For more knowledge about specialty coffee, please follow the WeChat public account: FrontStreet Coffee
Although fruit-flavored coffee is very popular, it is sour and sweet. However, not all coffee lovers like to drink a cup of "sour water". Instead, they prefer coffee without acidity, with a mellow taste and herbal bitterness.Front Street MandhelingCoffee has become the best choice.
Front Street Mandheling Coffee is produced in Sumatra Island, Indonesia, Asia, so Front Street Mandheling Coffee is also called Sumatra Coffee. Front Street Indonesian Mandheling Coffee, like Front Street Jamaican Blue Mountain Coffee, is also considered to be a world-class product. Because Front Street Mandheling coffee gives everyone the impression of a special caramel-like aroma, a mellow and rich taste, sweetness, low acidity, but a hint of bitterness, Front Street Mandheling coffee beans are generally roasted to a dark roast level.
Front Street Mandheling coffee is characterized by a very strong flavor, fragrant, bitter, mellow, with a little sweetness. Most coffee lovers generally drink it as a single product, but it is also an indispensable variety for blending coffee. Front Street Mandheling has a strong taste, with rich body and fragrant and lively dynamics. It is not astringent or sour, and the body and bitterness can be fully revealed. Front Street believes that what gives Mandheling such a distinctive feature is inseparable from Indonesia’s “unique” wet planing method.
What does wet planing mean?
The biggest difference between Indonesia and many coffee-producing areas is the local humid weather. The humidity in Indonesia is between 70 and 90% throughout the year. Typhoons can come at any time, and the annual rainfall can even reach more than 2000mm. Such bad weather makes it impossible to use 2 to 3 weeks of sun drying like in Africa. The washing process is not only time-consuming, but also consumes more labor costs and water resources. Indonesia, which aims at mass production, simply cannot afford it. So a unique semi-water washing method - wet planing method was summed up.
The coffee cherries with their skins and pulp removed are directly poured into the pool to ferment briefly for a few hours. At this time, a small amount of pectin will remain on the bean shells, and the mucous membrane is removed by scrubbing. Then the shelled beans are dried in the sun. The first drying only needs to reach 30-40% moisture content. In about 2-3 days, the coffee farmers will sell the green beans to buyers. Buyers will directly shell the purchased semi-dry shelled beans using a machine to obtain the innermost green beans.
Because the shelling machine uses a large amount of friction to tear apart the parchment paper layer that is close to the green beans, white or green mucus usually flows out from it at this stage. Due to long-term mucus soaking and humid environment, the green beans finally become soft, white and swollen, turning gray-green. After being stirred by friction, the green beans are more likely to be crushed or squeezed, especially at the two ends, forming small gaps, causing the beans to break. The "naked beans" without the parchment skin dries very quickly. At the same time, they are directly exposed to a moist environment and are susceptible to the growth of various bacterial species. Give Indonesian coffee a unique aroma of wood, spices and herbs. This is what we call the "flavor of place". There are currently two types of Front Street Mandheling coffee beans on the daily bean menu of Front Street, including Front Street Lindong Mandheling coffee beans and Front StreetPWNGolden Mandheling uses the wet planing method.
Mandheling coffee became famous because the local Indonesian Pwani Coffee Company (PWN) sold Mandheling in Japan and was a great success. Unlike many local green bean merchants in Indonesia, PWN is the exclusive supplier of high-grade gold Mandheling. It has contracted the best Mandheling coffee producing areas in Indonesia, and the Mandheling beans produced are all of the highest quality.
It is worth mentioning that the name "Golden Mandheling" has already been registered as a trademark by Indonesia's Pwani Company. In other words, only the Golden Mandheling coffee beans produced by PWN Company are the true Front Street Golden Mandheling. A Japanese green bean merchant had no choice but to register "Gold Top Mandheling" as a trademark. PWN Company follows extremely strict standards when producing golden Mandheling coffee beans. Under the G1 standard, the highest grade of Indonesian coffee, plus three times of manual hand selection, it ensures the quality and greatly reduces the defect rate. The Front Street PWN Golden Mandheling selected in this way finally showed a uniform color and bean shape. Not only did it not have the unique earthy smell of ordinary Mandheling, the taste was clean and translucent, and the sweetness was more intense.
