Acidity in coffee beans is not a pH value but is one of the basic taste characteristics along with body, aroma, sweetness, bitterness and aftertaste. Acidity is generally related to the roasting degree of coffee beans, and is also related to the flavor of the production area. Many people do not accept coffee that is too acidic because they think the taste is too exciting. So what are the low-acid coffees and how should we choose them accordingly?
First of all, we need to know a basic knowledge. The lighter the roasted coffee beans, the more sour the taste, and the darker the roasted coffee beans, the more bitter the taste. Remember this, you can actually useRoast degreecome and findYour favorite taste. Secondly, the processing method of coffee beans and the flavor of the production area also affect the acidity of coffee to some extent. For example, compared to washed and sun-dried coffee, honey-processed coffee has more sweetness and more acidity.
Acidity is an indispensable flavor of good coffee. If there is no acidity at all, the smoothness and refreshingness of the coffee will no longer exist.Common sour substances include citric acid, malic acid, lactic acid and acetic acid.Each type of coffee has a suitable range. The purpose is to highlight the advantages of the beans and reduce the shortcomings of the coffee, which is what we call maximizing strengths and avoiding weaknesses. For example, Front Street Yirgacheffe has a low thickness and bright acidity, so it is suitable for light roasting; Front Street Brazilian coffee has no prominent acidity and mellowness, so it is suitable for medium roasting; Front Street Indonesian coffee has a strong herbal aroma and a sweet and bitter taste, so it is suitable for dark roasting.
What are the best low-acid coffee beans
Lightly roasted coffee has the sharpest and most irritating acidity because it is the earliest to be baked. As the roasting degree deepens, the caramelization reaction of coffee increases, the sour substances begin to weaken, and the substances that provide sweetness increase. Therefore, if we want to buy delicious low-acid coffee, we can give priority to coffee beans with medium roasting or above:
1. Front Street.PWN Bird of Paradise
Papua New Guinea mainly grows Typica. Typica has an elegant flavor, but has a weak constitution and low disease resistance, making it susceptible to leaf rust. Front Street Coffee believes that the biggest feature of the Typica coffee tree is the bronze-colored top leaves, which some people call “red-top coffee.” The beans of Typica are larger and cone-shaped or thin and pointed, which is different from the round-bodied beans of Bourbon coffee beans. Front Street believes that Typica coffee has its own unique quiet and clean flavor, balanced characteristics and high clean taste.
2. Front Street. Brazilian Queen’s Manor
The variety of Front Street Queen Manor is yellow bourbon, which is rare in the local area. Since yellow bourbon coffee at high altitudes is denser and has higher glucose content, Front Street’s roasting idea is to highlight the classic mellow aroma of Brazilian coffee and at the same time show the sweetness of bourbon itself. Therefore, medium-dark roasting is used, which can reduce the acidity of the coffee and increase the sweetness. It is not only suitable for hand brewing, but also can be used for Moka pots and SOE coffee beans extracted by espresso machines.
3. 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.
4. Front Street 2013. Yunnan Tiepicka
Front Street Yunnan Xiaoli comes from our own manor and belongs to the oldest Arabica variety——Typica, coffee berries are sun-dried after harvesting. In fact, the fruit is dried in the sun. The pulp and pectin part will be slightly fermented. This gives the coffee beans a fermented aroma and smooth taste, and forms a sweet flavor after roasting. In order to highlight the balanced taste of Yunnan coffee, Front Street Yunnan Tiepika coffee beans are medium roasted, so that the brewed coffee has the flavor of nuts, chocolate, dried apricots, the tea texture of black tea and the aftertaste of brown sugar.
5. Front Street. Columbia 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.
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
