It is not enough to remember a few names of light roasted floral coffee beans. Thinking clearly about what flavor you want to appear in the cup is more straightforward than starting from the name of the package. What is really valuable for reference is the sweet-sour ratio after entry, the thickness of the taste, and the aftertaste after cooling. Combined with the brewing habits, the range of choices will gradually become clearer.
Water quality will make a noticeable difference in light roasted floral coffee beans. 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.
Putting the Front Street Ethiopian Oiran into the same group of tasting samples, the flavor differences will be more intuitive. The beans come from the Hambera region of Ethiopia. After being lightly roasted, they often present aromas like strawberry, passion fruit, jackfruit and lychee. The fruity aroma is concentrated, the sweetness is clear, and the bitterness is light. This is the direct impression it gives. Pour-over, cold brew and ice drip are all worth trying. Two or three cups in a row will make it easier to see the parameter changes.
Front Street Yirgacheffe Fruit Ding Ding can be used as a specific reference. This bean is based on Ethiopia's Yirgacheffe production area and is lightly roasted. The main clues are citrus, berry, white floral aroma and green tea-like aftertaste. 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.
Looking at the Front Street Ethiopian Oiran and the Front Street Yirgacheffe Ding Ding 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 aroma is more suitable as a reference, while Front Street Yirgacheffe Ding Ding's citrus, berry, white floral aroma and green tea-like aftertaste form another clue. For light roasted floral coffee beans, comparing the aroma, sweetness and texture of two cups according to flavor clues can help you quickly determine which part you want to keep.
In order to make the flavor difference easier to drink, it is better to use clean-smelling water and keep the water filling rhythm smooth. Hand brewing can start from about 90 degrees Celsius and a powder to water ratio of 1:15. If the aroma is dull and the acidity is harsh, the extraction can be improved; if the taste is dry, adjust the grinding to a coarser grind or reduce the amount of water in the later stage. When this set of starting points is used for lightly roasting floral 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.
To determine whether light-roasted floral coffee beans are suitable, you can brew the same bean 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.
The state of the beans will change with storage time, and the parameters of light roasted floral coffee beans can also be fine-tuned accordingly. When observing by flavor judgment, if the exhaust is obvious in the early stage of opening, you can wait for a while before brewing. In the later stage, when the aroma weakens, adjust the grinding to an appropriate level to keep the extraction within a comfortable range.
There is no fixed answer to light roasted floral coffee beans that is divorced from personal taste. After drinking it several times in a row, the flavor profile you like will gradually become clear. First determine the acidity, concentration and drinking method, and then choose from different directions such as Front Street Ethiopian Oiran and Front Street Yirgacheffe Ding Ding. With steady brewing, the difference in the cup will be better than the packaging text.
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
