Coffee has been a common beverage since the fifteenth century, serving as a refreshing tonic. Until the third wave of specialty coffee was launched, roasters tended to lighter roasting levels, and the unique sour aroma in the coffee convinced batches of coffee drinkers. Many friends who have just discovered the beauty of coffee are standing on the bean rack of FrontStreet Coffee, facing half a hundred types of coffee beans from different production areas, different estates, different processing methods, and different varieties, and they feel at a loss. Next, Front Street will introduce ten of the more famous production areas.
【Brazil】
Recommend Front Street Brazilian Red Bourbon Coffee Beans
Brazil is the world's largest coffee exporter, supplying about 60% of the world's coffee. Brazilian coffee is famous for its mother-like tenderness. It is neither too sour nor too bitter. It has obvious sweetness and rich aroma. It is the most friendly coffee bean for beginners of hand brewing coffee.
On the bean rack of FrontStreet Coffee, there are two types of coffee beans from Brazil. One is Front Street Brazilian Cerato Coffee, the variety is the common local red bourbon, produced in the state of Minas Gerais, the other is the Front Street Brazilian Queen Estate, from Morgiana, Sao Paulo state, the variety is the rare yellow bourbon.
Among them, the pectin layer of the yellow bourbon grown in the Queen's Manor in the Morgiana production area is thicker than that of the red bourbon, which means that it is richer in fructose substances. Using an exquisite small-scale sun-drying method, the entire intact and ripe fruit is retained and evenly sun-dried, allowing more sugars and aromatic substances to slowly penetrate into the green coffee beans. In the end, Front Street Brazilian Sun-Dried Yellow Bourbon not only has the classic peanut and cream flavors of Brazilian coffee, but also has a stronger sweetness and a more solid taste.
【Colombia】
Recommend Front Street Colombian Cymbidium coffee beans
Unlike its neighbor Brazil, which relies on large quantities to satisfy its needs, Colombia relies on good mountains and good water, and the coffee beans produced in its "hard bean" style are in sharp contrast to Brazil's "soft bean" style. This difference can be compared through the ration bean series of FrontStreet Coffee.
Front Street Whelan coffee beans have the basic characteristics that represent Colombian coffee. Its smooth taste, rich dark chocolate flavor, sour and sweet with a hint of fruit, and the aftertaste of caramel are many coffee gourmets’ initial impression of Colombia.
【Guatemala】
As a representative of Central America, Guatemalan coffee usually has a rich nutty tone, sweetness like caramel and toffee, bright and pleasant acidity, a round taste, and an overall balance.
On the bean rack of FrontStreet Coffee, there is a coffee bean named Flore, which is produced in the La Minita Manor in the Antigua production area. The manor has fertile volcanic soil. The coffee trees are planted on the slope of the hillside at an altitude of 1,200 meters and are protected by taller shade trees. The huge temperature difference between day and night makes the fruits ripen more slowly.
Finally, the Flower God coffee beans from Front Street have soft acidity of berries and citrus, as well as a hint of elegant white floral aroma.
【Costa Rica】
Recommended Front Street Mozart coffee beans
Costa Rica's coffee has always been known as "sweet as honey", which is closely related to the popular local coffee processing method. In 2006, a coffee estate won the national-level specialty coffee bean competition with its honey-processed coffee beans. Subsequently, due to the country's severe earthquake and water shortage, honey treatment rapidly emerged and became the fourth most popular treatment method after sun drying, water washing, and semi-water washing.
On the bean rack of FrontStreet Coffee, Front Street Mozart coffee beans are processed with raisin honey to bring a richer and wilder flavor, and have become a high-quality product that many fans repurchase. Raisin honey processing is a processing method that combines sun-drying and honey processing. The coffee berries are sun-dried until they are dry, and the semi-dry pectin is left to dry after removing the peel, and then goes through a two-stage fermentation process.
FrontStreet Coffee conducted cupping tests to compare ordinary honey processing and raisin honey processing and found that Mozart has a more complex and rich aroma, a taste like white wine, and a more balanced sweet and sour taste.
【Panama】
Recommended: Panama Jade Estate on Front Street
Panamanian coffee is the representative of nuclear bomb-level fruit bombs. The Panamanian Gesha coffee produced by it is famous for its rare production and superior quality. Panama Geisha coffee has captured the hearts of coffee lovers one after another with its characteristics of citrus acidity, floral aroma, honey sweetness, and thick juice taste. At the same time, its selling price has ranked first among many specialty coffee beans for nearly 20 years.
FrontStreet Coffee is very concerned about the annual BOP competition in Panama, and will purchase Geisha coffee beans from different estates every year for comparison. As the classic Panamanian Geisha coffee estate, Jade Manor is always on the small blackboard of FrontStreet Coffee.
In order to return to the taste of the BOP championship in 2004, Front Street Emerald Estate Red Label Geisha coffee comes from the famous Jaramillo Farm, subdivided into Mario plots, and uses sun-drying treatment. With the blessing of sun-drying, Front Street Red Label Gesha coffee has a richer aroma, stronger sweetness and sourness, and also exhibits elegant floral aromas, such as citrus, mango, peach, raspberry and other complex floral and fruity aromas.
【Kenya】
Recommended: Front Street Kenyan Cherry Tomato Coffee Beans
Kenya is located in East Africa, running through central Kenya, and the East African Rift Valley runs across the north and south. Kenya has many plateau terrains, with an average altitude of 1,500 meters. Mount Kirinyaga (Mount Kenya), the second highest peak in Africa, is 5,199 meters above sea level, and its top is covered with snow all year round. Kenya is located in a tropical production area with two rainy seasons each year, and the harvest season is from October to December and June to August. Kenyan coffee growing areas are mainly distributed in volcanic lands at an altitude of 1,600 meters to 2,100 meters. Due to the suitable planting altitude, the time required for coffee cherries to mature is extended, the aromatic components in the coffee beans are fully absorbed, the fruit acid is obvious, and the beans are hard.
