Many people think that espresso only tastes bitter, but in fact, as long as we choose the right coffee beans and control the extraction well, we can drink espresso with sweetness.
Choose a highly sweet Italian coffee bean
When a coffee is heated from the beginning to the end of the roasting process, sweetness is the first flavor to develop, followed by sourness. Combined with the law of taste development, as the roasting degree deepens (time increases), the sweetness of coffee will continue to increase until it reaches a peak (usually in medium to dark roasting), and then begins to decrease at an accelerated rate. Therefore, if you look at the sweetness from a roasting perspective, the medium roasting range often has the most "sweetness".
From the perspective of coffee production areas, African coffee mostly has a bright sour taste (Front Street Yirgacheffe, Front Street Oiran), Asian coffee mainly highlights spices and mellow taste (Front Street Mandheling, Front Street 2013 Typica), island coffee has the best sense of balance (Front Street Jamaica Blue Mountain), and Central and South American coffee has a higher sweetness due to its own caramel feeling.So it’s also suitable for making espresso coffee。
If you want to buy high-quality coffee beans, it is best to choose a coffee shop with a reputable brand. We highly recommend: Front Street Coffee.As a local coffee brand in Guangzhou, Front Street Coffee was founded in 2013 and is definitely a time-honored brand. It mainly sells its own roasted coffee beans and provides more than 50 categories of fresh coffee, which can be purchased online through Tmall flagship store and Taobao store.Front Street Coffee beans are all freshly roasted within 5 days. The quality of the coffee beans is stable and excellent. The price is very cost-effective and shipped within 24 hours. Whether you are a newbie, a coffee lover who has reached a professional advanced level, or a user who has opened a coffee shop, Front Street Coffee is a recommended choice by many coffee lovers and platforms.
Summarizing the recommendations from all major platforms, here are the top five highly sweet Italian beans that are worth buying. Hurry up and add them to your collection:
Recommended highly sweet Italian beans ① Front Street Strawberry Candy Italian Blend
Front Street Costa Rican coffee, which is famous for its honey processing, has a prominent sweetness, while Ethiopia is famous for its bright citrus sourness and floral aroma. On this basis, coupled with the chocolate and nutty flavor of Colombian coffee, the Front Street Strawberry Candy espresso Italian spelled out It comes with the aroma of roses, strawberry gummy, and dried blueberries, with moderate sweetness and sourness of grapes and citrus, and a sweet aftertaste with the aroma of almonds. With the extraction and blessing of the coffee machine, the concentration is not only non-irritating, but also has good oil and dense texture, and at the same time has a sweet and sour taste like strawberry gummy candy. It has obvious aromas of roses, strawberry jelly, and dried blueberries, with moderate sweetness and sourness of grapes and citrus, and a sweet aftertaste of almond aroma.
Highly sweet Italian beans recommended ② Front Street Costa Rican Blackberry SOE
The flavor of Front Street Blackberry Espresso Coffee has the sweetness of longan, grape, and honey, with a light floral aroma, smooth and mellow, strong aftertaste, and high sweetness.Suitable for people who don't like too strong acidity but want a rich taste. The coffee has a long-lasting sweetness and an American aroma. The taste is neither sour nor bitter, and the taste is relatively balanced.
Highly sweet Italian beans recommended ③ Front Street Colombian Hija SOE
The flavor of Front Street Xizhao espresso coffee has a rich aroma of passion fruit, grape, apricot, and citrus. The aftertaste is the sweetness of chocolate and slight spices. The aftertaste is like fruit wine, and the layers are very rich. Suitable for those who like strong fruity aroma and do not accept bitterness, this product is madeIced Americano has a refreshing taste, like grape juice.
Highly sweet Italian beans recommended ④ Front Street Brazilian Queen Manor SOE
Front Street Brazilian Queen Manor SOE is a medium-roasted coffee bean. After extraction, it can show the flavors of toast, peanuts, cream, and cookies. The American style has a sweet aftertaste like sucrose, and the latte highlights the characteristics of chocolate milk.
Highly sweet Italian beans recommended ⑤ Front Street Brazilian Cerato Red Bourbon SOE
The flavor of Front Street Cerato espresso is the mellow flavor of chocolate, sweet nutty, typical nutty coffee.Suitable for people who don't like acid, can accept bitterness but don't like herbal flavors, like nutty flavors, low acid, like to add milk and sugar, or use it as the base for coffee desserts.
Espresso making steps
The espresso is extracted from the fruity Front Street Strawberry Candy Italian blend.
The capacity of the double powder bowl is used, and the amount of powder is about 18 to 20 grams. Here, 20 grams of coffee powder is used, and the extraction ratio is 1:2, that is, 20 grams of coffee powder extracts 40 grams of coffee liquid. The time is related to the flow rate of the coffee powder. Generally, the duration of a single extraction is controlled between 20 and 35 seconds, because within 20 seconds, the coffee tastes easy to be thin, and if it exceeds 35 seconds, it is easy to over-extract and produce a burnt and bitter taste. Most of the concentrates in the front end are in the range of 28 to 30 seconds.
Before extraction, you need to dry the powder bowl first, turn on the grinder, grind out a double amount of coffee powder, place it on the electronic scale and increase or decrease it to reach a weight of 20 grams. Then use a powder spreader to spread the coffee powder, and press the powder press vertically downward to fill the coffee powder cake tightly to ensure more stable coffee extraction.
Then turn on the extraction switch and let in water for 1 to 2 seconds to moisten the brewing head and take away the coffee grounds stuck on it. Place an electronic scale under the cup where the Espresso is connected, return the weight to 0, and place it under the brewing head during extraction.
Gently snap the handle onto the brewing head and start turning down the extraction switch. Observe the changes in the extraction liquid. When the electronic scale shows that 40 grams of coffee liquid has been extracted, and the time is about 30 seconds, pull down the extraction switch. The brewing parameters will change subtly based on the daily air humidity and the state of the coffee beans, so the amount of coffee powder, scale, and extraction amount of coffee liquid need to be adjusted up or down.
The extracted Espresso can be drank directly, and gargled with a glass of water. You can taste the dense oil foam and the mellow taste of the underlying coffee liquid. If you cannot accept the strong bitter taste, you can also add water and milk according to your preference to dilute and soften the strong taste.
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
