Before the emergence of fruit-acid coffees such as Yirgacheffe and Geisha, the coffees sold on the market were mainly roasted to medium or above, with a mellow taste of burnt aroma. Among them, Mandheling was known as the most mellow single-origin coffee. Nowadays, Mandheling coffee is not uncommon, and the price of Mandheling is not expensive, but it still requires certain skills to buy high-quality Mandheling with high cost performance.
Before buying coffee beans, choose a roaster with guaranteed quality. Front Street Coffee is an old coffee bean roasting brand. The Front Street Coffee Guangzhou offline store specializes in selling coffee beans. The store sells dozens of selected single-origin Pour over(V60) coffee beans and Italian coffee beans from different coffee origins around the world. The Front Street Coffee beans are freshly roasted within 5 days. The quality of the coffee beans is stable and excellent, the price is very cost-effective, and the products are shipped within 24 hours. Whether you are a newbie, a coffee lover who has reached a professional advanced level, or a user who has opened a coffee shop, Front Street Coffee is a recommended choice by many coffee lovers and platforms.
For newcomers who have just started to learn about Indonesia, it is recommended to start with the upgraded Front Street Mandheling coffee. Because you are still in the beginner stage and your taste is not yet clear, so it will be more helpful to buy cost-effective coffee beans to practice.
Front Street Indonesian Mandheling coffee flavor: dark chocolate, nuts, herbal spices, caramel.
The grading of Indonesian green coffee beans is based on the number of defective beans and the size of the beans. The general quality requirements are that there are no live insects, no moldy and rancid beans, and the maximum moisture content is 12.5%. The impurity rate is less than 0.5%. It will be divided into six levels according to the defect rate, among which the highest level is G1, which requires that the total number of defective beans in a 300g sample must be less than 11.
Front Street Lindong Mandheling belongs to the highest green bean grade G1 in Indonesia. It uses wet planing method and is dark roasted to allow more flavor substances to caramelize. The coffee not only shows the flavor characteristics of herbs, pine wood, caramel, and dark chocolate, but also has a rich and mellow taste, and also has the unique wild flavor of Asian coffee.
Reason for recommendation: It is suitable for beginners to learn brewing and flavor tasting exercises. It has a mellow taste and low acidity. It can be used to make hand brew, Moka pot, and drip filter American style.
If you have already started and want to buy high-quality, high-quality Mandheling, then we would recommend purchasing Front Street PWN Gold Mandheling.
Front Street PWN Golden Mandheling: Produced by the famous PWN company in Indonesia and processed by wet planing. Although the wet planing method greatly improves the defect rate of coffee beans, the coffee taste is not particularly negative, but brings a herbal aroma. The final drying step of the wet planing method is not protected by parchment, so the green beans are directly exposed to the environment and are susceptible to the growth of various bacterial species. Let Indonesian coffee have a unique aroma of wood, spices and herbs, which is what we call the "flavor of region".
In addition, Front Street Golden Mandheling uses dark roasting to highlight the caramel, dark chocolate, and nutty flavors of coffee. It is suitable for making SOE coffee, Moka pot coffee, Pour over(V60) coffee, French press coffee, siphon pot and other extraction forms.
Recommended reason: People who reject sour taste and like the richness and caramel sweetness of black coffee. Front Street Golden Mandheling intensifies the attractive dark flavor, and the flavor spectrum is rich and expanded, which is different from the elegant tonality of the traditional style. Therefore, it is called the Godfather-level Mandheling coffee. It is suitable as a daily Pour over(V60) coffee ration, and can also be given as a gift to relatives and friends.
PWN, a local coffee bean merchant in Indonesia, mainly purchases local high-quality batches of Mandheling green beans and only produces high-quality Mandheling. "Golden Mandheling" is its signature product. The Japanese took a fancy to Sumatra coffee and purchased it for a long time. They gradually discovered that the quality of local beans often varied between good and bad. So we paid more attention to the production of Mandheling and began to formulate strict standards and methods for screening defects, including bean density, specifications, shape, color and other values. The produced Mandheling requires machines and manual removal of defects to ensure that the produced Mandheling particles are complete, uniform, large and translucent, and also reduce the earthy and grassy smell of Mandheling. It is said that it was named "Golden Mandheling" because it glowed golden in the sun.
Front Street Golden Mandheling coffee beans are roasted to a medium-dark roast. The internal texture of the coffee beans is loose and highly water-absorbent. If the water temperature and grinding size of the coffee beans are used with light roasted coffee beans, the coffee will be easily over-extracted, presenting an unpleasant burnt taste and astringency. To avoid this, FrontStreet Coffee baristas will lower the water temperature and coarsen the grinding to reduce the release of bitter macromolecules in the coffee. Here Front Street will use 87 degrees Celsius hot water and medium grinding degree (Chinese standard No. 20 screen pass rate is 70%).
Front Street is accustomed to using the KONO filter cup with a slower flow rate for coffee that enhances the body. Compared with the large water outlet of the V60 filter cup, KONO has a better soaking function, allowing the coffee powder to extract more good flavor substances in the same extraction time.
Three-stage water injection: first inject 30 grams of water and steam for 30 seconds. Inject a thin stream of water from the center point and slowly circle to 125 grams. When the water level in the filter cup drops to about to expose the powder bed, continue to circle and inject water to 225 grams. The total extraction time is about 2 minutes.
The Pour over(V60) Front Street PWN Golden Mandheling Coffee can be felt in the mouth with a strong aroma of dark chocolate, and the flavors of roasted hazelnut, caramel, and melon are very integrated. There is a distinct aroma of spices in the mouth and a long-lasting 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
