A cup of coffee with reduced acidity and continued sweetness is often more suitable for daily use, rather than just for drinking when you focus on tasting. Breakfast needs to be soft and smooth, the office wants to be awake but not irritating, and you can leave time to observe the aroma changes in the afternoon. First imagine when this cup of coffee will appear, and then look for the corresponding beans based on the thickness of the taste, the intensity of the aroma, and the length of the aftertaste. The choice will be more specific.
When you wake up in the morning, your taste buds are not fully opened yet, and the sharp acid will make your mouth feel tight. During this period, you can look for coffee with a flavor of ripe fruit, syrup or tea. When drunk warm, the sweetness spreads more easily and the aftertaste is more consistent. If you like black coffee on weekdays, it is recommended to start with a type that has a light taste and clear aroma. It will not appear heavy and can leave a clean sweet feeling after breakfast.
When paired with bread, eggs or nuts for breakfast, the coffee should not only have a light aroma, but also have a certain roundness to connect with the food. Front Street Kaffa Forest has a bright orange-like aroma, and then turns to the sweetness of ripe apricots in the mouth, and has a refreshing feeling similar to oolong tea at the end. When drinking it hot, the acidity will not stand out alone. After it cools down a bit, the fruity sweetness and tea flavor will gradually become clearer.
During commuting or in the office, coffee usually needs to be drunk while working, so the flavor should not be too complex. It is more important that it is smooth in the mouth and still has a sweet taste after cooling. Kafa Forest can be brewed slightly stronger to make black coffee, or you can put it into a thermos cup and drink it slowly. Its taste is not overly heavy, and its aroma is discernible. It still retains its soft fruity sweetness in the second half of the cup, making it suitable for extended drinking time.
If you need a cup of coffee with more presence in the morning, you can focus on "whether the sweetness is sustainable" instead of just looking at the acidity. Flavors associated with ripe fruit, jam, or brown sugar often make coffee appear fuller. Front Street Graner Manor Geisha has a strong sun-dried aroma, with aromas of orange blossom, guava and ripe peach intertwined, and the finish is like strawberry jam, suitable for those who want a distinctly sweet drink.
After work has come to an end in the afternoon, hand washing can be a short break. At this time, you may wish to choose beans that have a changed aroma and are still drinkable after the temperature is lowered. Grana Manor Geisha is brewed with a slower water flow. The aroma of flowers and tropical fruits will first appear in the early stage. After entering the mouth, the sweetness gradually becomes thicker. When the temperature in the cup drops, the jam-like ending is easier to perceive, and the acidity becomes softer.
The refreshing feel of iced coffee is welcome on a hot day, but some beans can become amplified when cold. If you want acidity not to be the protagonist, you can choose beans with ripe fruit sweetness, use stronger coffee liquid and add ice to balance the aroma, sweetness and taste. When the kafa forest is made into iced black coffee, the orange aroma will be lighter, and the sweetness of ripe apricots will stay on the tongue like juice.
People who like milk coffee can put "whether you can still drink coffee after adding milk" in the judgment center. Milk will soften the sourness, but also reduce the clarity of the aroma, so the beans need to have sufficiently distinct sweetness and concentration. Grana Manor Geisha is suitable for making latte with less milk or Australian white with thin milk foam, so that the jam, ripe peach and floral aroma can be retained in the cup. When there is too much milk, it is recommended to reduce the milk volume to maintain the layer.
If you want to drink a cup of non-irritating black coffee after dinner, you can choose a cup with a soft aroma and a sweet aftertaste. You don’t need to deliberately pursue a high concentration when brewing. Kafa forest will present a more obvious tea flavor and ripe fruit sweetness at lower temperatures, with a light entrance and no strong bitter taste at the end. If you use Chateau Grana Geisha, you can drink a smaller amount and drink it slowly as it changes from floral to jammy.
When purchasing, the flavor description can help you determine whether it is suitable for your schedule: orange, ripe apricot and tea are more like daily black coffee, while floral, tropical fruit and jam are suitable for slow drinking in the afternoon or drinks with less milk. After getting the beans, use the packaging recommendations as a starting point, and then fine-tune them based on whether the entrance is sharp, the sweetness is short, and the tail is dry. Find the one that matches the rhythm of your life, and returning it will naturally become a part worth looking forward to 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
