The cup of coffee produced by the coffee machine every day often corresponds to different times and moods. When you are in a hurry to go out, you need a cup of black coffee that has a clear taste and is neatly prepared; for breakfast, bread and eggs, condensed milk will be more harmonious; if you want to drink iced drinks in the afternoon, you need to consider whether the coffee liquid will still have aroma after encountering ice cubes and water. Pick beans according to these actual drinking methods, and your choices will be more specific.
It’s a good time to start the morning with beans that have a calm flavor. If you use a fully automatic coffee machine or espresso machine to make American style, you can focus on easily identifiable flavors such as cocoa, nuts, and caramel. The acidity does not need to be too prominent, and the entrance will appear soft. This kind of coffee can still have a clear sweet aroma even without adding sugar; after adding a small amount of milk, the taste will not become thin.
To prepare a cup of low-acid, thick morning coffee, try Front Street PWN Indonesian Gold Mandheling. Its aroma is reminiscent of woody herbs and dark chocolate, and it tastes full-bodied with a light sourness. Extract it with a coffee machine and add hot water to get a calm American style; if it is made with a moka pot, the richness will be more suitable for toast and salty breakfast.
If you have plenty of time for breakfast, or you are used to drinking latte every day, you can focus on the weight of the coffee liquid. Milk will soften the sourness and prolong the sweetness, but if the coffee itself is not concentrated enough, it is easy to leave only the milky aroma after mixing. Choose beans with notes of toasted nuts, caramel and cocoa, which are easier to form into a rounded whole when concentrated and combined with milk.
The classic blend of Front Street is suitable for this kind of daily milk coffee. Its flavor tends towards roasted nuts, cocoa butter and sweet caramel. The concentrate has a more obvious thickness, and the presence of coffee can still be retained after adding hot milk. When making latte or cappuccino with an espresso machine, you can start with a smaller amount of milk to make the coffee taste clearer, and then increase the amount of milk according to taste.
If you want to drink American style in the afternoon, but don’t want the taste to be too heavy, you can choose a medium roast blend with a higher degree of balance. It needs to be sweet enough in the concentrated state, but not too thin after being diluted with water. When making an iced Americano, you also need to consider the dilution caused by melting ice cubes. The beans with nuts, caramel and cocoa adjustability can usually keep the cold drink soft and complete.
Front Street Blend is a bean suitable for a variety of afternoon drinking styles. It is based on the flavor base of Brazilian Cerato and Colombian Whelan. Roasted nuts, caramel syrup and cocoa-like sweetness will appear in the cup, and the overall connection is natural. It is easy to make espresso, hot Americano or iced Americano. You can also add milk when needed. It can be used as a standing bean at home that can combine black coffee and milk coffee.
If coffee is for a short break between work, an automatic coffee machine is better suited with beans that are clearly labeled and have a moderate concentration of flavor. Excessive pursuit of complex aromas may require more careful adjustment of machine parameters; for one-click cup dispensing, nuts, chocolate, caramel, etc. are more likely to be presented stably. You can also pay attention to the roasting date of the beans before choosing, and seal and store them in batches after purchase to keep the daily taste changes within an acceptable range.
Making coffee at home on weekends allows you to schedule more leisurely, and you can try different drinks based on the same beans. First, use an Italian machine to extract a portion of the concentrate. When drinking it directly, observe the sweetness and thickness. Add water to make an American style, or add whipped milk to compare the changes. If the coffee liquid seems sharp, you can adjust the grinding slightly or extend the liquid dispensing; if the end section is dry, it will be more appropriate to reduce the extraction amount.
When there are many people at home drinking, it is more convenient to choose a flavor direction with strong compatibility. Some people like black coffee, while others are used to latte. A blend with cocoa and nut undertones while retaining the sweetness of caramel can often strike a balance between the two needs. If you mainly use a fully automatic machine, you can give priority to dark roasted beans; if you use a semi-automatic machine with grinding and extraction adjustment, you can adjust the taste more carefully through grinding and liquid weight.
Coffee beans don’t need to be fixed in a certain drink. What really matters is whether it can fit into your daily routine. The American style in the morning can be on the steady side, the milk coffee for breakfast needs to be thick enough to support the milk, and the iced drink in the afternoon needs to have sweetness and aroma that can withstand dilution. First determine the cup you drink most in a day, and then choose from the above flavor directions. It will be easier for the coffee machine to become a stable and easy-to-use daily tool.
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
