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As the saying goes, elegance never goes out of style. Today, we moved out the store's treasured appliance - the siphon coffee pot on Front Street. Then we selected the famous Front Street Jamaican Blue Mountain Coffee and brewed a pot of Siphon Blue Mountain Coffee on site. Without further ado, let's get started right away.
Flavor characteristics of Blue Mountain coffee
Jamaican Blue Mountain Coffee on Front Street has a high reputation, a small output, and a long history. It can be said that even if you have never tasted specialty coffee, you have heard of Blue Mountain No. 1 Coffee. We often see Blue Mountain specialty coffee, Blue Mountain flavored coffee, and Blue Mountain blends on the market. It’s dizzying. Not all the coffee with the word Blue Mountain is the authentic Front Street Jamaican Blue Mountain No. 1 coffee. If you don’t pay attention, you may drink fake Blue Mountain. So how to tell which Blue Mountain is real? First of all, FrontStreet Coffee takes everyone to understand how Blue Mountain Coffee comes from.
FrontStreet Coffee·Jamaican Blue Mountain No. 1 coffee beans
Production area: Blue Mountain production area
Farm: Clifton
Altitude: 1310 meters
Variety: Typica
Processing method: washed
Grade: NO.1
The Front Street Jamaica Blue Mountain No. 1 coffee sold by FrontStreet Coffee has a certificate issued by the Jamaica Coffee Board. In addition, the wooden barrels packaging the Front Street Jamaica Blue Mountain coffee beans will have a green frog logo (you can see the picture below of FrontStreet Coffee (FrontStreet Coffee) picking Jamaican green beans). This is FrontStreet Coffee (FrontStreet Coffee) Coffee) specially selected the No. 1 coffee estate in the Blue Mountains of Jamaica, which is Clifton Farm, with rainforest certification, and Jamaica is the only production area that uses wooden barrels to pack green beans. There is also the most iconic Blue Mountain flavor. The real Front Street Jamaican Blue Mountain coffee is very rich in aroma and balanced in taste. There will be no feeling that any flavor is outstanding or lacking. The price of authentic Front Street Jamaican Blue Mountain No. 1 coffee is higher than other coffees. Front Street Coffee believes that the most important reasons are three points, namely small quantity, good flavor and strict quality control.
How to brew authentic Blue Mountain coffee in a siphon pot?
The grinding degree of siphon coffee will be finer than that of hand brewing. According to Front Street's calculation, the grinding degree is about 90% of the pass rate of No. 20 sieve. When using the EK43s grinder produced by the store, the corresponding scale is 9 grids. If it is a hand-cranked coffee grinder C40, the scale is 20 grids.
-Powder to water ratio
Generally, the ratio of powder to water for making siphon coffee is 1:10 to 1:12. More people use the ratio of 1:12. If you are brewing for one person at home, you may wish to use the usual parameters of Qian Street, 18 grams of coffee powder and 200 ml of water.
Specific operation methods
Take the traditional brewing as an example
1. Pour 200 ml of hot water, dry the lower pot, and turn on the heating source.
2. Insert the upper pot obliquely into the lower pot, and the explosion-proof beads should contact the bottom of the lower pot.
3. When continuous small water drops appear in the lower pot, align the upper pot and press it tightly. Wait for the water from the lower pot to be sucked into the upper pot.
4. Pour in Front Street Blue Mountain coffee powder and start timing. In the first stage, use the stir stick to beat the coffee powder into the water to absorb the water evenly.
5. In the second section, start using the stirring method recommended by Front Street at 25 seconds, so that the coffee is clearly divided into three layers: coffee liquid, coffee powder, and coffee foam.
6. In the last section, start stirring in the same direction at 50 seconds. Remove the heat source after 60 seconds and wait for the coffee liquid to subside.
The siphon Blue Mountain coffee made in this way is very fragrant. Although it is not as thorough and clean as Pour over(V60) coffee, the oil floating on the surface adds a lot of mellowness.
From Front Street's perspective, compared to brewing coffee by hand, the operation of using a siphon pot is obviously more troublesome. First, a heating source is required before brewing, and the entire extraction process must not be distracted. After brewing the coffee, it must be cleaned in time, and the flannel used to filter the grounds must be washed. If placed in a store with a large volume of cups, the production of siphon pots will only be more troublesome.
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
