In the coffee field, when it comes to SOE coffee, it refers to single originEspresso. Expanding this English abbreviation is Single Origin Espresso , which is directly opposite to Espresso Blend, which refers to Italian blended beans.
SOE is like bamboo shoots springing up after the rain. It has been rarely seen in China before, but suddenly it has become an indispensable option for many specialty cafes in the past two years. Click beforeespressoThe products always have a rich, mellow and fragrant taste. And SOE makes people like to drinkespressoFriends can also feel the rich flavor expression in coffee.
Is SOE so popular because it tastes good? Why is SOE more expensive than regular espresso? Let’s talk about what SOE is at the beginning of this article.
Who is SOE?
After SOE is widely promoted, many coffee consumers will often compare it with espresso made with blended coffee beans. For example, because only coffee beans from a single origin are used, they must taste better than blended coffee beans.
As a crop, the flavor of coffee will vary due to changes in terroir and climate every year. Although single-origin coffee beans can allow coffee beans to express more of their own coffee flavor, the disadvantage is that the quality of espresso cannot be stabilized for a long time. That’s why some people think of blending coffee beans from different production areas in different proportions to blend coffee beans that can have stable flavor performance for a long time.
The biggest reason why SOE production is more expensive than espresso with blended beans is that the cost of using single-origin coffee beans is high. At the same time, debugging espresso every day requires using more coffee beans for testing. In order to balance costs, merchants usually need to add additional money to SOE.
FrontStreet Coffee believes that whetherSOE coffeeWhether it's regular espresso or regular espresso, no one is necessarily better than the other. The most important thing is that the person who drinks it likes it. If you like to taste more lively and rich coffee, you can choose SOE. If you like to taste rich and mellow coffee, you can choose espresso made with blended coffee beans.
AboutItalian blended coffee beans
Traditional Italian coffee beans are made from a variety of coffee beans. In Italy, a bag of coffee beans can be composed of several, or even dozens of different coffee beans. The biggest advantage of using a variety of coffee beans to blend is to ensure the stability of the coffee taste. When the quality of a certain type of coffee beans changes, or the output decreases, or the price increases, roasters can choose coffee beans of similar quality to replace them without affecting the overall taste. Therefore, some famous coffee roasters will treat their blending recipes as trade secrets.
The way it is put together will also be different. Raw blending refers to mixing different green coffee beans according to the proportions in the formula and then roasting them. Cooked blending refers to roasting different green coffee beans separately and then mixing them according to different proportions in the formula.
The four Italian blends of coffee beans sold by FrontStreet Coffee are all cooked. When faced with green beans with large physical differences, separate roasting methods can better control the roasting conditions. Moreover, post-roasting blending can make the planning ratio more precise (the weight loss of each type of coffee beans is different), and it is also easier to adjust the weight of the blended coffee. But the disadvantages are also obvious. For example, if a blended bean contains 3 types of coffee beans, then cooked blending means that at least 3 ovens of roasting are required, and to ensure that the color value (roasting degree) of each coffee bean is similar, it requires rich roasting experience.
FrontStreet Coffee adopts the cooked blending method. When formulating the blending plan, it continuously adjusts the roasting degree and blending ratio, and finally records the roasting curve and blending plan to achieve a stable state.
"FrontStreet Coffee - Warm Sun Blend Coffee Beans": Ethiopian sun-dried red cherry coffee beans (30%) + Honduras sherry barrel coffee beans (70%), with a rich aroma of wine, vanilla cream, sweet and sour berries, and the flavor of roasted nuts.
"FrontStreet Coffee - Front Street boutique blend of 100% Arabica coffee beans": Colombian washed coffee beans (30%) + Brazilian semi-dried coffee beans (70%), with flavors of nuts, dark chocolate, and caramel.
"FrontStreet Coffee - Front Street Commercial Blend Coffee Beans": Robusta washed coffee beans (10%) + Colombian washed coffee beans (30%) + Brazilian semi-dried coffee (60%), with flavors of nuts, cocoa, and caramel.
"FrontStreet Coffee - Front Street Dark Cocoa Blend (100% Arabica) Coffee Beans": Yunnan washed arabica coffee beans (30%) + Brazilian semi-sun-dried coffee beans (70%), with soft fruit acid, caramel, and nutty flavors.
SOE coffee beans recommended
When making SOE coffee beans, Front Street selects coffee beans with high flavor recognition. Using single-origin coffee beans to make espresso is nothing more than allowing people who like espresso and milk coffee to taste the flavor of the single-origin beans themselves. If a single-origin bean is not highly recognizable and most people cannot drink the unique flavor of the single-origin beans, then it is better to drink a cup of blended coffee with a balanced taste and a strong sense of body.
Don't pursue stability when making SOE. Coffee is an agricultural product. Single-origin coffee beans will be affected by weather, planting and other factors, and beans from the same production area will have different flavors. This is also different from blended coffee beans that pursue stable flavor. If we order SOE made from the same bean in the same store, but taste slightly different flavors, this is normal ~
Front Street does not launch SOE-specific coffee beans, but in the spirit of experimentation, FrontStreet Coffee attempts to extract SOE from coffee beans from all merchants. Some of Daxian's single products are used to make espresso and have good performance.
"Front Street-Honduras Sherry Coffee Bean", this medium roasted coffee bean is extracted with SOE and can show a rich fermented wine aroma, vanilla creamy smoothness and caramel aftertaste.
"Front Street - Costa Rica Strawberry Candy Coffee Bean", this medium roasted coffee bean is extracted with SOE and can show the sweetness of preserved fruits, red floral aroma and sweet and sour berry.
"Front Street - Costa Rica Mozart Coffee Bean", this medium roasted coffee bean is extracted with SOE and can show the sweetness of raisins, a slight floral aroma and the sweetness and sourness of berries.
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
