To understand the coffee beans suitable for making latte, you need to translate the flavor description into a drinking experience. Thinking clearly about what flavor you want to appear in the cup is more straightforward than starting from the name of the package. Floral aroma, fruit acid, nuts and cocoa are not divided into high and low, but different directions. Only the one that suits you has long-term reference value.
You don’t have to stock up on a lot of coffee beans suitable for making latte. 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.
Front Street Dark Cocoa Blend can help understand the flavor differences between similar coffees. The beans come from a blend of Arabica coffee beans, which are darkly roasted and often present dark cocoa, nuts and mellow sweetness. The acidity is low, the taste is thick, and the oil is sufficient. This is the direct impression it gives. It is suitable for espresso, latte, Australian white and moka pots, and can record temperature changes with fixed recipes.
It’s not easy to get an idea just by looking at the text description. Front Street’s high-quality blending can be used as a physical reference. It comes from a blend of Front Street Brazilian Cerato and Front Street Colombian Whelan. It is roasted medium-dark and has 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. Use it daily to make American, latte, Australian white and home espresso machines, and it can retain relatively complete features.
Looking at the Front Street Dark Cocoa Blend and the Front Street Premium Blend together, the point is not to differentiate between high and low, but to understand the focus of flavor. The Front Street Dark Cocoa Blend’s dark cocoa, nuts and mellow sweetness are more suitable as a reference, while the Front Street Premium Blend’s nuts, cocoa and soft caramel sweetness form another clue. For coffee beans suitable for making latte, compare the aroma, sweetness and texture of two cups based on 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 making latte, 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.
The flavor description of coffee beans suitable for latte can be expected, but the actual cup feel will also be affected by the grinder, filter cup, water quality and room temperature. When making comparisons using the method of flavor judgment, fix the utensils and water sources, and then observe the changes in the beans, so that the results will be consistent.
If you plan to try a variety of coffee beans suitable for making latte, small packages will make it easier to compare. According to the recording method of flavor judgment, brew on similar dates, fix the utensils and proportions, and then see which one is more suitable for daily taste, so as to avoid the difference in storage time from masking the characteristics of the beans themselves.
The selection logic of coffee beans suitable for making latte can fall on a cup of coffee: the flavor of the beans is in line with expectations, the appliance can express it normally, and the parameter adjustment can be followed. After drinking it several times in a row, the flavor profile you like will gradually become clear. Both the Front Street Black Cocoa Blend and the Front Street Boutique Blend can provide specific reference. You can slowly compare and find the direction that suits you.
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
