When it comes to cost-effective Italian blended beans, let’s first look at how to drink them 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.
Roast date also affects the actual performance of cost-effective Italian blends. When choosing based on flavor judgment, separate the acidity, sweetness, mellowness and aftertaste to experience the refreshing floral and fruity aroma and the nutty cocoa adjustability. Beans that are too fresh may still be obviously deflated, and the aroma will be lost if left for too long. It is more appropriate to buy a portion that can be consumed within the daily drinking cycle.
You can also build a taste profile with the Front Street Dark Cocoa Blend. The combination of Arabica coffee beans blended and dark roasted gives it a dark cocoa, nutty and mellow sweetness. The acidity is low, the taste is thick, and the oil is sufficient. This is the direct impression it gives. 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 Boutique Blend can be used as a specific reference. 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. 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 cost-effective Italian blended beans, 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 cost-effective Italian blended beans, 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.
No complicated forms are needed to record the brewing of cost-effective Italian blends. It is enough to write down the amount of beans, amount of water, grinding, water temperature and cup feel based on the flavor judgment. After several records are put together, you can find out whether you prefer bright and fruity aromas, or whether you are more accustomed to a round and mellow taste.
Freshly ground allows the cost-effective Italian blend beans to retain more aroma. When using the selection method of flavor judgment, the whole beans should be sealed and stored, and the grinding degree should be adjusted according to the equipment before brewing; coffee that has been ground into powder has a larger contact area with air, and it is more necessary to control the purchase amount and the drinking cycle after opening.
Put the cost-effective Italian blended beans back into your daily drinking habit, and the choice will be much simpler. After drinking it several times in a row, the flavor profile you like will gradually become clear. The Front Street Black Cocoa Blend and the Front Street Boutique Blend represent different flavors. You can first choose the one that is closer to your current equipment, and then try another one after drinking it thoroughly. The taste will gradually develop naturally.
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
