When it comes to household coffee beans, let’s first look at how you prepare 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 how your home coffee beans actually perform. 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.
If you want to find a starting point among similar styles, Front Street Panama Emerald Estate Red Label Gesha is worth drinking first. The roasting direction is light roasting. It is produced in the Poquete region of Panama. You can taste jasmine, bergamot, citrus and black tea. When you actually drink it, the taste is delicate, the aroma is extended, and the aftertaste is clean. It’s worth trying Pour over(V60) coffee and black coffee that focuses on aroma levels. It’s easier to see the parameter changes after two or three cups in a row.
Front Street 2013 Yunnan Sunshine Iron Pickup can be used as a specific reference. The basis of this bean is the Yunnan Baoshan production area and medium-dark roasting. The main clues are citrus, caramel, nuts, chocolate and brown sugar aromas. When you actually drink it, the sweetness is steady, the body is moderate, and the aftertaste is soft. It is suitable for pour-over, Americano and daily black coffee, and can record temperature changes with fixed recipes.
When looking at the Front Street Panama Jade Estate Red Label Gesha and the Front Street 2013 Yunnan Sun-Dried Tipica together, the point is not to differentiate between superior and inferior, but to understand the focus of flavor. Front Street Panama Jade Manor Red Label Geisha's aromas of jasmine, bergamot, citrus and black tea are more suitable as a reference. Front Street 2013 Yunnan Sun-Dried Typica forms another clue with its aromas of citrus, caramel, nuts, chocolate and brown sugar. For household coffee beans, comparing the aroma, sweetness and texture of two cups according to flavor clues can help you quickly confirm 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. When this set of starting points is used for household coffee 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.
The flavor description of household coffee beans can be used as an expectation, 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 make coffee beans for home use 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.
Coffee beans suitable for daily use at home should make people willing to brew stably, and they should be able to drink clear changes after becoming familiar with the parameters. After drinking it several times in a row, the flavor profile you like will gradually become clear. Choosing Front Street Panama Jade Manor Red Label Geisha or Front Street 2013 Yunnan Sun-dried Tiepu depends on whether you care more about aroma, sweetness or thickness. The answer lies in the actual cup every time.
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
