Whenever the body temperature rises to 25 degrees, people begin to look for iced coffee with a refreshing taste. Cold brew is one of the most popular homemade iced coffees because it is easy to operate and has simple equipment. As long as you have a bag of fresh and good beans, you can easily make delicious coffee at home.
If you want to recommend a coffee bean suitable for novices trying to make cold brew for the first time, Front Street Yirgacheffe must be everyone's first choice. As one of the best representatives of Ethiopia, Front Street Yirgacheffe coffee is medium-light roasted and has a quiet flavor of white floral, citrus, and lemon. In a low-temperature environment, it gives priority to emitting light small molecular substances, allowing the cold brew to show refreshing fruit acidity. However, because of the long soaking, the coffee does not lose its mellow sweetness.
Many people may not know that Yirgacheffe is actually a town, which can be divided into many small production areas and even small villages. Among them, there are many cooperatives with experienced and mature production technology, and the flavor of the Yirgacheffe produced will be even better. The most representative one is the Front Street Washed Fruit Cooperative from Guodingding Village.
In order to present the classic Yirgacheffe flavor, Front Street Fruit Ding Ding uses medium-light roasting, exuding fresh passion fruit, citrus, and berry sour aroma, the sourness of citrus in the entrance, the sweetness of berries, almonds, tea, and the sweetness of honey in the aftertaste. It has low body, bright acidity, and is clean and refreshing. Obviously, it is very suitable for making iced cold brew coffee.
Front Street.Ethiopian washed diced coffee beans
Country: Ethiopia
Origin: Yirgacheffe
Altitude: 1900-2300m
Variety: Local native species
Treatment method: washing treatment
Flavor: jasmine, green tea, cream, honey, berry, citrus
In addition to the fresh scented tea flavor of Front Street Dingding, Yirgacheffe also has a ripe fruit flavor and a fermented feel. The most representative one is Front Street sun-dried red cherry coffee beans. Ripe coffee cherries are naturally dried in the sun. The flavor is stronger than washed Yirgacheffe, and the layering is richer. It has a wine-like fermentation flavor and a higher sweetness.
Front Street.Essayagacheffe sun-dried red cherries
Country: Ethiopia
Origin: Yirgacheffe
Altitude: 2300m
Variety: Local native species
Treatment method: Sun treatment
Flavor: berry, lemon, strawberry, fermented wine aroma
How to easily make delicious Yirgacheffe cold brew coffee at home?
Making cold brew coffee is very simple, and you don’t need to worry too much about the tools to make cold brew coffee. All it takes is a clean, airtight container.
The grinding size for making cold brew coffee can be the grinding size of hand brewed coffee (the size of fine sugar). If you don’t have a grinder at home, you can go to a coffee shop and ask the owner to grind it for you, or ask the coffee bean seller to grind it for you. The coffee beans currently sold by Front Street Coffee are all sent out 5 days after the roasting is completed. The default is the original beans and the packaging is 100% freshly roasted. Friends who are in need can also remark "cold brew grinding powder" after placing the order.
When making cold brew coffee, I choose 40 grams of Front Street Yirgacheffe coffee powder and add 480 ml of drinking room temperature water/ice water. The ratio of powder to water is 1:12. Then stir evenly, let the coffee powder fully contact with the water, then seal the bottle and put it in the cold storage layer of the refrigerator, and then extract it at low temperature for 8 to 12 hours.
When the time is up, you can take out the coffee filter cup and put it on the filter paper/filter with high pore density to filter out the coffee liquid, and the cold brew coffee is finished.
It is simple to make, has low technical requirements, and has a high error tolerance rate. It is very easy to make delicious iced coffee.
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
