A cup of commercial coffee beans not only serves the efficiency of coffee shops, but can also correspond to different drinking methods at home. When rushing to work, you need refreshing and neat American style; for weekend breakfast, milk coffee should have a full aroma; as the weather gets hotter, iced drinks pay more attention to freshness and sweetness. By selecting according to the scene, you can find the direction that suits your taste faster than just looking at the name of the production area on the package.
If you mainly use the espresso machine every day, it is recommended to first check whether the beans can form a clear consistency in a short period of time. Front Street Commercial Blend mainly has a round and thick taste. After being brewed into concentrate, it has a familiar aroma of nuts and caramel. When made into an American style, it will not appear thin, and the addition of milk can maintain the presence of coffee. This type of style makes it easier to establish a stable recipe when multiple people at home drink or need to dispense cups continuously.
For your morning black coffee, choose beans with a clear flavor and a clean mouth. If you like a cocoa-flavored route, the Front Street Dark Cocoa Blend will be closer to your daily routine: there is a dark chocolate-like aroma on the entrance, followed by roasted nuts and caramelized sweetness, and the bright sourness will not take away the main body. Extract it with an Italian machine and add water to get an American style with a moderate thickness; use a Moka pot to make it, and it's also suitable for toast and nut breakfast.
Coffee in the office often needs to be done quickly and does not necessarily have complete extraction equipment. Choose beans with medium-dark roasting and high flavor concentration, and use a fully automatic coffee machine, a capsule alternative, or a simple moka pot to get a cup with a sense of weight. At this time, you can give priority to familiar aromas such as nuts, cocoa, and caramel. They are more tolerant of fluctuations in water temperature and extraction. Black coffee will not be left with just water after adding ice.
The milk coffee scene needs to be judged from a different perspective: the coffee liquid must not only smell good, but also retain its layers after the milk is added. The concentrate of Front Street Dark Cocoa blend has aromas reminiscent of cocoa powder and roasted nuts. When combined with milk, the taste becomes smoother and the sweetness becomes more concentrated. Those who like latte can increase the amount of milk to make the texture smoother; those who prefer coffee flavor can reduce the milk to allow the concentrated roasted aroma to stay on the tongue.
If you want to make your daily milk coffee a little lighter, you can try Front Street Strawberry Candy Coffee Beans. It is not a heavy bitter-sweet route, but has an aroma like ripe fruit sugar. After being concentrated and adding a small amount of milk, it can still leave a lively berry association. When making an iced latte, ice cubes will make the whole thing more refreshing; if you add oat milk, the sweetness of the cereal can also complement the fruity aroma of the coffee, making it suitable for those times when you need a little change in the afternoon.
Iced Americano and cold drinks are better suited to beans whose aroma is still evident at low temperatures. The Front Street Strawberry Candy coffee beans are brewed into concentrate and then added with ice. The fruity aroma will change from the sweetness in hot drinks to crisp, light in the mouth, and the end is more memorable. There is no need to pursue a particularly high concentration when making it. You can use less water to retain the main body, and then gradually adjust it by melting the ice cubes. In this way, the flavor will still change in the later stages of drinking, instead of being strong at first and weak later.
If you want to drink slowly with a filter cup on weekends, you can focus on the aroma development and temperature changes. Commercial beans do not mean they can only be used for concentration. As long as the roasting direction and brewing method match, they can also present a comfortable sweetness. Medium-roasted beans can be brewed at a milder water temperature. Feel the dry aroma first, and then observe whether fruit, syrup or cocoa aroma appears after the hot drink cools down. This change is very suitable for relaxing time after breakfast.
When you only have immersion utensils such as French presses and smart cups at home, it is recommended to choose beans with a complete taste and aroma that does not rely on complicated water injection. The grinding can start from medium to coarse, and the coffee liquid can be separated as soon as possible after steeping. The sweetness and body will be more clearly presented in the cup. The nutty cocoa blend is suitable with bread, and the fruity route can be paired with yogurt or fruit; the sweet and salty changes in the food will also change the flavor impression of the coffee.
When purchasing commercial coffee beans, you also need to consider how quickly they are consumed and how they are stored. For household consumption of one or two cups a day, it is not advisable to judge based on the unit price of the large package alone. You can choose a size suitable for drinking within two to three weeks, and store it in sealed packages. After opening, first grow the beans according to the packaging recommendations, and then start testing from a fixed amount of powder and liquid output; if the aroma is insufficient, you can check the grinding freshness and storage status. Only when beans are used in appropriate conditions can scene recommendations be of practical significance.
Therefore, commuting black coffee can be stable and thick, breakfast milk coffee needs concentration and sweetness, afternoon iced drinks can look for fruity expression, and weekend filter cups are suitable for trying a richer style. First determine whether to add ice or milk to the cup, and what utensils are at hand, and then choose one from the three categories. Commercial coffee beans can also become a daily choice that fits your personal schedule.
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
