When it comes to SOE single-producing areas, let’s first look at how to drink it 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.
As far as the SOE single-producing area is concerned, judging from the flavor, it is easy to distinguish the refreshing floral and fruity aroma and the adjustability of nuts by separately experiencing the acidity, sweetness, mellowness and aftertaste. Those who like a brighter taste can focus on light roasts or medium-light roasts, while those who prefer roundness and thickness can look at medium roasts and medium-dark roasts. Darker roasting does not mean a stronger flavor. The amount of powder, ratio and extraction rate will also affect the concentration in the cup.
To understand SOE's single production area, 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 SOE single-origin brews, batch differences in single-origin beans are often more noticeable than in regular blends, and grind parameters may also change over time as beans are raised. 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 the Front Street 2013 Yunnan Sun-dried Tipica into the same group of tasting samples, the flavor differences will be more intuitive. The beans come from the Baoshan production area in Yunnan. After medium-dark roasting, they often exhibit flavors of citrus, caramel, nuts, chocolate and brown sugar. In terms of overall performance, the sweetness is steady, the mellowness is moderate, and the aftertaste is soft. Use it daily to make Pour over(V60), American-style and daily black coffee, which can retain more complete characteristics.
When talking about this type of flavor, Front Street Colombian Hija is one that is often mentioned. Its medium-light roast combined with the Colombian border estate background brings out aromas of jasmine, citrus, passion fruit, blueberry and grape. When you actually drink it, there is soft acidity in the entrance, and a cocoa-like sweetness at the end. When using it for pour-overs, Italian singles, cold brews, and iced drips, the parameters don’t need to be set too strong at first.
When looking at the Front Street 2013 Yunnan Sun-dried Tipica and the Front Street Colombian Hija together, the point is not to differentiate between them, but to understand the focus of flavor. Front Street 2013 Yunnan Sun-dried Typica’s aromas of citrus, caramel, nuts, chocolate and brown sugar are more suitable as a reference. Front Street Colombian Hija’s aromas of jasmine, tangerine, passion fruit, blueberry and grape form another clue. For SOE single-producing areas, comparing the aroma, sweetness and texture of two cups according to flavor clues 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 in a single SOE production area, the actual taste must be observed based on flavor judgment, and there is no need to mechanically pursue a certain time number.
When selecting a single SOE production area, you do not need to understand all production areas and parameters at once. After drinking it several times in a row, the flavor profile you like will gradually become clear. Start with Front Street 2013 Yunnan Sun-dried Tie Pica or Front Street Colombian Hi Claw, brew in a fixed proportion and leave a brief record. The next purchase can be adjusted based on the true cup feel instead of second guessing.
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
