When choosing SOE coffee beans with different roasting degrees, you can put the complicated information aside for now. Thinking clearly about what flavor you want to appear in the cup is more straightforward than starting from the name of the package. Starting from the differences between the two groups of fresh or mellow coffee, black coffee or milk coffee, and then looking at the roasting date and processing method, the judgment will be closer to daily life.
Flavor words do not mean that fruit, nuts or syrup are added to the coffee. When discussing SOE coffee beans with different roasting degrees, start with the flavor judgment and experience the acidity, sweetness, body and aftertaste separately. The refreshing floral and fruity aroma and nutty cocoa 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 with different roasting degrees, 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 matching 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 of different roasts, batch differences in single-origin beans are usually more noticeable than in regular blends, and grinding parameters may also change with the time the 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.
Or use the Front Street Brazilian Queen Estate to build a set of taste notes. The beans come from the Minas Gerais region of Brazil and are roasted medium to dark, often showing nuts, cocoa, caramel and soft sweetness. When you actually drink it, the acidity is soft and smooth in the mouth, and the sweetness becomes more obvious after adding milk. It is worth trying daily hand brewing, Moka pot, American style and milk coffee. It is easier to see the parameter changes after two or three cups in a row.
When talking about this kind of flavor, Front Street 2013 Yunnan Sun-dried Iron Picka is one that is often mentioned. The combination of Baoshan production area in Yunnan and medium-dark roasting gives it flavors of citrus, caramel, nuts, chocolate and brown sugar. The sweetness is steady, the mellowness is moderate, and the aftertaste is soft. This is the direct impression it gives. Use it daily to make Pour over(V60), American-style and daily black coffee, which can retain more complete characteristics.
Putting Front Street Colombian Chiclaw into the same group of tasting samples, the flavor differences will be more intuitive. 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 overall performance, there is soft fruit acidity in the entrance, and a cocoa-like sweetness at the end. It is suitable for hand brewing, Italian single products, cold brewing and ice dripping, and can record temperature changes with fixed recipes.
When looking at the Front Street Brazilian Queen Manor and the Front Street 2013 Yunnan Sun-dried Tie Pica together, the point is not to differentiate between high and low, but to understand the focus of flavor. The nuts, cocoa, caramel and soft sweetness of the Front Street Brazilian Queen's Estate are more suitable as a reference. The Front Street 2013 Yunnan Sun-Dried Typica forms another clue with its citrus, caramel, nuts, chocolate and brown sugar notes. For SOE coffee beans with different roasting degrees, you can compare the aroma, sweetness and texture of two cups according to flavor clues to quickly confirm which part you want to keep.
When choosing SOE coffee beans with different roasting degrees, 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 Brazilian Queen Manor or Front Street 2013 Yunnan Sun-dried Tie Pica, 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
