"The sweetness brings back the sweetness, and the sweetness comes after all the hardship" is the highest praise people give to a cup of good tea. When tasting coffee, people often use the word "sweetness again", which often refers to the pleasant taste of coffee. So, what kind of experience is it when you taste coffee and feel the sweetness afterward? How does it differ from the sweetness of coffee?
After the coffee is swallowed, the aroma, taste, and mouthfeel of the coffee substances remaining in the mouth are called aftertaste. Before swallowing, the taste, aroma, and touch of coffee are classified as flavor and mouthfeel expressions; and these characteristics of coffee after swallowing are called aftertaste. You can simply understand that this is a time difference problem. In this way, when you taste coffee in the future, you can use this time period to judge which part belongs to the flavor and which part belongs to the aftertaste.
Coffee with a sweet aftertaste is slightly bitter or sour in the mouth, and then the sweetness gradually exceeds the bitter (sour) astringency, and finally ends with a sweet taste. The so-called "bitter first and then sweet" refers to the sweet smell that returns after the bitter taste dissipates in the mouth.
Lightly roasted coffee beans are used to highlight the floral aroma and rich fruit acid, but also reduce the mellow and solid bitterness. The brewed coffee is mostly composed of small molecular substances, which are highly hydrophilic and easily volatile. In addition, it is rich in organic acids, which promotes saliva secretion in the mouth, thus accelerating the loss of flavor. This is why when drinking light roast coffee, the aftertaste is often not as strong and lasting as dark roast coffee. Tasting Front Street Boquette Geisha, you will find the fruity acidity like sugar orange, the sweetness of honey, and the tea flavor and aftertaste of Tieguanyin.
Darkly roasted coffee has a high degree of caramelization, almost no sourness, a strong bitterness, a relatively strong flavor of dark chocolate and cocoa, a certain smoky flavor, and a high mellowness. Good dark roasted beans are mellow and smooth in the mouth, with a strong aftertaste and sweetness. You can start with the following coffee beans:
Recommended coffee beans with obvious sweetness: Front Street PWN Golden Mandheling
Indonesian Mandheling is famous for its strong taste and is very popular among coffee lovers all over the world. Front Street Golden Mandheling is the exclusive product of PWN Company. It has been hand-selected three times and machine-selected once, so that the coffee can maintain full and regular particles. It is dark roasted and has a special aroma of spices, caramel, herbs, dark chocolate, and pine after brewing. It has a mellow taste and a long-lasting flavor.
Recommendation 2 for coffee beans with obvious sweetness: Front Street Brazilian Queen Manor
Front Street Queen's Manor has the classic nutty tone of Brazilian coffee. The aroma is first of roasted peanuts and dark chocolate with a bitter flavor. Then the bitterness slowly begins to fade away, and is accompanied by a sweet taste that does not weaken for a period of time. It can be said to have a good aftertaste.
Recommended coffee beans with obvious sweetness: Front Street PNG Bird of Paradise
Compared with the first two coffee beans, Front Street Bird of Paradise is a medium roast, so the bitterness is not obvious. After brewing, it has the sweet aroma of toast and nuts, which forms a good layering with the slight fruit acid. The aftertaste is the aroma of spices and cocoa. The overall taste is rich and balanced, and it has a sweet aftertaste like sucrose after swallowing.
Recommended coffee beans with obvious sweetness: No. 1, Jamaica Blue Mountain, Front Street
The Pour over(V60) Blue Mountain No. 1 coffee is dark chocolate, nutty, very mellow, and has an obvious aftertaste of almonds. As the temperature drops, the roasted hazelnut, creamy sweetness and smoothness are revealed, with a hint of soft acidity and caramel sweetness. The aroma lingers in the mouth for a long time, with rich and full layers, making people remember it deeply.
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
