In the early days of specialty coffee, Blue Mountain Coffee, Kona Coffee, and Golden Mandheling could be said to be must-have options on the menus of every coffee shop. Different from the current pursuit of coffee with rich floral aroma and fruit acid, the previous specialty coffee pursued a mellow and solid taste.
Many people are repulsed by dark roasted coffee, perhaps because the coffee beans are so dark that they produce oil, which makes them feel burnt and bitter. But if such dark roasting is done by roasters who know enough about coffee beans, use high-quality coffee beans, have reasonable roasting ideas, and obtain appropriate extraction, dark roasted coffee can really make everyone feel calm when drinking it, and you can drink it again and again without getting tired of it.
FrontStreet Coffee likes to drink gold very muchMandheling coffee. Because it has a creamy texture, smooth and full, the aroma of dark cocoa has a herbal flavor, and the pure flavor is more embellished. After swallowing it, you will feel the sweetness brought by the aftertaste, which is very mellow and attractive.
How to dark roast goldMandheling coffeeDoes it taste good?
A cup of delicious golden Mandheling coffee has 5 conditions: sufficient high-quality green beans, just the right roasting temperature, fresh roasting, fresh grinding and coarse grinding and low water temperature extraction.
Among them, goldMandhelingThere is no doubt about the quality. It can be said to be the highest grade and best quality Mandheling coffee beans among Indonesian specialty coffee beans. Golden Mandheling is the gold medal product of Indonesian PWN (Pwanni) Company, and it has also been registered as a trademark.
goldMandheling coffee beansWhat's so special about it?
Due to the variety of Mandheling coffee beans themselves and the unique local wet planing method in Indonesia (the wet planing method is to use parchment paper to dry in the sun for 2-3 days until the moisture content is 20-24%), the ultra-fast processing and drying also causes Mandheling to have a high defect rate.
Therefore, in order to improve the quality of Mandheling coffee beans, PWN will purchase coffee cherries from the Kayu area of Sumatra. It will first screen out mature coffee cherries with a size of more than 18 mesh, then dry them, and then carry out at least 3 hand-pickings to ensure that there are less than 3 defective beans (300g green bean sample), which belongs to the highest grade G1 grade. Because the green beans exuded a golden color, they were named Golden Mandheling.
authenticGolden Mandheling CoffeeYou need to look for the PWN trademark ~ followGolden Mandheling CoffeeKnown for its good quality, there are many Mandheling coffee beans on the market that have been screened several times, but those can only be regarded as premium Mandheling coffee beans. The golden Mandheling coffee beans sold by FrontStreet Coffee all come from PWN.
How to bakeGolden Mandheling coffee beans？
With good-quality coffee beans, it is necessary to specify a roasting plan based on the flavor, density and moisture content of the coffee beans themselves. Compared with many other specialty coffee-producing areas, the altitude of coffee cultivation in Sumatra is not high, and there is no large temperature difference between day and night, which prolongs the formation time of coffee beans. Therefore, the density of coffee beans itself will be relatively loose.
If you do not control the entire roasting temperature, the coffee beans will easily be unable to withstand the high temperature, and will be burnt before being converted into a complete enough flavor; if you are not skilled in the roasting temperature, when the coffee enters the final stage, the temperature may rise too fast or not enough; while brewing, you must avoid over-extraction, causing the overall balance to be unbalanced due to bitter substances.
Roasted by FrontStreet CoffeeGolden MandhelingThe idea is as follows: Yangjia 800N, the amount of beans added is 480g. Bring the oven temperature to 200 degrees Celsius and put the pot into the pot. Open the damper to 3. After 1 minute, adjust the heat to 160 degrees without changing the damper. Bake to 5'40" and the temperature is 148 degrees. The surface of the beans will turn yellow and the grass smell has completely disappeared. Dehydration is complete. Adjust the heat to 140 degrees and the damper to 4; 9th to 40th. After uot; minutes, ugly wrinkles and black spots appear on the surface of the beans, and the smell of toast obviously changes to the aroma of coffee, which can be defined as the prelude to the first crack. At this time, you need to listen clearly to the sound of the first crack. The first crack will start at 9°54", reduce the heat to 60 degrees, open the damper to 5, and cook at 204.5 degrees.
After cupping, it was found that golden mandheling, which is baked before the second crack, can express the mellow and rich flavors such as herbal cocoa, while also making the coffee appear clean and have an obvious sweetness.
Golden Mandheling Coffee Brewing Recommendations
For coffee brewing, FrontStreet Coffee recommends using freshly roasted coffee beans to maximize the rich flavor of the coffee. The coffee beans shipped by FrontStreet Coffee are all roasted within 5 days, because FrontStreet understands that the freshness of coffee beans has a great impact on the flavor, so it hopes that every customer who orders will receive the freshest coffee.
Although FrontStreet Coffee has a grinding service, the flavor of the coffee beans will dissipate faster after they are ground into particles. Therefore, it is recommended that you buy a hand grinder and grind the coffee into particles before brewing.
Because FrontStreet Coffee's Mandheling coffee beans are roasted to a deeper degree, the flavor substances in the coffee are easily precipitated during brewing, so FrontStreet recommends using a coarser grinding degree and a lower water temperature.
At the same time, in order to obtain a mellow taste, Front Street recommends using a filter cup with a soaking function, such as a KONO filter cup. Then use medium-coarse grinding (the size of coarse sugar, Chinese No. 20 standard sieve screening rate of 70%), 88 degrees Celsius water level, and a powder-to-water ratio of 1:15 for extraction.
Specific brewing techniques: Inject 30g of water for the first time and steam for 30 seconds; in the second stage, inject a small amount of water in a circle to 125g, wait until the water volume in the powder bed drops to half before adding water, and then continue to inject a small amount of water in a circle to 225g. After all drip filtration is completed, the total extraction time is about 2 minutes and 10 seconds.
FrontStreet Coffee PWN Gold Mandheling Pour over(V60) flavor performance: nuts, spices, herbs, licorice, chocolate, caramel, clean and soft flavor, strong sweet aftertaste.
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
