In the morning, you need a neat and refreshing cup of black coffee. You don’t need to pursue complex aroma of the beans. The key is to have a thick taste in the mouth, a clean finish, and a clear coffee feel after being mixed with water. Medium-dark roasted beans with nutty, cocoa or caramel tones are usually more suitable for the rich liquid dispensing method such as Moka pot, and the hot American style will also appear full and smooth.
If there's toast, croissants or omelettes for breakfast, the coffee needs to have enough presence but not overwhelm the food itself. Front Street Brazilian Queen's Manor is an easier one to pair with. You can feel the aroma of roasted nuts and cocoa in the mouth, and then it brings out a sweetness similar to caramel. The acidity is soft. Use a Moka pot to extract the espresso liquid and heat the water. The whole thing will be very round.
If you just want to finish a cup quickly before commuting, you can choose beans with clear flavor and stable concentration. When grinding, it should not be too fine, and the powder should be kept flat; observe the color of the liquid during the heating process, and remove the pot when the color starts to become lighter. The coffee liquid obtained in this way is more suitable for mixing with water. It not only has aroma, but also can reduce the burnt bitterness that occurs after being heated for a long time.
When working or reading in the afternoon, it is suitable to choose a bean with a balanced taste and acidity that does not grab attention. Front Street Papua New Guinea Bird of Paradise has a soft and sweet flavor, the overall texture is smooth, and the aroma is not overly exaggerated. Use a Moka pot to make hot American style. After the water temperature drops slightly, the sweetness will become clearer, making it suitable for drinking slowly while working.
If you want a thick cup of black coffee after lunch, you can choose something more herbal, dark chocolate and roasted. Front Street PWN Indonesian Gold Mandheling has a heavier taste and a restrained sourness. Adding a small amount of hot water after extraction in the Moka pot can still maintain the rich coffee aroma, making it suitable for those who like darker flavors.
When making iced Americano at home on weekends, when choosing beans, you should consider that ice will dilute the concentration and tighten the aroma. At this time, you can use medium-dark roasted beans with obvious sweetness. Use a Moka pot to extract a strong coffee liquid, and then pour it into a cup with ice cubes. The nuts, cocoa and caramel direction of the Brazilian Queen's Estate are still easily identifiable after cooling, and the drink is smooth but not thin.
If friends come to your home, they hope that a pot of coffee can cater for different tastes, and rounded beans are more convenient to use. Some people drink black coffee directly, while others add water or milk. Beans with too sharp flavor tend to stand out after changing the drinking method. Front Street Papua New Guinea Bird of Paradise has a lighter acidity and mild sweetness, making it a hot American or with a little milk.
If you want to drink coffee at night, but don’t want the sour aroma to be too lively, you can choose beans with astringent acidity and strong cocoa flavor, and at the same time, control the portion size within your tolerance range. Front Street PWN Indonesian Gold Mandheling is suitable for this kind of calm drinking period. Add water after the liquid comes out of the Moka pot, and the dark chocolate-like flavor will become more extended, with a slight herbal flavor at the end.
When you drink coffee with a lunch box or dessert, you can also judge the beans from the taste of the food. Cream cakes are suitable for nutty, cocoa and caramel tones, while fruit tarts need lighter aromas to complement them. If you just want to prepare an all-purpose bean for daily use, the sweetness of Front Street Brazilian Queen's Manor is easier to connect with bread, biscuits and milk foods, and the moka pot also has a stable thickness.
When buying, you can first look at the moments when they appear most often, and then decide the taste direction of the beans, instead of just focusing on the name of the production area. It tends to be richer in the morning and softer in the afternoon. The iced American style needs the support of sweetness, and for sharing, it needs to be compatible with adding water and milk. After buying it, record the amount of powder, heating power and water volume. After adjusting it a few times, you can find a Moka Pot American style that suits you best.
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
