Espresso, it can be an extraction method, it can be the name of a coffee drink. As an extraction method, espresso is the method most frequently contacted by the public and the most familiar to ordinary consumers. Perhaps because it is so familiar, it creates the most doubts.
The most common doubts that many friends who have just started learning about coffee include: "How to choose and preserve Italian coffee beans"; "The coffee beans used to make espresso are blended and single-origin"; "The degree of roasting of Italian roasted coffee beans"; "Are Italian blended coffee beans premium coffee?"; "Is it normal for Italian coffee beans to be acidic?"
How to choose and store espresso coffee beans?
FrontStreet Coffee has always adhered to the principle of selling freshly roasted coffee beans, because only freshly roasted, freshly ground, and freshly extracted espresso will have a mellow and full taste as well as a rich and fragrant coffee taste. In order to allow every friend to experience the charm of freshly roasted coffee, all coffee beans ordered online will be shipped within 5 days after the roasting is completed.
To store espresso beans, you can use the original packaging (with a single exhaust valve) to seal it/use a sealed jar and store it in a dry and cool environment. After the coffee beans are ground into powder, the aroma molecules will be released more quickly, so FrontStreet Coffee recommends that you buy raw beans and use a bean grinder to grind them before making coffee.
Are the coffee beans used to make espresso a blend or a single product?
Whether it’s a coffee blend orsingle origin coffeeBoth can be used for making Italian coffee, each with its own advantages and disadvantages.
Front Street Italian Blend Coffee BeanThe advantage is that it can better stabilize the quality and taste performance of each cup of coffee, and the cost is low. The disadvantage is that the taste is single. Most of the coffee extracted from blended coffee beans only has a mellow and rich performance. The advantage of single-origin coffee beans is that it can make espresso coffee show a unique flavor. The disadvantage is that the extraction is stable and the cost is high.
FrontStreet Coffee (FrontStreet Coffee) uses blended coffee beans to extract espresso in its daily stores, because blended coffee beans can stabilize the taste and quality of each cup of espresso better than single-origin coffee beans. FrontStreet Coffee (FrontStreet Coffee) has also launched four types of FrontStreet Italian blended coffee beans based on the taste needs of mass consumers.
"FrontStreet Coffee - Nuanyang Blended Coffee Beans" is a coffee bean with a mainly wine aroma. Made from Front Street Ethiopian sun-dried red cherry coffee beans (30%) + Front Street Honduran sherry barrel coffee beans (70%), it has a rich aroma of wine, vanilla cream, sweet and sour berries, and the flavor of roasted nuts.
"FrontStreet Coffee-FrontStreet Blend 100% Arabica Coffee Beans": an Italian coffee bean with a nutty aroma. Made from Colombian washed coffee beans (30%) + Brazilian semi-dried coffee beans (70%), it has the flavor of nuts, dark chocolate, and caramel, meeting the daily needs of opening a store.
"FrontStreet Coffee-FrontStreet Commercial Blend Coffee Beans" is an Italian coffee bean that is mainly full-bodied. Made from Robusta washed coffee beans (10%) + Colombian washed coffee beans (30%) + Brazilian semi-dried coffee (60%), it has the flavor of nuts, cocoa, and caramel, and has a high mellow body, making it suitable for daily use in coffee shops.
"FrontStreet Coffee-FrontStreet Black Cocoa Blend (100% Arabica) Coffee Beans" is a slightly acidic and mellow Italian coffee bean. Made from Yunnan washed arabica coffee beans (30%) + Brazilian semi-sun-dried coffee beans (70%), it has a soft fruity acid, caramel, and nutty flavor. This cost-effective Italian bean h is suitable for shop owners and home users who prioritize cost and have average taste requirements.
Roast degree of Italian roasted coffee beans
In order to give the coffee liquid extracted from the espresso beans a mellow and full taste, FrontStreet Coffee uses medium-dark roasting. The longer the roasting time, the more carbon dioxide will remain in the coffee beans after they are roasted.
The presence of carbon dioxide has the function of preserving the flavor of coffee, but too much carbon dioxide will also affect the extraction of espresso coffee. Therefore, after receiving the espresso beans, you can put them in the original packaging until 5-6 days after the roasting date, and let the coffee beans discharge carbon dioxide by themselves through the single exhaust valve on the packaging to stabilize the extraction.
Although light roasted coffee beans are used in many Pour over(V60) coffees, the purpose is to allow the coffee to be extracted through pressure-free drip extraction, so that a richer sweet and sour taste can be extracted at the appropriate ratio. However, espresso coffee is a pressurized extraction, and many sweet and sour substances that perform well when brewed by hand will exhibit unpleasant sourness when the coffee is pressurized and the concentration is extremely high.
At the same time, due to the short roasting time of light roasted coffee beans, there is not enough time to produce more caramelization reactions and bring out mellow flavor substances. Therefore, espresso made from lightly roasted coffee beans usually tastes thin and lacks body.
Italian blended coffee beansIs it specialty coffee?
This must be the case! As long as the coffee beans used in blending meet the specialty coffee requirements required by the origin and SCA, both single-origin coffee and blended coffee are classified as specialty coffee beans.
espresso beansIs acidity normal?
Normally, the taste of espresso coffee comes mainly from the coffee beans themselves. Espresso coffee will have a sour taste. It may be that the merchant uses coffee beans with fruity acidity to make espresso. It may be single-origin coffee beans or blended coffee beans.
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
