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Nowadays, more and more people like to have a cup of fragrant espresso coffee in the morning to refresh themselves. The rich milk and the extracted espresso concentrate perfectly blend together, which is very heart-warming and stomach-warming. Many customers often come to Front Street to inquire about the espresso recipe used in Front Street and how to use coffee beans to create the espresso recipe they want. Therefore, today Front Street will introduce to you the following methods of matching Front Street espresso beans.
The espresso coffee beans in Front Street are usually mixed and matched with a variety of coffee beans to complement each other or to highlight a certain flavor. For example, some baristas like to use coffee beans from Kenya, Mandheling, Brazil, and Colombia as basic bean blends. Because coffee beans from different producing countries use different roasting degrees, the mixed espresso coffee will have a unique taste and aroma. Whether the taste of the extracted espresso meets personal preferences is the selection criterion.
Espresso coffee pays great attention to the degree of roasting. Unlike Pour over(V60) coffee, the degree of roasting of the beans can be adjusted according to the water temperature or the ratio of powder to water, and then the flavor of the single-origin coffee is brewed. Therefore, generally, coffee beans that are too lightly roasted will not be used in the front street, because the light roasted coffee beans extract more acid and less oil. If milk is added to make milk coffee or cappuccino, the basic flavor of the cup of coffee will be sour, and it will taste very bad.
If you use normal espresso beans, you can extract a perfect cup of espresso. How to tell whether the extracted espresso is successful? Front Street tells you a little secret, which is that you can observe it from the appearance and color of crema. You may not understand these professional coffee terms at first. Front Street will introduce to you the following. Crema refers to the light reddish-brown dense foam on the surface of espresso coffee. During the roasting process of coffee beans, a large amount of carbon dioxide will be produced on the surface of the coffee beans. Most of it will be emitted during the cooling process, and a small amount will be stored inside the coffee beans. These gases will be released when grinding. This is why Front Street recommends that you make coffee as soon as possible after grinding.
First of all, everyone can remember one principle: even a successful cup of espresso crema has a mirror-like shine and a thickness of 3mm. Like Front Street, 20 grams of coffee powder is generally used to extract 40 ml of espresso, but this is not necessarily the case. It depends on the taste of the espresso extracted that day. Front Street Coffee’s masters adjust the extraction time to extract a perfect cup of espresso.
Of course, there is a very easy way to know whether the espresso extracted in Front Street is successful, and that is to taste it yourself. Front Street recommends that when drinking espresso, it is best to drink it within two sips to maintain the freshest flavor. Generally, when Italians drink coffee, they usually drink it in one gulp without even taking the time to sit down.
When you can't finish the espresso you extracted, or you don't like it, then the espresso will definitely not taste good. I don’t know if you have noticed that when Front Street produces each cup of single-origin coffee, the FrontStreet Coffee master will taste it in his own small cup. If the brew is successful, it will appear on the customer’s table. This is the same as tasting espresso.
After everyone understands some basic concepts about espresso, Front Street can choose a suitable coffee blend based on the desired taste and flavor of espresso.
For example, Front Street will first introduce to you a plan for espresso beans with a more balanced taste. You can try using dark roasted beans from Guatemala, Colombia, Brazil, and Tanzania to blend espresso beans in a ratio of 3:3:2:1. This blended coffee is very suitable for friends who are just getting started with espresso, because this espresso beans are relatively balanced in acidity, bitterness, and aroma. It has the acidity of Tanzania’s Kilimanjaro coffee beans, the rich fruity smoke of Guatemala, and the richer nutty and chocolate flavor of Colombia. Front Street blends these coffee beans in proportion to form an espresso with a very balanced taste.
If you want to highlight the bitter taste of espresso, you can add some Robusta coffee beans in an appropriate amount to increase the richness of the oil. Robusta coffee beans can play a very important role in blending coffee beans. For Front Street, use Colombian, Brazilian and Robusta coffee. The coffee is blended with Front Street Commercial espresso beans in a ratio of 3:6:1. This blended coffee has a strong nutty chocolate flavor and a mellow fat taste of Robusta coffee beans. It is deeply loved by coffee lovers who like bitter taste and is also suitable for the daily production needs of cafes.
Of course, espresso with an acidic taste must take into account African beans. For example, Front Street uses Tanzanian coffee beans and Yirgacheffe coffee, plus coffee beans from Brazil and Colombia to reduce the acidity brought by African beans. According to the ratio of 4:2:2:2, you can make an espresso with a strong sour taste!
Front Street is also paired with an espresso coffee bean with a special coffee flavor, which is an espresso coffee bean with a main flavor of wine, Front Street Coffee (Front Street Coffee) The espresso recipe currently used in Coffee) stores is this blend, named Sunflower Warm Sun by Front Street. It is mainly based on fermented wine-flavored Front Street Honduran sherry coffee beans, paired with Front Street Yirgacheffe sun-dried red cherry coffee beans, and is blended in a ratio of 7:3. Therefore, this special Front Street Warm Sun blended coffee has a strong aroma and rich wine aroma. When paired with milk coffee, you can make a very fragrant latte.
What Front Street mentioned above is just the choice of espresso beans. If you want to make a perfect cup of espresso, you must adjust it according to the parameters of the espresso machine you own. For example, when Front Street hand-brews each single-origin coffee, it pays great attention to water temperature, coffee grinding size, extraction time or the coffee extraction equipment used, etc.
Espresso also pays attention to extraction parameters, including the amount of coffee powder, powder-to-water ratio, total extraction time, flow rate, etc. If you want to know more about coffee knowledge in this area, you can come to the FrontStreet Coffee store in Dongshankou, Guangzhou to exchange coffee knowledge, or follow the Front Street public account to get relevant coffee consultation.
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
