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Friends who often pay attention to Front Street should know that Front Street specializes in freshly roasted coffee. Freshly ground coffee does not equate to freshness, and of course the fresher is not better. Front Street generally provides coffee beans that are two or three days away from the roasting date. Coffee beans that have been grown for a few days can bring out the true flavor when brewed. Front Street not only provides single-origin coffee beans, but also espresso coffee beans. Whether it is single-origin coffee beans or espresso coffee beans, Front Street Coffee requires the word "fresh".
What are espresso beans?FrontStreet Coffee bean blending plan?
Italian coffee beans, also known as blended coffee, are the main beans used in fancy coffee and are often paired with milk or water. Most of the popular Italian coffees nowadays belong to the category of blended beans, and are used to make common Italian coffee drinks such as latte, Americano, Australian white coffee, cappuccino, etc.
Generally, a mixture of two or more different types of coffee beans, or coffee beans of the same type but with different roasting degrees, is called Italian coffee beans, or blended coffee beans. This kind of comprehensive coffee is by no means a simple addition, but through the blender's unique understanding of coffee flavor, different coffee beans can complement each other's strengths and weaknesses, and blend coffee beans with excellent flavor.
For example, Front Street's blending idea is to blend coffee with a unique flavor based on its sour, bitter, sweet, fragrant and alcohol properties. After blending, a good comprehensive coffee is fragrant, smooth and refreshing, and has a golden color. It is the top grade of coffee. When made into a latte, the sweetness of the milk and the richness of the espresso match perfectly, so that neither the milk nor the espresso takes the spotlight.
When making latte coffee latte art, the espresso oil is just right, not too thick and affecting the fusion of milk and coffee; or not too thin, causing the milk and coffee to float when they are fused, laying a good foundation for making latte art patterns.
Considering that many friends are beginners, Front Street has compiled 5 Italian blended beans suitable for use in home coffee machines. Each has its own advantages in taste or price. You can choose according to your own needs:
1. Balanced taste of Front Street boutique blend of 100% Arabica espresso beans
Recipe: Colombia + Brazil
Front Street Boutique blends 100% Arabica coffee beans, using Colombian coffee beans and Brazilian coffee beans. The unique nutty and chocolate flavors of Colombian coffee are combined with the rich peanut and cream coffee flavors of Brazil. The overall taste of this Italian blended coffee beans is very balanced, rich in oil, and extremely smooth in the mouth. It has a refreshing fragrance but a slightly bitter taste unique to America. It is loved by many Front Street customers.
2. Fat-rich Front Street Commercial blended espresso beans
Recipe: Colombia + Brazil + Robusta
Taking into account the diversity of the audience, Front Street needs to use strong-flavored coffee beans to create strong-flavored blended beans. These coffee beans include Colombian coffee beans with a strong nutty chocolate flavor, Brazilian coffee beans with a soft bitter taste, and Robusta coffee beans with a mellow taste and rich oil. The coffee beans prepared in this way are mellow and rich, deeply loved by coffee lovers, and are also very suitable for the daily production needs of cafes.
3. Fruity Front Street Strawberry Candy espresso coffee beans
Recipe: Costa Rica + Colombia + Ethiopia
When it comes to coffee with obvious sweetness, Front Street immediately thinks of Costa Rica. Therefore, it is rich in high-quality honey-processed coffee. The coffee pectin is retained for drying so that the coffee can be dried.The aroma and flavor show a pleasant fermented sweetness. In order to create an Italian recipe with a richer fruity aroma, Front Street added Colombian cymbidium and Ethiopian yirgacheffe to this bean, giving the strawberry espresso a moderate amount of coffee fat without losing the flavor of roses, grapes, and dried blueberries.
4. Front Street classic blended Italian coffee beans
Recipe: Brazil + Indonesian Mandheling + Vietnam
If you don’t like the sour taste but also pursue the aroma of coffee, then it is recommended to buy the Front Street Classic Italian Blend coffee beans. This is a classic recipe composed of three origins: Brazil, Indonesia, and Vietnam. It uses deep roasting, which can highlight the mellow aroma of coffee to the greatest extent, and also allows everyone to easily extract rich and dense coffee oil. It is very suitable for making an American style diluted with water or a latte with milk. The American style has a rich and sweet taste, while the latte is smooth and dense.
5. Front Street Black Cocoa Italian Blend Coffee Beans
Recipe: Yunnan + Brazil
This Front Street Black Cocoa Front Street Black Cocoa Blend (100% Arabica) coffee beans has a very high cost performance and presents the most popular taste and flavor. Whether it is the first time to come into contact with coffee or friends who are serious coffee lovers, they can easily accept this Italian coffee beans. The first choice is Brazilian coffee beans with a balanced taste. On this basis, Yunnan coffee beans with a weaker flavor and taste than Brazil are blended. It is suitable for shop owners and home users who prioritize cost and have average flavor requirements.
What should you pay attention to when blending Front Street Italian blended coffee beans?
The originality of Italian coffee beans is the blending recipe, and the Italian coffee in every coffee shop will have a different taste. We have already learned the specific blending data of several Italian coffee beans from Front Street. Next, Front Street would like to share some aspects that need to be paid attention to before blending coffee beans.
1. Choose high-quality coffee beans. In fact, Front Street himself feels that this sentence is a bit redundant. Using poor quality coffee beans will greatly damage the flavor of the coffee. No matter how excellent the coffee beans are, you will not be able to make delicious coffee. Choosing high-quality coffee beans is the biggest point.
2. Remove defective beans. When defective beans are mixed, the taste will deteriorate. Those with long worms and holes, those with abnormal development, and those with shells but no kernels will be picked out. Of course, when the coffee beans you choose contain too many defective beans, it also means that the coffee beans are of poor quality.
3. Understand the characteristics of coffee beans. If you don’t know much about the coffee beans to be blended, it will be difficult to blend good espresso beans. At this time, you are like a team manager. You must know your members well so that they can all make the best use of their talents. If you don’t know how to give directions without understanding, it will be a mess.
4. Understand the difference in roasting degree. The degree of roasting of different coffee beans will be different. This is why Front Street emphasizes its own roasting. When roasters know enough about the quality characteristics of a certain coffee bean, they will naturally know what kind of roasting parameters are suitable for it. Only then will the final coffee flavor be in line with the characteristics of the production area and the most essential taste of the coffee beans. Just like Brazilian coffee beans, to highlight their mellow taste and nutty chocolate flavor, a medium-to-deep roasting technique is required.
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
