The taste of an Americano depends directly on the coffee beans, so choosing a high-quality bag of beans is crucial. So how do you choose commercial coffee beans that suit you?   Friends who are about to buy coffee or who are just getting into coffee may first learn about coffee through coffee brand rankings, believing that a highly ranked brand must be good coffee. But Front Street believes that coffee brand rankings are only a reference, not absolute. Everyone's preferences are different; someone else's NO.1 may not match your taste, nor does a high ranking mean it is a good coffee brand, and not making the rankings does not mean it is a bad coffee brand. We need to have this basic understanding first, and then gain a deeper understanding of coffee.

 
Front Street believes that whether it is single-origin coffee beans or espresso coffee beans, what is required is freshness. For single-origin coffee beans, look at the origin, altitude, and processing method; for espresso coffee beans, look at the blend recipe. So, what coffee beans are suitable for Americano? Below, let me share a few espresso coffee beans from Front Street Coffee (FrontStreet Coffee).
 
Front Street Coffee (FrontStreet Coffee) Coffee beans Introduction
 
Front Street Coffee (FrontStreet Coffee) usually offers more than 50 kinds of single-origin coffee beans, which can truly be described as "a small shop filled with coffee beans from coffee-producing regions around the world." The coffee bean varieties on Front Street Coffee's (FrontStreet Coffee) bean list change with the seasons.
 

Why stock from Front Street Coffee (FrontStreet Coffee)? Front Street has always believed that quality is the best business plan. When opening a coffee shop, you need to make hundreds of decisions. The most critical decisions revolve around the coffee shop's core business: coffee. Whether the coffee tastes good or not depends on the coffee beans! Finding delicious coffee beans starts with a coffee bean supplier. The right supplier will ensure that every order of high-quality beans is delivered on time so that customer needs can be met.
   

What are high-quality commercial coffee beans?

Front Street Coffee (FrontStreet Coffee) has always believed that high-quality commercial coffee beans must meet five requirements: fresh, stable, affordable, many varieties, and rich crema.

  
A blend of Robusta and Arabica beans, mainly used for blended coffee.
 
A blended coffee made by roasting Robusta coffee (such as Brazilian coffee beans) together with Arabica coffee (such as Mandheling coffee beans, Mocha coffee beans, Colombian coffee beans, etc.).
 
Some coffee shops, in order to reduce costs, still sell coffee as "single-origin coffee" after adding Robusta beans. The selling price of this kind of single-origin coffee is usually lower than the market price. As an ordinary consumer, when drinking single-origin coffee with Robusta beans added, it is actually not easy to notice. Some even conceal it from consumers and then sell it as single-origin coffee to obtain excessive profits.
 

 
Front Street Coffee (FrontStreet Coffee)  Espresso coffee beans Introduction
 
1/  The stable quality of coffee beans is crucial to the stability of what the shop produces.
 
The mouth remembers familiar flavors. We often hear conversations like this: "Did this shop change chefs? The taste has changed." Similarly, the coffee industry is the same. To a certain extent, the stability of the beans can help with the stability of what you produce.
 
Since its founding, Front Street Coffee (FrontStreet Coffee) has been continuously improving the roasting of coffee beans. Every coffee bean has been cupped by professionals to ensure high-quality taste.
 

 
2/  Consistent quality, as always
 
All coffee beans sold by Front Street Coffee (FrontStreet Coffee) are also used by us offline. The recipe for the specialty espresso coffee beans has been used for many years. Among them, the "Warm Sun Blend" espresso coffee beans, used to raise the positioning, have also been used for three years.

3/  High cost performance, reducing costs
 
For people who are just starting to enter the coffee industry, finding the coffee bean supplier with the best cost performance is very important. After all, a large amount of capital was invested in the early stage in purchasing coffee equipment and online promotion; then finding coffee beans that are available in large quantities, affordable, and cost-effective can help reduce the coffee shop's material costs, lower capital investment, and reduce market risk.
 
