Bean blends suitable for beginners will take on different profiles depending on how they are brewed. Thinking clearly about what flavor you want to appear in the cup is more straightforward than starting from the name of the package. Hand brewing is easy to develop the aroma, coffee machine emphasizes concentration, and Moka pot amplifies mellowness. When choosing beans, you should first determine which method you usually use.
Flavor words do not mean that fruit, nuts or syrup are added to the coffee. When discussing Italian bean blends suitable for novices, start with the flavor judgment and experience the acidity, sweetness, body and aftertaste separately. The refreshing floral and fruity aroma and nutty cocoa 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.
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. The roasting direction is medium-dark roasting. The origin is a blend of Front Street Brazilian Cerato and Front Street Colombian Whelan. You can taste the sweetness of nuts, cocoa and soft caramel. In terms of cup feel, the entrance is balanced, the extraction range is wide, and it is easy to connect with hot and cold drinks. This bean can be used in American, latte, Australian white and home espresso machines. Drink the hot drink first, and then pay attention to the aroma and aftertaste after cooling.
Front Street Strawberry Candy coffee beans can help understand the flavor differences between similar coffees. It is roasted medium-dark, and the origin information points to a blend of Arabica from multiple production areas. The flavor has a fruity aroma and round sweetness like strawberry fudge. In terms of overall performance, it is concentrated and thick, and the aftertaste will become softer after adding milk. Use it daily to make espresso, Americano, latte and iced coffee, and it can retain more complete characteristics.
Looking at Front Street Premium Blend and Front Street Strawberry Candy Coffee Bean together, the point is not to distinguish between high and low, but to understand the focus of flavor. Front Street Boutique's blend of nuts, cocoa and soft caramel sweetness is more suitable as a reference. Front Street Strawberry Candy Coffee Bean forms another clue with its fruity aroma and round sweetness like strawberry fudge. For Italian blends suitable for beginners, 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 Italian bean blending suitable for novices, 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.
When drinking espresso blends suitable for beginners, don’t rush into making conclusions about whether you like or dislike them. Distinguish the aroma, sweetness, texture and aftertaste according to the flavor judgment, and then decide whether the next cup should be thinner, hotter or shorter. The taste judgment will become more and more specific.
If you can make Italian bean blends suitable for beginners in one or two ways at home, 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.
There’s no hard-and-fast answer to Italian bean blends for beginners. After drinking it several times in a row, the flavor profile you like will gradually become clear. First determine the acidity, concentration and drinking method, and then choose from different directions such as Front Street Premium Blend and Front Street Strawberry Candy Coffee Bean. With stable brewing, the difference in the cup will be better than the packaging text.
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
