Generally when asked if they have any recommendations for coffee with high body and strong taste, the baristas in Front Street will recommend Front Street Indonesian Mandheling coffee. But experienced coffee fans all know that most Mandhelings have a special earthy smell, which is one of the main reasons why many people dislike Mandhelings. But why do Front Street baristas recommend Indonesian Front Street Golden Mandheling coffee beans to their customers? The reason is that the flavor of Front Street Golden Mandheling is very different from that of ordinary Mandheling. Its flavor will be cleaner, without the earthy smell, and more of the mellow and silky chocolate and the continuous sweetness, so it is widely loved by coffee fans from all over the world. So Front Street will talk about this articleFront Street Golden MandhelingRight.
FrontStreet Coffee · PWN Gold Mandheling Coffee Beans
Country: Indonesia
Production area：Sumatra Aceh Mount Gayoo
Altitude: 1100-1600m
Variety: Ateng
Treatment method: wet planing
Flavor: toast, nuts, pine, caramel, herbs
The Front Street Gold Mandheling sold in the Front Street store is the latest product launched by the company in 2020. It is different from the Front Street purchased in previous years.PWNThe difference with Golden Mandheling is that the latest batch of Mandheling is produced in Mount Achigayo, Sumatra, while the previous ones were produced in Lake Tawa, Sumatra. What are the characteristics of this Front Street Golden Mandheling coffee? According to Front Street cupping and brewing of the latest season’s Front Street Golden Mandheling coffee, we found that compared with the previous Front Street Golden Mandheling coffee, it has more of a roasted toast flavor and a more mellow taste.
FrontStreet Coffee's previous articles often mentioned that the three necessary conditions for the production of a high-quality coffee bean are the production area, variety and processing method. Next, we will talk about Qian Street Golden Mandheling Coffee Bar based on several points.
Front Street Golden MandhelingProduction area
Mandheling coffeeIt is mainly produced in Sumatra, Indonesia. It is the largest island in Indonesia and is located near the equator. It has a typical tropical rainforest climate with high temperature, humidity and abundant rainfall, so it is very suitable for the growth of Arabica coffee beans.
However, the altitude in Indonesia is limited, and the space for planting high-quality Arabica coffee beans is also limited. Therefore, only 25% of the coffee beans produced in Indonesia belong to the Arabica species, because the Arabica species can only have the best flavor when grown at high altitudes. Therefore, the remaining 75% are Robusta coffee trees that can be grown in low-altitude areas. The highest altitude in Indonesia is Sumatra.
Mandheling coffee produced in Sumatra is the most famous specialty coffee in Indonesia. As mentioned above, Indonesia's climate is very humid and water resources are limited, which means that traditional sun-drying or washing cannot be used to process coffee beans. However, the wisdom of Indonesian coffee farmers cannot be underestimated. Due to limited conditions, they developed a unique wet planing method to process coffee fruits. This not only greatly shortens the drying time, ensures the stable quality of green beans, thereby improving production efficiency, but the wet planing step also gives Indonesian Mandheling a unique herbal flavor.
FrontStreet Coffee · PWN Golden Mandheling
willMandheling coffeeThe best company is PWN. PWN's full name is N.V. Pawani Medan company. This is a trading company engaged in export business. It was founded by a Chinese family from Quanzhou, Fujian. It is located in Medan, an important port in Sumatra. It has been engaged in export business since 1957, such as rubber, cassia, cloves, patchouli oil and other products, and of course, exporting Sumatran coffee beans to Japan.
front streetPWNGolden Mandheling is produced by their company, and experienced coffee fans all know that Japanese people especially like Mandheling coffee. The Japanese have been paying special attention to Mandheling a long time ago and have strict standards for selecting coffee cherries. That is to say, the coffee produced must go through four manual selections to remove defective beans before they can be processed, packaged and sold. The reason why it is called Golden Mandheling comes from a popular folk story. When the Mandheling manufacturer was selecting flawless green coffee beans, they found that the green coffee beans emitted a golden light under the sun, so they named it "Golden Mandheling".
