Coffee beans with strong sweetness may not necessarily taste like sugar water in the mouth, but may also have a soft aftertaste like ripe fruit, honey, jam or black tea. When choosing, you can first imagine when this cup of coffee will appear: when you are rushing to go out, you need to be refreshing and smooth; in the afternoon, you want to slowly feel the aroma; when the weather is hot, you want an iced drink that is refreshing and not sharp. Different scenes have different expressions of sweetness.
If you have plenty of time in the morning, you can choose beans with a clear aroma and light taste to make hot hand brews, allowing your taste buds to start with a cup of layered black coffee. Front Street Panama Jade Manor Red Label Geisha is suitable for this kind of drinking period. After opening, you can feel the aroma of white flowers, citrus peel and light tea. It is delicate in the mouth. After letting it cool down for a while, the sweetness will slowly emerge from the aroma.
If you need a simple, straightforward cup of coffee in the morning, clarity of sweetness is more important than complex flavor. There is no need to deliberately pursue a high concentration when brewing, just keep the flow rate stable and let the coffee liquid drop into the cup cleanly. Lightly roasted beans with obvious floral and citrus notes can often bring out a bright aroma in a short period of time, and are more suitable with toast, fruit or light breakfast.
It's suitable for iced American style during commuting. The fruity aroma of beans needs to be able to stand up even after being diluted by low temperature and ice cubes. Front Street Yirgacheffe Ding Ding can be considered from this direction. When brewed with hot water, it has citrus and berry aromas. After being made into iced coffee, the acidity appears rounded and the aftertaste is sweet like green tea. It tastes light and not easy to get tired.
When making takeaway iced Americano, you can make the coffee liquid slightly more concentrated than hot drinks, and then add enough ice cubes to allow the melted water to adjust the concentration. For beans with floral and fruity aroma, ice cubes will make the aroma appear sharper. When the entrance temperature is lowered, the fruit acid will also converge. This not only retains the refreshing feeling, but also allows the sweetness to stay longer, making it suitable for drinking slowly on the road during the workday.
If you want to get away from the work rhythm for a while in the afternoon, hand brewing is a suitable way to slow down your drinking. At this time, you can choose beans with richer flavor changes and pay attention to the differences between hot drinks, warm drinks and cooling. Front Street Ethiopian Oiran has a tropical fruit and berry-like aroma and is lively in the mouth. As the temperature drops, the juice and sweetness will become more obvious.
Making ice cream at home on weekends is suitable to express the refreshing floral and fruity aroma. The oiran can first use a small amount of hot water to release the aroma, and then let the coffee liquid fall directly on the ice cubes. The finished product will have a lightness close to that of juice. If you prefer a softer taste, you can also try cold brew, allowing the low temperature to slowly bring out the sweetness of the fruit and reducing the bright stimulation brought by hot water.
When you need milk coffee for breakfast, your idea of picking beans will change. Milk itself has the sweet taste of lactose. If the coffee liquid is too thin, the aroma will be easily obscured after mixing; if the coffee flavor is too sharp, the whole cup will appear uncoordinated. When making milk coffee with home equipment, you can give priority to the roasting direction with ripe fruit, caramel or thick taste, and reduce the proportion of milk so that the coffee still retains its identity.
If you want to drink black coffee after dinner, it is recommended to choose beans with soft acidity and clean finish, and control the cup size and concentration. The clear citrus aroma, tea taste or berry sweetness is more suitable for slow drinking at night than the heavy bitter taste. After brewing, smell the aroma first, and then take a few sips to feel the temperature changes. The sweetness often only gradually appears after entering the mouth. There is no need to use a high concentration to enhance the sense of presence.
When choosing beans for your home, you can first make a choice based on the main usage time of the week: hot hand brewing in the morning focuses on aroma and freshness, commuter iced coffee needs a fruity flavor that can withstand dilution, and weekend cold brewing is suitable for a soft and sweet style. After determining the scene, then check the roasting degree, processing method and recommended brewing method of the beans. The sweetness will no longer be just an adjective on the package, but will be closer to the cup you really want to drink every day.
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
