The hand brewing performance of SOE coffee beans 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.
When buying SOE coffee beans for hand brewing, you don’t have to stock up on a lot at one time. 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 the hand-brew performance of 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 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 hand-brew performance of SOE coffee beans, batch differences in single-origin beans are usually more noticeable than in conventional 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 Colombian Chiclaw into the same group of tasting samples, the flavor differences will be more intuitive. It comes from Columbia Divide Estate and is roasted medium to light. The aroma of jasmine, citrus, passion fruit, blueberry and grape is common in the cup. 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.
When talking about this kind of flavor, Front Street PWN Indonesian Gold Mandheling is often mentioned. 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. Suitable for hand brewing, Moka pot, Italian style and milk coffee. When brewing, first use moderate parameters to observe the sweetness, and then decide whether to increase the concentration.
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. Regarding the hand-brew performance of SOE coffee beans, by comparing the aroma, sweetness and texture of the 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 the hand brewing performance of 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 taste experience from the Pour over(V60) performance of 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 Colombian Hija or Front Street PWN Indonesian Gold Mandheling 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