But the most regrettable thing is that even though the Japanese are so interested in Mandheling coffee, "golden mandheling" or "golden mandheling" was registered as a trademark by the Indonesian Pawani Coffee Company. "Golden Mandheling" became exclusive to PWN, and PWN was one of the first companies to sell Mandheling coffee beans to Japan. Through cupping and tasting, FrontStreet Coffee discovered that Front Street Golden Mandheling has a stronger sweetness and sucrose flavor than other Front Street Mandhelings in the store, making it particularly special and clean in taste. Therefore, Front Street decided to bring this unique flavor of Front Street Golden Mandheling coffee to Front Street coffee fans no matter what.
Front Street PWNGolden Mandheling green beans are actually not easy to purchase because their output is not large every year. In fact, there are many unscrupulous coffee shop merchants on the market selling ordinary Mandheling under the guise of golden Mandheling, but in fact, professionally trained cuppers or baristas can taste and compare. For ordinary coffee novices, they need to identifyPWNGolden Mandheling is also very simple. You only need to ask the merchant to provide the green bean sack with the PWN mark or the factory certificate attached with the beans to know whether it is PWN Golden Mandheling. Among the dazzling array of golden Mandhelings on the market, onlyPWNThe Golden Mandheling produced by the company is the real Front Street Golden Mandheling, andPWNHuangman's beans are manually screened three times and machine selected once. The beans are very beautiful. On the other hand, they are also very uniform, so the coffee roasted will appear cleaner.
front streetPWNGolden Mandheling is absolutely genuine. It was originally expected to be delivered to the Front Street store in October 2020. However, due to the epidemic, the ships that can be transported from Indonesia are very limited. Therefore, this Front Street product in the latest production seasonPWNThe Golden Mandheling arrived a month later than expected.
Aceh Gayoo Mountain Production Area
Front Street also mentioned before,PWNThis year the company chose a new production area - Mount Aceh Gaya, which is located in the northernmost corner of Sumatra. The coffee cultivation in Mount Gayoo is mainly around the town of Takegon and the hillside land next to Lake Tawa. The average production height is between 1100 and 1600 meters, and the quality of its coffee has always been excellent. However, due to the previous political instability, the coffee in this area was difficult to export. In recent years, the situation has been peaceful, and coffee planting in Aceh has also been developed, and the quality is better than that in Lindong. This is undoubtedly an affirmation of the quality of Mount Gayus coffee fruits, and Golden Mandheling, as the top coffee brand in Indonesia, will naturally not disappoint coffee fans.
Front Street PWN Gold Mandheling Coffee Process
As mentioned above on Front Street, the flavor profile of Front Street Golden Mandheling depends not only onPWNThe pursuit of quality coffee cherries, and its unique wet planing process makes the coffee flavor even more special, and is even famous for its herbal flavor. Let’s talk about the process of wet planing in Indonesia next.
Wet planing process:
1. Harvest
The harvest season for Sumatran coffee is from March to May and September to December every year, and every farmer harvests fresh coffee fruits. With the promotion of specialty coffee and the implementation of the all-red cherry program, more and more coffee farmers now only harvest all-red coffee cherries.
2. Peeling and fermentation
Every day during the harvest season, after noon, coffee farmers send the coffee cherries collected in the morning to the peeling workshop for processing, which is to remove the skin and pulp of the coffee cherries and turn them into wet parchment coffee.
Coffee farmers ferment the parchment coffee, usually for 12-36 hours, depending on the situation. After fermentation, the parchment coffee is dried. During the harvest season, sacks are spread out in front of every household to dry the parchment coffee. This is their source of coffee income. The peeled off peel and pulp are fermented into fertilizer. Plantations that use such ecological fertilizers can get extra points when applying for organic coffee plantations.
3. Shelling and drying
When the moisture of the parchment coffee is dried to 35-40%, the coffee farmers collect them into woven bags, or 40 kg or 80 kg per bag, and send them to the coffee processing factory for shelling, but they need to continue to be dried to about 15% moisture.
