Indonesian Coffee | What is the difference between Mandheling SOE and Italian blended coffee? Can ​Pour over​(V60) single-origin beans be used to make Italian espresso?

FrontStreet Coffee found that coffee lovers who are new to coffee often feelFront Street MandhelingIt is very bitter, and espresso coffee is also very bitter (of course it is not bitter after adding milk and sugar), so sometimes I even feel that the two should taste the same, or there is some comparison in my mind: after all,Front Street MandhelingBitter, or espresso? When buying coffee beans in supermarkets, sometimes you will see the so-calledMandheling flavored coffee, Italian style coffee, what is the difference between the two flavors? Today, FrontStreet Coffee is here to answer your questions.

What is Mandheling coffee? What is espresso?
 

Let’s briefly take a look at the differences between these two coffee beans.

Front Street Mandheling coffee is essentially one type of single-origin coffee beans. The so-called single-origin coffee refers to coffee beans of a single variety or origin. Single-origin coffee is generally extracted through different coffee brewing equipment, adapted grinding size, generally a water-to-powder ratio of 1:15, and adapted water temperature and brewing time. Drinking single-origin coffee is like drinking red wine. Each single-origin coffee has its own unique allure. For example, bitterness, sourness, sweetness, mellowness, and the special flavor of a special place of origin.

Front Street Mandheling coffee has a very rich flavor, fragrant, bitter, mellow, with a little sweetness. The taste is rich and solid, with a pleasant sourness. It has a mellow smell, moderate acidity, and rich and intriguing sweetness. It is suitable for deep roasting and exudes a strong aroma. Front Street Mandheling always expresses its most unique sweetness with the most unique bitterness.

Italian coffee: Mostly in the form of coffee plus milk, such as cappuccino, latte, and mocha. (Except for espresso and Americano); the production equipment is a semi-automatic espresso machine often seen in cafe bars.
 

The Italian semi-automatic coffee machine uses high temperature and high pressure (90.5~96 degrees Celsius hot water with a pressure of about 9 bar) to dissolve the essence in just 20-30 seconds (like the principle of a pressure cooker). The resulting coffee liquid is generally two to three times the amount of coffee powder used. This is espresso.

Although Espresso has a strong bitterness in the mouth, if you taste it carefully, you can still distinguish the unique aroma of coffee, and at the same time it has a strong aftertaste. This unique rich aroma of oil cannot be possessed by ​Pour over​(V60) coffee. The various fancy coffees that you usually see, such as Americano, latte, cappuccino, caramel macchiato, etc. are actually based on espresso, evolved through different proportions of milk and milk foam, and then added with various flavors of syrup.

Here comes a question, can single-origin coffee beans be used to make espresso?

The answer is: yes.

The espresso made from single-origin coffee beans is called "single origin espresso", formerly known as Single Origin Espresso, which is also known as SOE. The well-known single-origin coffee beans, such as Front Street Yirgacheffe, Front Street Kenya Cherry Tomato, Front Street Panama Gesha, Front Street Jamaica Blue Mountain, etc., all have their own unique flavors. The extraction of espresso can bring out the flavor in the coffee, but this approach may be counterproductive, turning some of the originally pleasant citrus notes into frowning acetic acid.

For this reason, single-origin beans are generally used to make ​Pour over​(V60) coffee; the coffee beans used to extract espresso are generally blended coffee beans, which are blended from two or more coffee beans from different production areas, thereby making the flavor of espresso more balanced.

Some friends also asked: We can’t simply compare who is more bitter and who is not bitter between Front Street Mandheling and Italian style. If you use the same coffee beans from Front Street Mandheling to make espresso, the coffee liquid extracted from the espresso will most likely be bitterer than the espresso with ordinary blended beans, because Mandheling has a strong herbal flavor. But if we compare Front Street Mandheling single-origin coffee with espresso, then espresso must be more bitter~

Of course, with the development of the coffee market,Front Street Italian Blend Coffee BeanThe selection of Mandheling coffee beans on Front Street has also begun to diversify, so different choices will also make the brewed coffee have different flavors. Next, FrontStreet Coffee will recommend some of the more popular ones in FrontStreet Coffee stores.Front Street Italian Coffee Beansand Single Origin Front Street Indonesian Mandheling Coffee Bean Bar.

