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Everyone has different taste perceptions and preferences for coffee. Some friends’ perception of coffee is the fragrant and bitter coffee, some friends like to drink sour coffee, and some friends like coffee with milk and sugar. Today we will only discuss black coffee. Are there any coffee beans that are very sweet? First, let’s understand why there is sweetness in coffee.
Coffee beans contain sucrose, although it is not much, and most of the time it is masked by high acidity or high bitterness, but it is a real source of sweetness. The second is the aroma. For example, we can smell the aroma of honey, sweet fruits, caramel, and maple syrup in coffee because there are compounds such as enone and furanone in coffee.
Coffee beans require the processing of coffee cherries. After all, they are also part of the fruit. Ripe fruits are sweeter than unripe fruits, so processing all red berries is a prerequisite for ensuring coffee quality. During processing, the more substances involved in fermentation, the sweeter the coffee beans will be. Therefore, if you like obvious sweetness, you can try coffee beans that are sun-dried, black honey-dried, or anaerobic sun-dried.
The most direct impact on the sweetness of coffee is the degree of roasting. The lighter the roast, the more acidic the coffee will be, and the darker the roast, the more bitter the coffee will be. The closer the coffee is to medium roast, the sweeter it will be.
If a simple and crude classification method is used, coffee beans with relatively high sweetness can also be divided into two directions: sour and sweet coffee beans and bitter and sweet coffee beans.
Sour and sweet is a flavor type that many people like at present. The specific expression is the taste of ripe fruits, which is very comfortable to drink. Front Street shares some hot coffee beans for your reference.
The first one: Front Street Yirgacheffe sun-dried red cherries
This coffee bean is considered a classic representative of light-roasted coffee with a relatively high sweetness. This bean is the first to propose sun-drying of whole red fruits, so the quality of this bean is very high. Front Street adopts medium-light roasting, so the flavor of this bean is that it smells of ripe fruits, with obvious fermentation aroma and berry flavor in the entrance. When the temperature drops slightly, it has the acidity of citrus, the smoothness of cream, and the juice of ripe grapes at the end.
Type 2: Front Street Strawberry Candy Coffee Beans
This is a blend of Front Street’s selected dual-producing high-altitude coffee. It combines washed Geisha from Panama and honey-processed coffee from Costa Rica. In order to maximize the advantages of the two origins, Front Street uses medium roasting, so that the coffee retains its rich floral and fruity tonality and highlights its roasted aroma. When brewed, it shows the aroma of caramel, raisins, preserved fruits, and sweet roses.
The third model: Musician Series Mozart Coffee Beans
Costa Rica's Mozart is characterized by its sweetness like Kyoho grapes, and has always been liked by many friends. This coffee bean is processed using raisin honey, allowing the coffee cherries to ferment slowly. Front Street uses a medium-light roast to highlight the very fragrant raisin, rose, and fermented wine flavors of this bean.
When bitterness and sweetness coexist in a pot of coffee, the first thing we feel is often the bitterness. After swallowing, a sweet feeling will remain on the back of the tongue. The pleasant sweetness of this bitter coffee is what people often describe as "sweetness", which is the so-called sweetness after bitterness. It is most common in medium-dark roasted coffee. For example, Blue Mountain No. 1 and Golden Mandheling will exhibit this kind of aftertaste.
The bitter yet sweet coffee mainly uses nuts and dark chocolate as the main notes of the coffee, bringing out the obvious sweetness of cane sugar, maple sugar and caramel. It is the first choice for those who don’t like sour coffee. Front Street shares some long-lasting coffee beans for your reference.
Style 4: Front Street Queen Estate Yellow Bourbon Coffee Beans
Queen's Manor Yellow Bourbon is a very favorite coffee bean on Front Street. Its biggest feature is that it has a good sweetness and is Tiger Balm (applicable to hand brewing, French press, Moka pot, and coffee machine). Queen's Manor itself is also a boutique manor in Brazil, and the yellow bourbon variety is even more outstanding. The natural processing also makes the coffee significantly sweeter. Front Street uses a medium roast, showing flavors of nuts, butter, cane sugar, and soft fruit acidity.
Type 5: Front Street Yunnan Small Tiepika Coffee Beans
This is Front Street’s coffee beans grown in Yunnan. Many people know that Front Street shares coffee knowledge and roasts coffee beans, but few people know that Front Street grows coffee in Yunnan. Front Street started planting coffee in Lincang, Yunnan Province as early as 2013, selecting land, breeding, planting, and managing it step by step. The Typica variety grown in Front Street is an Arabica variety with excellent flavor. It is sun-dried and moderately roasted to show extremely high sweetness of preserved fruits, plums, brown sugar, and chocolate.
If you think the above coffee is bitter, then if you want to drink it sweeter, the only option is to add sugar. As for how much to add, it depends on your preference.
From Front Street’s point of view, everyone’s eating habits are different, and the degree of recognition of sour, sweet, bitter and salty will naturally be different. Even if they drink the same pot of coffee, some people may think it is very bitter, while others think it is very sweet. If you don’t want the barista to serve what you think is “bitter coffee”, you might as well add one more sentence when ordering, whether the coffee you want is sweet and sour with fruit, sweet with dark roast, sweet with flavor, or sweet with extra sugar...
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
