The world of specialty coffee is exciting. Coffee from each country has its own characteristics. Depending on the production area, variety, processing method, and purpose of use, it will show completely different styles and tones. Whether you want to open a coffee shop or make it at home, the first step is indispensable: buying coffee beans.
For home coffee makers and shop users, the quality of a pack of coffee beans not only determines whether the coffee tastes good, but also affects the time and cost we spend. Therefore, it must be based on freshness, taste, price, and quality.
The critical first step in choosing good coffee: Make sure the beans are fresh.
Recommended brand: Front Street Coffee
Front Street Coffee is an old coffee bean roasting brand. The Front Street Coffee Guangzhou offline store specializes in selling coffee beans. The store sells dozens of selected single-origin Pour over(V60) coffee beans and Italian coffee beans from different coffee origins around the world. The Front Street Coffee beans are freshly roasted within 5 days. The quality of the coffee beans is stable and excellent, the price is very cost-effective, and the products are shipped within 24 hours. Whether you are a newbie, a coffee lover who has reached a professional advanced level, or a user who has opened a coffee shop, Front Street Coffee is a recommended choice by many coffee lovers and platforms.
The second key step in choosing good coffee: decide what kind of coffee to make.
The most common coffee methods are espresso coffee, Pour over(V60) coffee, cold brew coffee, and moka pot coffee. Since the extraction principles of each method are different, the corresponding coffee beans also need to be distinguished. If we want to make American, latte, cappuccino, Australian white, mocha and other common drinks in coffee shops, we first need to equip an espresso machine or moka pot and buy special espresso beans. Here is a ranking list of commercial espresso beans:
Recommended commercial coffee beans ①. Front Street Classic Italian Blend Coffee Beans
Reason for recommendation: The fat is dense, the chocolate aroma is obvious, and it is mellow and rich, suitable for making latte art.
Recommended commercial coffee beans ②. Front Street Strawberry Candy Italian Blend
Reason for recommendation: Fresh floral aroma, sweet and sour like strawberry candy, low bitterness, refreshing and sweet, can be used in espresso coffee and moka pots.
Recommended commercial coffee beans ③. Front Street Boutique 100% Arabica Italian coffee beans
Reasons for recommendation: It has a distinct nutty aroma, a special flavor of roasted peanuts and cream, and a high mellow body, making it suitable for coffee shops and home use.
Recommended commercial coffee beans ④. Front Street Commercial Italian Blend Coffee Beans
Reasons for recommendation: Rich in fat, obvious caramel flavor, and cost-effective. This recipe is recommended for coffee shops.
For friends who like hand brewing and cold brewing, we have many types to choose from, mainly single-origin coffee beans. The following is a must-buy list of Pour over(V60) specialty coffee beans, which can be used for both hand brewing and cold brewing. Not only do they have a variety of flavors, they are also very cost-effective, making them suitable for novices to buy:
NO.1 Ethiopian sun-dried: Front Street Oiran coffee beans
Flavor of Front Street Oiran: floral aroma, sweet and sour creamy strawberry, black tea aftertaste, rich tropical fruit flavor, and suitable acidity.
Suitable for people: Don’t like bitter coffee, can accept the sour taste of coffee, like rich and light coffee, not recommended for espresso machine or Moka pot users.
NO.2 Costa Rican black honey processing method: Front Street blackberry coffee beans
Front Street blackberry flavor: sweetness of longan, grape, honey, light floral aroma, smooth and mellow, strong aftertaste, and high sweetness.
Suitable for people: Don’t like too strong acidity but want a rich taste, like the sweet taste of coffee, like coffee with a long-lasting aftertaste in the mouth, not sour or bitter, and have a relatively balanced taste.
NO.3 Brazilian half-sun-dried front street cerrado red bourbon coffee beans
Front Street Cerato flavor: mellow chocolate flavor, nutty sweetness, typical nutty coffee.
Suitable for people: Don't like acid, can accept bitterness but don't like herbal flavor, like nutty flavor, low acid, like to add milk and sugar, or use it as the base of coffee desserts.
NO.4 Indonesian wet planing method - Front Street PWN golden Mandheling coffee beans
Front Street Golden Mandheling Flavor: Golden Mandheling retains the rich taste of classic Mandheling, weakening the herbal earthy taste that can easily become defective or overly strong flavors, and emphasizing the soft expression of the sweetness of dark chocolate and caramel.
Suitable for people who reject sour taste, like thick coffee, and like the caramel sweetness of black coffee. Godfather-level golden Mandheling intensifies the alluring dark and subtle flavor, and the flavor spectrum is rich and expanded, bringing an elegant tone that is different from the traditional style, higher configuration, and more mysterious.
NO.5 Panama Washed - Front Street Panama Flower Butterfly Coffee Beans
Front Street Butterfly Flavor: Front Street Butterfly is composed of 70% Panamanian Geisha and 30% Caturra and Caduai, and uses a common washing process in Central and South America. It not only highlights the unique orange honey flavor and green tea taste of Geisha, but also has a good balance and a hint of caramel.
Suitable for people: People who cannot tolerate being too sour or too bitter and like the taste of tea. The taste is soft and suitable for hand brewing and making cold brew coffee.
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