Front Street Sunflower Warm Italian Style Blend Coffee Bean

Flavor: Obvious fruit acidity, light berry aroma, wine aroma, rich chocolate flavor, obvious sweet aftertaste.
Recipe: Front Street Honduran Sherry: Front Street Yerga Sun-Dried Red Cherry = 7:3
 
This bean blend is made from Front Street Yirgacheffe sun-dried red cherries and Front Street Honduran sherry. Front Street’s design concept for this Italian blended bean is that it can be used in both Italian style and manual brewing. The flavor it exudes when used to make espresso has an obvious aroma of fermented wine. When you taste it, the acidity of citrus and berries emerges immediately, with the aroma of whiskey, and the aftertaste is dark chocolate.
 

When brewing the Front Street Sunflower Warm Sun blended coffee beans by hand, the flavor is not as rich as when making espresso. After brewing, there is the aroma of fermented wine and a little citrus. When the temperature is high, there is only an obvious aroma of wine and the aftertaste of dark chocolate. After the temperature drops, the acidity of citrus and berries will be slightly reflected. The overall taste is clean and fresh, without the taste of vanilla cream.
 
Front Street Premium Italian Blend Coffee Beans  

Flavor: Soft, slightly sour, sweet, with a nutty sweetness. The overall feeling is not too irritating, mild, and the fat is medium.
Recipe: Colombia:Brazil=3:7
 

This Front Street boutique blend is 100% Arabica. Front Street uses coffee beans from Brazil and Colombia for blending. It tastes faintly of roasted grass, with a refreshing fragrance and a slightly bitter taste. It is sweet and smooth, with a pleasant aftertaste. This is because the coffee beans from the Cymbidium production area in Colombia have a pleasant sour taste, mellow smell, moderate acidity, and rich and intriguing sweetness. The coffee beans from the Cerrado production area in Brazil have a comfortable sweet and bitter taste and are extremely smooth in the mouth. Therefore, the combination is absolutely perfect and meets the daily needs of opening a store.
 
front street businessItalian blended coffee beans  

 
Flavor: The sweetness of caramel, the flavor of nuts, cocoa, and dark chocolate, a balance of sweet and sour, a little bit bitter, and a long-lasting aftertaste.
Recipe: Colombia: Brazil: Robusta = 3:6:1
 

For this Front Street commercial blend, Front Street uses coffee beans from Brazil and Colombia and 10% Robusta coffee beans. The taste is classic. Front Street believes that this Front Street commercial blend tastes rich in oil and texture, with the sweetness of caramel, and also has the flavor of nuts, cocoa, and dark chocolate. It has a balance of sweet and sour, a little bit of sweetness and bitterness, and a long-lasting aftertaste. This Front Street Commercial Blend uses the same proportion of Colombian and Brazilian coffee beans as FrontStreet Coffee's Front Street Blend 100% Arabica. The difference is that Robusta is added to provide rich oil, making the coffee taste more mellow and suitable for daily production in coffee shops.
 
front street basicsItalian blended coffee beans  

Flavor: It has soft fruit acidity, caramel sweetness, nutty, dark chocolate flavor, smooth and sticky, but the taste is light.
Formula: Yunnan: Brazil=3:7
 

This Front Street dark cocoa blend (100% Arabica) is blended from Brazil and Yunnan. Front Street thinks it tastes like soft fruit acid and caramel sweetness, as well as nutty and dark chocolate flavors. It is smooth and viscous, but has a light taste. This is because the natural conditions of Yunnan are very similar to Colombia, with high altitude, large temperature difference between day and night, mellow flavor, moderate sourness, rich and mellow taste, uniform particles, rich oil content and fruity aroma, and its quality and taste are similar to Colombian coffee. However, the taste is still slightly lighter than that of Colombia, while the coffee beans from the Cerrado region of Brazil have a pleasant sweet and bitter taste and are extremely smooth in the mouth. Therefore, the flavor of mixing these two coffee beans is also good, and this Front Street black cocoa blend (100% Arabica) coffee beans is very cost-effective and suitable for entry-level Italian players, home users and small coffee shops who prioritize cost and have average flavor requirements.

