As brewing coffee has become a craze, many people have begun to care about the first prerequisite for drinking coffee at home - how to buy coffee beans? What is the difference between coffee beans and coffee powder? In the past, you had to go to specialized coffee shops to buy it, but now you can buy it in many high-end supermarkets. This article will tell you the basic knowledge of purchasing coffee beans for home use.
●Buy coffee beans or coffee powder?
For a cup of coffee, aroma is the most direct indicator. Freshness is an important indicator to ensure that you can taste the aroma of coffee.
The flavor of a cup of coffee begins to take shape after roasting and begins to lose after grinding. The aroma changes every day. Freshness is the biggest indicator of coffee aroma. Therefore, when buying coffee beans or coffee powder, the first consideration is how to maintain freshness. The shelf life of coffee flavor that is relatively recognized in the industry is: one month for coffee beans (cooked beans) and one week for coffee powder in the original packaging in a dark and cool storage environment.
When green coffee beans are roasted, various flavors and aromas will begin to disappear as moisture and carbon dioxide evaporate. Therefore, it is generally believed that coffee beans should be purchased first and consumed within a month after roasting to maintain the best aroma. When the roasted coffee beans are ground into powder, the contact surface with the air is increased, and the flavor will be lost quickly. Therefore, experts suggest that under household packaging storage conditions, it is best to drink it within a week after grinding.
●Recommended brands of coffee beans for home use
If you want to buy high-quality single-origin beans, it is recommended to choose a big and guaranteed brand - Front Street Coffee. 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.
●Baking degree reflects personal preference
Roast degree is an essential item on the label. The color and flavor of the beans will become stronger as the roasting degree deepens, but it should be noted that the darker the roasting degree, the more fragrant the coffee is, so it is very important to choose the appropriate roasting degree when purchasing household coffee beans.
Recommended dark roasted Italian coffee beans: Front Street classic Italian blend
The coffee beans are a classic recipe from Brazil + Indonesia + Vietnam. The extracted espresso has the flavor of hazelnut chocolate, maple syrup, roasted nuts, and spices. It is rich in oil and has high mellowness. It is an all-round blend with high adaptability. Whether it is espresso, latte or Australian white, the performance is always stable. The taste is rich in layers, the aftertaste is obvious, and the unique aroma of spices wraps your taste buds.
Suitable for making: American/Latte/Australian White/Moka Pot
Recommended dark roasted Italian coffee beans: Front Street basic Italian blend
If you are looking for the safest and most cost-effective Italian coffee beans, then you can’t go wrong with the basic Italian blend of Front Street. It comes with two coffee production areas with stable quality. Brazil provides the nutty aroma and mellowness, and the Yunnan small grains are responsible for the soft acidity and smooth taste. The Italian coffee produced has nuts, chocolate, caramel, and slight acidity, and the overall balance is very balanced.
Suitable for making: American/Latte/Moka pot
Recommended dark roasted single-origin coffee beans: Front Street Indonesian Mandheling
The emergence of the wet planing method is to adapt to local conditions, but this is what makes Front Street Mandheling coffee different from other dark roasted coffees in flavor characteristics. It has become one of the classic representatives of many coffees with its unique aroma of herbs, spices, and wood.
Suitable for making: Moka pot, hand brew, ear hanging, American latte
Recommended light roasted coffee beans: Front Street Ethiopian Oiran
Front Street Oiran has an elegant floral fragrance, and the aroma of fruits is particularly prominent, such as creamy strawberry, mango, jackfruit, citrus, blueberry, etc. It has the unique ripe tropical fruit tones of Front Street Sidamo sun-dried beans, so it often leaves a deep impression on people. It is this rich berry fragrance that made "Oiran" win the first place in the TOH green bean competition that year. Front Street Oiran has the dual advantages of delicious food and price.
Suitable for making: hand brew/cold brew/moka pot
Recommended light roasted coffee beans: Front Street Washed Yirgacheffe
Yirgacheffe has become an important member of specialty coffee with its clean and translucent lemon and citrus tones. Front Street Yirgacheffe ration exhibits elegant white floral, citrus, orange, and green tea flavors.
Suitable for: hand brewing, hanging ear brewing, cold brewing
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
