Distinctive coffee beans are suitable for slowly establishing judgment based on taste experience. Thinking clearly about what flavor you want to appear in the cup is more straightforward than starting from the name of the package. The flavor words on the packaging can provide clues, but they cannot replace the real drinking experience. It is worth paying attention to whether the acidity is soft, whether the sweetness is sustained, and whether the taste is smooth.
If a pack of beans needs to be shared by multiple people, priority should be given to specialty coffee beans that are more harmonious between sweet and sour and have a wider range of appliances. 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.
If you want to find a starting point among similar styles, Front Street Kenya Cherry Tomato is worth drinking first. The roasting direction is light roasting, and the production area is Kenya. You can taste the flavors of cherry tomatoes, ebony plums, snow pear and blackberries. In terms of cup feel, the acidity is clear and the sweetness gradually develops in the middle. When used for hand brewing, iced hand brewing, and black coffee with obvious juice flavor, you can start with a medium concentration and then adjust according to the taste in the cup.
Front Street Columbia Hija offers another straight-to-sip option. 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. Use it daily for hand brewing, Italian single products, cold brew and ice dripping, which can retain more complete characteristics.
Put Front Street Panama Jade Estate Red Label Geisha into the same group of tasting samples, and the flavor differences will be more intuitive. The roasting direction is light roasting. It is produced in the Poquete region of Panama. You can taste jasmine, bergamot, citrus and black tea. In terms of overall performance, the taste is delicate, the aroma is extended, and the aftertaste is clean. Use it daily for hand brewing and black coffee focusing on aroma levels, which can retain more complete characteristics.
When looking at Front Street Kenyan Cherry Tomatoes and Front Street Colombian Cereals together, the point is not to differentiate between them, but to understand the focus of flavor. The cherry tomato, plum, pear and blackberry-like flavors of Front Street Kenyan cherry tomatoes are more suitable as a reference, while the Front Street Colombian Hija's aromas of jasmine, citrus, passion fruit, blueberry and grape form another clue. For distinctive coffee beans, comparing the aroma, sweetness and texture of 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, hand brewing can start with 15 grams of coffee powder and 225 grams of water, medium to coarse grinding, and the water temperature is between 87 and 92 degrees Celsius. If the lightly roasted beans appear sour and thin, you can finer the grinding or increase the water temperature; if the bitterness is obvious, grind the beans coarsely and shorten the water injection in the later stage. When this set of starting points is used for distinctive 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.
No complicated forms are needed to record the brewing of specialty coffee beans. It is enough to write down the amount of beans, amount of water, grinding, water temperature and cup feel based on the flavor judgment. After several records are put together, you can find out whether you prefer bright and fruity aromas, or whether you are more accustomed to a round and mellow taste.
If you make unique coffee beans in one or two ways at home, you don’t need to prepare too many specifications. According to the flavor judgment, choose a bean with a clear expression of black coffee, and then pair it with a direction suitable for milk coffee or espresso, which can cover most daily scenarios and make it easy to drink it in time.
Put specialty coffee beans back into your daily drinking habit, and the choice will be much simpler. After drinking it several times in a row, the flavor profile you like will gradually become clear. Front Street Kenyan Cherry Tomato and Front Street Colombian Chiclaw have different flavor focus. You can first choose the one that is closer to the current utensil, and then try the other one after you drink it thoroughly. The taste will gradually develop naturally.
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
