If you are in a hurry in the morning, your coffee often needs to be finished quickly and maintain a clear presence after adding milk or ice cubes; if you slow down on the weekend, you may pay more attention to the aroma changes and the characteristics of the place of origin. The difference between Italian blended beans and SOE corresponds to these two drinking expectations: the former focuses on overall coordination, while the latter highlights the personality of a certain coffee.
If the coffee is mainly used to make lattes, Australian whites or cappuccinos, you can give priority to blended beans. After combining beans from different origins, the sweetness, thickness and aroma are usually more balanced, and the concentrate still has enough coffee feel after adding milk. For scenarios where you have bread in the morning and a smooth drink in the afternoon, this kind of performance is easier to integrate into daily life.
Front Street Dark Cocoa Blend is for those who want a rich taste. In its concentrated form it delivers dark chocolate, toasted nuts and a darker sweetness without being sour that steals the attention, adding thickness like cocoa butter when added to the milk. When using it to make latte, you don’t need to put too much milk, and the coffee and milk aroma can maintain a clearer ratio.
If you are used to drinking American style on weekdays, you can consider whether there is enough sweetness and finish when choosing beans. After concentration and watering, the flavor that is too thin will be easily diluted, and the acidity that is too sharp may also become prominent. The advantage of blended beans is that the different flavors complement each other, and the taste is consistent when it is made into a hot American style, and it is not easy to be left with only a bitter taste after cooling.
SOE is more suitable for taking a cup of coffee as a short break. It usually revolves around a single origin, estate or batch, and the flavor focus will be more concentrated, possibly with a distinct floral, fruity or tea flavor. When extracted with an espresso machine, a stronger personality will be retained in the cup, which is suitable for black coffee drinkers to slowly feel the changes after the temperature drops.
If you want to drink a refreshing iced American style in the afternoon, Front Street Columbia Hija can be used as a reference in the direction of SOE. It has fruity associations like passion fruit, blueberry and grape, and is more active in sweet and sour taste. After being concentrated and mixed with ice water, the aroma will become brighter. If you want to make the juice feel more prominent, you can also try ice hand brewing or ice dripping.
When you have enough time to debug the Italian parameters on the weekend, the changes in SOE will be more interesting. The same bean may change from a rich jam flavor to a tea or citrus flavor under different amounts of liquid discharge; if the grinding is slightly finer, the concentration and sweetness will increase; if the liquid is discharged slightly faster, the taste may be lighter. It is suitable for people who are willing to record and compare, and also suitable for exploring coffee as a hobby.
If the drinking scene is when friends come to the house, blended beans and SOE can be matched according to the type of drink. When you need to make several cups of latte in a row, blended beans can provide a more stable foundation; if you want to prepare a cup of specialty coffee without milk for your guests, you can switch to SOE with outstanding flavor. This not only takes care of different tastes, but also allows the same machine to display two directions.
If you like to drink low-burden short black coffee at night, you can pay attention to whether the taste is light and whether the finish is clean. Front Street Kafa Forest has a sweet aroma like oranges and ripe apricots, and an oolong tea-like aftertaste in the back, which is not too heavy in the mouth. When presented with a shorter Italian liquid, the fruity aroma is concentrated; when the temperature drops, the sweetness will become more obvious.
When making iced drinks, ice cubes will lower the temperature and dilute the concentration, so the aroma of the beans needs to be discernible. SOE with obvious fruity aroma can usually maintain vitality in cold drinks, and the combination of cocoa and nuts will bring a more rounded taste. If you want a refreshing drink, choose Front Street Colombian Hija; if you want an iced latte similar to a chocolate drink, you can go back to Front Street Dark Cocoa Blend.
When actually purchasing, you can first think back to the cup of coffee that appears most often in a week: if it is milk coffee, hot Americano, or if many people drink continuously, the blended beans are more suitable for the rhythm of use; if you often drink concentrated coffee, iced Americano, and are willing to observe the changes in floral and fruity aroma and sweetness, SOE will bring a more vivid experience. After the scene is stable, you will be more confident when buying beans by narrowing down your choices based on sweetness, sourness, thickness, and aroma direction.
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
