Today’s article on Front Street hopes to help you understand the flavors of different coffee bean producing areas and quickly find the coffee that suits you.
Usually we can divide coffee into three major producing areas; Africa, Asia, America, and coffee from several island countries:
African coffee beans usually have a rich floral and fruity aroma, very high acidity, and low bitterness;
Asian coffee beans are usually thicker, less acidic, and have the aroma of herbs and spices;
Coffee beans from the Americas have a balanced flavor, usually with mild acidity and cocoa notes.
Summary: African coffee beans have the highest acidity. If you don’t want to drink sour coffee beans, you don’t have to choose African coffee beans. Asian coffee beans are rich in body, usually bitter, but have low acidity. People who like traditional black coffee can give it a try. American coffee beans are overall balanced and do not have a particularly sour or bitter taste. They are very soft. First-time coffee drinkers can try this type first because it is easier to drink. Let’s explain them one by one:
1. There are two countries represented by African specialty coffee, one is Ethiopia and the other is Kenya.
The acidity in Ethiopia is relatively bright. We recommend Front Street Guo Ding Ding Coffee (white floral aroma, citrus, green tea), Front Street Oiran Coffee (strawberry, light floral aroma, orange), Front Street Geisha Village Gold Label Gesha (chamomile, berry, fruit candy);
Kenya's acidity is relatively rich, and its body is relatively high. Body is the weight of the coffee liquid on the tongue. I recommend Front Street Little Tomato Coffee (cherry tomatoes, ebony, snow pear, black tea).
2. There are many countries producing specialty coffee in the Americas. For example, Panama coffee beans. The most representative variety is Geisha. We recommend the Front Street Emerald Green Label Geisha coffee, which has obvious aromas of jasmine, orange, melon, and the aftertaste of Tieguanyin tea. It has a soft taste and a long-lasting sweet aftertaste.
The coffee beans produced in Colombia have full particles, with obvious flavors of cocoa, nuts, and chocolate, and a soft sour taste. We recommend the Front Street Colombian Cymbidium Coffee. It is suitable for brewing as a single product and you can directly feel its rich aroma. It can also be used as a recipe for Italian coffee beans and combined with milk to create a smooth and mellow latte.
Most of the coffee in Costa Rica uses the honey processing method, which makes the coffee sweeter and has a strong sense of fermentation. The flavor is very mild and balanced. We recommend Front Street blackberry coffee beans. They are processed with black honey that retains the most pectin, so the sense of fermentation is obvious. The entrance is pink floral, grape juice, berry, orange, and the aftertaste is refreshing and sweet.
Because of the low altitude, Brazilian coffee beans are grown directly in the sun. They basically have no sour taste, strong nutty flavor, rich chocolate aroma, and a very mellow taste. I recommend the Front Street Brazilian Red Bourbon Coffee Beans. It tastes like a creamy flavor of roasted peanuts, nuts, and almonds, with a balanced taste and a clean finish.
Honduran coffee beans have fruity tones, with nutty and toffee aftertaste. They are not full-bodied and have a moderate aroma. We recommend Front Street Honduran washed coffee beans, which can taste chocolate, nuts, and cocoa at the same time.
3. The most iconic coffee beans in Asia are from Indonesia. The most famous Front Street Mandheling coffee beans have low acidity, significantly higher mellowness, obvious caramel aroma, and a flavor of herbs and spices.
Jamaica is famous for its Blue Mountain coffee beans, and has always been known as the king of coffee. Front Street Blue Mountain No. 1 coffee is of the highest grade. It has a very clean taste and a sweet flavor. It tastes like nuts, chocolate, caramel, and cream, with a balance of sourness, sweetness, and bitterness.
Hawaii is also an island-type coffee bean, with soft sour aroma, sweetness of maltose, and burnt aroma of dark chocolate, but with a thin body.
Papua New Guinea coffee is known as the Little Blue Mountain. The representative recommendation is Front Street Bird of Paradise Coffee. It has the aroma of cocoa and nuts in the mouth, with a light sour taste and a long-lasting sweet aroma of white chocolate, with a slight spice and chocolate aroma.
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
