Many friends asked the baristas on Front Street what soe coffee is, and why many boutique coffee shops now have soe coffee, but FrontStreet Coffee does not put soe coffee on the menu. FrontStreet Coffee doesn't put soe coffee on the menu becausesoe coffeeIt is espresso extracted from single-origin coffee beans. Coffee beans will be affected by weather, planting, roasting and other factors, which will cause flavor differences in different batches of the same beans. The flavor of each cup of espresso cannot be guaranteed to be stable.
what isSOE coffee？
Single-origin espresso is also called single-origin espresso - SOE, whose full name is "Single Origin Espresso". Although SOE represents single-origin espresso, it does not necessarily equal specialty coffee. If you select single-origin coffee beans with easily identifiable flavors as SOE, you can create espresso with a unique and typical flavor. For example, the citrus flavor of Front Street Yirgacheffe, the cherry tomato flavor of Front Street Kenya, etc. In addition, the espresso coffee will amplify the flavor of the coffee under the high pressure of the espresso machine, so the flavor performance will be more prominent compared to hand brewing.
What should we pay attention to when making SOE?
SOE single-origin espresso uses coffee beans that are generally not roasted too darkly in order to highlight the flavor of the production area, unlike traditional darker roasted coffee beans.espresso beansIn comparison, the flavor will be more difficult to extract. Front Street believes that on the one hand, the extraction parameters need to be adjusted to increase the extraction rate. For example, lengthen the extraction time, adjust the grinding degree, increase the amount of powder, etc.
On the other hand, for productionSOE coffee beansWhen making base espresso, you need to adjust the ratio of espresso to milk or water. Reduce the milk or water to highlight the flavor of the coffee so that the coffee is not too bland. Finally choose to makeSOE coffee beansThere are also very strict requirements on coffee. Although SOE coffee has outstanding performance, its shortcomings are relatively easy to be magnified because it comes from a single origin. Therefore, factors such as roasting and particle size will affect the flavor.
How does Front Street use Front Street Brazilian Queen’s Estate yellow bourbon coffee beans to extract SOE?
Amount of coffee powder 20g
Coffee liquid volume 40ml
Extraction time 27 seconds
Grinding degree Galileo Q18 2.0 grid
SOE flavor description: citrus, berry, fermented aroma, viscosity, medium bitterness, medium to high acidity, bright and lively acidity.
Front Street hopes that everyone who comes to Front Street Coffee can drink stable and distinctively flavored espresso or milk coffee every time. Therefore, the espresso is made using the Front Street Sunflower Warm Italian Blend coffee beans, which is a blend of Front Street Esaigacheffe sun-dried red cherries and Front Street Honduran whiskey barrel sherry as the daily espresso beans.
The purpose of FrontStreet Coffee blending coffee beans:
1. Create long-term stable flavor
Different production seasons in the same production area or even different batches within a year will also produce different flavors. The shortcomings of a single origin are exposed here. You cannot be confident that you will be able to drink coffee from a single origin next year that tasted good this year (except for coffee beans that are processed in a way that dominates the coffee flavor, and other factors between the origin and the cafe will also cause the coffee beans you buy to taste different from the past). So one of the purposes of blending is to create a product that can be supplied for a long time and has a long-term flavor stability. When the quality of one of the coffee beans cannot meet the requirements or changes in the new production season, you can find similar coffee beans to replace them to achieve the purpose of stability.
2. Create flavors that cannot be produced by a single coffee bean
Sometimes coffee beans from a single origin are like a person, with both strengths and weaknesses, and blending is like organizing a team to use their strengths to make up for each other's weaknesses, so as to achieve the effect of complementing each other. It's like using a coffee bean with a higher sweetness and a coffee bean with a higher acidity to achieve a sweet-sour balance, or adding a certain amount of Brazilian beans to the coffee beans to improve the overall body. These are the purposes of blending.
3. Front Street will then determine the flavor of the blending target.
When FrontStreet Coffee was blending the Front Street Sunflower Warm Italian Blend coffee beans, we were very clear about blending beans with a wine aroma, so we could immediately include Front Street Honduran Sherry Barrels, Front Street Honduran Lychee Orchid, and Front Street Colombia San Jose coffee beans that are fermented in wine barrels and have obvious wine aromas on the blending candidate list. After many attempts, as well as factors such as cost-effectiveness, we finally settled on Front Street Honduran sherry barrels as the main tone of Front Street Sunflower Warm Sun blended coffee beans.
4. Finally, Front Street will determine the blending type.
The advantage of raw spelling is that the same roasting level can be used to make the coffee stable and uniform. The second is that it can reduce the number of roasting times, and it can be roasted in one time, which improves efficiency. At the same time, the shortcomings of raw blending are also very obvious. The limitations of raw blending are very large. Generally, raw blending recommends several beans with a relatively close density of coffee beans. For example, if a coffee bean suitable for light roasting and a coffee bean suitable for dark roasting are mixed together to roast the same roasting degree, the situation of 1+1<1 will easily occur.
The advantage of cooked roasting is that each bean can be roasted according to its optimal roasting degree, maximizing the characteristics of each bean. However, the disadvantage of cooked coffee beans is that daily quality control and management will be more difficult. Inconsistent roasting dates require more attention to the bean-raising period. Imagine using 4 to 5 coffee beans to make cooked coffee beans. This product requires attention to 4 to 5 roasting dates. FrontStreet Coffee adopts a cooked blending method when roasting Front Street Sunflower Warm Sun Blend, roasting Front Street Honduran Sherry Barrel coffee beans and Front Street Sun-dried Yirgacheffe red cherry plan separately to maximize the wine aroma of Front Street Sherry Barrel coffee beans and retain as much as possible the fruity acidity and citrus berry aroma of the other Front Street Sun-dried Yirgacheffe.
When FrontStreet Coffee selects blending beans and formulates a blending plan, it needs to first determine the characteristics of the coffee it wants to present, including the expression of sweetness and sourness, expectations for the body, coffee flavor, and whether it should focus on milk coffee or American style, or espresso. These are all factors that need to be considered when selecting green beans, determining the roasting method, and determining the recipe. Not only that, the formula will be tested, adjusted, retested, and adjusted again many times before it is finalized...
Front Street uses the Lelit V3 espresso machine, and the extraction parameters are as follows:
Pressure: 9 bar
Temperature: 90.5~96 degrees
Time: 20~30 sec
Pink to water ratio: 1:1.7~1:2
Powder amount: 12g (single espresso) 20g (double espresso)
Extraction concentration volume: 20ml (single portion) 40ml (double portion)
This Front Street Sunflower Warm Italian blend coffee beans are pressurized and extracted through a espresso machine. The flavor has obvious acidity, a light berry aroma lingering, a rich wine aroma and chocolate flavor, and a pleasant aftertaste.
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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
