Coffee from different production areas, processing methods, varieties, and roasting degrees have different flavors and tastes, so it can be suitable for many people who love sourness and those who don't. Many people think that sour coffee tastes more exciting, so they start looking for high-quality coffee beans that are not sour in taste. So as consumers, how can we understand whether coffee is sour or not?
Roast degree of coffee beans
The reason why the coffee we drink has different flavors is actually related to the degree of roasting of the coffee. The flavor of coffee under different roasting degrees behaves differently.
Light roasted coffee is the earliest to be released, so it is closest to the original flavor of the beans. Most of them have fruity acid tones. The flavor is usually pointed to obvious citrus or stone fruit tones, such as strawberry and guava flavor Front Street.Oiran, Front Street with citrus and floral flavorsYirgacheffe, and the Front Street Kenyan tomatoes, which feature a juicy feel.
Medium-roasted coffee beans are heated for a longer time, so they experience more caramelization reactions and Menard reactions. The coffee beans maintain some fruity tones, with slight acidity, and at the same time, they gradually release pleasant nutty and caramel aromas.
Medium-dark roasted coffee beans are heated for longer than medium-roasted coffee beans. Most of the acidic substances enter caramelization, and then evolve into ingredients that provide sweetness and mellowness, making the acidity and bitterness form a balanced and harmonious state.
In other words, if you want to find coffee beans that are not sour in taste, you must first avoid light roasting, secondly choose medium roast coffee with high sweetness, and then choose medium roast coffee with more mellow taste. Combining these requirements, the recommended coffee beans to buy are as follows:
1. Front Street PNG.Bird of Paradise
Papua New Guinea mainly grows Typica. Typica has an elegant flavor, but has a weak constitution and low disease resistance, making it susceptible to leaf rust. Front Street Coffee believes that the biggest feature of the Typica coffee tree is the bronze-colored top leaves, which some people call “red-top coffee.” The beans of Typica are larger and cone-shaped or thin and pointed, which is different from the round-bodied beans of Bourbon coffee beans. Front Street believes that Typica coffee has its own unique quiet and clean flavor, balanced characteristics and high clean taste.
2. Brazilian Queen Manor on Front Street
The variety of Front Street Queen Manor coffee beans is the rare local yellow bourbon. Since yellow bourbon coffee beans at high altitudes are denser and have higher glucose content, Front Street’s roasting idea is to highlight the classic mellow aroma of Brazilian coffee while showing off the sweetness of bourbon itself, so medium-dark roasting is used. The low acidity and high sweetness of Front Street Yellow Bourbon makes it not only suitable for hand brewing, but also for making moka pot coffee and espresso SOE coffee, with obvious aromas of roasted nuts and cocoa.
3. Front Street Golden Mandheling
Front Street Indonesia's Mandheling is a typical dark roasted coffee bean. Its basic flavor is spices, herbs, and has a mellow and smooth taste. Therefore, dark roasting will better highlight the basic flavor of the coffee beans. Light roasting will weaken its original flavor and lose the original soul of the Indonesian Mandheling flavor. Front Street Golden Mandheling is based on Mandheling and has gone through three machine screenings and hand selections to remove all defective beans, which greatly improves the quality of Mandheling coffee and makes the coffee taste cleaner and have a more pronounced aftertaste.
4. Front Street 2013 Yunnan Tiepica
Front Street 2013 is produced at Front Street's manor in Lincang, Yunnan. It is selected from the elegant Typica variety and uses natural sun-drying methods to make the coffee sweeter. Whenever November arrives, the coffee cherries planted in Front Street mature one after another. Front Street arranges workers to pick the red coffee cherries one by one, lay them flat in the sun, and dry them naturally, turning them occasionally to allow them to be evenly dehydrated. Front Street believes that the flavor of Yunnan Xiaoli is neutral and balanced, that is, both sour, sweet and bitter, so they are all roasted at a medium temperature to highlight the baking aroma of chocolate and nuts while retaining a slight fruity sweetness.
5. Front Street Strawberry Candy Geisha Blend
When it comes to coffee with obvious sweetness, Front Street immediately thinks of Costa Rica. Therefore, it is rich in high-quality honey-processed coffee. The coffee pectin is retained for drying so that the coffee can show a pleasant fermented sweetness in aroma and flavor. In order to create a coffee that is not sour and has a sweet floral and fruity aroma, we combined Panama Geisha with Costa Rica to form a new Geisha blend. After brewing, it has obvious aromas of roses, grapes, and dried blueberries.
6. Front Street Columbia Cymbidium
Front Street Colombian Cymbidium Coffee uses a common water-washing process in the Americas, which gives the coffee beans a clean flavor profile. In order to present the classic Colombian flavor, Front Street uses medium-dark roasting, and after grinding and extraction, it has rich creamy chocolate, caramel, cookie, and cocoa flavors.
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
