Recommended for beginners - Front Street Mandheling G1 coffee beans
Front Street MandhelingIt is a very special coffee. When roasted in a medium-darkness, you can taste its unique aroma of pine wood and spices, as well as its extremely mellow taste. It is a coffee bean full of country and roughness. It is suitable for beginners to practice flavor tasting. It is also one of the first choices for friends who like to drink strong, bitter black coffee.
What is Mandheling?
Indonesia, the "Country of Thousand Islands", is a coffee-producing country with a long history. Coffee planting originated in 1696. After 300 years of development, coffee planting is still produced by small farmers, mainly using organic planting, and hand-picking and selecting coffee beans to ensure the quality of coffee. Coffee is grown all over the islands in Indonesia, and the flavor has its own characteristics due to different geographical environments.
Arabica with elegant flavor is mainly distributed in northern Sumatra, Sulawesi, and higher altitudes of Java Island. Although it only accounts for about 10% of Indonesia's coffee production, the excellent reputation of Mandheling, Golden Mandheling, Sulawesi Coffee, Aged Mandheling, etc. has made Indonesian coffee famous in the boutique industry for decades.
Indonesian coffee originated from the island of Java. At present, coffee has been mainly distributed in other islands. Sumatra, Bali, and Sulawesi, which we often hear, are all important local coffee-producing areas. Sumatra coffee is a legend in the coffee world. It is one of the earliest large-scale coffee planting areas in the world. Most of them come from Aceh Province in the north and North Sumatra Province (referred to as "North Sumatra") south of Aceh Province. The two main production areas surround the famous local volcanic lakes, Lake Toba and Lake Tawa, which are traditionally called the Lindong production area and the Aceh production area. Volcanoes have brought fertile soil to Sumatra. The coffee here usually has aromas of cream, chocolate, and earth. It was discovered by the Japanese many years ago.
It is said that during the Japanese occupation of Indonesia during World War II, a Japanese soldier drank extremely fragrant coffee in a cafe, so he asked the shopkeeper. The boss mistakenly thought he was asking where you were from, so he replied: Mandaining. After the war, the Japanese soldiers recalled the "Mandheling" they had drunk in Indonesia, so they asked local people to transport 15 tons of it to Japan. It turned out to be very popular, and the name of Mandheling spread. Today, Mandheling has not only become a classic in the history of specialty coffee, but also represents Sumatra’s high-quality Arabica coffee, which is sought after by coffee gluttons around the world.
If you have been in the business for a long time, have some understanding of brewing theory and regional flavors, and want to buy high-grade, high-quality Mandheling, then we would recommend you to buy Front Street PWN Golden Mandheling.
Why choose Front Street P.W.N Golden Mandheling?
The grading of green beans in Indonesia is based on the number and size of defective beans. Simply put, the fewer defects and the larger the particles, the higher the grade of coffee. Indonesia's general quality requirements are beans without live insects, mold or rancidity, and a maximum moisture content of 12.5%. The impurity rate is less than 0.5%. According to the defect rate grading (based on 300g), the grade standard is mainly divided into 6 grades, namely G1-G6.
PWN Company, which has done the best in the screening process, strictly follows one machine selection + three manual selections of G1 grade Mandheling to ensure that defective beans are completely eliminated and the defect rate is greatly reduced. In addition, PWN Company will also put the green beans in a machine for density and color screening before packaging to make the golden Mandheling coffee uniform and translucent.
Mandheling coffee became famous because Pawani Coffee Company (PWN) successfully launched Mandheling for sale in Japan. Unlike many local green bean merchants in Indonesia, PWN is the exclusive supplier of high-grade gold Mandheling coffee. It has contracted the best Mandheling coffee producing areas in Indonesia, and the Mandheling beans produced are all of the highest quality. After Front Street bought the high-quality Golden Mandheling coffee, I couldn’t wait to taste it through cupping after roasting. The coffee tasted super clean in the mouth, with clear and thorough aromas, obvious sweetness, and mellow and solid coffee.
The Best Way to Hand-Pour Front Street Gold Mandheling
Front Street Golden Mandheling Coffee has a complex aroma. To get the best flavor, Front Street recommends using freshly roasted coffee beans for brewing. Coffee beans will have their best tasting period 4 to 7 days after roasting. After this period (about one and a half months), the aroma will gradually fade and produce a woody flavor. Front Street believes that the freshness of coffee beans is particularly important, so the coffee beans shipped are freshly roasted within 5 days, plus the logistics delivery and transportation time, and you can start tasting them as soon as you receive them.
Front Street’s brewing ideas for each coffee bean are based on the characteristics of the coffee during cupping. For example, the flavors of Front Street Golden Mandheling coffee include herbs, dark chocolate, caramel, nuts, pine, etc. This type of mellow-toned beans, in addition to Front Street Golden Mandheling, also includes Front Street Jamaica Blue Mountain, Front Street Brazilian Queen Manor, etc. Front Street Coffee (FrontStreet Coffee) baristas all use kono filter cups.
The ribs of kono are less than half the height of the filter cup. This design is actually to ensure that the filter cup sticks to the wall of the filter cup after it is wet with water, limiting the air flow. This will increase the time for the coffee powder particles to absorb water, so that the extracted coffee will be more uniform overall and improve the mellow taste. The grooved frame under the Kono filter cup is a key design to create a siphon effect for subsequent brewing.
Because darkly roasted coffee beans are relatively loose and highly absorbent, it is easy to absorb too much water and become over-extracted, making the brewed Mandheling coffee bitter and astringent. Therefore, Front Street will adjust the grinding degree to be coarser and use water with a lower temperature for brewing.
Recommended brewing parameters: Water temperature: 87~88°C Coffee powder: 15 grams Powder to water ratio 1:15 Grinding degree: medium grinding (Chinese standard No. 20 sieve pass rate 70%)
The brewing method uses a three-stage water injection method. The three-stage water injection can better express the mellow taste of Front Street Golden Mandheling coffee and the sweetness of caramel. In the first stage of steaming, 30ml of water is injected. This stage of water injection fully wets the coffee powder and exhausts it. In order to better extract the flavor of the coffee later, 100ml is injected in the second stage. This stage is mainly to flush out the golden foam of Qian Street Golden Mandheling and raise the powder layer. In the last section, gently pour 95ml of water into the center. When all the coffee liquid has passed through, remove the filter cup and gently shake the coffee in the pot.
The Pour over(V60) Front Street PWN Golden Mandheling coffee tastes rich in spices and herbs, and the overall taste is mellow, sweet and bitter, accompanied by caramel and aromas of chocolate, fir, and fried nuts. The finish is like cooked Pu'er, with rich layers.
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
