If you come into contact with specialty coffee for the first time, you will definitely hear the name "Yirgacheffe".It has always been famous for its clean and translucent taste and citrus-citric flavor, and has successfully attracted countless people to floral and fruity coffee.
As for which Yirgacheffe is the most worth buying, it must be the delicious and inexpensive Front Street Washed Fruit Cooperative. This Yirgacheffe is finely washed. It has been roasted medium to light, giving the coffee a white floral aroma, berries, citrus, honey, and green tea flavors. It tastes refreshing and not bitter, and has a rich flavor. It is not only suitable for making iced drinks and cold brews, but also can be brewed by hand or hung. It can also be soaked in a French press or a smart cup, making it easy to use one bean for multiple uses.
Recommended medium-light roasted Yirgacheffe - Front Street washed diced coffee beans
Country: Ethiopia
Origin: Yirgacheffe
Altitude: 1900-2300m
Variety: Local native species
Treatment method: washing treatment
Flavor: Tropical fruits, cream, honey, berries, citrus
Yirgacheffe production area
Yirgacheffe is administratively part of Sidamo in southern Ethiopia. The exquisite flavor of its washed beans is world-famous, and then it became an independent coffee-producing region in Ethiopia. Most of the coffee in the Yirgacheffe coffee producing area is grown at an altitude of about 2,000 meters. Due to long-term cultivation, the forest area in the Yirgacheffe coffee-producing area has gradually decreased, and it is a densely populated area. The main planting model is still based on family planting.
You should find that Ethiopian coffee beans are not uniform in size, and the coffee bean varieties are all native to Heirloom. In fact, most Ethiopian coffee bean varieties are named after the local native species Heirloom. In fact, this is because there are so many varieties of coffee beans in Ethiopia. It is often said that it is the natural gene pool of Arabica.
Water washing treatment process
1. First, the coffee farmers will pour all the harvested coffee berries into the water, so that the bad and defective coffee beans will float to the surface, and the ones that sink to the bottom will be the coffee berries that pass the quality standard. This operation also greatly reduces the time wasted in selecting one by one.
2. Put the selected coffee cherries into the peeling machine to remove the skin and pulp. After removing these, there will still be a layer of pectin sticking to the surface of the coffee cherries, so a large amount of water must be used to wash away the adhesive on the surface of the coffee cherries.
3. The next step is to use fermentation to completely remove the pectin. This process takes about 18 hours. However, after the fermentation is completed, the fermentation bacteria adhere to the surface of the coffee fruits, so it needs to be washed again with a large amount of water. In this step, 1 kilogram of coffee beans requires 40 to 50 kilograms of water. Front Street believes that this is a very large number, which is why water washing cannot be used in arid countries.
4. The cleaned coffee beans can be dried. In some areas, they will be taken directly outdoors to dry. In some more developed production areas, they will be sent to processing plants for machine drying, so that the moisture content of the coffee can be as low as about 11%.
5. Finally, the dried coffee beans are stored and packaged for sale and export.
The washed coffee beans will have a cleaner and more thorough flavor, with sour and fruity aromas, bright taste, and lower sweetness and body.
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
