A preliminary guide for coffee novices – how to choose the flavor you want to drink
How to choose the coffee beans you want to taste is really a big problem. I have summarized the taste and characteristics of several common coffee beans. The flavors of the coffee beans introduced below range from fresh to rich, from sour to bitter. According to this guide, you can easily choose the flavor you want to drink.
NO.1 Ethiopian sun-dried: Front Street Oiran coffee beans
The flavor of Front Street Oiran: the aroma of roses, the sweet and sour taste of strawberry, and the aftertaste of brandy. It is a coffee with rich fruit flavor and obvious acidity.
Suitable for people: Don’t like bitter coffee, can accept the sour taste of coffee, like rich and light coffee, not recommended for espresso machine or Moka pot users.
NO.2 Costa Rica black honey processing method:front streetblackberry coffee beans
Front Street blackberry flavor: sweetness of longan, grape, honey, light floral aroma, smooth and mellow, strong aftertaste, and high sweetness.
Suitable for people: Don’t like too strong acidity but want a rich taste, like the sweet taste of coffee, like coffee with a long-lasting aftertaste in the mouth, not sour or bitter, and have a relatively balanced taste.
NO.3 Brazilian half-sun-dried front street cerrado red bourbon coffee beans
Front Street Cerato flavor: mellow chocolate flavor, nutty sweetness, typical nutty coffee.
Suitable for people: Don't like acid, can accept bitterness but don't like herbal flavor, like nutty flavor, low acid, like to add milk and sugar, or use it as the base of coffee desserts.
NO.4 Indonesian wet planing method - Front Street PWN golden Mandheling coffee beans
Front Street Golden Mandheling Flavor: Golden Mandheling retains the rich taste of classic Mandheling, weakening the herbal earthy taste that can easily become defective or overly strong flavors, and emphasizing the soft expression of the sweetness of dark chocolate and caramel.
Suitable for people who reject sour taste, like thick coffee, and like the caramel sweetness of black coffee.
Bean characteristics: Godfather-level golden Mandheling strengthens the alluring dark flavor and expands the flavor spectrum, bringing an elegant tone that is different from the traditional style, higher configuration, and more mysterious.
NO.5 Fruity Italian blend - Front Street Strawberry Candy espresso Italian beans
Front Street Strawberry Candy flavor: nutty chocolate flavor, low acidity, richer, and highlights the mellow characteristics of coffee when paired with milk.
Suitable for the crowd: Use Italian Moka Pot, for people who like to drink milk coffee.
NO.6 Home-style blended coffee - Front Street classic Italian blended beans
Front Street classic flavor blend: classic coffee flavor, nutty chocolate, soft taste, neither sour nor bitter, and highly sweet.
Suitable for: Beginners to coffee, those with difficulty choosing, and lovers of balanced flavors. It is suitable for both hot and cold coffee, with milk or black coffee. No need to choose a pot or skill, it will taste good no matter how you brew it.
Features of Douzi: You can’t go wrong buying it with your eyes closed, a basic product that you can drink however you like. It's as versatile as you have jeans and converse.
NO.7 RichfermentationFruity aroma - Front Street Xija coffee beans
Front Street Xizhao flavor: Passion fruit, grape, apricot, citrus aroma, sweet chocolate, and fruity liqueur aftertaste.
Suitable for people: People who like to drink iced coffee, cold brew coffee, fruit wine or fermented style coffee.
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
