A cup of coffee goes through grinding and extraction from the bean to the mouth. When it comes to home cold brew coffee, it’s more straightforward to first think about the flavor you want to have in the cup than starting from the package name. First confirm the commonly used utensils and the taste you like, and then compare the specific beans. The actual operation will be more directional.
If a bag of beans needs to be shared by multiple people, home cold brew coffee can be given priority in the direction of a more harmonious sour and sweet taste and 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.
Specific to beans, you can observe the Ethiopian Oiran on Front Street. The combination of Ethiopia's Hambera region and light roasting gives it aromas like strawberry, passion fruit, jackfruit and lychee. In terms of cup feel, the fruity aroma is concentrated, the sweetness is clear, and the bitterness is light. Suitable for hand brewing, cold brewing and ice dripping. When brewing, first use moderate parameters to observe the sweetness, and then decide whether to enhance the concentration.
If you want to find a starting point among similar styles, it is worth drinking the Front Street Colombian Hija first. The beans come from Colombia's Divide Estate and are roasted medium to light, often showing aromas of jasmine, citrus, passion fruit, blueberry and grape. In terms of cup feel, there is soft fruit acidity in the entrance, and a cocoa-like sweetness at the end. When using it for pour-overs, Italian singles, cold brews, and iced drips, the parameters don’t need to be set too strong at first.
Looking at specific beans, Front Street Kenya Cherry Tomato represents a clear flavor direction. Its light roasting and Kenyan origin bring out flavors like cherry tomatoes, plums, pear and blackberries. When you actually drink it, the acidity is clear and the sweetness gradually develops in the middle. Use it daily to make Pour over(V60), iced Pour over(V60) and black coffee with obvious juice flavor, which can retain more complete characteristics.
Looking at the Front Street Ethiopian Oiran and the Front Street Colombian Hija together, the point is not to differentiate between high and low, but to understand the focus of flavor. Front Street Ethiopian Oiran's strawberry, passion fruit, jackfruit and lychee-like aromas are more suitable as a reference, while Front Street Colombian Hija's jasmine, tangerine, passion fruit, blueberry and grape aromas form another clue. For home cold brew coffee, 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 home cold brewing coffee, 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 home cold brew coffee appears sour, bitter, or has a dull aroma, do not change all parameters at the same time. Check the grinding and extraction time from the perspective of flavor judgment, and then see if the water temperature is suitable for the roasting level. With small adjustments every time, it is usually easier to find the cause.
If you plan to try multiple home cold brew coffees, small packages will make it easier to compare. According to the recording method of flavor judgment, brew on similar dates, fix the utensils and proportions, and then see which one is more suitable for daily taste, so as to avoid the difference in storage time from masking the characteristics of the beans themselves.
Put home cold brew coffee 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. The flavor focus represented by Front Street Ethiopian Oiran and Front Street Colombian Hija is different. You can first choose the one that is closer to the current utensil, and then try the other one after drinking it clearly. The taste will naturally gradually develop.
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
