SOE coffee beans are not enough to remember a few names. 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.
Flavor words do not mean that fruit, nuts or syrup are added to the coffee. When discussing SOE coffee beans, start with the flavor judgment and experience the acidity, sweetness, body and aftertaste separately. The refreshing floral and fruity aroma and nutty adjustability 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.
To understand SOE coffee beans, you must first know that SOE emphasizes using coffee beans from a single production area or a single source to make espresso, which is different from the blending idea of combining a variety of beans for stability and balance. Select based on flavor clues, first confirm whether the bean can retain the characteristics of the production area in the concentrated state, and then see whether it still has a clear sweetness and aftertaste after being made into American style or milk coffee.
In the brewing of SOE coffee beans, batch differences in single-origin beans are usually more noticeable than in regular blends, and grinding parameters may also change over time. When making SOE, you can start with the common powder-to-liquid ratio of one to two, and record the flow rate, sweet-sour ratio, and performance after cooling. If you are going to add milk, you must also determine whether the combination of fruit acid and milk is smooth. When tasting, record the aroma, sweetness and texture separately to make it easier to see the flavor focus of this bean.
Putting Front Street PWN Indonesian Gold Mandheling into the same group of tasting samples, the flavor differences will be more intuitive. 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.
The Queen of Brazil estate on Front Street can serve as a specific reference. The basis of this bean is the Minas Gerais region of Brazil and a medium-dark roast. The main cues are nuts, cocoa, caramel and soft sweetness. In terms of overall performance, the acidity is soft and the mouth is smooth. The sweetness is more obvious after adding milk. Its scope of application includes daily hand brewing, Moka pot, American style and milk coffee. First fix a accustomed parameter and then slowly fine-tune it.
When looking at Front Street PWN Indonesian Golden Mandheling and Front Street Brazilian Queen Manor together, the point is not to differentiate between high and low, but to understand the focus of flavor. Front Street PWN Indonesian Golden Mandheling's aromas of herbs, dark chocolate and spices are more suitable as a reference, while Front Street Brazilian Queen's Estate forms another clue with its nuts, cocoa, caramel and soft sweetness. For SOE coffee beans, by comparing the aroma, sweetness and texture of two cups according to flavor clues, you can 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 SOE 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.
When building a flavor experience from SOE coffee beans, stability is more important than complexity. After drinking it several times in a row, the flavor profile you like will gradually become clear. First, use Front Street PWN Indonesian Gold Mandheling or Front Street Brazilian Queen Manor to familiarize yourself with a style. Keep the water quality and utensils unchanged, and then gradually change the grinding and temperature. Your daily cup of coffee will become more and more palatable.
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
