Coffee has different roasting degrees, and the flavor of coffee under different roasting degrees is different. The appreciation of specialty coffee has become a trend. More and more people are falling in love with the unique floral and fruity flavor of specialty coffee, so the roasting degree of Pour over(V60) coffee beans on the market has become lighter and lighter. But in fact, no one likes to drink coffee with only sour taste. Even if it is a light roasted fruit-sour type, they still want to drink a sour and sweet flavor. So in terms of flavor, which coffee beans are sweeter? Faced with baking techniques that increasingly emphasize sourness, how can we make such lightly roasted beans sweeter?
When a coffee is heated from the beginning to the end of the roasting process, sweetness is the first flavor to develop, followed by sourness. Combined with the law of taste development, as the roasting degree deepens (time increases), the sweetness of coffee will continue to increase until it reaches a peak (usually in medium to dark roasting), and then begins to decrease at an accelerated rate. Therefore, if you look at the sweetness from a roasting perspective, the medium roasting range often has the most "sweetness". As ordinary consumers, although we cannot interfere with the baker's idea of sour and sweetness, we can judge the "sweetness" of the beans based on the flavor description.
1. The flavors are raisins, preserved fruits, peaches, mangoes, guavas, sweet oranges and other slightly sour fruits. The first ones are more sweet than sour. They often also have words such as fermentation, ripeness, fruit sugar, etc. Front Street is highly recommended. The four coffees: Xi Claw, Front Street Strawberry Candy, Front Street Blackberry, and Front Street Mozart, all use medium roasting and are suitable for hand brewing, Moka pot, cold brew, drip American coffee machine, hanging ear and other extraction methods.
2. Coffees whose flavors are dominated by honey, honeydew melon, floral, snow pear and other fruits are usually the sweet type with a relatively elegant taste. Friends who like this kind of taste can give priority to Front Street. Jade Green Label Geisha and Front Street. Butterfly.
It’s not difficult to brew coffee with a high sweetness. Let’s demonstrate it with Front Street Xizhao, a hot-selling product that is very popular among consumers. Anaerobic sun-drying treatment gives Front Street Xizhao a complex and varied fruity flavor, with a slightly alcoholic and sweet fermentation aroma. Therefore, in terms of parameters and techniques, in addition to highlighting the sour and sweet floral and fruity flavors, the overall body and mellowness of the coffee also need to be improved. Front Street will implement this by increasing the ratio of powder to water, increasing the water temperature by 1 to 2 degrees Celsius, increasing segmentation, and matching techniques.
Coffee Beans: Front Street. Chija, Colombia
Amount of powder: 15g
Pink to water ratio: 1:16
Grinding degree: regular fine grinding (EK43s scale 9 grid)
Filter cup: V60
Water temperature: 93℃
Segmented water injection: four sections (30g/70g/70g/70g)
In the first stage, inject 30g of hot water and steam for 30 seconds. Make sure that all the coffee powder can contact the water and be in the same pre-extraction state;
After 30 seconds, use a small water flow (4ml/s) to inject the second section of 70g in a small circle clockwise from the center. The purpose is to allow the coffee to continue to discharge gas and at the same time raise the powder layer to 3/5 of the filter cup. The injection is completed in about 55 seconds, and the timing scale displays 100g;
When the liquid level drops and is about to reveal the powder bed, you can start to inject the third section of 70g, and also maintain a slow flow of 4ml/s. At this time, the circle can be larger than the second section, in order to bring out more sweet substances. The injection will be completed in about 1 minute and 15 to 20 seconds, and the timing scale will show 170g. Be careful not to pour water too quickly to avoid pushing the water level up, and try to maintain a balanced rhythm between the water pouring rate and water injection amplitude.
When the powder bed is exposed again, you can pour the last 70g of water. The technique is the same as the second step. Try to control the water flow not to be too large, because it is easy to break up the powder layer and cause insufficient extraction. It will be finished in about 1 minute and 45 seconds. The final total water volume is 240g, and the whole process takes 2 minutes and 12 seconds.
The Xizhao brewed using this method has an obvious sweetness in the mouth, with ripe fruit flavors of passion fruit, grapes, blueberry jam, and apricots. Compared with the usual three-stage version, the acidity is much softer, the body is thicker, and the aftertaste is long-lasting. Even if the temperature drops, the various fruit sweetness is still full, and the aftertaste is accompanied by a light floral aroma.
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
