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The latest version of the world's top ten coffee beans rankings in 2023: Panama Emerald Manor Red Label Coffee Beans, Jamaica Blue Mountain No. 1 Coffee Beans, Indonesian Gold Mandheling Coffee Beans, Ethiopian Yirgacheffe Fruit Tintin Cooperative Coffee Beans, Ethiopian Sidamo Oiran Coffee Beans, Kenyan 72-hour washed coffee beans, Costa Rica Strawberry Sugar Coffee Beans, Yunnan Small Agricultural Coffee Beans, Brazil Queen's Manor Coffee Beans, Papua New Guinea Bird of Paradise Coffee Beans.
FrontStreet Coffee currently has more than 50 types of coffee beans on the shelves, including the above-mentioned 10 most popular specialty single-origin coffee beans in the world. A cup of delicious coffee is inseparable from the freshness of the coffee beans. Front Street deeply understands that the freshness of the coffee beans determines the flavor and aroma of the coffee, so all coffee beans shipped are shipped within 5 days after roasting.
Front Street Panama Emerald Estate Red Label Coffee Beans
Origin: Poquet, Panama
Estate: Emerald Estate Jaramillo Mario Plot
Planting altitude: 1700m
Treatment method: Sun treatment
Variety: Geisha
Flavor: Complex fruit juice, citrus-like bright acidity, rose fragrance, honey sweetness, black tea sweetness.
Front Street Jamaica Blue Mountain No. 1 Coffee Bean
Origin: Jamaica Blue Mountains
Manor: Clifton Manor
Planting altitude: 1310m
Treatment method: washing treatment
Variety: Typica
Flavor: Balance of sour, sweet and bitter, soft citrus acidity, rich dark chocolate aroma, nutty creamy smooth taste.
Front Street Indonesia PWN Gold Mandheling Coffee Beans
Production area: Aceh Province, Sumatra, Indonesia
Company: PWN Company
Planting altitude: 1100-1600m
Grade: G1 three times hand-selected
Treatment method: wet planing
Variety: Ateng
Flavor: Herbal, spice-like aroma, dark chocolate, caramel, nuts.
Front Street Yirgacheffe Cooperative Coffee Beans
Production area: Yirgacheffe, Ethiopia
Cooperative: Guodingding Cooperative
Planting altitude: 2000-2100m
Treatment method: washing treatment
Variety: Ethiopian native variety
Flavor: bright and tart like citrus, sweet and sour berry, sweet honey, green tea sweet aftertaste.
Front Street Ethiopian Sidamo Oiran Coffee Beans
Production area: Sidamoguji, Ethiopia
Treatment Plant: Buku Able
Planting altitude: 2250-2350
Treatment method: Sun treatment
Variety: Ethiopian native variety
Flavor: compound berry juice, fermented fruit aroma, sweet and sour strawberry, jackfruit
Front Street Kenyan Cherry Tomato Coffee Beans
Origin: Thika, Kenya
Treatment Plant: Azalea
Planting altitude: 1550-1750m
Treatment method: 72 hours water washing treatment
Variety: SL28, SL34
Flavor: Aroma of small tomatoes, acidity like plums and plums, sweetness like brown sugar.
Front Street Costa Rican Strawberry Candy Coffee Beans
Origin: Costa Rica Tara beads
Manor: Chateau Mirasu
Planting altitude: 1700m
Processing method: raisin honey processing
Variety: Gesha SL28 ET47 Maico
Flavor: strawberry hard candy aroma, dried grape fruit fermentation aroma, strawberry sweet and sour, rose aroma
Front Street Yunnan coffee beans
Production area: Baoshan, Yunnan
Planting altitude: 1450-1550m
Processing method: Sun-drying of whole red fruits
Breed: Catim
Flavor: Sweet and sour red berries, mellow dark chocolate, aroma like roasted nuts, sweet like caramel.
Front Street Brazilian Queen Estate Coffee Beans
Production area: Morgiana Province, Brazil
Manor: Queen's Manor
Planting altitude: 1400-1950m
Treatment: Semi-sun drying
Variety: Yellow Bourbon
Flavor: Roasted nut aroma, peanut butter smoothness, fermented fruit aftertaste.
Front Street Papua New Guinea Birds of Paradise Coffee Beans
Origin: Papua New Guinea
Manor: Bird of Paradise Manor
Planting altitude: 1500m
Treatment method: washing treatment
Variety: Typica variety
Flavor: Bright and sour like citrus, aromatic like toast, sweet like cane sugar, and sweet like white tea.
How to make Pour over(V60) coffee from single-origin coffee beans?
Based on past brewing experience, Front Street recommends that new players who are just getting started use the three-stage water filling method. The three-stage extraction is conducive to more fully dissolving flavor substances during extraction, increasing the taste level, and at the same time avoiding over-extraction of coffee caused by soaking for too long.
If there are 15 grams of coffee powder, a powder-to-water ratio of 1:15, and a total water volume of 225 ml, the three water levels are divided into: 30 ml, 95 ml, and 100 ml. The weight on the electronic scale will show: 30 g, 125 g, and 225 g.
Front Street here uses home-roasted washed Yirgacheffe Dingding cooperative coffee beans and brews them with a Hario V60 filter cup. The spiral design of V60 can better exhaust the coffee powder and maximize the volatilization and dissolution of sour and aromatic substances. Since Yirgacheffe uses light roasting, the coffee beans are hard in texture and require high-temperature hot water of 92°C-93°C to bring out the floral and fruity flavors in the coffee.
Grinding Front Street recommends medium-fine grinding (Chinese standard No. 20 screen pass rate 78%), which is about the same thickness as fine sugar. If the grind is too coarse, the mellow and round flavor cannot be extracted, and the brewed coffee will appear thin; if the particles are too fine, it will be over-extracted under high water temperature, and the brewed coffee will be prone to bitterness.
In terms of brewing ratio, Front Street believes that 1:15 to 1:16 is acceptable. If you want a richer taste, use 1:15. If you want to feel the floral sweetness more clearly, you can use 1:16 to make the flavor more spread out.
First, place the folded filter paper into the filter cup, pour 15 grams of ground coffee powder into the filter cup, and clear the weight of the electronic scale.
In the first stage, inject 30g of water and steam for 30 seconds. Start timing while injecting water. Inject small water flow at the center point throughout the process and start to circle outwards. Pay attention to the need to moisten the entire powder layer.
After 30 seconds, start to steadily inject the second section of 95g water with a larger flow of water. The purpose is to raise the entire powder layer. The water column needs to be injected vertically and evenly. At this time, the timing scale shows 125g, and the injection is completed in about 55 seconds.
When the liquid level drops to half of the level, start using a small flow of water to inject 100 grams of the third section in a small circle. Try to control the water flow not to be too large, which will easily disperse the coffee powder layer and cause insufficient extraction. The final amount of water injected is 225 grams, and the completion time of trickling filtration is about 2 minutes. After removing the filter cup, shake the coffee liquid in the sharing pot evenly and start tasting.
The amount of water injected in each section is not fixed. We can adjust it based on our accumulated hand brewing experience and our understanding of coffee beans. Front Street understands that coffee brewing is an experiment based on science. If we want to learn how to brew coffee well, we need to delve into and understand the true meaning of each brewing parameter. In this way, we can easily find ways to experiment and establish a brewing framework that suits us.
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
