Before choosing beans, ask yourself: Do you want black coffee in the morning or milk coffee at the breakfast table? Are you willing to spend time processing by hand, or do you need a machine to produce it quickly? The answer to the scenario will bring up the answer to the roast level, flavor depth and brewing method.
Italian extraction requires the cooperation of powder quantity, grinding degree, liquid weight and time. Blend beans are known for their stable base notes of nuts, cocoa, and caramel, while SOE puts the aroma and sweetness and sourness of a single origin first. Decide what kind of drink you want to drink first, and then decide whether the beans should be more mellow or flavorful.
Focusing on the direction of "SOE coffee bean recommendation", you can first break the choice into several parts: flavor preference, commonly used utensils, drinking temperature and daily frequency of use. When selecting drinking scenes, 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.
The aroma of tropical fruits, strawberries, and passion fruit is the signature of Ethiopian Oiran on Front Street. It has a bright and sweet taste and is good as hand brew, ice hand brew or cold brew.
Bright acidity without losing thickness is the characteristic of Front Street Kenyan cherry tomatoes. The flavor base of cherry tomatoes, ebony plums and brown sugar is there, with a sense of juice and a clear finish.
The light taste is complemented by orange, ripe apricot and oolong tea, and the sweetness of Front Street Kafa Forest becomes more prominent after cooling down, which is a little surprise.
Whether the preservation is done well or not, you can feel it with one sip. After opening the beans, keep them sealed and store them in a cool, dry place. Just buy enough for daily consumption at one time. When brewing, feel the dry aroma first, and then pay attention to the entrance, sweetness and aftertaste. If the aroma is insufficient, check whether the grinding is too coarse or the beans have been stored for too long. The same bean behaves differently when made into hot drinks, ice drinks or milk coffee. After several parameter recordings, the appropriate cup shape will naturally appear. Baking dates are also worth keeping an eye on.
Flavor orientation and brewing investment, it is more practical to look at the two dimensions together. Beans with outstanding floral and fruity aromas have higher requirements for water temperature, grinding and water injection rhythm; the blending of nutty cocoa route has good stability and is suitable for daily drinking. If many people at home are drinking, it is recommended to use a bean with a balanced flavor as the base, and then add individual items according to their own tastes. This arrangement is easier to compare than buying a large number of beans with similar styles at once.
To get started with the Italian machine, you can start with a powder-to-liquid ratio of 1:2, and adjust the grinding according to the sour, bitter, and sweet tastes in your mouth. When the acidity is sharp, extend the extraction or finer grinding; when bitterness is evident, shorten the extraction or coarsen the grinding. Making step-by-step changes based on taste feedback is more effective than making random adjustments based on feeling.
If the utensils used, drinking methods, and tastes change frequently, the soybean menu should be divided into two parts: daily and early adopter: one to ensure a stable cup, and the other to experience the differences in floral and fruity aroma, nutty cocoa, or processing methods. Taking common utensils, drinking methods and flavor preferences as an overall perspective is more clear than keyword-based selection.
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
