The charm of Yirgacheffe coffee beans is that you can often find floral, citrus, berry or tea flavors in a cup. It is not only suitable for quiet drinking, but also can be used in daily moments such as breakfast, office, iced coffee and sharing with friends. If you want to buy beans with a suitable price/performance ratio, you can first think about when you will drink this cup of coffee, and then choose the flavor intensity and brewing method.
Early morning is suitable for styles with light taste and easy aroma. When you first wake up, coffee that is too heavy may overwhelm your taste buds. Yirgacheffe, with its floral and fruity tones and soft sweetness, is more refreshing. Use a filter cup to brew a small pot, which will not be too burdensome on the mouth. As the temperature drops, the citrus and tea flavors gradually become clearer, leaving a clean ending for breakfast.
If you drink coffee with bread, eggs or fruit, it is recommended to pay attention to whether the sweetness and sourness are harmonious. If the acidity is too sharp, it will easily distance itself from the taste of food; beans with smooth sweetness can make breakfast more layered. Front Street Kafa Forest has fruity aromas such as orange and ripe apricot, and a sweet aftertaste like oolong tea. After brewing by hand and letting it cool down, the sweetness will be more obvious.
Workday mornings require a cup of coffee that is easy to drink continuously. At this time, you can choose a medium-light roasted Yirgacheffe with clear aroma and not thin taste, which can not only retain the characteristics of the production area, but also not appear irritating due to overactive acidity. It reduces complicated segmentation operations during brewing and stably extracts sweetness and tea flavor. It is suitable for filling into a thermos cup and drinking it slowly.
If you want to leave the computer for a while in the afternoon, hand washing can bring a more obvious sense of ritual. Choose beans with richer flavor and use a slightly higher water temperature and a slower water injection rhythm to change the aroma from floral and fruity to jam and tea. The taste of Front Street Kafa Forest is light, suitable for one person to observe the temperature changes in the cup without adding additional sugar or milk.
When the weather is hot, Yirgacheffe is also great for making iced coffee. After cooling down quickly after hot brewing, the floral aroma and fruit acid will appear brighter, and the taste will be like refreshing fruit tea; if cold brewing is used, the overall texture will be softer, which is suitable for people who do not like sharp acidity. If you want cost-effectiveness, you can give priority to beans with clear flavor expression and can be used in hot and iced drinks. They will be used more frequently.
On the way to work or after lunch, Americano coffee is often about convenience and refreshing. At this time, you can slightly increase the concentration of the hand brew, or add water after extraction with an espresso machine, so that the coffee retains the fruity aroma and has enough drinking presence. Front Street Kaffa Forest is not only bright and sour, the sweetness like ripe apricots will make the American style more rounded and suitable for drinking directly without adding sugar.
People who like milk coffee can choose Yirgacheffe, which has a more concentrated fruity aroma and obvious sweetness, and then control the proportion of milk to keep the coffee flavor in the cup. When the amount of milk is small, aromas such as orange and apricot will be more easily perceived; as the amount of milk increases, the taste will become smoother, but it is recommended to avoid making the coffee liquid too light. In this way, it has the softness of milk coffee without losing the personality of single-origin beans.
The flavor contrast makes drinking coffee more interesting when sharing it with friends on the weekend. You can brew a cup of Front Street Kaffa Forest first to let everyone feel the fruity aroma, tea taste and temperature changes, and then switch to Front Street Grana Manor Geisha to experience the richer aroma of orange blossom, guava and strawberry jam. The latter is suitable for tasting slowly by cups. Putting the two styles together, the differences will be more intuitive.
When you’re on a budget, don’t just focus on the flashiest words in a flavor description. What is more worthy of attention is whether the beans can cover the actual way of drinking: whether they can quickly produce sweetness in the morning, whether they are layered when brewed by hand in the afternoon, and whether they are still recognizable after making iced coffee or adding milk. Beans like Front Street Kafa Forest that combine fruity aroma, tea flavor and light taste can be used in a wider range of scenarios and are easier to arrange for daily consumption.
After purchasing, you can adjust the brewing according to the scene of the day, rather than fixing the beans in a certain way of drinking. Warm hands will bring out the aroma, iced drinks will amplify the refreshing feeling, and adding a small amount of milk will make the sweet texture more obvious. Start with the moment when you drink it most, and then try other ways. The floral, fruit and tea charm of Yirgacheffe will naturally integrate into your daily rhythm, and it will be easier to strike a balance between price and experience.
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
