For more specialty coffee knowledge, please follow: Front Street Coffee (Frontsteet Coffee) The French press originated in 19th-century France. In English it is called French Press, and in Chinese it can also be called "法式压滤壶". Although the exact time of its appearance is unclear, in 1852, the French [more…]

For more specialty coffee knowledge, please follow our WeChat official account: Front Street Coffee (FrontStreet Coffee). As a symbol of Italian coffee culture, the moka pot is one of the most famous brewing devices in the world. Its iconic design, ease of use, and wide applicability have made it a favorite among many enthusiasts. [more…]

For more specialty coffee knowledge, please follow: Front Street Coffee (Frontsteet Coffee). Customers who often come to Front Street for coffee sometimes ask the baristas whether there is a lazy-person coffee machine suitable for home use, preferably at a reasonable price. Well then… let's take a look at the American-style drip coffee machine! [more…]

Espresso has been around for quite some time now. It is the pride of Italians and, at the same time, a cultural treasure that Italian coffee has brought to the world. In feel, it is somewhat similar to the contribution Ethiopian varieties have made to specialty coffee. Italian coffee spread from Italy to the rest of the world and became a status symbol. [more…]

Coffee is gaining popularity among more and more Chinese people, even somewhat rivaling fast-food tea drinks like milk tea, though consumption groups each have their own preferences. When it comes to coffee, one cannot help but mention pour-over coffee and espresso. Pour-over coffee most often uses single-origin beans, and its unadorned beauty is not crude, [more…]

No matter what method we use to make coffee—whether it's pour-over, cold brew, or espresso—we first need to grind the coffee beans into grounds before we begin. The purpose of doing this is to increase the surface area of the coffee that comes into contact with water, speed up the dissolution of flavor compounds, and give the brewed coffee a fuller taste. [more…]

Speaking of flannel filter cloth, many friends may have only seen it in some Japanese films and TV dramas or in Japanese-style brewing introduced by bloggers, and have never actually used it. Because compared to filter cloth, the vast majority of people use filter paper and filter cups, this mainstream filtering tool, when brewing coffee. Ways to get to know flannel filter cloth [more…]

For more specialty coffee knowledge, please follow our WeChat public account: Front Street Coffee (FrontStreet Coffee). As a symbol of Italian coffee culture, the moka pot is one of the most famous brewing devices in the world. Its iconic design, ease of use, and wide applicability have made it a favorite among many enthusiasts. [more…]

From today's perspective, the siphon pot is a coffee device with a strong sense of nostalgia. Many coffee shops no longer make siphon coffee, or offer it as a specialty item rather than a main product. Of course, as a siphon coffee fan, if you can't find it outside, you just make it yourself. In this article, Front Street will share about siphon coffee using language that is as simple as possible. - Hong [more…]

Front Street Coffee believes that after you've been working with espresso for a while, you'll certainly be familiar with the "1:2" brew ratio, because it's often hailed as the "golden ratio" for espresso and is the most commonly used ratio when extracting espresso. Brew ratio refers to the amount of coffee grounds used [more…]

Coffee enthusiasts who regularly drink espresso know that drinks like mocha, cappuccino, latte, and so on use different ratios of espresso to milk. Some use a single shot of espresso, while others use a double shot. So what is the difference in grind size between a single and a double shot of espresso? What kind of coffee beans should be used to make espresso? [more…]

For more specialty coffee knowledge and sharing, please follow: Front Street Coffee (FrontStreet Coffee). When talking about Italian coffee, one cannot fail to mention Espresso. As the main tool for extracting Espresso, the espresso machine is an indispensable piece of equipment. Espresso [more…]

There are many ways to make delicious iced coffee (types of iced coffee). From the more elaborate cold drip and the quickest iced coffee pour-over, to the easy-to-make and mainstream cold brew method. Cold brew has many names, such as Cold Brew (the English term for cold brew coffee), cold brew coffee, cold extracted coffee, cold extraction coffee, and so on, referring to [more…]

SOE is the abbreviation for "Single Origin Espresso," which in Chinese means: espresso from a single origin. Put simply, it replaces the "blended coffee beans" typically used to make espresso with "single-origin (single producing region) coffee beans," but still uses the espresso machine. [more…]

As is well known, Front Street Coffee recently launched a new fruity and floral espresso blend on Taobao Tmall—Front Street Strawberry Candy Espresso. Perhaps because the flavor is quite appealing, friends often ask our customer service like this: "Your espresso beans are so delicious, can they be used for pour-over?" The answer is [more…]

For more specialty coffee knowledge, please follow: Front Street Coffee (Frontsteet Coffee) Nowadays, discerning coffee enthusiasts who want to brew a standard pour-over coffee at home need to prepare a variety of tools: a gooseneck kettle, a server, a dripper, filter paper, a thermometer... Using them is quite a production, and when not in use [more…]

Compared to other single-origin coffees, pour-over coffee has a great many brewing methods. For example: one-pour, three-stage, volcano pour, variable-temperature brewing, stirring, and so on. Today let's get to know some of the brewing methods that commonly appear in pour-over coffee~ 1. One-pour The one-pour method and the single-pour method are still [more…]

If you ask whether water temperature is important for extraction, Front Street Coffee believes it is important, but not that important. As a tool for adjusting the extraction rate, the higher the temperature, the easier it is to extract soluble substances, but because too high a water temperature will cause coffee to quickly release bitterness, a conservative range should be chosen. Generally speaking, the vast majority on the market [more…]

Nowadays, people's love for coffee goes beyond pour-over, and more and more people are pursuing making espresso at home. You'll notice that many friends now go to coffee shops and directly order a latte or cappuccino and other espresso-based drinks, but the friends who understand coffee better might order a single-origin specialty coffee. [more…]

"It can serve as a substitute for an espresso machine" — this is a reason that convinces many friends to make up their minds to buy a moka pot. Since the moka pot, like an espresso machine, uses pressure extraction, it can produce coffee with a higher concentration than atmospheric pressure extraction. And the reason many friends need this high concentration [more…]