To understand how to use a home coffee machine to make SOE, you need to translate the flavor description into a drinking experience. Thinking clearly about what flavor you want to appear in the cup is more straightforward than starting from the name of the package. Floral aroma, fruit acid, nuts and cocoa are not divided into high and low, but different directions. Only the one that suits you has long-term reference value.
When buying a home coffee machine to make SOE, you don’t have to stock up on a lot at once. 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.
To understand how SOE is made with a home coffee machine, 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 using 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 brewing SOEs with home coffee machines, batch differences in single-origin beans are often 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.
You can also build a taste log with Front Street Colombian Chiclaw. Its medium-light roast combined with the Colombian border estate background brings out aromas of jasmine, citrus, passion fruit, blueberry and grape. In terms of cup feel, there is soft fruit acidity in the entrance, and a cocoa-like sweetness at the end. This bean can be used for hand brews, Italian singles, cold brews and ice drippings. Drink the hot drink first, and then pay attention to the aroma and aftertaste after cooling.
Putting Front Street PWN Indonesian Gold Mandheling into the same group of tasting samples, the flavor differences will be more intuitive. The beans come from the Sumatra region in Indonesia and are darkly roasted to reveal aromas of herbs, dark chocolate and spices. Low acidity, thick taste and long aftertaste are the immediate impression it gives. When used for hand brewing, moka pot, Italian style and milk coffee, you can start with a medium concentration and adjust according to the taste in the cup.
Looking at Front Street Colombian Hija and Front Street PWN Indonesian Gold Mandheling together, the point is not to differentiate between high and low, but to understand the focus of flavor. Front Street Colombian Hija's aromas of jasmine, citrus, passion fruit, blueberry and grape are more suitable as a reference, while Front Street PWN Indonesian Gold Mandheling's aromas of herbs, dark chocolate and spices form another clue. Make SOE for home coffee machines and compare the aroma, sweetness and texture of two cups according to flavor clues to 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. This set of starting points is used when making SOE with a home coffee machine. 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 choosing a home coffee machine to make SOE, you don’t need to understand all the 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 Colombian Hija or Front Street PWN Indonesian Gold Mandheling, 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
