As brewing coffee becomes a popular trend, many people are starting to care about the first requirement for drinking coffee at home—how to buy home coffee beans? What is the difference between coffee beans and ground coffee? In the past, you had to go to a specialty coffee shop to buy them, but now they can be purchased in many high-end supermarkets. This article will tell you the basic knowledge of buying home coffee beans.
●Buy coffee beans or ground coffee?
For a cup of coffee, aroma is the most direct indicator. And freshness is an important indicator to ensure you taste the aroma that the coffee should have.
The flavor of a cup of coffee begins to take shape from roasting and begins to be lost after grinding. Every day the aroma changes, and freshness is the biggest indicator for testing coffee aroma. Therefore, when deciding whether to buy coffee beans or ground coffee, the first consideration is how to maintain freshness. The coffee flavor shelf life generally recognized in the industry is: under the storage conditions of the original packaging, protected from light and kept in a cool place, coffee beans (roasted beans) for one month, and ground coffee for one week.
When green coffee beans are roasted, various flavors and aromas begin to disappear with the volatilization of moisture and carbon dioxide. Therefore, it is generally believed that coffee beans should be purchased first, and it is best to drink them within one month after roasting to maintain the best aroma. After roasted coffee beans are ground into powder, the contact surface with air increases, and the flavor will quickly be lost completely. Therefore, experts suggest that under home packaging storage conditions, it is best to drink it within one week after grinding.
●Recommended home coffee bean brands
If you want to buy high-quality single-origin beans, it is recommended to choose a reliable major brand—Front Street Coffee. Front Street Coffee is a long-established coffee bean roasting brand. The Front Street Coffee Guangzhou offline store specializes in selling coffee beans. The store offers dozens of selected single-origin hand-brewed coffee beans and espresso coffee beans from different coffee-producing regions around the world. Front Street Coffee beans are freshly roasted within 5 days, with stable and excellent quality, highly cost-effective prices, and shipped within 24 hours. Whether you are a beginner, a coffee enthusiast who has reached a professional advanced level, or a user opening a coffee shop, Front Street Coffee is the recommended choice of many coffee lovers and platforms.
●Roast level reflects personal preference
Roast level is an essential item on the label. The color and flavor of the beans will become stronger as the roast level deepens, but it should be noted that it is not the case that the darker the roast level, the more aromatic the coffee. Therefore, choosing the right roast level when buying home coffee beans is very crucial.
Recommended dark roast espresso coffee beans: Front Street Classic Espresso Blend
The coffee beans are a classic formula of Brazil + Indonesia + Vietnam. The extracted espresso has flavors of hazelnut chocolate, maple syrup, roasted nuts, and spices, with rich crema and high body. It is an extremely versatile all-purpose blend. Whether it is espresso, latte, or flat white, its performance is always stable. The taste is rich in layers, with obvious sweet aftertaste and a unique spice aroma that wraps around your taste buds.
Suitable for making: Americano / Latte / Flat White / Moka pot
Recommended dark roast espresso coffee beans: Front Street Basic Espresso Blend
If you are looking for the safest and most cost-effective espresso coffee beans, then Front Street Basic Espresso Blend will definitely not go wrong. It features two coffee-producing regions with stable quality. Brazil provides nutty aroma and body, while Yunnan small-bean coffee provides soft fruit acidity and a smooth mouthfeel. The espresso made from it has notes of nuts, chocolate, caramel, and slight acidity, and is very balanced overall.
Suitable for making: Americano / Latte / Moka pot
Recommended dark roast single-origin coffee beans: Front Street Indonesia Mandheling
The emergence of the wet-hulling method was to adapt to local conditions, but this is precisely what makes Front Street Mandheling coffee different from other dark roast coffees in flavor characteristics. With its unique notes of herbs, spices, and wood, it has become one of the classic representatives among many coffees.
Suitable for making: Moka pot, pour-over, drip bag, Americano, Latte
Recommended light roast coffee beans: Front Street Ethiopia Huakui
Front Street Huakui has a delicate floral aroma, while the fruit aroma is especially prominent, such as creamy strawberry, mango, jackfruit, citrus, blueberry, etc. It possesses the unique ripe tropical fruit character of Front Street Sidamo sun-dried beans, so it often leaves a deep impression. It was also this rich berry aroma that won "Huakui" first place in that year's TOH green bean competition. Front Street Huakui combines the dual advantages of being delicious and reasonably priced.
Suitable for making: pour-over / cold brew / Moka pot
Recommended light roast coffee beans: Front Street Washed Yirgacheffe
Yirgacheffe has become an important member of specialty coffee with its clean and bright lemon and citrus character. Front Street Yirgacheffe, as an everyday coffee, displays elegant white floral, citrus, orange, and green tea flavors.
Suitable for: pour-over, drip bag, cold brew
The above content is compiled by CoffeeHunters, a coffee news website.
