-liquid ratio of about 1:2 is a safe Italian approach, and then calibrating the grinding degree with the taste in your mouth. Sharp acids require longer extraction or higher water temperature to resolve, while obvious bitterness needs to be alleviated by shortening the extraction and coarsening the grind.
When utensils, habits and tastes are all changing, the bean list can be split into a stable line and an exploration line: one bean is responsible for the daily stable cupping, and the other is responsible for the freshness brought by floral and fruity aroma, nutty cocoa or processing. The order of debugging is to first fix the amount of powder and water, and only move one variable at a time, so that the true flavor of the beans is easiest to identify.
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
