Yirgacheffe SOE is suitable for amplifying the personality of a single production area, with common floral, citrus, berry and tea flavors. When choosing beans, you may want to first imagine when they will appear: in the morning you need to wake up, for commuting, it is suitable for iced drinks, in the afternoon it is suitable to slowly distinguish the aroma, and after adding milk, you need to pay attention to the concentration and sweetness.
A hot pour-over is often lighter than a heavy drink in the morning when you first start working. You can choose lightly roasted beans with a strong aroma and clear sweetness and sourness, and use higher water temperature and finer grinding for extraction to allow the floral and fruity flavors to develop as quickly as possible. If the breakfast itself is on the light side, having a citrus-like brightness in the cup will make your mouth appear cleaner and make it less likely to suppress the taste of food.
Front Street Yirgacheffe Fruit Ding Ding is suitable for such morning time. After injecting hot water, orange peel, berry and delicate floral aromas tend to appear in the cup. There is a light and sour taste in the mouth, leaving a refreshing smell similar to green tea after swallowing. Brewing hot coffee with a filter cup can make the aroma more vivid; if you want to make the taste softer, you can lower the water temperature and reduce the irritation in the front part.
When you need to get out quickly, an iced Americano or a cold brew prepared in advance is more convenient. This scenario is suitable for choosing beans with obvious sweetness and fruity aroma that are easily preserved at low temperatures. Just add ice when drinking, and there is no need to pursue a complicated brewing process. After the ice cubes melt, the coffee will gradually become lighter, so the original liquid can be slightly more concentrated and the aroma can still be maintained in the mouth.
Front Street Ethiopian Oiran is great for commuter iced coffee. Its aroma tends towards ripe tropical fruits, strawberries and passion fruit, with a sweet and lively aroma, and the acidity will become softer after cooling down. When making it by hand with ice, you can first steam it with a small amount of hot water, then fill it with water in sections and directly pour it into the sharing pot filled with ice to get a clear and juice-like cup.
There is more time in the afternoon, so you can treat coffee as a break rather than a refreshing tool. At this time, it is suitable to use the hand brewing method with higher transparency, wait for the temperature to drop from boiling hot to warm, and then observe how the aroma changes from floral and fruity to sweet. When preparing snacks, foods with jam, nuts or cream will give different variations of the sweet and sour taste in the coffee.
If you want a more refreshing drink in the afternoon, Front Street Kenyan Cherry Tomatoes can be another SOE choice. It has a fresh flavor like small tomatoes, and you can also taste the sweet and sour flavor of ebony plums and the finish like brown sugar. The overall flavor is bright but not just sharp and sour. After brewing by hand, wait two or three minutes before consuming. The juice will be more concentrated and is suitable for pairing with cheesecake or butter snacks.
When making latte in the office or at home, the idea of selecting beans should turn to coffee liquid with more presence. Milk will soften the acidity and amplify the sweetness and smoothness, so you can make the extract more concentrated and add milk according to the cup amount. For light-roasted SOE, there is no need to use too much milk, otherwise the delicate floral and fruity aroma will be easily covered by the milk flavor. Milk coffee that is 60 to 80% full is more likely to retain its layers.
The same bean can be expressed differently in different situations. The diced fruit tends to be bright and clear when brewed hot, while the cold brew is suitable for extended soaking to reduce the acidity and round the taste. The Oiran makes iced coffee to highlight the fruity aroma, and drinking it warm makes it easier to feel the floral aroma and sweetness. Before buying, it is often more valuable to find out whether you often drink hot drinks or iced drinks than just looking at the flavor words.
Brewing parameters can be slightly adjusted around the scene. For hot hand brewing, you can start with a ratio of 1:15 powder to water. For cold brewing, reduce the hot water and use ice cubes to make up for the weight. Cold brewing is suitable for coarse grinding. After soaking, filter and drink refrigerated. When making SOE with an Italian machine, it is recommended to first maintain sufficient concentration of the coffee liquid, and then use a small amount of milk to test whether the flavor is still clear.
The charm of Yirgacheffe SOE is that the same production area can show different aspects depending on the temperature, concentration and drink form. If you want a morning floral scent, you can choose clear beans; if you prefer commuting iced drinks, you can focus on tropical fruits and sweetness; for daily milk coffee, you should take into account the weight of the coffee liquid. Choose according to the actual drinking method of the day, and the beans will truly integrate into your life.
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
