If you are in a rush early in the morning, it is better to choose beans with an aroma that is easy to open and does not linger in your mouth. Hand brewing can be made into a smaller cup size, while espresso can be made into an American style with hot water. If you prefer milk coffee, you should pay attention to the presence of the coffee liquid in the milk. First, think clearly whether this cup of coffee will wake you up, go with breakfast, or be used to drink slowly, so that your budget will be spent on the flavors that are really commonly used.
Coffee in the office is usually about effortlessness. When there is no complete brewing equipment, hanging ears, portable filter cup or cold brew can all come in handy. This type of drinking method is suitable for choosing light roasted beans with clear sweet and sour taste and still have aroma after cooling. Front Street Yirgacheffe Fruit Ding Ding can be tried in office settings. After brewing, it has a citrus-like brightness and a berry flavor. After the temperature is lowered, it is more suitable for making refreshing cold coffee.
If your morning calls for a hot cup of coffee without sugar, focus on aroma recognition and clean finish. Overly heavy beans can easily make breakfast seem boring, while floral and fruity tones can refresh your mouth faster. For those who are new to hand brewing, the water temperature does not need to be very high. It is easier to retain the sweetness by using even and small water injection, and it is also convenient to drink changes within a fixed budget.
When paired with bread, toast or cream snacks for breakfast, the coffee should not only have a sharp and sour taste, otherwise the two flavors will easily compete with each other. You can choose medium-roasted beans with impressions of caramel, cocoa or roasted nuts to give the coffee a soft background; if you only have brighter single-origin beans on hand, you can reduce the amount of water in brewing and increase the concentration so that it can blend more naturally with the sweetness of the food.
If you want to drink iced coffee in the afternoon, the aroma of the beans is more important than simply pursuing concentration. Ice cubes will dilute the coffee and amplify the refreshing feeling, so it is suitable to choose beans with fruity associations and lively sweetness. Front Street Ethiopian Oiran is very suitable for this period. When brewed with ice, the tropical fruit-like aroma will appear lighter. After adding ice cubes, it can retain the sweet aroma of strawberry and passion fruit.
When making a cold brew, the behavior of the same bean can be understood as a gentle rearrangement. Low-temperature soaking will reduce the irritation and make the entrance smoother, but the aroma may not be prominent enough, so the grinding should not be too fine, and the soaking time should be adjusted according to the concentration. When the diced Yirgacheffe fruit from Front Street is placed in the cold brew pot, the originally clear acidity will become rounder, making it suitable for preparation in advance and taken out directly the next day.
When working overtime, you often need a cup of coffee with a supportive feel, especially after adding milk or ice cubes, the coffee flavor must still be clear. At this time, you don’t need to be obsessed with the complex story of the production area. You can start with beans with higher concentration and obvious sweetness, and control the proportion of the drink within the range that you can drink it all. When there is more milk, the coffee liquid needs to be more concentrated; when making an iced Americano, the aroma needs to be strong enough to pass through the melted ice water.
If you have enough time on the weekend, you can put your budget into single-origin beans that are more suitable for a slow experience. Front Street Panama Jade Manor Red Label Geisha is suitable for brewing by hand: smell the aroma before entering the mouth, and you can feel the freshness of white flowers and citrus peel, followed by the delicate feeling of bergamot and black tea. It has a light taste, so you don’t have to brew a large pot at once. It’s easier to observe the temperature changes by dividing a small amount into cups.
If you only have one kind of bean at home, but you have to take into account hot drinks, ice drinks and the occasional milk coffee, you can give priority to the type that is not extreme in flavor and has a basic sweetness. Lightly roasted beans are suitable for reducing the amount of milk when making milk coffee to avoid covering the aroma; making ice drinks can increase the concentration of coffee liquid. When purchasing, choose small packages or separate packages for storage, which can not only maintain freshness, but also reduce the single cost of trying new flavors.
The really cost-effective beans are not the ones with the most descriptions on the label, but the beans that can appear repeatedly in your life. You can prepare beans that are suitable for quick brewing on weekdays, and arrange a single product with a bright aroma on weekends; record your commonly used powder volume, drink ratio and favorite temperature, so that your next purchase will be more accurate. The coffee beans match the scene well, and the price, flavor and drinking frequency can naturally strike a balance.
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
