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For washed coffee, Front Street feels like a breeze in summer, refreshing! How can you not mention the washed coffee of Ethiopia’s Yirgacheffe? The washed Yirgacheffe in Front Street has always been one of the highly respected production areas. Even washed coffee in the same production area will have different cooperatives, and the coffee flavor produced is also regional. Front Street is keen on finding coffee with special characteristics in these production areas. This has always been Front Street’s philosophy in searching for beans!
Yirgacheffe coffee bean producing 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.
As Yirgacheffe becomes more and more popular, ECX (Ethiopian Commodity Exchange established in 2012) began to subdivide the production areas in 2019. In the early years, the coffee beans in the Kochil production area were sold under the name of Yirgacheffe. Now Kochil is also sold under an independent brand name. The Kochil production area has become a very important washed production area. As more washing plants are set up in Kochi, it is very likely that new coffee brands will be launched in the southeast of Kochi in the future.
Coffee bean varieties
Friends who often drink Front Street Yirgacheffe coffee beans will probably 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.
Yirgacheffe coffee processing method
There are currently two processing methods for coffee beans in the Yirgacheffe coffee producing area, namely washing and sun-drying.
Sun-drying treatment method: After selecting mature coffee cherries, they are dried in the sun until the moisture content is 12%, and the peel and pulp are removed.
Recommended coffee: Front Street sun-dried red cherries, with a flavor of berries, citrus, flowers, and a slight sense of fermentation, suitable for hand brewing and cold brewing
Water washing treatment method: select mature coffee cherries, remove the peel and pulp, soak them in water for fermentation, and then dry them until the moisture content is about 12%.
Recommended coffee: Front Street washed fruit diced, with fresh white floral aroma, citrus, lemon, green tea flavor, light taste, suitable for hand brewing
Sun-drying retains the flavor of the pulp, while washing removes the flavor of the pulp. You can feel the obvious difference in taste. Washed wine will be cleaner and more translucent, while sun-dried wine will have a richer taste.
Front Street Yirgacheffe washed and sun-dried coffee beans
Take [Front Street Yirgacheffe Red Cherry, Front Street Yirgacheffe Kocher, Front Street Yirgacheffe Fruit Tintin] as an example
Both coffee beans, Yirgacheffe Kocher coffee and Yirgacheffe Dingding coffee, are washed and come from different processing plants in the Yirgacheffe coffee production area.
[Yirgacheffe Tintin Coffee] Tintin Cooperative is located in the Woka production area at the southeastern end of Yirgacheffe. It was originally part of the Woka cooperative under the Yirgacheffe Union YCFCU. Later, more and more people paid attention to the origin of coffee beans, and small and distinctive producing areas were discovered one by one by coffee hunters around the world. In 2012, Guodingding, which has about 300 members, became independent from the Woka Cooperative and established the Guodingding Cooperative.
Front Street Yirgacheffe Tintin Coffee Beans
FrontStreet Coffee Roasting Advice
Yirgacheffe coffee beans with such a gorgeous flavor are of course not suitable for medium-dark roasting, as they will lose their unique fruity acidity. Although some people now try to roast Yirgacheffe beans with medium-dark roasting, the flavor is slightly more acidic, but it will not be as refreshing and bright as light roasting. They are two completely different styles. Therefore, FrontStreet Coffee recommends using light roasting.
Roasting curve of Yirgacheffe Kocher coffee Roasting curve of Yirgacheffe Dingding coffee
FrontStreet Coffee Brewing Suggestions
Filter cup: V60
Water temperature: 92-93 degrees Celsius
Powder amount: 15g
Pink to water ratio: 1:15
Grinding degree: the size of fine sugar (sifted in a No. 20 sieve bowl to 78%)
FrontStreet Coffee Brewing Technique
Segmented extraction, 30 grams of water is steamed for 30 seconds. A small flow of water is injected in a circle to 125 grams and then segmented. When the water level drops and the powder bed is about to be exposed, continue to pour water to 225 grams and stop. (Start steaming and start timing) The extraction time is 2'00"
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