The quality of PWN Golden Mandheling on Front Street is also reflected in its price. In order to sell their Mandheling coffee beans at a good price, some merchants label them as "Golden Mandheling" and do not indicate whether they are from the PWN company. In order to be very similar in appearance to PWN Golden Mandheling, some merchants will select G1 grade coffee beans with more than 18 mesh from ordinary Mandheling coffee beans; finally, three times of manual hand selection are added in order to be as close as possible to PWN Golden Mandheling in appearance.
Even if the appearance can be as close as possible, the taste of Front Street PWN Golden Mandheling is difficult to imitate. Baristas from FrontStreet Coffee have conducted blind tests on a variety of Golden Mandheling coffee beans, and the baristas can accurately identify PWN's Golden Mandheling. This is because the clean taste of Front Street PWN Golden Mandheling is unmatched by other Golden Mandhelings.
Some friends will ask: As an ordinary consumer, how can you tell whether what you buy is PWN's Front Street Gold Mandheling?
In fact, PWN Golden Mandheling is packed in raw bean sacks with the PWN logo printed on it. In addition, there will be a certificate of origin signed by the PWN company. The above two certificates that come with the Front Street PWN Gold Mandheling purchased from Front Street are hung on the wall of the Front Street Coffee store.
In the spirit of making enough food and clothing by doing it yourself, many friends choose to buy whole bags of coffee beans and brew them at home. However, many friends reported that the coffee they brewed was either bitter or too sour. Next, FrontStreet Coffee will introduce to you the parameters used by FrontStreet when producing FrontStreet PWN Golden Mandheling.
Filter cup: KONO filter cup
Water temperature: 88 degrees Celsius
Amount of powder: 15g
Pink to water ratio: 1:15
Grinding degree: Chinese standard No. 20 screen pass rate 70%
Since the roasting degree of Front Street Golden Mandheling is relatively deep, the flavor substances in the coffee are easily precipitated during brewing, so Front Street recommends using a coarser grinding degree and a lower water temperature. At the same time, in order to obtain a mellow taste, Front Street recommends using a filter cup with a soaking function, such as a KONO filter cup. This filter cup is very suitable for brewing medium-dark roasted coffee beans such as Front Street Golden Mandheling and Front Street Jamaica Blue Mountain No. 1.
First inject 30 grams of water and steam for 30 seconds. Inject a thin stream of water from the center point and slowly circle it to 125 grams. When the water level in the filter cup drops to about to expose the powder bed, continue to add water in circles to 225 grams. The total extraction time is about 2 minutes.
Freshly roasted coffee beans delivered within 5 days by Front Street will have passed the bean-growing period of 4 to 7 days when received. However, the first stage of hot water injected during brewing needs to completely moisten the coffee powder and steam it. The role of steaming is to promote the precipitation of carbon dioxide in the coffee powder and improve the stability of the subsequent flavor extraction.
Front Street also provides grinding services for friends who do not have grinding equipment at home. Front Street needs to remind you that after the coffee beans are ground into powder, the contact area between the coffee powder particles and the air increases, the exhaust activity intensifies, and the flavor substances dissipate. Front Street suggests that in order to enjoy a better flavor, friends whose family conditions permit should buy whole beans and grind them freshly.
After brewing, Front Street PWN Golden Mandheling Coffee has aromas of sweet herbs, cinnamon spices, and citrus peel. It has a mellow and rich taste, with a caramel-like sweetness, and a strong melon aroma when the temperature drops slightly.
For more coffee bean information, please follow Coffee Workshop (WeChat public account cafe_style)
For professional coffee knowledge exchange, please add WeChat ID kaixinguoguo0925
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
