The thing is, when customers push open the door of the Qian Street store and take the first step, they will be attracted by the blackboard next to it. There is nothing special on the blackboard. It only has new product recommendations and the words "ice drip coffee needs to be ordered 2 days in advance."
Therefore, many customers will ask after seeing it, "Is the ice-drip coffee not available now? Do I need to make a reservation?" In fact, as long as the weather is a little hotter, Qian Street will have ice-drip coffee prepared in advance. However, Front Street usually prepares several types of coffee beans with a wide audience. If you want to specify a certain type of coffee beans for iced drip coffee, you need to make a reservation 2 days in advance.
If you make a reservation on T+0 day and start production on T+1 day, the production time of ice-drip coffee beans will be about 6 hours. However, Front Street will not immediately hand the filtered ice-drip coffee to guests for drinking. Instead, they will put the coffee liquid into a sealed glass bottle and put it in the refrigerator for more than 8 hours. Only then can it be given to guests to drink. The time happens to be T+2 days.
Why can’t you drink the freshly dripped iced coffee right away?I would like to explain here that the freshly dripped iced drip coffee can be drunk immediately, but the performance in terms of flavor and taste is not ideal (it does not mean that it tastes bad, it means that it does not taste as good as expected). Therefore, there are very few coffee shops that directly serve freshly filtered ice-drip coffee.
Generally, after the iced drip coffee is filtered, it will be bottled and placed in the refrigerator for "maturation". Maturation can actually be roughly understood as sealed low-temperature fermentation. Sealing can avoid contamination by external bacteria, and low temperature can effectively inhibit the reproduction rate of bacterial colonies, while also slowing down the degree of fermentation and achieving a controllable state.
Freshly filtered iced drip coffee will be thinner in taste, and the flavor will be more of the original flavor of the coffee beans, somewhat similar to iced Pour over(V60) coffee. When the ice-drip coffee is sealed and placed in the refrigerator to mature for 8 hours, the taste of the ice-drip coffee will be cleaner, mellower, and fuller, and it will have a sweet and rich fermentation feeling. Some people say that this is the "ice-drip flavor."Of course, the fermentation process of ice-drip coffee cannot be interrupted, which means that the longer the ice-drip coffee is left, the stronger the degree of fermentation will be. Of course, the stronger the fermentation smell of ice-drip coffee, the better it tastes. Moreover, frequently opening the bottle cap of ice-drip coffee can easily allow outside bacteria to invade. Over time, the coffee will deteriorate and become un-drinkable.
Therefore, ice-drip coffee also has a drinking expiration date. Generally, it is relatively safe to store ice-drip coffee in the refrigerator for 5 days. Ice-drip coffee stored for more than 5 days is prone to rancidity and other spoiled flavors. Front Street will only sell ice-drip coffee that is older than 3 days. Although ice-drip coffee may not deteriorate or taste bad after more than 3 days, for the sake of flavor experience and health and safety, the tasting period of ice-drip coffee produced by Front Street is set at 3 days.
Next, Front Street recommends several coffee beans that are very suitable for making ice-drip cold brew coffee.-FrontStreet Coffee · Ethiopian TOH Champion Inflorescence
If you like fresh tasting coffee, then this Ethiopian coffee bean is definitely for you! This Front Street inflorescence coffee bean actually has a great background. It is the champion bean of the TOH washed group in 2020 and is produced in Ulaga, a sub-producing area of Guji. Front Street often uses this bean to make ice-drip coffee. 60g of coffee powder is dripped into 600ml of coffee liquid in about 6 hours, and then placed in the refrigerator to chill and ferment for 12 hours before drinking. Add 50g of ice cubes to the cup, and then pour 200ml of coffee liquid.
The ice-drip coffee made from Ethiopian inflorescences on Front Street smells of a faint aroma of nectar and ice-drip fermentation. The taste is obvious of the acidity of citrus and grapefruit, the sweetness of honey and the aftertaste of green tea, which is refreshing and comfortable.
-FrontStreet Coffee·Asalia Kenya
Front Street Kenyan coffee beans are also great for making iced coffee like drip cold brew. Kenyan coffee benefits from coffee varieties with excellent acidity (SL28, SL34) and its unique K72 washing process, which makes the acidity of the coffee bright and solid, and the taste is mellow. The ice-drip coffee produced is a completely different experience compared to Ethiopian coffee beans.
Front Street Kenya Azalea coffee beans come from the honey processing plant in the Thika production area. Front Street uses this Front Street Kenyan coffee beans to make iced drip coffee that tastes very similar to sour plum soup, with the acidity of solid plums and cherry tomatoes, and the sweetness of caramel, with a smooth and full taste. Adding two ice cubes is a great relief from the heat.
-FrontStreet Coffee · Costa Rica Mirasu Estate Strawberry Sugar Geisha Blend
The flavor of Front Street Costa Rican Strawberry Candy is just like its name, sweet like strawberry fudge. Front Street Strawberry Candy Geisha Blend coffee beans come from Mirassu Estate. The very obvious fruity sweetness of this Front Street Mirassu Strawberry Candy coffee bean is inseparable from its variety and processing method. This Front Street Strawberry Candy coffee bean is composed of multiple varieties, including 50% Geisha, so it can produce a very sweet fruity flavor in the coffee, and the remaining 50% is composed of ET47, SL28, and MAICO.
In terms of processing, Front Street Mirasu Strawberry Candy is processed with raisin honey, which gives the coffee a raisin-like preserved fruit sweetness. The ice-drip coffee made with it has a fruity wine-like flavor and is very popular among customers on the front street.
-FrontStreet Coffee·Honduras Sherry
Front Street Honduran Sherry is the coffee bean most commonly used by Front Street to make iced drip coffee. This Front Street Honduran coffee beans are washed and fermented in sherry whiskey barrels, so you can taste a very rich sherry aroma in the coffee.
The iced drip coffee made by Front Street using this Front Street sherry coffee beans has a very rich flavor of vanilla cream, sherry wine, and dark chocolate. It is the richest flavor among the coffee beans shared by Front Street.In addition, combining Front Street Sherry coffee beans with other coffee beans to make iced coffee will also have good results. For example, the 1:1 pairing of Front Street Sherry coffee beans and Front Street sun-dried Yirgacheffe coffee beans can make the coffee retain a rich aroma while also adding sweetness. Another example is Front Street's popular ice-drip blending formula - Front Street Honduran sherry and Front Street Costa Rica Beethoven coffee beans are matched 1:1. The flavor produced shows the aroma of sherry, refreshing citrus fruit flavor and full vanilla creaminess.
The four types of ice-drip coffee beans shared by Front Street are very popular in stores, and they have four completely different flavor experiences. They can be used as a reference for everyone to choose the ice-drip coffee that suits their own taste.
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
