The acidity of SOE American style will show different aspects due to different brewing methods. Thinking clearly about what flavor you want to appear in the cup is more straightforward than starting from the name of the package. Hand brewing is easy to develop the aroma, coffee machine emphasizes concentration, and Moka pot amplifies mellowness. When choosing beans, you should first determine which method you usually use.
Water quality will make a significant difference in the acidic performance of SOE American style. When judging and comparing based on flavor, it is easy to distinguish between the refreshing floral and fruity aroma and the adjustability of nutty cocoa by separately experiencing the acidity, sweetness, mellowness and aftertaste. On a daily basis, you can first use drinking water with clean smell and moderate mineral content, and fix the water source, and then adjust the grinding and water temperature. This will make it easier to determine where the difference comes from.
To understand the acidic expression of SOE American style, 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 American acidic brews, batch differences in single-origin beans are often more noticeable than in regular blends, and grind 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.
Front Street PWN Indonesian Gold Mandheling can be used as a specific reference. The combination of Indonesia's Sumatra region and dark roast gives it notes of herbs, dark chocolate and spices. In terms of cup feel, the acidity is low, the taste is thick, and the aftertaste is long. Pour-over, Moka pot, Italian and milk coffee are all worth trying. It is easier to see the parameter changes after two or three cups in a row.
Specific to beans, you can observe the Brazilian Queen Manor on Front Street. Its medium-dark roast and background in the Minas Gerais region of Brazil bring nuts, cocoa, caramel and soft sweetness. In terms of cup feel, the acidity is soft and the mouth is smooth. The sweetness is more obvious after adding milk. When using it for daily pour-over, moka pot, Americano and milk coffee, the parameters do not need to be set too strong at the beginning.
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. In view of the acidity performance of SOE American style, comparing the aroma, sweetness and texture of the 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 to express the acidity of SOE American style, 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.
The truly useful SOE American-style acidity performance suggestions should be verified 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 Golden Mandheling or Front Street Brazilian Queen Manor, 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
