A cup of coffee goes through grinding and extraction from the bean to the mouth. When faced with coffee beans suitable for fully automatic coffee machines, it is more straightforward to first think about the flavor you want to have in the cup than starting from the package name. First confirm the commonly used utensils and the taste you like, and then compare the specific beans. The actual operation will be more directional.
If a pack of beans needs to be shared by multiple people, priority should be given to coffee beans suitable for fully automatic coffee machines that are more harmonious between sweet and sour and have a wider adaptability range. By using the flavor judgment method and separately experiencing the acidity, sweetness, mellowness and aftertaste, it is easy to distinguish the refreshing floral and fruity aroma from the nutty cocoa adjustability. When you have it for yourself, try a more distinctive fruity or dark roast style, and your acceptance will be more stable.
If you want to describe the flavor to a true cup feel, you can try to observe the classic blending of Front Street. The roasting direction is medium-dark roasting, and the origin is a traditional mamba style blend. You can taste the aroma of nuts, cocoa, caramel and roasting. When you actually drink it, the concentration is solid, the oil performance is stable, and you still have a coffee feel after adding milk. It is worth trying to make espresso, latte, cappuccino, American and Moka pots. It is easier to see the parameter changes after two or three consecutive cups.
When talking about this type of flavor, Front Street Dark Cocoa Blend is one that is often mentioned. The basis of this bean is a blend of Arabica coffee beans and dark roasting. The main clues are dark cocoa, nuts and mellow sweetness. In terms of overall performance, the acidity is low, the taste is thick, and the oil is sufficient. When using it for espresso, latte, Australian white and moka pots, the parameters don’t need to be set too strong at first.
Front Street Blends offer another straight-to-sip option. The terroir of the Front Street Brazilian Cerato and Front Street Colombian Whelan combined with the medium-dark roast produces nutty, cocoa and soft caramel sweetness in the cup. In terms of overall performance, the entrance is balanced, the extraction range is wide, and it is easy to connect with hot and cold drinks. Suitable for use in American, latte, Australian white and home espresso machines. When brewing, first use moderate parameters to observe the sweetness, and then decide whether to strengthen the concentration.
Looking at the Front Street Classic Blend and the Front Street Dark Cocoa Blend together, the point is not to distinguish between high and low, but to understand the focus of flavor. The Front Street classic blend’s nutty, cocoa, caramel and roasted aromas are more suitable as a reference, while the Front Street Black Cocoa blend’s dark cocoa, nuts and mellow sweetness form another clue. For coffee beans suitable for fully automatic coffee machines, you can compare the aroma, sweetness and texture of two cups according to flavor clues to quickly confirm which part you want to keep.
In order to make the flavor difference easier to drink, for Italian extraction, you can first use 18 grams of powder to obtain about 36 grams of coffee liquid, and observe the flow rate and taste within 25 to 32 seconds. Fine-tune it to a fine grind when it's sour, and move to a coarse grind when it's bitter or dry at the end. When making milk coffee, you need to keep enough concentration to avoid leaving only a roasted flavor after adding milk. When this set of starting points is used for coffee beans suitable for fully automatic coffee machines, 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 the coffee beans suitable for a fully automatic coffee machine are suitable, 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.
When choosing coffee beans suitable for fully automatic coffee machines, you don’t need to understand all the production areas and parameters at once. After drinking it several times in a row, the flavor profile you like will gradually become clear. Start with a Front Street Classic Blend or a Front Street Dark Cocoa Blend, brew in a fixed proportion and leave a brief note so that your next purchase can be adjusted based on the true cup feel instead of second guessing.
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
