Many friends left messages saying that they don’t know how to choose coffee beans, or don’t know how to tell whether the coffee beans they buy are fresh. So today Front Street Coffee teaches you how to choose coffee beans. Next time you buy coffee, you won’t be afraid of buying unsuitable or stale coffee beans. Next, let’s take a look at the four most basic steps you need to know when choosing coffee beans.
Before choosing any kind of coffee beans, Front Street will teach you how to judge the freshness of the coffee beans.First of all, choose products from professional coffee roasters that clearly indicate the roasting date (not the expiry date or shelf life), have a good brand reputation, and emphasize fresh roasting. In addition, good coffee packaging bags usually have a "one-way exhaust valve" (a small button-shaped hole on the top of the coffee bag) design to allow the coffee beans to discharge naturally occurring carbon dioxide.
Every pack of coffee beans sold at Front Street is packaged with a one-way exhaust valve and roasted for 5 days to ensure that every pack of coffee beans reaches customers in the freshest state. The reason why Front Street places so much emphasis on fresh roasting is because as time goes by, coffee roasted for more than 50 days will basically lose its aroma, so no matter how expensive the coffee beans are brewed, it will not taste good, so it is recommended that everyone drink it as soon as possible within the appreciation period.
However, the fresher the coffee beans are not, the better. There is too much gas in the first two days after roasting, so the aroma is not very stable, so it can be stored for 2 to 3 days before brewing and tasting.
If we have purchased coffee beans and want to quickly tell whether they are fresh, we can refer to the method on the street: after unpacking, smell the coffee beans or ground coffee powder deeply. If you smell a strong and pleasant aroma, it means the coffee beans are fresh enough; if the aroma is weak, it means that it may have been stored for a long time and needs to be drunk as soon as possible. However, if it not only has no fragrance, but has even begun to smell greasy, it means that the coffee beans are no longer fresh. Please note that the greasy smell I am talking about here refers to the smell, not the form. Coffee powder that has been left for too long is more of a smoky feeling in the kitchen.
NO.2 Choose the coffee that suits your taste
Sour and bitter are the two main taste expressions of coffee today. Either the coffee brewed is mainly sour or bitter, and these two flavors correspond to light roasted and dark roasted coffee beans.
If you like coffee with a fruity sourness, we recommend the lightly roasted Front Street Red Cherry Coffee (lemon, citrus), Front Street Tala Bead Coffee (sweet orange, honey), and Front Street Kenya Coffee (cherry tomatoes, ebony plums, brine;
If you like a rich, sweet and bitter taste, you can try dark roasted Front Street Golden Mandheling Coffee (caramel, spices), Front Street Queen Manor Coffee (cocoa, chocolate), Front Street Yunnan Arabica Coffee (nuts, brown sugar);
If you want to drink coffee that is neither bitter nor sour, it is recommended to buy beans with obvious sweetness such as Front Street Strawberry Sugar Coffee (rose, grape) and Front Street Mozart Coffee (pineapple, raisin).
NO.3 Give priority to cost-effective coffee
Front Street believes that beginners are still in the initial familiarization stage. Except for the grinder, which should be better selected (invest more budget), other tools can actually be used first, and then try different types of coffee beans with low-end sets, and then gradually improve the abilities of brewing and tasting.
Hand-brewed coffee beans are generally single-origin coffee, from a single origin, and the specifications are usually within half a pound or less. Different production areas, different varieties, different processing methods, different grades, and different roasting degrees will affect the final taste of the coffee. Judging from my experience in the past, it is best to choose novice-friendly coffee beans according to your taste preferences in the entry-level stage. This can help me quickly distinguish the flavor of the production area, and it will not hurt even if I practice a few times. Take Front Street rations as an example, if you can tolerate the sour taste, you can try Front Street Ethiopian Yirgacheffe first;
If you like soft and sweet sourness, you can choose Front Street Costa Rica Tara Beads and Front Street Rwanda Red Bourbon; if you want low sourness, you can try Yunnan Xiaograin; if you want to be less sour and have nutty and chocolate aromas, you can choose Front Street Brazilian Cerado and Front Street Colombian Cymbidium; if you are afraid of acidity and like a mellow taste, choose Front Street Indonesian Mandheling... When you find a place of origin that suits your liking, you can continue to "dig deeper" into the more refined regions, estates, and varieties here.
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
