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In some cafes, there is such an option, SOE. SOE is a single origin concentrate, formerly known as Single Origin Espresso. Many specialty cafes give people the illusion thatsingle origin coffee beansThanItalian blended coffee beansBe advanced. Some friends came to the FrontStreet Coffee store and wanted to taste the flavor of single-origin espresso, but learned that FrontStreet does not produce SOE.
Everyone knows, every itemhand brewed coffee beansEach has its own unique flavor. For example, African coffee beans are famous for their sour aroma of citrus and berries. These Pour over(V60) coffee beans from Africa will have the right flavor after being carefully roasted and brewed with the right parameters.
Before wanting to understand SOE, Front Street needs to explain the principles of making espresso to his friends. When watching the baristas in cafes serve milk coffee, you can often see this scene: quickly fill the powder bowl with powder, spread the powder, fill and brew, and then you have an espresso base.
This involves multiple factors. Grind the coffee beans into coffee powder with an extremely fine grinding degree, then fill the powder bowl, snap on the brewing head, and turn on the brewing switch. The espresso machine uses a high pressure of 9 Pa to squeeze the nearly boiling hot water through the tight coffee powder, and then the rich and viscous coffee liquid drips out.
As long as the extraction parameters are within the appropriate range, the coffee liquid obtained in this way will of course extract all the ideal water-soluble substances in the coffee beans into the concentrated coffee liquid. However, because the flavor is too concentrated, most people choose to dilute it with milk, water, etc.
Single-origin coffee beans refer to coffee beans from a single origin and variety. With the third wave of specialty coffee, more and more cafes are launching single-origin coffee. The most important thing about the emergence of single-origin coffee is traceability (Traceability), allowing coffee lovers to know which unique production area or estate this high-quality coffee comes from, and even the coffee bean variety. These single-origin coffee beans have a highly recognizable flavor of the place of origin, production area, and bean type. It is precisely because of the third wave of coffee that the pursuit of coffee knowledge such as brewing methods, origin flavors, etc. has made single-origin coffee more popular. Single-origin beans are generally suitable for hand brewing, ice dripping, and cold brewing.
As mentioned earlier, the characteristic of single-origin coffee beans is that they can present the unique flavor of the production area, just like the acidity of the berries of Front Street Kenya. If used to make SOE, both the good and bad flavors will be maximized. The espresso liquid made from the single-origin beans of Front Street Kenya may also have an unpleasant sour taste.
Front Street’s single-origin coffee beans are set to be used to make Pour over(V60) coffee when roasted. In order to better let friends experience the beauty of the production area, when friends want to taste espresso in Front Street, Front Street stores will not produce SOE, and it is not recommended to use Front Street’s Pour over(V60) coffee beans.SOE coffee beansUse, instead use Front Street Sunflower Italian Blend Beans.
The so-called blended beans, also known as comprehensive beans, are mixed together with various single-origin coffee beans to fully bring out the advantages of various single-origin coffee beans. At the same time, they can also cover up some flavor flaws. Comprehensive blended beans are mixed from coffee beans from different origins to create a more balanced taste. For example, if one type of coffee beans has a soft taste and lacks body, you can add another type of coffee that has a full body, and use the advantages of individual coffee beans to complement each other, complementing or enhancing the taste, thereby creating a new and richer taste of coffee. Sometimes the beans are mixed first and then roasted, which is called raw blending; sometimes the coffee beans are roasted and then mixed, which is called cooked blending.
Recently, for those who like espresso, we have launched the Front Street Classic Italian Blend Coffee, which is a recipe composed of three origins: Brazil, Indonesia, and Vietnam. It uses deep roasting, which can highlight the mellow aroma of the coffee to the greatest extent, and also allows everyone to easily extract the rich and dense coffee oil. It is very suitable for making an American style diluted with water or a latte with milk. It can be purchased at the Front Street Taobao store or the Front Street Tmall flagship store.
Whether it's raw or cooked. Before mixing beans, you must first know the flavors of different varieties of coffee around the world. Beans have different characteristics depending on where they are produced. Different coffee beans have different personalities due to different varieties and origins. There are subtle differences in sour, bitter, sweet, aroma, mellow and other flavors. In order to prepare a better blended product, the roaster must not only know the characteristics of the coffee beans, but also master superb roasting techniques. Therefore, it is still difficult to prepare a good blended bean.
Generalespresso beansIt is mostly used in Italian coffee such as Espresso, Americano, Latte or Cappuccino. The taste of coffee is more balanced, smoother and more stable. It can be said that the taste is more popular.
At the Front Street store, you can experience a whiskey-flavored bean blend that is unique on the market - the Front Street Sunflower Warm Bean Blend. This special Front Street Nuanyang Italian coffee bean is a blend of two single-origin beans, which can be used for Italian or Pour over(V60) coffee. The Italian coffee tastes like chocolate; the single-origin coffee tastes sour and bright, with a long wine flavor and a long-lasting sweet aftertaste.
FrontStreet Coffee: FrontStreet sunflower warm sun blended coffee beans
Origin: Honduras & Ethiopia
Varieties: Kaduura, Kaduai, Pacas, local native species
Treatment method: Washing & Sun-drying
This Front Street Italian blend contains 70% of the Front Street Honduran sherry coffee beans that have a rich aroma of wine. The coffee cherries are washed immediately after being picked, and then placed in sherry whiskey barrels for low-temperature fermentation for 30 to 40 days. Friends who have drank a variety of single malt whiskeys should know that there are many types of barrels in which whiskey is matured: wine barrels, port barrels, bourbon barrels, and sherry barrels. Whiskey matured in different barrels will have the flavor of that barrel, which is very unique. Among them, sherry whiskey is the sweetest among all kinds of whiskey. When the coffee beans are fermented in sherry whiskey barrels, the sherry whiskey aroma substances in the barrel penetrate into the green coffee beans over time, allowing the attractive aroma to appear in the final coffee liquid.
In addition, this Front Street Italian blend coffee beans contain 30% of Front Street Ethiopian sun-dried red cherries, which provides this coffee with a sour berry aroma. If used with milk, the acidity of the berries can highlight the sweetness of the milk. Even if you drink espresso directly, in addition to the rich aroma of wine, you can also taste the flavors of berries and chocolate, and the taste is thick and smooth.
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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
