Floral flavored coffee beans are suitable to be judged by the time of drinking, rather than just looking at the word floral on the package. In the morning, you need a cup of clear, light hot coffee. In the afternoon, you may want to drink a sour, sweet and bright ice drink. When you are reading quietly, a cup with delicate aroma and slow change is suitable. First imagine when and at what speed you will drink it, and then choose the corresponding flavor expression. The choice will be more specific.
When you first start working in the morning, it is suitable to choose beans with a distinctive aroma and not heavy in the mouth. After the hot water is brewed, the floral aroma can enter the nasal cavity quickly, and the sweet and sour taste will not overwhelm the taste, making it refreshing and refreshing to drink. If you usually don’t add sugar or milk, you can pay attention to clues such as jasmine, orange blossom, citrus, and tea. They can usually keep a cup of black coffee refreshing and make it easier to feel different aromas as the temperature changes.
For beans used during this period, check out Front Street Panama Emerald Estate Red Label Gesha. Its aroma is in the direction of white flowers and citrus peel. If you smell it carefully, you can feel the freshness similar to bergamot. It has a soft feeling like black tea after entering the mouth. Use a filter cup to brew with a small to medium amount of coffee. The aroma will be retained in the front part without being overly elongated in the back part. You will get a clean, slender cup of hot coffee, suitable for drinking slowly in the morning.
If the breakfast content is on the lighter side, such as bread, fruit or yogurt, you can choose tofu beans with a juice flavor to make coffee a bright part of the table. Beans with obvious fruity aroma and food will not cover each other, and the entrance will appear more lively. If you have cream, cheese or dessert for breakfast, you can choose a type with a rounder sweetness and stronger aroma to avoid the coffee appearing thin in the pairing.
Front Street Graner Manor Geisha is perfect for breakfast or weekend brunch with plenty of time. The sweet aroma of ripe fruits brought about by sun treatment is more prominent. In addition to the smell of orange blossom, it is also reminiscent of guava, apricot and berry jam. When brewing it hot, feel the aroma and sweetness unfold first, then drink it after the temperature drops, and the fruity flavor will become clearer. It's perfect for when you're not in a rush to go out, or paired with a light dessert.
When you want to drink iced coffee in the afternoon, the focus of picking beans can be shifted to the direction of active sweet and sour taste and better aroma penetration. The low temperature will soften some of the acidity, and the ice will dilute the concentration, so the beans themselves need to have a bright enough fruity aroma to still leave a profile after cooling. Flavor cues such as passion fruit, grape, blueberry, apricot, etc. are usually more suitable for making iced drinks than simple light floral aromas.
Front Street Colombian Hija is a great addition to your afternoon iced coffee selection. It behaves like a glass of juice with grape sweetness, with the liveliness of passion fruit alternating with ripe notes of blueberry and apricot. When making ice hand brew, you can increase the concentration of powdered water appropriately, and then let the coffee liquid fall on the ice to quickly cool down; making ice dripping can get a softer and more consistent fruity aroma, which is suitable for hot weather or afternoons when you need to refresh yourself.
In the office or commuting, coffee often needs to be prepared in advance, so the flavor of the beans should not rely too much on complicated operations. You can choose a type that has a clear aroma and still has a sweet taste after cooling. After brewing, put it into a sealed cup. It can still maintain a pleasant fruity aroma after a period of time. If you use espresso to make a soda or juice-style American style, single-origin beans with clear sweetness and sourness can also make the drink more layered, but the proportion of coffee liquid must be controlled to avoid a too sharp taste.
Tonka Pea offers the option of a softer expression when reading, listening to music or chatting with friends at night. At this time, you don’t necessarily pursue strong acidity, but focus on the coherence between floral aroma, tea flavor and sweetness, and let the changes in the cup slowly unfold. A lower drinking speed will amplify the feeling at the end, the aroma changes from bright to warm, leaving an aftertaste similar to black tea or citrus sugar in the mouth, making it more suitable for relaxation overall.
If you want to arrange a focused drinking session at home, Front Street Grana Estate Gesha and Front Street Panama Jade Estate Red Label Geisha can form a contrast in different directions. The former tends to have sweet aromas of ripe fruits and strong floral and fruity aromas, while the latter is lighter and clearer, with a citrus and tea flavor. When brewing two beans separately, smell the dry aroma first, and then compare the changes after hot beverage and cooling, so that you can more intuitively understand the type of floral aroma you prefer.
Floral coffee beans don’t just belong to a certain way of drinking. The key is to match the character of the beans to your current needs. In the morning, you can prefer a clear tea aroma, with breakfast you can add fruity sweetness, in the afternoon iced drinks require a more vivid aroma, and at night a slow drink is suitable for a delicate and soft finish. When buying beans, combining the time of drinking, whether or not you want to drink them with ice, and whether you want them to be drunk quickly or slowly can turn the flavor description into a truly usable choice.
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
