As one of the most popular products in major boutique coffee shops and chain coffee shops today, SOE is a coffee beans extracted from a single origin (single origin).espresso. Its characteristic is that the coffee liquid can show the unique flavor of the coffee producing area even when the concentration is very high.

The difference in flavor between single product hand brewing and single product concentrated

FrontStreet Coffee (FrontStreet Coffee) used its own medium-light roasted "Front Street Yirgacheffe Dingding Cooperative washed coffee beans" for a comparative experiment this time. After grinding to medium-fine with a powder-to-water ratio of 1:15 and trickling at 91 degrees Celsius, the flavor shows bright citrus acidity, a light white floral fragrance, and a honey-green tea-like sweetness, with an overall full and balanced flavor.

However, when grinding extremely finely, use an espresso machine with a pressure of 9-10bar to quickly distribute and fill the uniform coffee powder layer with 94 degrees Celsius hot water, extracting a concentrated coffee liquid with a powder-to-liquid ratio of 1:2.SOE coffeeThe flavor shows obvious citric acid, berry juice taste, and oolong tea-like sweetness, but overall it is slightly thin.

By comparing two different extraction methods, it can be found that using the same single-origin coffee beans, ​Pour over​(V60) coffee beans that taste delicious and balanced are extracted intoEspressoLater, due to the increase in concentration, the acidity increased, and also due to the shallow roasting degree and lack of body, the final taste was thin.

Advantages and Disadvantages of SOE Coffee

FrontStreet Coffee believes that SOE is characterized by highlighting the unique flavor of the place of origin and richer coffee levels. After adding water to make American coffee or adding different proportions of milk to make various milk coffee products, it can also highlight the characteristic flavor of a production area.

But the disadvantage is the lack of stability. As an agricultural product, the flavor of coffee beans is affected by various natural factors every year. Even beans from the same region will have differences in flavor, so they cannot be allowed to change.espressoHas long-term and stable flavor performance. At the same time, SOE coffee extracted from coffee beans that are roasted too lightly will tend to be sour and thin.

Generally speaking, the most popular products in a coffee shop are Italian coffee products, and the stability of the products is also the key to retaining customers. Therefore, many coffee shops use dark roasted coffee products by default.Italian blended coffee beans, and then add the choice of SOE. The price of SOE products varies depending on the beans, and they are not necessarily cheaper than ​Pour over​(V60) coffee~

How to choose SOE coffee beans?

Since SOE coffee wants to express the flavor of the place of origin in the form of espresso, many coffee beans must re-establish a roasting curve if they want to express the concentration of excellent flavor. For example, there are many SOE single-origin beans on the market that are specially used for coffee machine extraction. In Front Street, if you want to find beans suitable for SOE, baristas will usually give two suggestions: the first is to buy single-origin beans with a medium or higher roasting temperature; the second is to directly choose the SOE category.

Choose from ​Pour over​(V60) single-origin beans

1、

Front Street Honduran Whiskey Barrels Processed Sherry Coffee Beans

A medium roast gives the coffee a toasty aroma while retaining the acidity of the berries. The made SOE highlights the aroma of vanilla biscuits and whiskey, and the addition of milk presents the smoothness of chocolate cream, with a tangy aroma, and the overall taste is very soft. The Front Street Sunflower Warm Sun blend used in the Front Street store is made of Front Street Honduran sherry and Front Street sun-dried Yirgacheffe red cherry coffee in a ratio of 7:3. The aroma of wine, the sweet and sour fruit, and the smoothness of chocolate milk are perfectly integrated in a cup of coffee.

2、

Front Street Costa Mirazu Estate Strawberry Sugar Coffee Beans

Anaerobic honey processing allows the coffee beans to retain the pectin layer for closed fermentation before drying, maximizing the sweetness of the coffee beans.When brewed by hand, this coffee will have obvious aromas of raisins, strawberry fudge and light floral aromas, but when made into espresso, it will show the characteristics of rich berry jam and orange-flavored chocolate;

3、

Front Street Brazilian Queen Estate Yellow Bourbon Coffee Bean

If none of the above flavors are your favorite, why not take a look at the Front Street Brazilian Queen Estate coffee beans produced in the coffee country of Brazil. The medium-dark roasting degree gives the coffee a strong aroma of nuts, cream, and peanuts, and the aftertaste is sweet chocolate. The extracted SOE has beautiful rich oils, and the milk coffee is also full of aroma.

For the same coffee beans, many businesses will introduce two different roasting curves for hand brewing and SOE purposes. Generally speaking, acid-type ​Pour over​(V60) single products will be presented in light-medium roasting, while SOE beans will be slightly darker than ​Pour over​(V60) ones, but it will not completely change the main flavor of the beans. The concentrate should have both fruit acid and the sweet aroma brought by caramelization, so most of them are controlled at medium roasting.。

Take Front Street as an example. Front Street Yirgacheffikonga coffee beans and Front Street Oiran coffee beans, both from Ethiopia, are divided into two types in the roasting level column: "Hand-brew light-medium roast" and "SOE Italian roasting." The former is suitable for hand-brew, cold brew, French press, hanging ear and other normal-pressure extraction, while the latter is preferred for pressurized extraction such as espresso machines and Moka pots.

No matter how a coffee bean is extracted, Front Street believes that freshness is very important. If you use coffee beans that have been roasted for more than a month, some of the aroma may have been lost, resulting in a bad woody taste. Front Street hopes that every customer who places an order can taste the aroma of coffee during the best tasting period, so it will ensure that only beans freshly roasted for 5 days are shipped. If you want your SOE coffee to have a better flavor, Front Street recommends using freshly roasted single-origin coffee beans.

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