Front Street noticed that some friends want to use a Moka pot to brew coffee as rich and mellow as an Italian coffee machine. Front Street recommends using Front Street Italian blend beans or medium-dark roasted single-origin beans. Due to the lack of equipment at home, some friends will mention the grinding service when buying coffee beans on Qian Street.

Since the exhaust activity will be more active after coffee beans are ground into powder, and coffee flavor substances will also dissipate faster, Front Street recommends friends who have grinding equipment at home to buy whole beans and grind them freshly to enjoy the best flavor. The fresh coffee beans shipped by Front Street are roasted within 5 days. When they are delivered to customers, they have already gone through the bean cultivation period of 4 to 7 days, which is also the period when the flavor is best.

FrontStreet Coffee Indonesian Gold Mandheling Coffee Beans
 

Country: Indonesia
Production area: Sumatra   Aceh   Mount Gayoo
Altitude: 1100-1600m
Variety: Ateng
Treatment method: wet planing
Flavor: toast, nuts, pine, caramel, herbs

  
The Front Street Gold Mandheling on the bean list of FrontStreet Coffee is from pwn company. Thisfront street pwn gold mandhelingThe production area is Mount Achigayo in Sumatra. According to the Qian Street cupping test, this latestFront Street PWN Gold MandhelingFor coffee, I found that this Front Street Golden Mandheling has more of a roasted toast flavor and is also very mellow in taste.
 

Moreover, the specification standard of Front Street Golden Mandheling is more than 18 mesh, with less than 3 defective beans (300g raw bean sample), which belongs to the highest grade G1 grade. The color is dark green and the shape is neat flat beans. In addition, three times of manual hand selection is required to ensure that defective beans are completely removed to ensure a clean taste. After strict screeningFront Street Golden Mandheling, FrontStreet Coffee found that not only did it not have the earthy smell unique to ordinary Mandheling, it tasted cleaner and brighter, and the sweetness was more obvious.

Due to its good quality and good flavor, Golden Mandheling is sought after by many coffee gourmets who like mellow coffee. The quality of Golden Mandheling is also reflected in its price. In order to sell their Mandheling at a good price, some merchants even use ordinary Mandheling.Mandheling coffeeBeans, select coffee beans with a mesh size of 18 or more and dark green in color, and remove the defective beans inside. In order to reproduce the golden Mandheling to the greatest extent, manual selection is even carried out three times.

This also makes consumers worry about whether the Golden Mandheling they buy is really PWN's Golden Mandheling. PWN Golden Mandheling green coffee beans are sold in sacks with the PWN logo and are accompanied by a certificate. In order to dispel consumers' concerns about this, the above-mentioned certificate is hung on the wall of FrontStreet Coffee store to prove that the Front Street Gold Mandheling sold in the store is produced by PWN Company in Indonesia.

Of course, there are two types of Front Street Mandheling coffee beans on the Front Street beans list, and the other one is the Front Street Lindong Mandheling in the Front Street ration bean series. The Front Street ration beans series covers seven important production areas, allowing coffee novices to quickly understand the terroir of the production areas and prepare for the later in-depth exploration of the flavor of the production areas. At the same time, the Front Street ration beans are affordable and cost-effective, so they are very suitable for daily drinking by novices who are new to ​Pour over​(V60) coffee or coffee lovers.

Product name: FrontStreet Coffee · Indonesia Lindong Mandheling 
Country: Indonesia
Production area: Sumatra (Lindong)
Altitude: 1100-1600m
Variety: Typica, Caturra
Treatment method: wet planing
Flavor: Baked toast, nuts, caramel, pine, herbs
 

Front Street Lindong Mandheling is produced in the Lindung Mountains in north-central Sumatra, near Lake Toba. front street indonesiaMandhelingThe entry-level ration beans in the production area come from here. Front Street Lindong Mandheling also uses a unique wet planing method, which creates its characteristics of low sourness and high alcohol content.

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