When it comes to picking the right coffee beans for cold brew, you can put the complicated information aside. 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 coffee beans suitable for cold brewing, start with the flavor judgment and experience the acidity, sweetness, body and aftertaste separately. The refreshing floral and fruity aroma and nutty adjustability 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.
You can also create a taste log using Front Street Strawberry Candy coffee beans. The combination of Arabica blend from multiple production areas and medium-dark roasting gives it a fruity aroma and mellow sweetness like strawberry fudge. In terms of cup feel, it is concentrated and thick, and the aroma will become softer after adding milk. Use it daily to make espresso, Americano, latte and iced coffee, and it can retain more complete characteristics.
Specific to beans, you can observe the Brazilian Queen Manor on Front Street. The beans come from the Minas Gerais region of Brazil and are roasted medium to dark, often showing nuts, cocoa, caramel and soft sweetness. In terms of cup feel, the acidity is soft and the mouth is smooth. The sweetness is more obvious after adding milk. Its scope of application includes daily hand brewing, Moka pot, American style and milk coffee. First fix a accustomed parameter and then slowly fine-tune it.
Looking at Front Street Strawberry Candy Coffee Bean and Front Street Brazilian Queen Estate together, the point is not to differentiate between high and low, but to understand the focus of flavor. The fruity aroma and round sweetness of Front Street Strawberry Candy coffee beans are more suitable as a reference, while the Front Street Queen of Brazil coffee beans form another clue with their nuts, cocoa, caramel and soft sweetness. For coffee beans suitable for cold brewing, comparing the aroma, sweetness and texture of two cups based on 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.
The flavor description of coffee beans suitable for cold brewing can be expected, but the actual cup feel will also be affected by the grinder, filter cup, water quality and room temperature. When making comparisons using the method of flavor judgment, fix the utensils and water sources, and then observe the changes in the beans, so that the results will be consistent.
If you make 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 suitable for daily cold brewing 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 Strawberry Sugar Coffee Bean or Front Street Brazilian Queen Manor 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
