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Many friends who don’t like to drink sour coffee have had this experience: they placed an order after looking at recommendations online, only to get a sour taste that made them feel bad. What exactly determines the sourness and bitterness of coffee? How to choose to avoid the sour taste? This article explains it all once and for all. The sourness and bitterness of coffee mainly depends on these factors when roasted
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For more knowledge about specialty coffee, please pay attention to: Frontsteet Coffee Friends who are interested in coffee may do this when choosing coffee. They will first enter the coffee brand rankings, thinking that the brand with a high ranking must be a good coffee. Actually it is not the case
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The complete flavor of a cup of coffee includes aroma, sweetness, body, mouth feel and finish. Sour and bitter are just two of them. When choosing beans, first make sure you want floral and fruity aroma, nutty cocoa or balance, and then look for the answer in the production area, processing method and roasting degree. The performance of a bean in hand brewing depends on the production area, variety, and location.
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Front Street often receives many questions like this: "What beans are suitable for Moka pots", "What beans are suitable for coffee machines", or "What beans are suitable for cold brew"... Many friends who are just getting started will always mistakenly think that a certain extraction method will have the most suitable coffee beans, but in fact, no matter the moka,
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The Moka pot is the main appliance for making coffee in many families. The concentration of the coffee it extracts is between espresso and American style, with beautiful oil. Drink it directly and make it rich. When mixed with milk, it will be a smooth milk coffee. When choosing beans for a Moka pot, there are two priorities: oil and taste. Oil is given priority because of the extraction principle of the Moka pot and the performance of oil.
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The charm of Yirgacheffe lies in the fact that floral, citrus and berry notes can appear in the same cup, but different drinking methods will amplify different characteristics. In the morning, a refreshing and bright hot hand brew is suitable. In the afternoon, you can make iced coffee or cold brew. When paired with milk, pay attention to the concentration and sweetness. Choose beans in a way that you will actually drink every day, within your budget
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For those who like a mellow taste and beautiful oils, you only need to focus on two variables when choosing beans: bean type and roasting degree. The richness comes from the fat and body of the beans, and the fat is the key to the flavor and texture of milk coffee. If you understand these two variables thoroughly, you will be sure to choose beans. Let’s look at the bean seeds first. Fatty beans, usually
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If you want to drink Yirgacheffe, but prefer a round, soft and less sour taste, you can put the "acidity" back into the specific drinking method to judge. Yirgacheffe often has floral, citrus or berry tones, but through medium-dark roasting, higher sweetness and thicker taste, it can also show a milder and smoother side. The key is to choose the right wind.
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Many friends left messages saying that they don’t know how to choose coffee beans, or don’t know how to tell whether the coffee beans they buy are fresh. So today Front Street Coffee teaches you how to choose coffee beans. Next time you buy coffee, you won’t be afraid of buying unsuitable or stale coffee beans. Next, let’s take a look at the most basic requirements for choosing coffee beans.
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The flavor focus of dark roasted coffee beans usually shifts from bright fruit acid to cocoa, nuts, caramel and roasted aromas, giving it a heavier mouth feel. It does not mean that only the bitter taste is left. The origin of the beans, the blending ratio and the extraction method will all affect the result. Choose according to how you drink it every day, so that this thick style can become smooth and drinkable.
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If you want to drink chocolate flavor, when choosing beans, you can pay attention to descriptions such as cocoa, chocolate sauce, roasted nuts, caramel and brown sugar. They don't equate to overt bitterness, some cups are as soft as milk chocolate, some are close to the dryness of cocoa powder, and some are as sweet as dark syrup. Let’s judge by how we drink it every day.
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Honey-processed coffee beans are often between washing and sun-drying: after the pulp is removed, the pectin layer dries with the beans, so the sweetness and fruity aroma are more easily retained. It can range from bright fruit to soft honey, making it suitable to be chosen according to the drinking scene of the day. In the morning with breakfast, it is recommended to
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The difference between single-origin beans and blended beans lies in the way the beans are combined; hand brewing is the brewing method, and the three are not choices at the same level. Single-origin beans usually come from one production area or manor, making it easier to feel the personality of the region and processing methods; blended beans combine the aroma, sweetness and thickness of different beans, which is more suitable for those who seek familiarity and comfort.
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Exquisite patterns float on the fragrant coffee, which is coffee latte art. Front Street believes that if you want to learn how to make perfect coffee latte art, you must first prepare the required materials and equipment in advance, which are mainly inseparable from the following five items: 1. Coffee beans, grinder, and coffee machine: making coffee latte art, milk foam and Espresso
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Just because you want to drink a cup of single-origin hand-brewed coffee that is neither sour nor bitter does not mean that the coffee has to lose its aroma and sweetness. A more suitable state is when there is no sharp irritation in the mouth and no obvious burnt bitterness after swallowing. At the same time, you can still drink nuts, cocoa, caramel or soft fruity sweetness. Tell us when to drink it every day, whether it should be paired with food and the desired concentration.
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The coffee brewed by a moka pot often has a layer of fine foam floating on the surface, which is more concentrated in the mouth than when brewed by hand, and is more likely to show the aroma of nuts, cocoa and caramel. If you want to make this layer of oil more obvious, when choosing beans, you should pay attention to the medium-dark roasting, freshness and grinding state of the beans, and then decide whether you drink black coffee, add ice, or mix milk.
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When you open a coffee shop, the core of the menu is almost all Italian coffee: Americano, latte, cappuccino, and dirty. These are the ones that consume the most cups in a day. The basis of these drinks all come from the same cup of concentrate. Whether the concentration is stable or not, and whether the coffee flavor is clear enough or not, depends largely on the one you choose.
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On such a hot day, of course you have to drink iced coffee. But for Front Street, who has difficulty choosing, there are so many ice coffee categories on the market, how should you choose between cold brew, ice drip, nitrogen coffee, and Japanese ice coffee? We all know that iced coffee is generally extracted at low temperature, and the extraction speed is slow, but in terms of flavor, it is
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There is no fixed answer to whether SOE tastes good when made into a latte. It is usually made from coffee beans from a single origin or batch, and the flavor recognition will be more obvious than common blends. After milk is added, the sweet and sour, fruity and nutty tones of coffee will be re-amplified or softened, so the same cup of beans can be used for breakfast, afternoon
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Today Front Street will talk about how a newbie should choose coffee when making hand brew for the first time. Since hand-brewed coffee uses drip extraction, which can well present the flavor and tonality of the coffee beans in the cup, Front Street recommends giving priority to brewing single-origin coffee beans that focus on individualization. These beans are roasted by adjusting the
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