The darker the coffee is roasted, the more acids in the coffee are destroyed and replaced with more caramel, smoky, and bitter flavors. Based on their understanding of different coffee beans, roasters use different roasting degrees to give beans of different origins and varieties a unique flavor. For example, it can retain the bright acidic or floral notes of beans, or present a mellow sweetness or coke note. But if you don’t like sourness or bitter taste, what kind of roasted coffee beans should you choose?
The roasting degrees of our common coffee beans on the market can be roughly divided into three categories: light roasting, medium roasting and dark roasting. Coffee that is not too sour and not too bitter basically belongs to medium roasting.
The sourness and bitterness of coffee are actually determined by roasting. There is a term in coffee roasting called "first crack". When the coffee beans absorb heat to a certain extent, they can no longer store energy and release the heat through bursting. In layman's terms, it tells you that the coffee beans are ripe. If it comes out of the oven at this time, the coffee will be very sour; if we don't come out of the oven after the "first crack", we will continue to roast it, and wait until the "crackling" sound is intense before coming out of the oven. The coffee at this time will be sour and sweet, which is what we call medium roasting.
Medium roast coffee can generally be divided into two types: medium light roast and medium dark roast. We can directly judge it from the coffee flavor.
1. Coffee with flavors such as ripe fruits, raisins, passion fruit, fermentation, and dark floral aromas is classified as medium light roast. For medium light roast coffee, we recommend Front Street. Costa Rica Blackberry, Front Street. Colombian Hija, and Front Street. Costa Rica Mozart.
2. Coffee with a main flavor of nuts, chocolate, cream, caramel, and slight acidity is a medium-dark roast. For medium-dark roasted coffee, we recommend Front Street. PWN Golden Mandheling, Front Street. Brazilian Queen's Manor, Front Street. Columbia Cymbidium, and Front Street 2013 Yunnan Tiepicka.
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
