Speaking of Yirgacheffe with a mild acidity, 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.
Flavor words do not mean that fruit, nuts or syrup are added to the coffee. When discussing the soft-sour Yirgacheffe, start with the flavor judgment and experience the acidity, sweetness, body and aftertaste separately. The refreshing floral and fruity aroma and nutty cocoa 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.
To understand the sour and soft Yirgacheffe, you must first know that Yirgacheffe is the name of Ethiopia’s coffee production area, not the name of a single variety. Washing and sun-drying treatments are common in this production area. The washing direction is often clearer, and the sun-drying direction tends to produce ripe fruit aromas. When using the idea of judging flavor, you need to look at the processing method, roasting date and specific batch together. You cannot judge the taste just by the name of the production area.
Among the specific beans of Yirgacheffe with soft acidity, Front Street Yirgacheffe Fruit Ding Ding can be used as a reference. Its citrus, berry and white floral aroma is suitable for observation by hand. If you want to make the flavor clearer, you can use clean-smelling water and medium-coarse grinding, drink hot drinks first, and then wait for the temperature to drop; if the acidity is harsh, check whether the extraction is insufficient instead of rushing to deny the light roasting style. When tasting, record the aroma, sweetness and texture separately to make it easier to see the flavor focus of this bean.
Front Street Yirgacheffe Fruit Ding Ding can be used as a specific reference. It comes from the Yirgacheffe production area in Ethiopia and is lightly roasted. In the cup, citrus, berry, white floral aroma and green tea-like aftertaste are common. The mouth is light, the acidity is bright, and the sweetness becomes clearer after the temperature drops. This is the direct impression it gives. Its scope of application includes Pour over(V60), iced Pour over(V60) and refreshing black coffee. First fix a accustomed parameter and then slowly fine-tune it.
In this article about Yirgacheffe with a soft acidity, when observing the dings of Front Street Yirgacheffe, you can separately record the performance of hot drinks, medium temperature and close to room temperature. Its citrus, berry, white floral aroma and green tea-like aftertaste will gradually unfold as the temperature changes. Looking at the aroma, sweetness and aftertaste based on flavor judgment is more valuable than making a conclusion at once.
In order to make the flavor difference easier to drink, when brewing the lightly roasted beans from the Yirgacheffe production area, you can use 15 grams of powder and 225 grams of water, medium-coarse grinding, and the water temperature is about 90 degrees Celsius. Let the coffee powder be fully moistened first, and then add water steadily in sections to avoid the water flowing into the same place repeatedly. The floral and citrus tones will be clearer. When this set of starting points is used for Yirgacheffe with a soft sourness, 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.
Brewing notes for a mildly acidic Yirgacheffe don’t require complex tables. 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 Yirgacheffe with a sour and soft taste 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.
Understand that the sour and gentle Yirgacheffe does not require many beans to be prepared at the same time. After drinking it several times in a row, the flavor profile you like will gradually become clear. Use Front Street Yirgacheffe fruit diced several times in a row to observe the aroma, acidity and sweetness. The taste experience will be more specific than just reading the package instructions.
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