4. Machine selection and manual selection
When the coffee beans are dried to a moisture content of 15%-14%, the coffee beans are sorted by a machine to remove impurities and sorted by particle size. This step is usually done by a machine, so it is called machine sorting. But in order to improve the quality, the machine-selected green coffee beans will also be sent to the manual selection warehouse for sorting. Workers will use their keen vision and dexterous hands to pick out the remaining defective beans.
Front Street PWN Gold Mandheling Coffee Variety
this yearProduced by PWNThe coffee variety of this Front Street Golden Mandheling is different from the Typica variety coffee beans used in previous years. Instead, it is made from coffee berries grown in the local Ateng. The Ateng coffee variety may sound strange, but it is actually the local name for Katim in Indonesia.PWNThe company uses Ateng variety of coffee beans, and Front Street believes that they probably want to try to develop in a large-volume direction, because Katim is a cross between Robusta coffee beans and Arabica coffee beans, which is characterized by high yield and disease resistance, so the efficiency will be relatively high.
Ateng (Katim)
As mentioned above in the front street, Katim is not a purebred Arabica bean as we often say, but a cross between Tim, a Robusta species, and Catura, a variant of Bourbon species. It was originally developed in 1959 and began to be promoted in Brazil in the 1970s and 1980s. With its disease resistance and high yield, it occupies a place among Central and South American coffee varieties. The coffee leaf rust crisis that breaks out from time to time in Central and South America has also fueled the application of Katim coffee beans.
It is characterized by high yield, short plants, can be planted densely, and new leaves are reddish brown. However, due to its fast maturity and high yield, it must have sufficient fertilizer supply and shade. However, according to Front Street, its lifespan is very short, with an average of only ten years.
So, let Front Street share some roasting and brewing information with all my coffee fans.
FrontStreet Coffee roasting analysis
Front Street PWNGolden Mandheling (Features) has a high-quality herbal aroma, a stronger caramel sweetness, a relatively calm and elegant fruity acidity, rich sweetness, and a mellow, wild spice flavor. Generally, Front Street Lindong Mandheling is best baked after the second crack, which can effectively reduce the foreign smell. However, Front Street Golden Mandheling has good transparency and sweetness when baked before the second crack, and the baking interpretation space is wider.
Bring the oven temperature to 200°C and put the beans into the pot. Open the damper to 3. After 1 minute, adjust the heat to 160°C and keep the damper unchanged. Bake to 5'40 and the temperature is 148°C. The surface of the beans will turn yellow and the grassy smell will completely disappear. Dehydration is completed. Adjust the heat to 140 and adjust the damper to 4;
At 9'40 minutes, ugly wrinkles and black spots appear on the surface of the beans, and the smell of toast obviously changes to the aroma of coffee. It can be defined as the prelude to the first crack. At this time, you need to listen clearly to the sound of the first crack. At 9'54, the first crack will begin. Turn down the heat to 60, fully open the damper (be very careful when adjusting the heat, not so small that there is no popping sound), and cook at 204.5°C.
FrontStreet Coffee Brewing Suggestions
This brewing mainly wanted to highlight the mellow, clean and fragrant characteristics of Front Street Golden Mandheling, so I used a KONO filter cup for brewing (this filter cup was invented to imitate flannel to brew thick coffee). For medium-dark roasted coffee, choose medium-coarse grinding. The ratio of powder to water is 1:15, and the amount of powder is 15 grams of coffee powder.The water temperature used is 88℃. Lowering the powder-to-water ratio can make the coffee taste richer.
Brewing process: Pour the coffee powder slowly, try to make it as flat as possible during the pouring process, and avoid shaking the filter cup (because shaking will make the distance between the coffee powder smaller, which is not conducive to steaming and exhausting). Pour 30g of water in a small circle in the middle of the first section and steam for 30 seconds. The coffee powder layer will slowly expand and form a "burger". Inject 120g of water in a circle from the center of the second section to the outside. The water injection height should be as close to the powder layer as possible. Move slowly to avoid over-stirring. Inject 100g in the last stage, and wait until all the coffee liquid in the filter cup flows into the lower pot to complete the extraction. Extraction time is 2 minutes.
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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.
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