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mentionedcolombian coffee beans, the delicate sweet and sour berries, the aroma of roasted nuts, the caramel-like aftertaste, and the balanced coffee flavor make many friends who have just started brewing coffee can’t help but say: This is too delicious! ! It’s not sour or bitter, I love it~!
The main reason why Colombia has become the world's second largest producer of Arabica coffee beans is because there are active volcanoes in and around Colombia. The volcanic ash produced after volcanic eruptions spreads on the soil, providing rich minerals. Such fertile volcanic soil, coupled with the blessing of high altitude and micro-climate, makes the coffee beans grown here have the characteristics of acidity, softness, solid and full taste.
In recent years, due to coffee competitions that have increased farmers' income, Colombian coffee has broken away from the old impression that it can only be used as a basic bean. Before that, everyone used it as commercial coffee beans or espresso blended coffee beans. Only a very small number of coffee beans have the quality to meet the requirements of becoming a specialty coffee alone. With the improvement of planting technology, the quality of Colombian coffee beans has made great progress, and it is basically difficult to encounter coffee beans of particularly poor quality.
colombian coffee beansThe grade system is based on the size of the green coffee bean particles, and there will be a special green bean sieve for screening (unit of size: mesh).colombian coffee beansThere are 3 levels, and different mesh numbers correspond to different levels.
Grade Supreme size standard is 95 mesh
Grade EP size standard is 15 mesh (customized coffee bean grade for the European market)
Grade U.G.Q size standard is 14 mesh
(There are also some grade branches: the 95-mesh size will be called Supreme Premium, and the 95-mesh size will be called Extra)
At this point, some friends will ask if there is an Excelso on Qian Street? I would like to make a correction beforehand~Excelso does not represent any Colombian coffee green bean grade system and does not belong to the classification level of Colombian coffee beans~In fact, Excelso is the best grade for Colombian green beans export. No matter which green bean mesh size grade, as long as the green beans are exported, they belong to the Excelso grade. That is to say, Supreme Screen 18+, Supreme, EP, and U.G.Q all belong to the Excelso grade.
This is why Colombian raw bean bags are marked Excelso. In order to strictly control the quality of each exported coffee bean, the Colombian Coffee Producers Association issued a new decree in 2016: Only exported green beans that meet Excelso standards will have the "EXCELSO - Café de Colombia" (Colombian Excelso grade coffee) logo printed on the packaging and will be certified by the Colombian Coffee Producers Association (FNC) with a Quality Certificate.
Most coffee farmers in Colombia use the most traditional washing method to peel off coffee cores (coffee beans). The water-washing method involves a soaking and fermentation step in a pool. This step mainly decomposes the mucilage of the coffee fruits through fermentation and allows the coffee beans themselves to produce more acid. Finally, after a short period of drying, the washed Colombian coffee beans will have a cleaner and fresher flavor.
Therefore, Front Street is recommended for newbies.colombian coffee beansAt this time, the city will first recommend washed coffee beans from the Huilan area, priced at 29 yuan/100g, allowing everyone to try different production areas for the first time at an affordable cost. You can purchase and place orders at the Front Street Tmall flagship store or Front Street Taobao store.
When brewing Colombian washed coffee beans, in order to highlight the soft acidity and caramel sweetness of the coffee beans themselves, Front Street mostly uses V60 No. 01 filter cups to enhance the level of the coffee. Prepare 15g of coffee beans for medium-fine grinding (the size of fine sugar; Chinese standard No. 20 sieve sieve rate is 75%) and then use 90 degrees Celsius water to brew with a powder-to-water ratio of 1:15. The process is divided into 3 stages of injection.
Demonstration of water injection stages: 30 grams of water is steamed for 30 seconds. The small flow of water is injected in a circle to 125 grams for segmentation. When the water level drops and the powder bed is about to be exposed, continue to add water to 225 grams and stop water injection. When the water level drops and the powder bed is about to be exposed, remove the filter cup. (Steaming starts timing) The total extraction time is 1'59".
Flavor expression of Colombian Cymbidium washed coffee beans: berries, nuts, caramel, chocolate
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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