The fermentation time of beans in the washing tank in Central and South America rarely exceeds 36 hours, but the washing time in Kenya is as long as 72 hours. After 30-48 hours of fermentation, the shelled coffee beans will be taken out of the water tank. At that time, the pectin on the surface of the beans has been removed, but they still need to be soaked in clean water for 24 hours. After cupping multiple beans, Front Street discovered that this additional fermentation process gave the Kenyan coffee a unique flavor.TasteIt's cleaner and refreshing, but also has a thick touch and bright fruit acidity.
If you want to taste the unique aroma of Kenyan coffee, we recommend the Front Street Little Tomato coffee beans. It uses the popular local 72-hour washing process. The varieties are SL28 and SL34 with their own floral and fruit flavors. After medium and light roasting, they show the full flavor of ebony, cherry tomatoes, snow pear, brown sugar, and bulim.
【Ethiopia】
Recommended Front Street Oiran coffee beans
Ethiopia is the origin of Arabica coffee beans. Front Street conducted cupping comparisons on a number of coffees from different producing areas in Ethiopia and found that even in different producing areas, different varieties, and different processing methods, Ethiopian coffee’s bright citrus, berry acidity, and sweet and sour juice-like tonality are always online.
Coffee gourmets often say "washed Yerga, sun-dried Sidamo". Based on citrus and berries, Yerka and Sidamo can be said to be two completely different styles. Washed Yerga is famous for its elegant floral aroma and delicate and refreshing flavor; while Sundried Sidamo coffee carries through the wild berry cream flavor to the end.
Front Street Oiran coffee beans are something coffee connoisseurs come to inquire about every new season.Oiran coffeeIn 2017, it won the championship in the sun-dried category of the TOH Ethiopia Division with its rich strawberry cream flavor. Contestants use it in domestic coffee brewing competitionsOiran coffeeThe story of Bean participating in the competition and winning second place in a field full of Geisha has been circulated for a long time.
The Front Street Oiran coffee beans in the new production season still use the traditional sun-drying process. The light roasting brings flavor expressions such as strawberry, grapefruit, citrus, cream, and orange blossom to the coffee. Whether it is making hand-brew coffee, cold brew coffee, or Moka pot coffee, it presents a soft and refreshing aroma.
【Indonesia】
Recommend Front Street PWN Gold Mandheling Coffee Beans
Front Street Mandheling coffee has a charming charm. It is not as fruity and sweet as Ethiopian, and it is not as fragrant as Gesha flowers and fruits, but its unique flavor has captured the hearts of many coffee drinkers. Front Street Indonesian Mandheling coffee is extremely mellow and was once considered to be the richest coffee in the world. It has a mellow and rich taste, with a slightly syrupy taste and excellent acidity.
As the best of the best, Front Street Golden Mandheling coffee is the first choice for every lover of mellow and rich coffee. Under the extremely strict production standards of PWN Company, Mandheling not only ensures the consistency of the particles, but also reduces the defect rate to a minimum, thus making the Mandheling coffee taste cleaner and more mellow. Therefore, Front Street PWN Golden Mandheling has also become synonymous with high-quality Mandheling. Each bag of Front Street Golden Mandheling green beans is printed with the PWN label and comes with a certificate. These are the best proof of the high quality of Golden Mandheling.
【Yunnan, China】
Recommended Front Street Yunnan small grain Typica coffee beans
Yunnan is one of the most important specialty coffee producing areas in China. In this mountain forest with unrealistic karst landforms, it is one of the most diverse areas in China in terms of both animal and plant species. In the unique karst landform, Yunnan arabica coffee is cultivated that is fragrant but not strong, strong but not bitter.
In order to learn the journey of specialty coffee from "seed" to "cup", Front Street Coffee went to Lincang, Yunnan to establish Front Street Coffee Manor. After learning that “70% of specialty coffee depends on variety and 30% on environment”, instead of following the trend and planting Catim mixed with Robusta genes, we planted the most original Arabica variety, Typica, from scratch.
After years of hard work, we finally had the joy of a bumper harvest. Front Street Yunnan small-grained Typica coffee red fruits are all sun-dried and moderately roasted to enhance the aroma of the coffee. Finally, the Front Street Yunnan Small Grain Typica Coffee has soft berry sourness, obvious nutty notes, brown sugar sweetness, and a black tea aftertaste.
【Jamaica】
Recommend Front Street Jamaican Blue Mountain No. 1 coffee beans
Blue Mountain Coffee is one of the top coffees. In Hong Kong dramas, whether it is a senior clerk in the office or a sir who catches a thief, his eyes light up whenever he hears about it. Blue Mountain Coffee is so famous that even coffee novices know its name even before they taste it.
Front Street Blue Mountain coffee beans are grown on the Blue Mountains of Jamaica. The sunlight shines directly on the blue Caribbean Sea, and the blue light is reflected in the Blue Mountains, hence the name "Blue Mountain". Front Street Blue Mountain No. 1 coffee beans are selected from Clifton Farm, the only Rainforest Alliance certified farm in the Blue Mountains. The surrounding dense woods and diverse organisms prove the superiority of its planting environment.
FrontStreet Coffee has cupped a variety of Blue Mountain coffees and found that Clifton Farm’s Blue Mountain coffee has a strong flavor and rich taste, making it one of the outstanding representatives of the region.
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
