As we all know, Front Street mainly sells beans, and each has its own store on Taobao and Tmall, so some friends who cannot go to the store often place orders online. Then some friends discovered that the label of Front Street Beans did not indicate the roasting degree of the coffee beans, so they reported that they did not know how to identify the roasting degree of the coffee beans after getting them.But in fact, Front Street does note the roasting degree. For example, the roasting information of the coffee beans is recorded in detail on the product details page or the QR code on the label.
In addition to textual markings, we can also estimate the roasting degree of a coffee bean in many other ways. So today Front Street is going to share with you some information about the roasting degree of coffee beans, to help you quickly identify the roasting degree of coffee beans without text labeling~At present, there is a relatively scientific way to define the roasting degree of coffee beans within the industry, which is based on "Agtron color value(Caramelization analysis value)” to evaluate the roasting degree of coffee beans.
We all know that the color of coffee beans will change with the degree of roasting. When the degree of roasting is darker, the color will be darker, and vice versa. This is also one of the standards we use to evaluate the roasting degree of coffee beans in our daily life. This method digitizes the color. The larger the value, the lighter the degree of baking, and vice versa. The picture below isSCAAFrom the Agtron color value table, you can see that it divides the roasting degree of coffee beans into 8 parts.Just understand it briefly, because in daily life, we hardly use cinnamon baking, urban baking to communicate. First of all, it is because it is difficult for us to judge the specific roasting level and color value of this bean with the naked eye. Secondly, because the mainstream of coffee bean roasting has changed, the current coffee beans will not be as darkly roasted as before, so consumers are not able to access all the roasting levels on the table.
Furthermore, if this set of industry differentiation standards is passed on to consumers intact, it will undoubtedly add a lot of learning pressure to consumers. For coffee lovers and consumers, this is not a good thing. "What, dark roast is not the darkest?", "I just want to drink coffee that is not sour, and I don't understand what you mean by French or Italian roast"... Such confusions are bound to arise one after another.But if we don't distinguish according to this set, and understand what dark roasting and light roasting are based on each family's baking level, it will also be impossible to achieve uniformity. Because each store has a different understanding and definition of the degree of baking. Therefore, Front Street recommends that you use other methods to define the roasting degree of coffee beans, for example, through the taste of coffee.Front Street believes that the easiest way to distinguish the degree of roasting is to distinguish the coffee according to the intensity of its sour, sweet, bitter and other flavors, so that consumers can better find the coffee beans they need. Naqianjie will classify coffee with mainly sour taste as medium-light roast, and coffee with mainly bitter taste as medium-dark roast. In this way, combined with the flavor performance on the coffee bean label, we can get its specific roasting degree~What does it mean? For example, if the flavor contains relatively fresh or sour fruits such as "lemon", "citrus", and "berry", we can initially judge that this is a medium-light roasted coffee bean. For example, the Front Street Yirgacheffe · Washed Fruit Ding Ding, Front Street Esai Etto in the Front Street Bean List（Alto）；
And if the flavor description contains sweeter fruits such as "grape", "honeydew", "blueberry", etc., it may be a medium-to-medium roasted coffee bean. For example, in the Front Street bean list, Front Street Divide Manor · Xi Claw, Front Street Divide Manor · Big Navel;The same goes for dark roasted coffee beans! If the flavor description contains obvious sweet flavors such as "sucrose", "maple sugar", "cream", "chocolate", etc., it can be initially judged as a medium-to-medium roasted coffee bean. For example, Front Street Papua New Guinea·Bird of Paradise and Front Street Yunnan 2013 are included in the Front Street bean list;
And if the flavor contains rich burnt flavors such as "roasted nuts", "caramel", "dark chocolate", etc., it may be a darker roasted coffee bean in the medium-dark roast. For example, the Front Street Bean List includes Front Street Brazil·Queen’s Manor and Front Street Sumatra·Golden Mandheling.When it comes to brewing, you can use the corresponding parameters recommended by Front Street according to the degree of roasting of the beans:Brewing water temperature: medium-light roasting 90~93°C, medium-dark roasting 86~89°CGrinding degree: 75%~80% pass rate of No. 20 screenBrewing time: 2 minutes (15g powder)Pink to water ratio: 1:15The lighter the roast, use a higher water temperature in the range and a finer grind. If the roast is darker, use a lower water temperature and a coarser grind in the range. The other parameters are the same, except that the brewing time and grinding degree may need to be changed according to the increase or decrease in the amount of powder.
Of course, we can also judge the roasting degree of coffee beans based on their appearance. As mentioned before, coffee beans that are darker in color or oily can be initially judged as medium-dark roasted coffee beans; coffee beans that are lighter in color and drier can be initially judged as medium-light roasted coffee beans. However, it is worth mentioning that Front Street does not recommend entirely using the appearance color of coffee beans as a measure of the degree of roasting of coffee beans.
Although this method is the fastest way to determine the degree of roasting of coffee beans, there are sometimes exceptions. For example, the Front Street Divide Manor Big Navel in the Front Street Bean List, although it looks like a dark roasted bean, it actually comes out with sweet and fruity flavors such as blueberry, grape, berry, etc. It is a medium to light to medium roasted degree. If we mistakenly think it is a dark roasted coffee bean because of its appearance, and then brew it according to the parameters of dark roasting, it will easily lead to under-extraction.But this is a rare case. For conventionally processed coffee beans, the color of the bean surface can still be used as a measure of roasting depth. Compared with the taste, observing the appearance will get the result faster. All in all, each has its own benefits and can be used. You can just choose the criteria for judgment based on the actual situation~
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
