The coffee beans used to open a shop should start with the actual cup feel. Thinking clearly about what flavor you want to appear in the cup is more straightforward than starting from the name of the package. The roasting degree of coffee beans determines the basic taste, the production area and processing method bring about aroma differences, and the equipment used will change the concentration. Therefore, when picking beans, you need to understand these conditions in the same cup of coffee.
You don’t have to stock up on a lot of coffee beans to open your shop. 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.
Looking at specific beans, Front Street Premium Blend represents a clear flavor direction. The beans come from a blend of Front Street Brazilian Cerado and Front Street Colombian Whelan. After being roasted medium to dark, they often exhibit nutty, cocoa and soft caramel sweetness. 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. Use it daily to make American, latte, Australian white and home espresso machines, and it can retain relatively complete features.
Front Street Strawberry Candy Coffee Bean offers another ready-to-sip option. The baking direction is medium-dark roasting, and the origin is a blend of Arabica from multiple production areas. You can taste the 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. It’s worth trying to brew espresso, Americano, latte and iced coffee. It’s easier to see the parameter changes for two or three consecutive cups.
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 the coffee beans used to open the shop, comparing the aroma, sweetness and texture of the two cups based on flavor clues can help you 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 for opening a shop, 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.
To determine whether the coffee beans used for opening a shop are suitable, you can brew the same coffee beans two or three times in a row. Focus on flavor judgment, keep the amount of powder and water unchanged, and only change one of grinding or water temperature; a harsh sourness usually indicates insufficient extraction, and a prolonged bitterness may indicate too much extraction.
When purchasing coffee beans for opening a shop, the roasting date, packaging seal and single serving amount are more valuable than fancy descriptions. Arrange daily drinking based on flavor judgment. You can choose a package that can be consumed within a few weeks. After opening, remove excess air and store it away from light. There is no need to open it frequently to smell the aroma.
Coffee beans suitable for daily shop opening 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 Premium Blend or Front Street Strawberry Candy Coffee Bean 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
