Many people, after drinking coffee for a long time, want to make a cup themselves. But when they open a shopping platform to look for coffee beans, they find all kinds of incomprehensible terms. Just for espresso beans alone, there are blends, SOE, Yirgacheffe, Huakui, Kenya, Geisha, Colombia... It's like reading a sealed book, and then they sigh, saying they didn't even know so many countries existed before drinking coffee. So as a beginner just starting to learn, how can we buy espresso coffee that we like and is good value for money?
The key to choosing espresso coffee beans lies in choosing a coffee bean brand with guaranteed quality, ensuring freshness, andunderstanding your own taste preferences.
Front Street Coffee is a self-roasting coffee bean specialty store in Guangzhou, founded in 2013, offering over 50 varieties of fresh coffee. All products can be purchased online through the Tmall flagship store and Taobao store. All Front Streetcoffee 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 new beginner, a coffee enthusiast who has reached a professional advanced level, or a user opening a coffee shop, Front Street Coffee is a recommended choice for many coffee lovers and platforms.
Overall, espresso coffee beans are mainly divided into two categories: classic Italian blend coffee and single-originSOEcoffee.
The first type is classic Italian blend coffee beans: made by mixing coffee beans from two or more different origins, with the aim of balancing flavor, mouthfeel, body, and sweetness, while maintaining stable quality and sustainable supply. Because it combines the strengths of each, it mostlyuses medium-dark or dark roasting methods,usually pursuing classic, balanced flavors such as chocolate, nuts, caramel, cream, etc.,suitable for enthusiasts who like classic Italian flavors (such as Americano, latte, cappuccino, etc.).
From the perspective of extraction, due to the use of medium-dark roasting, blend coffee has a more balanced tone, and during extraction can bring out more crema and roasting aromas. Even beginners can easily make a decent espresso. In addition, Italian blendsare much more affordable compared to single-origin beans. Here are 5 blend coffee beans that combine cost-effectiveness and great taste:
First, the most recommended Italian blend and moka pot coffee beans
1.[Front Street Classic Blend Espresso Coffee Beans] Brazil: Indonesia Mandheling: Vietnam Robusta;
Flavor characteristics: rich crema, obvious caramel aroma lingering, strong nut and dark chocolate flavors, comfortable sweet aftertaste.
2. [Front Street Specialty Blend Coffee] Colombia: Brazil;
Flavor characteristics: comfortable sweet-bitter taste, extremely smooth on the palate, with a faint grassy aroma, light fragrance with slight bitterness, sweet and smooth, with a pleasant aftertaste.
3. [Front Street Commercial Blend Coffee] Colombia: Brazil: Robusta
Flavor characteristics: classic taste, with caramel sweetness, nut and cocoa, dark chocolate flavors, balanced acidity and sweetness, slightly bitter, with a lasting aftertaste.
4. [Front Street Dark Cocoa Blend Coffee Beans] Yunnan AA: Brazil;
Flavor characteristics: with soft fruit acidity, caramel sweetness, nut and dark chocolate flavors, smooth and syrupy, but the taste is on the lighter side.
4. [Front Street Strawberry Candy Espresso Blend Coffee Beans] Costa Rica: Colombia: Ethiopia;
Front Street Strawberry Candy espresso beans are a blend based on two major origins: Front Street Costa Rica Tarrazu, known for its honey processing, and Ethiopia, the birthplace of coffee, paired with Colombian coffee beans. The extracted espresso has sweet aromas of strawberry fruit candy, grapes, and roses, with a soft mouthfeel, low bitterness, and a lasting aftertaste.
The second typesingle-originSOEespresso coffee beans: coffee beans from a single origin, region, estate, or single variety, with the roasting curve specifically optimized for espresso extraction. Because it uses single-origin specialty coffee, itcan clearly present the natural and original unique flavors of the coffee beans themselves: such as floral notes, tropical fruit sweetness and acidity, wine aroma, etc. The coffee has rich layers on the palate, a long sweet aftertaste, and great personality and charm, deeply sought after by today's young people. Suitable for coffee enthusiasts who like to explore flavors from different origins.
1. Front Street Queen's EstateSOE single-origincoffee beans
2. Front Street Bird of ParadiseSOE single-origincoffee beans
The medium roast gives the coffee a roasted aroma while retaining slight citrus acidity. The SOE made from it highlights nut and cream aromas. When milk is added, it presents a chocolate creamy smoothness, with an overall soft mouthfeel and a slight cocoa finish. Made into an SOE Americano, it is refreshing on the palate, with balanced acidity, sweetness, and bitterness.
3. FrontStreet MozartSOE single-origincoffee beans
This Front Street Mozart belongs to the Costa Rica Musician series.Anaerobic honey processing allows the coffee beans to retain the mucilage layer for sealed fermentation before drying, maximizing the sweetness of the coffee beans. This coffee, when pour-over brewed, presents rich rose floral notes and high sweetness of raisins. Extracted as SOE, it shows strong tropical fruit and fermented flavor notes.
The above content is compiled by CoffeeHunters, a coffee news website.