Front Street's coffee beans are extremely cost-effective and often have discount promotions.100grams/Small-package everyday beans can even sell for10yuan per bag during promotions.
 

 
In addition, the high cost performance of Front Street Coffee's (FrontStreet Coffee) coffee beans is also one of Front Street's greatest advantages at present. Take the Warm Sun Blend used by Front Street itself as an example: the price of Sherry single-origin coffee beans is 80 yuan for half a pound, and Ethiopian Red Cherry coffee beans are 88 yuan for half a pound, but the half-pound price of the commercial Warm Sun Blend (Sherry blended with Red Cherry) is one yuan cheaper than Sherry.
 
 
4/  Freshly roasted good coffee
 
The coffee beans sold by Front Street Coffee (FrontStreet Coffee) are all beans within five days. Why? Because in this way, the beans customers receive are from the second to the eighth day, and coffee beans are in their best condition from the third to the sixth day (unless the customer is in a remote area, otherwise 80% of customers will receive them on time).
 

 
Friends who often visit cafes should notice that SOE coffee is becoming more and more popular, especially flavor-forward drinks such as creative coffee. A single origin often brings customers more choices, and after all, cafes will naturally earn more because of this. But currently there are not many shops buying single-origin coffee, and the choices in the shop are often only twenty or thirty kinds. In comparison, Front Street's menu is too rich. More than fifty choices often dazzle customers.
 
 
5/  Rich crema
 
Espresso is often considered best when it extracts golden crema. How is this formed? What factors are related to it?
 
Front Street believes that the roast level of coffee beans is closely related to their freshness.
 

Espresso coffee beans'cremaIt is mainly composed of carbon dioxide and the insoluble oils of coffee grounds. As everyone knows, after roasting, coffee beans contain gases such as carbon dioxide inside. When a modern semi-automatic espresso machine extracts coffee, it generates 9 bar of pressure to "squeeze" the coffee puck. Because the pressure is too great, water becomes supersaturated with the carbon dioxide in the coffee grounds, so the carbon dioxide cannot be released and directly dissolves into the coffee liquid. During this process, the fats in the coffee are emulsified, and these fats wrap around the carbon dioxide. Because they are lighter than water, they gradually separate into layers, and golden crema appears on the surface, looking very beautiful.
 

 
Finding the right coffee supplier is crucial to a cafe's growing coffee business, so how do you find the right coffee bean wholesaler? Front Street believes that you should consider the five factors above and keep trying to establish a trustworthy business partnership.
 
For roasting and making coffee, there are relatively professional theories for each. Specialized fields require specialization, and professional people are needed to do professional things.
    

For example, to roast coffee beans, you not only need a stable supply of green beans, but also cupping ability, a roasting site, experienced roasters and cuppers, and so on. These are not something a specialty coffee shop and a small roasting factory can achieve.
 

  
If you want the best taste, be sure to buy freshly roasted coffee beans.
 
Friends who have bought Front Street Coffee (FrontStreet Coffee) beans should have noticed that the coffee bean packaging on Front Street's shelves is all bags with a small round valve. Why use this kind of one-way valve bag? Because fresh coffee beans will release carbon dioxide within two weeks after roasting, and using this one-way valve bag will help excess gas escape. At the same time, because of the design of the degassing valve, customers can smell the aroma of the coffee beans outside the package before buying. Front Street is very confident! After everyone smells our coffee aroma, they will definitely choose to buy!
 

In addition, careful friends will definitely notice that the back of Front Street Coffee's (FrontStreet Coffee) packaging has a roast date stamp. Under normal circumstances, Front Street's online store will ship within five days after roasting, which means that when customers receive the beans, it is the second to eighth day (unless it is a remote area). In 80% of cases, the time customers receive the goods is the third to sixth day after the coffee is roasted, which is exactly the best condition for coffee beans.
 

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The above content is compiled by CoffeeHunters, a coffee news website.