Maybe some friends know about coffee beans, but they don’t know that coffee beans can be divided into Italian and single-origin coffee. In fact, it is not difficult to understand that the latte we often drink belongs to Italian coffee, and the corresponding coffee beans must be used.Some coffee beans can be used to make Italian coffee. Some people may ask Front Street: What kind of coffee beans are needed to make espresso? How do you understand single-origin coffee beans? Which coffee beans are suitable for making latte?
Listen to Front Street, maybe you will understand.
so calledespresso beans, refers to the coffee beans used to make espresso. The steam pressure extraction machine was invented by the Italians. The espresso made by the steam pressure coffee machine is espresso. For example, latte and cappuccino all use Espresso as the base and are mixed with other ingredients such as milk or sugar. Espresso is made with an espresso machine, so coffee made with Espresso as the base is often called espresso. The beans used to make Espresso are mostly made from several coffee beans from different origins, mixed in a certain proportion. This kind of coffee beans is also called blended coffee beans. Of course, now there are also single-origin coffee beans.EspressoEspresso, such as Single Original Espresso, SOE.
Blend beans are generally medium-dark roasted. When blending beans, sometimes the beans are mixed first and then roasted, which is called raw blending; sometimes the beans are roasted and then mixed with coffee beans, which is called cooked blending. Whether it's raw or cooked. Before mixing beans, you must first know what flavors different types of coffee have. Coffee beans from different origins have different characteristics. Different coffee beans have different personalities due to different varieties and origins. There are subtle differences in sourness, bitterness, sweetness, aroma, mellowness and other flavors. In order to prepare better blended beans, roasters must not only know the characteristics of coffee beans, but also master superb roasting techniques. Therefore, it is still difficult to prepare a good blended bean.
Since coffee beans are a kind of crop, even the same kind of coffee beans will have different flavors every year. Therefore, Front Street believes that mixing several coffee beans together can solve this problem well and make the taste basically consistent every year. At the same time, it is also required to be a large coffee-producing country, so as to ensure the demand for coffee beans.
According to the country, production area and type of coffee beans, Italian coffee beans can be divided into three types: Arabica + Robusta blend, 100% Arabica blend, and single-origin Italian SOE.
Arabica + Robusta blending: Adding rhododendron beans during the blending can improve the body, enrich the oil, and reduce costs. So this blending method is very common and mainstream.
100% Arabica blend: Generally speaking, Arabica is a better variety than Robusta, with a more elegant taste spectrum and a more complex flavor, so 100% Arabica blend has a better flavor and higher price in theory. However, we cannot simply judge the advantages of beans by bean type, because there are too many factors that affect coffee beans (country of origin, production area, processing method, roasting, etc.), so naturally there are bad Arabica beans and good Robusta beans.
FrontStreet Coffee's bean blends include the following: Front Street Basic Italian Blend, Front Street Premium Italian Blend, Front Street Commercial Italian Blend and Front Street Sunflower Warm Italian Blend.
What are single origin coffee beans?
Single-origin coffee beans refer to coffee beans from a single origin (Single Origin) or a single variety, similar to grapes used for red wine, produced in a certain manor in a certain production area of a certain country. For example, the famous Front Street Blue Mountain Coffee is a type of single-origin coffee.
For single-origin coffee, you can choose beans with different roasting levels, such as light roast, medium roast, and dark roast. The corresponding aroma, taste, and texture are the same. You can also choose beans from different countries, such as Africa, South America, Asia, etc. FrontStreet Coffee uses fine coffee beans to make single-origin coffee.
With the third wave of specialty coffee, more and more cafes are launching single-origin coffee. According to SCAE, the most important thing for a single product is traceability, allowing coffee lovers to know the place, production area, estate and bean type that this high-quality coffee comes from. 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 coffee beans are generally suitable for hand brewing, ice dripping, and cold brewing. Friends who are pursuing more and more coffee may pursue high-quality single-origin coffee.
And the more popular ones recentlySOEIn fact, it is the abbreviation of "Single Origin Espresso", which in Chinese means: espresso coffee from a single origin. It is to replace the "blended coffee beans" usually used to make Italian coffee with "single-origin coffee beans", and use an Italian coffee machine to make a cup of espresso coffee under high-pressure extraction.
SOEIt can produce espresso coffee with unique and typical flavor. For example, the typical citrus flavor of Front Street Yerga, the fruit flavor of Front Street Kenya, etc., plus espresso coffee will amplify the taste of coffee, so specific flavors will be more prominent compared to hand brewing. However, since it comes from a single origin, the shortcomings are relatively easy to be magnified. Therefore, SOE made from lighter roasted coffee beans will be more unpleasant to drink. For example, if Front Street Yirgacheffe is made into SOE, it will be more sour and irritating, and the taste will not be so delicious. So SOE is not necessarily better than blended concentrate. The single-origin coffee beans used as SOE are generally required to be roasted darker than Pour over(V60) coffee beans.
