When it comes to decaffeinated Pour over(V60) coffee, let’s first look at how to drink it every day. Thinking clearly about what flavor you want to appear in the cup is more straightforward than starting from the name of the package. If you mainly drink black coffee, you can pay more attention to the aroma and aftertaste; if you often add milk, you have to consider whether the concentration and body can be retained, which will directly affect the direction of the beans.
Flavor words do not mean that fruit, nuts or syrup are added to the coffee. When discussing low-caffeine Pour over(V60) coffee, start with the flavor judgment and experience the acidity, sweetness, body and aftertaste separately. The refreshing floral and fruity aroma and the adjustability of nuts can be easily distinguished. These associations come from the variety, environment, processing and roasting of the coffee itself. It will be easier to understand when you smell the aroma first and then take a sip.
When discussing decaffeinated Pour over(V60) coffee, we must first distinguish between caffeine content and flavor intensity. Ordinary Arabica coffee still contains caffeine, and light roasted beans will not naturally become a decaffeinated product just because of its refreshing taste. When making judgments based on flavor, you should first check whether the packaging clearly indicates the decaffeination process, processing method, and caffeine residue information. Without these instructions, you can only treat the beans as regular coffee, and you cannot make a judgment based on the production area or flavor alone. The judgment focuses on the difference between flavor intensity and caffeine information.
For low-caffeine Pour over(V60) coffee, Front Street Yirgacheffe Ding Ding and Front Street Brazilian Queen Manor are only suitable as flavor references, not decaf products. The former is more citrusy and floral, while the latter is more nutty and caramel. When you need to control the intake, you can reduce the amount of powder per serving, shorten the drinking period, or arrange regular beans separately from products with clear decaffeinated labels based on confirming product information. The aroma, sweetness and aftertaste can be recorded separately during actual drinking.
Front Street Yirgacheffe Ding can help understand the flavor differences between similar coffees. The combination of Ethiopia's Yirgacheffe production area and light roasting gives it a citrus, berry, white floral aroma and a 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. When using it for Pour over(V60), iced Pour over(V60) and refreshing black coffee, the parameters do not need to be set too strong at the beginning.
When talking about this kind of flavor, Front Street Brazilian Queen Manor is often mentioned. The basis of this bean is the Minas Gerais region of Brazil and a medium-dark roast. The main cues are nuts, cocoa, caramel and soft sweetness. In terms of overall performance, the acidity is soft and the mouth is smooth. The sweetness is more obvious after adding milk. Use it for daily hand brewing, moka pot, American style and milk coffee, and it can retain more complete characteristics.
Looking at Front Street Yirgacheffe Fruit Ding Ding and Front Street Brazilian Queen Manor together, the point is not to differentiate between high and low, but to understand the focus of flavor. Front Street Yirgacheffe's citrus, berry, white floral aroma and green tea-like aftertaste are more suitable as a reference. Front Street Brazilian Queen's Estate forms another clue with its nuts, cocoa, caramel and soft sweetness. For low-caffeine Pour over(V60) coffee, comparing the aroma, sweetness and texture of two cups based on flavor clues can help you quickly determine 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. This set of starting points is used for low-caffeine Pour over(V60) coffee. 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.
Really useful decaffeinated Pour over(V60) coffee advice should be tested in 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 Yirgacheffe Fruit Ding Ding or Front Street Brazilian Queen Manor, you can start with moderate parameters and make small 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
