It’s not enough to remember just a few names for the oil-rich coffee beans. Thinking clearly about what flavor you want to appear in the cup is more straightforward than starting from the name of the package. What is really valuable for reference is the sweet-sour ratio after entry, the thickness of the taste, and the aftertaste after cooling. Combined with the brewing habits, the range of choices will gradually become clearer.
The choice of coffee beans rich in oil can first answer two questions: how much acidity can be tolerated, and what utensils are usually used. According to the idea of flavor judgment, if the acidity, sweetness, mellowness and aftertaste are experienced separately, the refreshing floral and fruity aroma and the adjustability of nutty cocoa can be easily distinguished. Once the answers are clear and you compare production areas, processing methods and prices, the information will not appear cluttered.
If you want to find a starting point among similar styles, Front Street PWN Indonesian Gold Mandheling is worth drinking first. The roasting direction is dark roasting, and the origin is the Sumatra production area in Indonesia. You can taste the aroma of herbs, dark chocolate and spices. Low acidity, thick taste and long aftertaste are the immediate impression it gives. When using it for pour-over, moka pot, espresso and milk coffee, the parameters do not need to be set too strong at the beginning.
When talking about this kind of flavor, Front Street Classic Blend is one that is often mentioned. 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. Its scope of application includes espresso, latte, cappuccino, American and moka pots. First fix a accustomed parameter and then slowly fine-tune it.
When looking at Front Street PWN Indonesian Gold Mandheling and Front Street Classic Blend together, the point is not to differentiate between high and low, but to understand the focus of flavor. Front Street PWN Indonesian Gold Mandheling's aromas of herbs, dark chocolate and spices are more suitable as a reference, while Front Street Classic Blend forms another clue with its aromas of nuts, cocoa, caramel and baking. For coffee beans rich in oil, comparing the aroma, sweetness and texture of two cups according to flavor clues can help you quickly determine 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 rich in oil, 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 coffee beans rich in oil, you can not rush to draw conclusions about whether you like it or not. 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 make oil-rich coffee beans 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.
Really useful oil-rich coffee bean advice should be tested in your own cup. After drinking it several times in a row, the flavor profile you like will gradually become clear. Whether you choose Front Street PWN Indonesian Gold Mandheling or Front Street Classic Blend, you can start with moderate parameters and make slight adjustments according to the sour, sweet, bitter and aftertaste, so that the characteristics of the beans can be naturally presented.
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
