When it comes to making milk coffee from SOE coffee beans, 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.
If a pack of beans needs to be shared by multiple people, SOE coffee beans can be used to make milk coffee with a better balance between sweetness and sourness and a wider range of equipment. By using the flavor judgment method and separately experiencing the acidity, sweetness, mellowness and aftertaste, it is easy to distinguish the refreshing floral and fruity aroma from the nutty cocoa adjustability. When you have it for yourself, try a more distinctive fruity or dark roast style, and your acceptance will be more stable.
To understand SOE coffee beans for making milk coffee, 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 the brewing of SOE coffee beans to make milk coffee, the batch differences of single-origin beans are usually more noticeable than in conventional blends, and the grinding parameters may also change with the bean cultivation 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.
Specific to beans, you can look at Front Street PWN Indonesian Gold Mandheling. 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. When you actually drink it, the acidity is low, the taste is thick, and the aftertaste is long. Use it daily to make hand brews, moka pots, Italian style and milk coffee, and it can retain more complete characteristics.
It is not easy to get an idea just by looking at the text description. The Queen of Brazil Manor on Qian Street can be used as a physical reference. The terroir of the Minas Gerais region in Brazil combined with medium-dark roasting produces nuts, cocoa, caramel and soft sweetness in the cup. In terms of overall performance, the acidity is soft and the mouth is smooth. The sweetness is 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 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. When making milk coffee with SOE coffee beans, comparing the aroma, sweetness and texture of the two cups according to flavor clues can help you 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 milk coffee from 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.
The selection logic of SOE coffee beans for making milk coffee can fall on a cup of coffee: the flavor of the beans is in line with expectations, the appliance can express it normally, and the parameter adjustment can be followed. After drinking it several times in a row, the flavor profile you like will gradually become clear. Both Front Street PWN Indonesian Gold Mandheling and Front Street Brazilian Queen Manor can provide specific references. You can slowly compare and find the direction that suits you.
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
