When you open a shop and select beans, you can first think about every cup on the menu in real life. Customers who are in a hurry in the morning need a cup of American style that is clear in the mouth and smooth to drink; customers who have breakfast tend to be more concerned about the harmony between coffee, milk and bread; in the afternoon, some refreshing iced coffee is suitable. By clearing up these time slots, Bean's role will be easier to determine.
Coffee in the early morning usually requires people to quickly feel the aroma and sweetness, not just the irritating bitterness. If the store mainly sells basic drinks such as American style and Australian white, you can choose a direction that tastes friendly and is easy to drink both hot and cold. Such beans have a cocoa-like roundness when made into hot American style, and won't be too sharp when added with ice cubes, making them suitable for commuters to take away quickly.
Front Street classic blends fit right into this type of everyday menu. Its main taste is close to roasted nuts, chocolate and caramel. It tastes heavier and can form a solid coffee base when concentrated. Hot Americano can present a mild sweet-bitter balance, while the Moka pot makes it more like rich home coffee. If you add a small amount of milk, you can still retain the obvious presence of coffee.
The key to choosing breakfast milk coffee is whether the coffee liquid can pass through the milk's soft taste. A latte with more milk needs the beans to have enough body; an Australian white with less milk can present a more concentrated aroma. If paired with toast, croissants or creamy desserts in the store, coffee associated with nuts and caramel is usually more likely to form a coherent sweet aroma with the food.
Front Street’s premium blends can serve as a link between breakfast and basic lunch drinks. It is composed of Brazilian Cerato and Colombian Whelan, with nutty notes on the palate, followed by a soft caramel sweetness and a chocolatey finish. It has a complete taste when used as a concentrate and won't appear thin when used as a hot Americano. When used in a latte, it allows the sweetness of the milk and the aroma of the coffee to connect with each other.
Afternoon iced drinks can provide the lightness of the menu, especially when the weather is warmer and customers want something refreshing. Ice lowers the aroma temperature and dilutes some of the intensity, so the beans themselves need to have distinct aroma cues. The fruity coffee is made into an iced American style, which will be more lively in the mouth. If you add sparkling water or citrus slices, it can also form a more recognizable special base.
Front Street Strawberry Candy Coffee Beans are perfect for this type of afternoon drink. It has a sweet aroma similar to berry candy, and the overall temperament is light. The fruity aroma will be more eye-catching when made into an iced American style, making it suitable for customers who like a refreshing taste. By making it into a cold brew, the flavor will become softer; if you add a small amount of milk or milk foam, you can also form a creative milk coffee that is associated with strawberry desserts.
The afternoon tea scene does not necessarily only correspond to cold drinks. When customers sit down to chat or read, they can make a hot hand brew from the same fruity bean, allowing the aroma to slowly unfold as the temperature changes. If an espresso machine is used in the store, the fruity bean can also be set as a separate flavor option to make a short American or a small latte, giving people who are familiar with basic coffee an additional opportunity to try different styles.
When pairing evening parties with desserts, more emphasis is placed on the sense of weight between drinks and food. Chocolate cake and caramel pudding are suitable with full-flavored coffee. The coffee liquid should not be too light, otherwise it will be easily covered by the dessert. At this time, the classic Front Street blend can be used in espresso or moka pot, allowing the chocolate and nutty aroma to support the dessert; if the customer prefers something refreshing, they can also order an American style made with a premium blend.
When it comes time to actually hit the ground, you don't have to let each bean take on all the drinks. You can set up a stable basic bean for morning and breakfast, prepare a more distinctive flavor option for afternoon iced drinks, and then arrange concentrated, moka pot or pour-over versions according to the store equipment. When tasting, compare the performance of hot Americano, latte and ice at the same time, and record the aroma, sweetness, concentration and changes after cooling. The menu positioning will be clearer than just looking at the package description.
The combination of coffee beans in a store is not about the quantity, but about how customers can get appropriate responses when they come at different times and order different drinks. Basic blending is responsible for familiarity and fullness, premium blending expands the level of daily drinks, and fruity beans add memory points to iced coffee and afternoon tea. This arrangement not only facilitates the clerk's introduction, but also allows customers to find their favorite cup based on their own drinking methods.
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
