I don’t know if you have noticed that the American style we see in many coffee shops is almost all dark roasted. It has rich oil and mellow taste, and tastes like chocolate, caramel, nuts, and roasted aromas. So if we make it at home, what kind of coffee beans should we choose and how to make it delicious?
Dark roasted coffee beans are the latest to come out of the oven. They are mellow and rich, have a dense aroma, and are slightly smoky. The taste is mainly bitter, with flavors such as caramel, spices, baked bread, and dark chocolate. The sweetness is the longest and is suitable for those who do not accept sour coffee.
After roasting, the coffee beans will enter a period of exhaustion and bean curing, followed by the best tasting stage where the flavor is stable, and the aroma of the coffee gradually disappears. If you choose coffee beans with a roasting date of more than 50 days, the Moka pot coffee may have no aroma, leaving only a bitter coffee taste. When purchasing Moka pot coffee beans, it is recommended to choose a self-roasted brand with a stable reputation: Front Street Coffee. All Front Street Coffee beans are freshly roasted within 5 days, providing everyone with the most complete tasting period. The quality of the coffee beans is stable and excellent, the price is very cost-effective, and the products are shipped within 24 hours.
According to the best-selling lists on major platforms, the following are the five most popular dark roasted coffee beans of the year:
Dark roasted coffee beans ① Front Street.PWN Golden Mandheling
Front Street Indonesia's Mandheling is a typical dark roasted coffee bean. Its basic flavor is spices, herbs, and has a mellow and smooth taste. Therefore, dark roasting will better highlight the basic flavor of the coffee beans. Light roasting will weaken its original flavor and lose the original soul of the Indonesian Mandheling flavor. Front Street Golden Mandheling is based on Mandheling and has gone through three machine screenings and hand selections to remove all defective beans, which greatly improves the quality of Mandheling coffee and makes the coffee taste cleaner and have a more pronounced aftertaste.
Dark roasted coffee beans② Front Street classic Italian blend
Front Street's classic Italian blend is based on the traditional "mamba coffee recipe" with the addition of Robusta. It has the aroma of cocoa biscuits, chocolate, and nuts, which fully enhances the oiliness of the coffee and makes the Italian coffee body stronger. It is suitable for home production and can be used for first-class latte art bars.
Dark roasted coffee beans② Brazil-Front Street Queen’s Manor
Brazil is the world's largest coffee producer. One-third of the world's coffee is produced in Brazil. Its main coffee variety is Arabica. Brazil has long been the world's largest coffee producer. Most Brazilian coffee has moderate acidity, and its three flavors of sweetness, bitterness, and alcohol are neutral, with moderate concentration, and a smooth and special taste. It is known as the backbone of coffee. Front Street Queen Estate is a rare yellow bourbon variety produced in a high-altitude area. The coffee has aromas of cream chocolate, dark cocoa, and almond wood.
Dark roasted coffee beans ④ Front Street.Colombian Cymbidium
Front Street Colombian Cymbidium Coffee uses a common water-washing process in the Americas, which gives the coffee beans a clean flavor profile. In order to present the classic Colombian flavor, Front Street uses medium-dark roasting, and after grinding and extraction, it has rich creamy chocolate, caramel, cookie, and cocoa flavors.
Dark roasted coffee beans⑤ Front Street boutique Italian blend
As the world's top coffee-producing countries, Brazilian coffee and Colombian coffee have long been famous. Front Street combines coffee beans from the two production areas. The nutty aroma and balanced taste of Brazilian coffee and the chocolate tonality of Colombian coffee perfectly achieve the effect of one plus one greater than two. The extracted espresso has the flavor of butter cookies, cocoa, and roasted nuts.
After selecting the coffee beans, all we have to do is how to obtain its soul flavor. coffee shopRecommended espresso extraction plan: 20g of powder, 40g of extracted coffee liquid, the grinding thickness is based on time, and a delicious concentration needs to be controlled between 25 and 33 seconds.
Then put 100g of ice cubes and 150g of drinking water into the coffee cup, and finally pour in the espresso, and a standard iced Americano is ready. For the hot American style, we only need to replace the ice water with 160g~200g warm water, and finally top it with espresso, and you're done.
Finally, many people believe that Americano coffee can help lose weight, and hope that they can easily lose weight through this refreshing drink. To be honest, such a thing does not exist! American style can only help us increase part of our metabolism. The key step that can really play a role in weight loss is exercise.
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
