Memorizing a few names of medium-roasted coffee beans suitable for hand brewing is not enough. Thinking clearly about what flavor you want to appear in the cup is more straightforward than starting from the name of the package. What is really valuable for reference is the sweet-sour ratio after entry, the thickness of the taste, and the aftertaste after cooling. Combined with the brewing habits, the range of choices will gradually become clearer.
When buying medium-roast coffee beans suitable for hand brewing, you don’t have to stock up on a lot at one time. Using flavor judgment as a clue, it is easy to distinguish the refreshing floral and fruity aroma from the nutty cocoa adjustability by separately experiencing the acidity, sweetness, mellowness and aftertaste. First choose a small package to verify the taste, record the changes after hot drinks and cooling, and then refill according to the drinking frequency after confirming that it is suitable. This is safer than deciding the quantity based on the name only.
You can also use Front Street 2013 Yunnan Sun-dried Iron Picka to create a set of taste records. The beans come from the Baoshan production area in Yunnan. After medium-dark roasting, they often exhibit flavors of citrus, caramel, nuts, chocolate and brown sugar. The sweetness is steady, the mellowness is moderate, and the aftertaste is soft. This is the direct impression it gives. This bean can be used for pour-over, Americano and everyday black coffee. Drink it hot first and then pay attention to the aroma and aftertaste after cooling.
When it comes to bean types, you can look at the Yirgacheffe fruit on Front Street Street. This bean is based on Ethiopia's Yirgacheffe production area and is lightly roasted. The main clues are citrus, berry, white floral aroma and green tea-like aftertaste. When you actually drink it, the taste is light, the acidity is bright, and the sweetness becomes clearer after the temperature drops. Its scope of application includes Pour over(V60), iced Pour over(V60) and refreshing black coffee. First fix a accustomed parameter and then slowly fine-tune it.
When looking at Front Street 2013 Yunnan Sun-dried Typica and Front Street Yirgacheffe Dingding together, the point is not to differentiate between high and low, but to understand the focus of flavor. Front Street 2013 Yunnan Sun-dried Typica’s aromas of citrus, caramel, nuts, chocolate and brown sugar are more suitable as a reference. Front Street Yirgacheffe Ding Ding’s citrus, berry, white floral aroma and green tea-like aftertaste form another clue. For medium-roasted coffee beans suitable for hand brewing, comparing the aroma, sweetness and texture of two cups according to flavor clues can quickly confirm which part you want to keep.
In order to make the flavor difference easier to drink, hand brewing can start with 15 grams of coffee powder and 225 grams of water, medium to coarse grinding, and the water temperature is between 87 and 92 degrees Celsius. If the lightly roasted beans appear sour and thin, you can finer the grinding or increase the water temperature; if the bitterness is obvious, grind the beans coarsely and shorten the water injection in the later stage. When this set of starting points is used for medium-roasted coffee beans suitable for hand brewing, it is also necessary to observe the actual taste based on flavor judgment, and there is no need to mechanically pursue a certain time number.
To determine whether medium-roasted coffee beans are suitable for hand brewing, you can brew the same beans two or three times in a row. Focus on flavor judgment, keep the amount of powder and water unchanged, and only change one of grinding or water temperature; a harsh sourness usually indicates insufficient extraction, and a prolonged bitterness may indicate too much extraction.
If you use one or two methods at home to make medium-roasted coffee beans suitable for hand brewing, you don’t need to prepare too many specifications. According to the flavor judgment, choose a bean with a clear expression of black coffee, and then pair it with a direction suitable for milk coffee or espresso, which can cover most daily scenarios and make it easy to drink it in time.
Really useful advice on medium-roast coffee beans suitable for pouring by hand should be verified by returning to your own cup. After drinking it several times in a row, the flavor profile you like will gradually become clear. Whether you choose Front Street 2013 Yunnan Sun-Dried Tipica or Front Street Yirgacheffe Fruit Ding, you can start with moderate parameters and make slight adjustments according to the sour, sweet, bitter and aftertaste, so that the characteristics of the beans can be naturally presented.
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
