For more specialty coffee knowledge, please follow our WeChat official account: Front Street Coffee (FrontStreet Coffee). Iced Americano and cold brew coffee can be said to be the two best-selling items in coffee shops during summer, but there is a very big difference in price—cold brew coffee is usually twice the price of an iced Americano! Similarly, [more…]

Hand-brewed coffee beans are best approached by gradually building your judgment from taste experience. When buying beans for daily use, you need to consider how quickly you'll drink them, how much to buy at a time, and whether you mainly make black coffee or milk coffee at home. The flavor words on the packaging can offer clues, but they cannot replace the actual drinking experience—whether the acidity is mellow, whether the sweetness lingers, and whether the mouthfeel is smooth. [more…]

For more specialty coffee knowledge, please follow: Front Street Coffee (Frontsteet Coffee) Scorching summer days, summer days scorching. For coffee lovers, the ritual sense of midsummer often originates from a refreshing cup of iced coffee, so recently Front Street has been sharing various iced coffee recipes, even [more…]

From bean to cup, a coffee must still go through grinding and extraction. When it comes to hand-brewed single-origin coffee, your everyday bean buying needs to take into account how quickly you'll drink it, how much to buy at a time, and whether you mainly make black coffee or milk coffee at home. First confirm your usual equipment and preferred taste, then compare specific beans—your actual practice will have clearer direction. [more…]

For beginners buying hand-brewed coffee beans, it's suitable to build judgment gradually from taste experience. When buying beans for daily use, you need to consider how quickly you'll drink them, how much to buy at once, and whether you mainly make black coffee or milk coffee at home. Flavor words on the packaging can provide clues, but they cannot replace the actual drinking experience—whether the acidity is mellow and whether the sweetness lingers. [more…]

The roast level of hand-brewed coffee beans determines where the flavors in the cup unfold. Light roasts make floral and fruity notes easier to perceive, medium roasts connect sweetness, acidity, and body, while dark roasts bring cocoa, nut, and roasted aromas. For ordinary consumers, choosing according to the flavors they like and how they usually drink coffee matters more than looking only at [more…]

SOE usually refers to single-origin espresso, emphasizing that the coffee beans come from the same region, estate, or lot, but it does not mean the coffee can only be extracted with an espresso machine. As long as the beans are fresh and the roast level is suitable, SOE can absolutely go into a dripper and reveal its aroma through pour-over. What really needs to be judged is whether, at light roast, medium roast, [more…]

Which has more caffeine and is more invigorating, iced coffee or hot coffee? Many people would answer that hot coffee is more invigorating. But in fact, whether coffee is invigorating has little to do with it being cold or hot; it depends more on the caffeine content of the coffee variety and the amount of caffeine extracted during brewing. If the same coffee beans are used, extract [more…]

To some people, black coffee is bitter; to others, it's sour. But if you hear someone say, "Wow, this cup of coffee is so sweet!" you'd probably think to yourself, "How could black coffee possibly be sweet?" As Front Street has explained in the article analyzing the chemical composition of green coffee beans, the sucrose in green coffee beans, [more…]

As autumn turns to winter and the weather gradually cools, Front Street Coffee created the Front Street Sunflower Warm Sun espresso blend, suited to espresso, quite some time ago. Following this line of thinking, Front Street also wanted to make a blended coffee bean suitable for autumn drinking and usable for pour-over coffee. Front Street Coffee (FrontStreet C [more…]

What is the English for pour-over coffee? If translated literally, it could be rendered as "Hand coffee," but that term is definitely incorrect. Next, expressions like "Hand punch" are also common mistranslations. The correct term should be "Pour over coffee." Now, pour-over [more…]

From bean to cup, a coffee still has to go through grinding and extraction. When choosing hand-brewed coffee beans with pronounced sweetness and rich fruity aromas for everyday drinking, you need to consider how quickly you'll finish them, how much to buy at once, and whether your household mainly drinks black coffee or milk-based coffee. First confirm your usual brewing equipment and preferred taste, then compare specific beans, and put them to the test in practice. [more…]

When it comes to hand-brewed coffee beans with a soft acidity, first consider how you'll be drinking them every day. For everyday bean purchases, you need to think about how quickly you'll go through them, how much to buy at once, and whether your household mainly drinks black coffee or milk coffee. If you mainly drink black coffee, you can pay more attention to aroma and aftertaste; if you often add milk, you need to consider whether the intensity and body can hold up. [more…]

When selecting hand-brewed coffee beans by roast level, they can generally be divided into light, medium, and medium-dark roasts. Light roasts preserve more of the origin's character, often featuring floral notes, fruity acidity, and a crisp body; medium roasts strike a balance between sweetness, acidity, and body; medium-dark roasts shift the flavor toward nuts, cocoa, and caramel. First, understand this spectrum of change. [more…]

Fruity coffee fruit flavors often present a natural sweet-and-sour aroma, making them one of the most prized qualities in specialty coffee. They are generally divided into stone fruits (peach, apricot, apple), citrus (orange, lemon, pomelo, sweet orange), and berries (raspberry, strawberry, blackberry, blackcurrant, cherry). Generally speaking, [more…]

If you drink coffee every day, then you definitely need to stock up on enough daily staples in advance—that is, cheap yet good-tasting coffee beans. Here, to help everyone avoid spending money "unnecessarily," we've selected the most locally representative beans from major producing regions. How should coffee novices choose coffee beans? Front Street Coffee often gets asked by customers: [more…]

As you all know, in order to allow the flavor and aroma of coffee beans to be effectively released, they must undergo high-temperature roasting, and the roasting level suitable for a given coffee should be chosen based on the characteristics of the green beans. Sometimes even completely identical beans can produce entirely different coffee flavors due to differences in the depth of roasting. Worth noting [more…]

For more specialty coffee knowledge and sharing, please follow our WeChat official account: FrontStreet Coffee. Those who frequently read Front Street articles know that in addition to being extracted with hot water, coffee can also be made with cold water. Coffee made with cold water is called "cold brew coffee," [more…]

Geisha refers to a coffee variety that originated in Ethiopia, the birthplace of coffee. After continuous selection, it made its way to Central and South America, rose to fame in Panama in 2004, and became hugely popular in the consumer market due to its signature flavor. Geisha green beans are slender in shape, and the roasted beans have strong fruity aroma characteristics, accompanied by [more…]

No matter what roasting style or brewing method you prefer, Front Street Coffee believes that referring to some tips for buying coffee is worthwhile and necessary. First and foremost, the most important point is to buy freshly roasted coffee beans, and to choose products that clearly indicate the roast date (not the expiration date or shelf life), and are from a brand you trust. [more…]