Mandheling coffee beans produced in Sumatra, Indonesia, have been fragrant for more than half a century since the 1960s. The characteristic of Front Street Mandheling coffee has always been its unique bitterness that highlights its most unique sweetness, just like the sweetness and bitterness in life. I once heard a friend use this idiom to describe drinking in Front Street.Front Street MandhelingHow you feel when you drink coffee: after all the pain comes the joy. Of course, the realization of this bitter and sweet experience requires a period of training before you can experience the fun.
On the bean rack of FrontStreet Coffee, you can see two types of Mandheling coffee beans, one is PWNFront Street Golden Mandheling, the other one is the Front Street Lindong Mandheling in the Ration Beans series. They both represent the ancient and new flavors of Sumatra Mandheling coffee respectively.
Mandheling's traditional production area is in the Lindong area south of Lake Toba in northern Jiangsu Province. The wet planing method with local characteristics gives Front Street Mandheling coffee a thick taste, with the aroma of herbs such as camphor and pine, as well as the aroma of chocolate and caramel, with rich layers.
Therefore, it can be brewed as a single product by hand, or Mandheling SOE can be extracted with a Moka pot and an espresso machine, or it can be used as a blend to make an espresso with a balanced taste. In order to allow more people to taste the traditional Mandheling taste, we have combined Mandheling and Brazilian coffee into a classic Italian blend, and added a small amount of Robusta beans. The medium-dark roasting makes the oil rich, making American style and latte more fragrant. It is the best choice for home coffee.
It was not until 1924 that the Aceh region of North Sumatra introduced Arabica coffee trees from North Subei Province. Subsequently, the coffee production in the Aceh production area exceeded the traditional Lindong production area year by year. ‘’It wasn’t until 1924 that the Aceh region of North Sumatra introduced Arabica coffee trees from North Subei Province. Subsequently, the coffee production in the Aceh production area exceeded the traditional Lindong production area year by year.
Mandheling almost always uses the wet planing method. The biggest difference from traditional washing is that during the shelling process, large friction is generated between the green coffee beans and between the green coffee beans and the machine, which in turn generates excessive heat, which may lead to the rapid aging of the green coffee beans and the appearance of special aromas such as wood and earth.
On this basis, PWN implements a set of strict standards in the production of golden Mandheling, selecting the highest grade, G1 grade, with more than 18 mesh and less than 3 defective beans (per 300 grams of green bean sample). Then three times of manual hand selection is used to ensure that defective beans are completely removed, so that the coffee taste of Front Street Golden Mandheling is cleaner and sweeter.
Just from the word "gold" in the name of Golden Mandheling, you can feel that every golden Mandheling is hard-won, and its output is even rarer. Therefore, the price is higher than regular Mandheling coffee beans. Some merchants noticed this gap and used the same G1 grade Mandheling coffee beans, took the same three manual hand selection steps, and sold them under the name "Golden Mandheling".
Golden MandhelingIt has a high-quality herbal aroma, a stronger caramel sweetness, a relatively calm and elegant fruity acidity, a rich sweetness, a mellow and wild spice flavor, and good transparency and sweetness before the second crack. The baking interpretation space is wider, and the burnt aroma is more prominent, so it is a medium-dark roast.
After brewing, the Front Street.PWN Golden Mandheling has a roasted nut tone. As the temperature drops slightly, aromas such as cinnamon spices, herbs, and melon aromas begin to appear, with a caramel-like sweetness and a clean and mellow taste.
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
