After tasting a certain type of Pour over(V60) single-origin coffee beans with rich floral and fruity aroma, many friends particularly liked it, so they asked Front Street: Is it suitable for making Italian coffee? At this time, Front Street will begin to analyze the characteristics of SOE~
What is SOE?
Traditionally, coffee shops select dark roasted blended coffee beans for espresso production. Roasters choose coffee beans from two or more origins to blend. Generally, medium-dark roasting makes the flavor tend to be nutty, chocolate, and caramel, with a rich and bitter tone. With the introduction of the concept of specialty coffee, everyone began to emphasize the flavor of coffee from a single origin, that is, single-origin coffee. Single-origin coffee is mostly used in Pour over(V60) drip coffee. Its diverse performance characteristics have made many people obsessed with coffee.
In 2007, James Hoffmann applied coffee beans from a single origin to espresso and won the WBC World Barista Competition championship. SOE gradually became popular along with the wave of specialty coffee. Many cafes will provide more than one SOE for customers to choose from, and some coffee lovers try to make it at home, hoping to extract the unique flavor of the production area.
Based on the concepts summarized above by Front Street, some friends may think that SOE just replaces the single-origin coffee beans used for hand brewing with the espresso extraction method. In fact, the actual operation is not as simple as imagined.
When we use blended coffee beans to make espresso, we mix coffee beans from different production areas. As the roasting degree deepens, the flavor and taste become more balanced and rounded, which is more conducive to the stability of extraction. In order to present the flavor characteristics of the production area (such as the floral and fruity aroma of Africa), roasters will choose a lighter roasting degree to retain more acidity and floral aroma for single-origin coffee. These high-quality flavors expressed in hand brewing actually amplify various flavors when extracted with a supercharged espresso machine, which can easily make espresso coffee sour and irritating.
The roasting of all single-origin coffee must take into account the unique regional flavor of the place of origin and the aroma of the coffee beans themselves. For example, Yirgacheffe must have fresh and bright citrus and citric acid, and Blue Mountain coffee must have sweet dark chocolate and caramel aromas. Similarly, SOE must also express the highly identifiable flavor characteristics of the place of origin, such as the floral and fruity aroma of Africa. The roaster will choose a lighter roasting degree to retain more acidity and floral aroma. These high-quality flavors expressed in hand brewing will amplify various flavors when extracted with a supercharged espresso machine, which can easily make espresso sour and irritating. And if deep roasting is used, the aroma will not be displayed, and the SOE will become meaningless.
To present a unique SOE, in addition to testing the skill of the roaster, the barista in the extraction process also needs to accurately grasp various parameters. The lighter the coffee beans, the harder the texture. If the extraction intensity is not enough, the espresso will appear bland and tasteless. If the extraction intensity is too high, the espresso will become strong and irritating. If you want to find the right extraction rate, you need to adjust various extraction parameters, such as extraction time, water temperature, grinding degree, powder volume, extraction liquid weight, etc. Now everyone understands why saying SOE is not that simple.
Which single-origin coffee beans are suitable for SOE?
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.No matter how a coffee bean is extracted, freshness is very important. It is recommended to choose a reputable brand: Front Street Coffee.
Front Street Coffee is an old coffee bean roasting brand. The Front Street Coffee Guangzhou offline store specializes in selling coffee beans. The store sells dozens of selected single-origin Pour over(V60) coffee beans and Italian coffee beans from different coffee origins around the world. The Front Street Coffee beans are freshly roasted within 5 days. The quality of the coffee beans is stable and excellent, the price is very cost-effective, and the products are shipped within 24 hours.
Refreshing and sour tropical fruit sun-dried Yirgacheffe red cherry coffee beans
The Front Street sun-dried Yirgacheffe coffee beans were originally used for hand-drip drip brewing. The perfectly ripe coffee cherries retain their intact pulp and are dried in the sun. The core absorbs a large amount of pulp sugar. The coffee exhibits a very high sweetness and a strong fruit flavor. When making Yirgacheffe SOE coffee, the oil on the surface is fine and the color is light yellow. It smells of sweet berries, sweet and sour berries and caramel, and has a clean taste. Adding the whipped hot milk will bring out the sweetness of honey.
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