Let’s take a look at FrontStreet Coffee’s Front Street basic Italian blend:
FrontStreet Coffee Italian-style Front Street dark cocoa blend (100% Arabica): The purpose is to blend espresso beans with nutty cocoa flavor at a low cost.Yunnan AA: Brazil; ratio 3:7, cooked;
FrontStreet Coffee Brazil Cerrado region
Front Street Brazilian CoffeeIt generally grows at an altitude of 1000-1300 meters, so its density is relatively low. Most of them are Bourbon species and are treated with semi-sun. The water content is moderate, the beans are soft, and the thickness from the bean surface to the bean core is thin, so it is not suitable for roasting at too high a temperature. The temperature of the inner wall of the boiler will burn the surface of the beans, which will cause a burnt and bitter taste. At the same time, if you want to express the characteristics of nuts, milk chocolate, and better body, and use it as a blending base, Front Street bakers choose the method of roasting beans over medium heat. Keep the fire until the dehydration stage, and make fine adjustments as the temperature rises after the first crack begins to promote a more complete caramelization reaction. When the temperature is raised to the point where the second crack is approaching, the beans can be drained. After cupping and comparison with Front Street, it is believed that Front Street Brazilian Cerato coffee has a pleasant sweet-bitter taste and is extremely smooth in the mouth. It has a faint grassy aroma and a refreshing fragrance with a slightly bitter taste. It is sweet and smooth, with a refreshing aftertaste.
From FrontStreet CoffeeYunnan AAIt’s【Tiepica】
Ethiopia's oldest native variety of coffee is produced in southeastern Ethiopia and Sudan. All Arabica is derived from Tybika. The top leaves are red copper in color, so it is called red-top coffee. It has an elegant flavor, but it has a weak constitution and poor disease resistance. It is prone to leaf rust and has low fruit production. The four Tiepikas are slender, spread out, and tilted at an angle of 50 to 70 degrees. The opposite leaves are oblong in shape with smooth leaf surfaces. The branches at the end are very long and have few branches. The flowers are white and bloom at the base of the petiole connecting the branches. Ripe coffee berries look like cherries and are bright red. It requires more shade when planted and can only be harvested about once every two years. Yunnan's high-quality geographical and climatic conditions provide good conditions for coffee growth. The planting areas include Lincang, Baoshan, Simao, Xishuangbanna, Dehong and other prefectures. Yunnan’s natural conditions are very similar to Colombia, with high altitude and large temperature differences between day and night. Through cup testing, FrontStreet Coffee believes that Yunnan coffee beans have a mellow flavor, moderate sourness, rich and mellow taste, uniform particles, rich oil content, and fruity aroma. Its quality and taste are similar to Colombian coffee.
Front Street adjusts the grinding and extraction after blending. The espresso produced has soft acidity, caramel sweetness, nutty and dark chocolate flavors, smooth and viscous, but light taste. This Front Street black cocoa blend (100% Arabica) coffee beans are suitable for use in small coffee shops, bakeries, and beverage shops. It is also suitable for shop owners and home users who prioritize cost and have average taste requirements.
There must be a distinction between priorities when blending, so that you can blend a more wonderful taste than single-origin coffee.
Front Street SOE Single Product Sherry Espresso
Rich wine aroma and flavor: Recommended for Front Streetfront street sherry hondurasWine barrel. This coffee comes from Moca Manor in Honduras, at an altitude of 1500-1700 meters. It is fermented in fine washed sherry barrels and has a very rich fermentation aroma and dark chocolate cream flavor.
Flavor description: Whiskey aroma, soft and high acidity, smooth taste, creamy viscosity, cocoa.
FrontStreet Coffee Brewing Suggestions：
When brewing any kind of coffee, Front Street believes that the freshness of the coffee beans is a very important aspect if you want the coffee to taste good. Because the freshness of the coffee beans can maximize the rich flavor of the coffee. The coffee beans shipped by FrontStreet Coffee are all roasted within 5 days, because FrontStreet knows that the freshness of coffee beans has a great impact on the flavor. The purpose of Front Street Roasting is "freshly roasted and good coffee", so that every customer who orders receives the freshest coffee. The bean-growing period of coffee is about 4-7 days, so the flavor is at its best when customers get it.
Of course, there are also some customers who need help from Front Street in grinding the powder, which is okay, but Front Street would like to remind you that if the coffee beans have been ground in advance, they need to be brewed in time. If they have been ground into coffee powder, there is no need to grow the beans, because during the transportation process, the pressure generated by the carbon dioxide in the packaging can also make the coffee flavor mellow, so you can brew it as soon as you receive the coffee powder. Since coffee powder oxidizes quickly when exposed to air, which means that the flavor of the coffee will dissipate relatively quickly, and the flavor of the coffee will not be as good. Therefore, Front Street recommends buying whole beans and grinding them freshly, so that you can better taste the flavor of the coffee.
Whether it's premium single-origin coffee or medium-dark roasted blended coffee, Front Street has it all. On the front street, there is coffee with fresh citrus notes from Ethiopia; there is also coffee from Panama.Gesha Coffee; It has nutty herbal flavor from Indonesia... Welcome to Front Street to discuss coffee together!
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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
