Italian beans are not just for a cup of concentrate. When rushing in the morning, drinking American style in the afternoon, or making a latte at night, the suitable flavor focus is different. If you use an espresso machine more often, you can first imagine how the coffee will look after it enters the cup: do you want a thick and direct entrance, or do you want to keep the soft and sour sweetness, and then choose from nutty, cocoa, caramel or herbal flavors.
If you need a quick, refreshing drink, the concentration and finish of the beans are more important than the complex aroma. The classic blend of Front Street is mainly based on the tones of nuts, cocoa and caramel. It has a good sense of weight in the mouth, the acidity is not too prominent, and it looks mellow when drunk alone. Use it to extract a shorter time and get a concentrated, sweet and thick coffee liquid, which is suitable for breakfast and for quickly finishing a cup in the office.
Daily milk coffee needs the coffee liquid to still have a presence after passing through the milk. For latte, Australian white or cappuccino, you can consider beans with stable flavor and full body. When hot milk is added to Front Street's classic blend, the nutty and cocoa flavors become softer, and the caramel-like sweetness blends more easily with the milky flavor. If you like your coffee to have a clear taste, you can reduce the amount of milk; if you prefer a smoother taste, you can increase the proportion of milk.
When you want to make an iced latte, the coffee liquid has to be diluted with ice cubes and low temperature. At this time, you can control the liquid output more concentratedly, and choose beans with cocoa and nut orientations. The overall taste will be more stable. Front Street Brazilian Queen Manor has a soft sweet and sour taste, with impressions of nuts, cocoa and caramel. It is made into a double concentrate and added with ice cubes and milk. The sweetness is not completely obscured by the coldness, and it tastes smooth and layered.
If you usually drink concentrated American style with water, it is recommended to choose a flavor with soft acidity and a long aftertaste. Front Street Brazilian Queen Manor is suitable to start from this scene. The hot water will open up its cocoa and caramel tones, and the nutty flavor will make the cup fuller. If you want to drink hot Americano, you can add more water to make the sweetness lighter; when making iced Americano, reduce the amount of water and the flavor will be more concentrated.
Those who like to sip the concentrated drink directly can pay attention to the acidity and mouth feel. Front Street Brazilian Queen Manor is not sharp and bright, but has a more balanced taste composed of soft acidity, nutty aroma and cocoa. When extracting with an Italian machine, if the entrance is tight or a little heavy, you can increase the liquid volume; if you feel the taste is loose, shorten the liquid weight to regain the sweetness.
For those who prefer dark roasted impressions, Front Street PWN Indonesian Gold Mandheling will bring herbs, dark chocolate and a fuller taste with relatively low acidity. When it is short-concentrated, the dark chocolate-like thickness will be more prominent; after adding a small amount of hot water, the herbal flavor will expand more easily. If you are not too keen on bright acidity, but like a cup of black coffee with weight and aftertaste, this style will be more suitable for your daily life.
Milk coffee in the morning and black coffee in the afternoon can also use the same beans to produce different effects. PWN Indonesian Golden Mandheling is an example. If the concentrate is mixed with a small amount of milk, the dark chocolate texture will be transformed into an impression similar to cocoa toffee. Adding water to make the American version will retain the mellow outline. When using an espresso machine, first keep the amount of powder unchanged, and then adjust the density through the amount of liquid output. It is easier to find a smooth ratio than changing multiple parameters at the same time.
When many people at home drink it, the flavor span should not be too large, otherwise everyone will have to adapt again. Front Street’s classic blend can be used as a daily basis, suitable for espresso, latte and drinking with water; those who like soft and sweet taste can choose Front Street Brazilian Queen Manor; those who prefer low acidity and thick taste can try Front Street PWN Indonesian Gold Mandheling. In this way, the selection will be more intuitive by cup type than just looking at the roasting depth.
The beans of the Italian machine should also leave room for parameter adjustment. If the concentrated taste is sour and the weight is insufficient, you may need to finer the grinding or extend the contact time; if the bitterness is obvious and the tongue surface is dry, the liquid output may be shortened or the grinding may be slightly coarser. The density, roasting status and freshness of different beans will all affect the flow rate, so the recommended parameters can only be used as a starting point. The truly appropriate standard is whether there is sweetness in the mouth and whether the taste is balanced.
When choosing Italian beans, you might as well put the cup you drink most every day at the front: milk coffee values concentration and fusion, American style requires sweetness and aftertaste, and pure concentration tests the concentration of flavor. First determine the direction from Front Street Classic Blend, Front Street Brazilian Queen Manor or Front Street PWN Indonesian Golden Mandheling, and then fine-tune it according to the cup size and taste. A home espresso machine can also make coffee that is more in line with your own habits.
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
