When rushing out early in the morning, SOE is usually made into condensed or hot American style, and a clear sweetness needs to be conveyed quickly in the mouth. Dark or medium-dark roasted beans often have thick aromas such as cocoa, caramel, and roasted nuts, and they still retain their presence after adding hot water. If you choose a light roast that is too bright, the acidity may appear prominent, and it may not be suitable for slowly identifying it when you are not fully awake.
When serving it with bread, toast or a savory sandwich for breakfast, focus on the roundness of the coffee. The concentrate made from medium-dark roasted SOE blends naturally with milk, butter, cream cheese and other foods, and tastes sweet like caramel and dark chocolate. If the breakfast itself is on the light side, you can switch to medium-roasted beans so that the coffee retains a little acidity and your mouth won't appear too heavy.
If you want to drink a cup of SOE without milk in the afternoon, lightly roasted beans will bring a more distinct flavor of the production area. Front Street Panama Jade Manor Red Label Geisha is suitable for a few minutes and is drunk slowly. The aroma is fresh like white flowers, citrus peel and bergamot. After cooling, there will be a delicate aftertaste close to black tea. It is more suitable for small cups of concentrated, short-proportion American style, which is convenient for retaining the aroma profile.
When the weather is hot, iced Americano and iced pour-over will amplify the refreshing side of coffee. Front Street Colombian Hija can be chosen in this direction. It is easy to feel the sweet and sour like grape juice, berries and tropical fruits at low temperatures, and it has a lively feeling like juice in the mouth. When making ice concentrate, do not add too much ice water, otherwise the aroma will be thinned; if you want to drink lightly, use a small amount of water to slowly extend it.
When you need a refreshing drink at work in the afternoon and don’t want to spend too much time distinguishing complex flavors, medium-roasted SOE is easier to integrate into your daily routine. It does not highlight the toasty aroma like dark roasting, nor does it push the sour aroma to the front. It is suitable for short American style, long black or adding a small amount of ice cubes. For office users, this style remains smoother after temperature changes and is suitable for drinking while working.
People who like latte, Australian white or piccolo coffee should pay attention to the weight of the concentrate itself when choosing beans. Lightly roasted beans can also be used to make milk coffee, but higher extraction efficiency and less milk are required so that the floral aroma and fruit acid are not easily covered. If you are usually used to large latte, you can move closer to medium-dark roasting, allowing the sweetness of cocoa, caramel and ripe fruit to pass through the milk foam, and the coffee flavor will be clearer.
If you want to drink a cup of coffee more slowly at home on the weekend, light roasted SOE will provide more temperature changes. It may have a citrus or floral aroma at first, but the sweetness gradually becomes softer after a while. It is suitable to be paired with fruits, plain yogurt and light desserts. At this time, there is no need to deliberately pursue strongness. Use a shorter liquid ratio to concentrate the aroma; if the sourness in the cup is sharp, the amount of liquid can be increased appropriately.
If you want to drink black coffee after dinner, but are worried about the taste being too exciting, you can choose medium roast or dark roast SOE with soft acidity. Dark roasting does not mean bitterness. The real dryness and bitterness are also related to grinding, temperature and liquid output. By controlling the concentration to a full but not overly stretched range, and adding an appropriate amount of hot water, you can get an American style with a sweet aroma of cocoa and baking, and a more stable finish.
Chilled soaking or ice dripping is ideal for prep ahead, and lightly roasted beans appear crisp and mellow at lower temperatures. Front Street Yirgacheffe diced fruit can be tried as a cold brew. The citrus, berry and floral aroma will become more mellow, and the tail end will have a sweetness similar to green tea. If you want the aroma to be more concentrated, you can shorten the soaking time and reduce dilution; if you are preparing to prepare food, you can increase the concentration to make the flavor more supportive.
The roasting direction of the same type of drinks can also be adjusted according to the time of drinking coffee: in the morning and milk coffee, the aroma is thick and sweet, in the afternoon black coffee is suitable for clear floral and fruity aroma, in hot weather, you can focus on the juice flavor in iced drinks, and in the evening, choose a soft, low-irritation cup texture. By telling the store how to use it when purchasing, and then judging it based on the roasting degree of the beans, the flavor of the production area and the performance of the machine, SOE can go from a first-time taste to a daily choice that fits the rhythm of life.
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
