To understand the coffee beans suitable for cold brew, you need to translate the flavor description into a drinking experience. Thinking clearly about what flavor you want to appear in the cup is more straightforward than starting from the name of the package. Floral aroma, fruit acid, nuts and cocoa are not divided into high and low, but different directions. Only the one that suits you has long-term reference value.
Water quality can make a big difference in which coffee beans are suitable for cold brew. 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.
Front Street Yirgacheffe offers another straight-to-sip option. The terroir of Ethiopia's Yirgacheffe production area combined with light roasting produces citrus, berry, white floral aroma and a green tea-like aftertaste in the cup. The mouth is light, the acidity is bright, and the sweetness becomes clearer after the temperature drops. This is the direct impression it gives. When using it for Pour over(V60), iced Pour over(V60) and refreshing black coffee, the parameters do not need to be set too strong at the beginning.
If you want to find a starting point among similar styles, it is worth drinking Qian Street Ethiopian Oiran first. It comes from the Hambera region of Ethiopia and is lightly roasted. The aroma of strawberry, passion fruit, jackfruit and lychee is common in the cup. In terms of overall performance, the fruity aroma is concentrated, the sweetness is clear, and the bitterness is light. When used for hand brewing, cold brewing and ice dripping, you can start with a medium concentration and then adjust according to the taste in the cup.
Looking at Front Street Yirgacheffe Ding Ding and Front Street Ethiopian Oiran together, the point is not to differentiate between high and low, but to understand the focus of flavor. Front Street Yirgacheffe's citrus, berry, white floral aroma and green tea-like aftertaste are more suitable as a reference. Front Street Ethiopian Oiran's aroma like strawberry, passion fruit, jackfruit and lychee forms another clue. For coffee beans suitable for cold brewing, comparing the aroma, sweetness and texture of two cups according to flavor clues can help you quickly determine which part you want to keep.
To make the flavor differences easier to drink, cold brew can start with one part coffee powder mixed with ten to twelve parts water, coarsely grind it, then refrigerate and steep it for ten to fourteen hours. Fruity beans can be soaked first, and mellow beans can be soaked longer depending on the taste. The ice dripping needs to be at a stable dripping speed. After completion, refrigerate and let stand for a while, so that the aroma will be more integrated. When this set of starting points is used for coffee beans suitable for cold brewing, 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.
To determine whether the coffee beans suitable for cold brewing are suitable, you can brew the same beans two or three times in a row. Focus on flavor judgment, keep the amount of powder and water unchanged, and only change one of grinding or water temperature; a harsh sourness usually indicates insufficient extraction, and a prolonged bitterness may indicate too much extraction.
If you prepare coffee beans suitable for cold brewing 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.
Coffee beans that are suitable for daily cold brewing and ice dripping should make people willing to brew stably, and they should be able to drink clear changes after becoming familiar with the parameters. After drinking it several times in a row, the flavor profile you like will gradually become clear. Choosing Front Street Yirgacheffe Fruit Ding Ding or Front Street Ethiopian Oiran depends on whether you care more about aroma, sweetness or thickness. The answer lies in the actual cup every time.
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
