Blended coffee and hand-brewed single-origin coffee are the two most common industry terms, referring to different types of coffee beans.

Blended coffee is a formula that combines coffee beans from two or more origins, usually used for espresso machines, so in order to highlight the crema and body, medium or dark roasting is generally used, making the coffee extraction more stable and the taste more balanced.For example, if one type of coffee bean is smooth but lacks aroma, another aromatic bean can be added to make up for each other's shortcomings, complementing or enhancing each other in flavor.

The earliest blended coffee was meant to reduce costs, there is no doubt about that, but after entering the specialty coffee era, reducing costs is no longer the only goal. Customers care more about the flavor of coffee and are willing to pay a higher price for it, so roasters will select high-quality coffee beans for blending to achieve better flavor results.

The biggest characteristic of espresso is its rich and mellow taste. After adding milk/water, the coffee flavor is still prominent. In addition, since the coffee machine uses pressurized extraction with a short time, it is preferable to use medium-dark roasted fresh blended coffee beans, which not only provide sufficient crema but also bring rich roasted aromas to the espresso, thus making our extraction process twice as effective with half the effort.

The coffee beans provided by Front Street Coffee are all freshly roasted within 5 days, with stable and excellent quality, highly cost-effective prices, and shipped within 24 hours. Whether you are a beginner, an advanced enthusiast, or a user opening a coffee shop, you can find a suitable coffee variety. To buy delicious yet affordable espresso blends, we recommend the freshly roasted Front Street Black Cocoa Blend, Front Street Classic Blend, and Front Street Commercial Blend.

It can be said that the counterpart to blended coffee beans is single-origin coffee, which refers to coffee beans from a single origin. Because it emphasizes a unique taste, it is usually extracted in the form of hand brewing. The following are the best-selling Front Street single-origin hand-brewed coffee beans:

1. Ethiopia (floral lemon acidity) — Recommended: Front Street Yirgacheffe Gutingting Cooperative Coffee Beans

Region: Yirgacheffe, Ethiopia

Cooperative: Gutingting Cooperative

Growing altitude: 2000-2100m

Processing method: Washed

Variety: Ethiopian heirloom varieties

Flavor: Bright citrus-like acidity, berry sweetness and acidity, honey sweetness, green tea aftertaste.

2. Ethiopia Sidamo (berry, tea-like) — Recommended: Front Street Huakui Coffee Beans

Region: Guji, Sidamo, Ethiopia

Processing station: Buku Able

Growing altitude: 2250-2350

Processing method: Natural

Variety: Ethiopian heirloom varieties

Flavor: Complex berry juice, fruity fermentation aroma, strawberry sweetness and acidity, jackfruit

3. Kenya (cherry tomato, juicy) — Recommended: Front Street Cherry Tomato Coffee Beans

Region: Thika, Kenya

Processing station: Asali

Growing altitude: 1550-1750m

Processing method: 72-hour washed

Variety: SL28, SL34

Flavor: Cherry tomato aroma, plum, dark plum-like acidity, brown sugar-like sweetness.

4. Costa Rica (sweet, honey) — Recommended: Front Street Strawberry Candy Coffee Beans

Region: Tarrazu, Costa Rica

Estate: Mirazu Estate

Growing altitude: 1700m

Processing method: Raisin honey process

Variety: Geisha SL28 ET47 Maico

Flavor: Strawberry hard candy aroma, raisin fermentation aroma, strawberry sweetness and acidity, rose floral aroma

5. Yunnan, China (nutty, balanced) — Recommended: Front Street Yunnan Small-Bean Typica Coffee Beans

Region: Baoshan, Yunnan

Growing altitude: 1450-1550m

Processing method: Fully ripe cherry natural process

Variety: Catimor

Flavor: Red berry sweetness and acidity, dark chocolate richness, roasted nut-like aroma, caramel-like sweetness.

Of course,single-origin coffee beans can also be used to make espresso. It can use espresso to satisfy everyone's pursuit of tasting the unique flavor of the beans in specialty coffee, but the premise is to ensure the quality of the coffee beans and ideal extraction. Using single-origin coffee beans to make espresso is simply to let people who like espresso and milk coffee taste the flavor of the single-origin beans themselves, so you must choose medium-dark roasted single-origin coffee with high recognizability.

1. Front Street Yirgacheffe Natural Red Cherry SOE Coffee Beans, from Ethiopia, hand-brewed has obvious floral and fruity aromas, bright, uplifting acidity, and a clean, clear finish. When made into SOE, it has orange and red berry flavors, with obvious sweet aftertaste, suitable for making Americano.

2. Front Street Mozart SOE Coffee Beans, produced in Costa Rica, using raisin honey process, hand-brewed has obvious rose and dried fruit aromas, full, soft sweetness and acidity, clean and rich taste. When made into SOE, it has a strong raisin flavor, osmanthus-like sweetness, medium body, smooth, suitable for making Americano and Latte.

3."Front Street-PWN Golden Mandheling SOE Coffee Beans", as a premium product among Mandheling, Front Street Golden Mandheling has undergone three manual selections + 1 machine selection, minimizing the defect rate of coffee beans. It uses medium-dark roasting, and after extraction as SOE, it has obvious spice, herbal, sandalwood, caramel and other flavors, with a very rich body and a black chocolate aroma in the aftertaste.

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