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what isSOE coffee?
SOE is the abbreviation of Single Origin Espresso, which means single origin espresso. The focus is to highlight the flavor of coffee from a certain origin. To put it bluntly, it means using single-origin coffee beans to make espresso.
SOE has only begun to rise in recent years. The application of single-origin coffee beans in hand brewing can express a variety of flavors with regional characteristics. In addition, with the diversity of information communication media in recent years, information such as the use of single-origin coffee beans to participate in competitions in the World Barista Competition has been widely disseminated. Using single-origin coffee beans in espresso is also a trend.
Since its inception, SOE has labeled coffee with the good flavor of the production area, which means that the quality of the coffee beans selected must be guaranteed. How to highlight the advantages of SOE coffee is of course to highlight the flavor and make your eyes shine. This means that having good beans is not enough, you also need proper roasting. Therefore, for delicious SOE coffee, it is particularly important to choose single-origin coffee beans with the right roasting degree.
Recommended single-origin coffee beans: Front Street Colombian Xija SOE - has obvious flavors of blueberry juice, passion fruit, ripe grapes, and the sweet and sour taste of apricot;
Recommendation 2 for single-origin coffee beans: Front Street Costa Rican Blackberry SOE - pink floral, grape, and berry aromas are obvious, with a slight sense of fermentation in the mouth;
Recommendation 3 for single-origin coffee beans: Front Street Brazilian Queen’s Manor SOE—flavors of fried nuts, toast, cocoa, creamy chocolate, and the aroma of butter.
What should we pay attention to when making SOE?
SOE single-origin espresso uses coffee beans that are generally not roasted too darkly in order to highlight the flavor of the production area. Compared with traditional darker roasted Italian coffee beans, the flavor will be more difficult to extract.
So on the one hand, it is necessary to adjust the extraction parameters to increase the extraction rate. For example, lengthen the extraction time, adjust the grinding degree, increase the amount of powder, etc.
On the other hand, when producing espresso with SOE as the base, the ratio of espresso to milk or water needs to be adjusted. Reduce the milk or water to highlight the flavor of the coffee so that the coffee is not too bland.
The beans chosen to make SOE also have very strict requirements. Although SOE has outstanding performance, since it comes from a single origin, its shortcomings are relatively easy to be magnified, so factors such as roasting and particle size will affect the flavor.
If you don't have high-quality coffee beans, the SOE coffee will not taste good, and you can't even hide it. Therefore, in the actual operation process, SOE coffee has very high technical requirements in all aspects, which is one of the reasons why SOE coffee is usually more expensive than normal Espresso.
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
