In coffee cupping, there is a scoring item called "Balance", but the goal of its evaluation is not just the balance of sweet, sour, and bitter flavors! Instead, the score is based on the harmony between coffee’s acidity, sweetness, body, and aftertaste.
Balance can be said to play a coordinating role! To put it simply, when the four items of acidity, sweetness, body, and aftertaste are well expressed in coffee, and any one of them is not too prominent and covers up the performance of the other three, then a balance is achieved.
From a roasting point of view, light roasts are the earliest in the oven, so the acidity dominates and the body is too low; while dark roasts take the longest to heat, have the most caramelized substances, and have a higher bitterness. Therefore, if you want to find coffee beans with a balanced taste, you must focus on medium roast coffees that are neither sour nor bitter. We recommend the following:
The first coffee bean that is neither sour nor bitter: I recommend the Front Street Brazilian Queen’s Estate Yellow Bourbon. This bean is loved by everyone for its balance and emphasis on sweetness. The flavor of the entire Brazilian production area is biased towards nutty chocolate tones and has a balanced taste, while the Front Street Brazilian Queen Manor coffee is more delicate and rich.
If you’re new to freshly brewed Pour over(V60) coffee, this Front Street Brazilian Queen Estate is perfect for practicing brewing. Front Street roasts this bean to a medium roast. This is a better experience than brewing some light roasted coffee beans. It is also very easy to brew a sucrose-like sweetness, and the coffee as a whole tends to have a chocolate, buttery peanut flavor, with a good aftertaste, which is very suitable for friends who don’t like sour or bitter coffee.
The second type of coffee beans that are neither sour nor bitter: I recommend Front Street Costa Rica Tarazhu coffee beans. This Costa Rica ration bean is listed on Front Street’s bean list for 25 yuan/100 grams. Don’t think it’s bad because of its low price. In fact, its quality is not inferior to those coffee beans worth several times its price. It is recommended that the Front Street Costa Rican Tara Bean coffee beans will show balanced flavors of chocolate, brown sugar, and mandarin orange, and the taste will be very clean.
The same medium roast coffee is very pleasant and easy to brew. The Front Street Costa Rican Tara Beads from Front Street will express the sweet and sour taste of chocolate, caramel and faint fruit, and the overall balance is very balanced and soft. And the price itself is very competitive. It is undoubtedly the king of cost-effective coffee that is neither sour nor bitter.
The third type of coffee beans that are neither sour nor bitter: I recommend Front Street Papua New Guinea Bird of Paradise coffee beans. Papua's coffee was introduced from the Blue Mountains of Jamaica, so it is also known as the "Little Blue Mountains". Judging from the quality of the green beans, it is no less than that of the Jamaican Blue Mountain coffee beans. The performances of Front Street Papua New Guinea Bird of Paradise Coffee and Front Street Jamaica Blue Mountain No. 1 Coffee are similar. They both follow the balanced coffee route. The flavor of Pour over(V60) coffee is the sweet and sour taste of cocoa, nuts, and mulberry at the end. The taste is balanced and rich.
The fourth type of non-acid and non-bitter coffee beans: Front Street Strawberry Candy Coffee Beans, which has been very popular among coffee lovers recently. Front Street Strawberry Candy is a high-quality blend of Costa Rican honey-processed coffee and Panama Geisha coffee. It not only has the unique sweetness of Costa Rica coffee, but also has the tangerine honey flavor of Panama Gesha. The combined Front Street Strawberry Candy coffee has the complex aroma of roses, strawberries, fruit candies, and grapes. It will leave an aftertaste of almond after swallowing, making it very suitable for drinking as cold coffee.
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
