For more specialty coffee knowledge, please follow: Front Street Coffee (Frontsteet Coffee). Front Street has noticed that on the path of self-learning coffee, what sometimes troubles everyone is not those complex techniques or parameters, but that whenever you search for a professional term, it always extends into a whole lot of lengthy [more…]

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…]

For more specialty coffee knowledge, please follow our WeChat official account: FrontStreet Coffee. Tea is part of Chinese culture, while coffee has also gradually come into people's view and become one of the three major beverages, becoming an indispensable part of people's lives. As for the love of coffee [more…]

For more specialty coffee knowledge, please follow our WeChat public account: Front Street Coffee (FrontStreet Coffee). Recently, Front Street came across a discussion asking "What's the difference between ice-brewed coffee and cold brew coffee?" Some replies said there was no difference, while others joked, "The difference is whether it's made by my hands. [more…]

For more specialty coffee knowledge, please follow the WeChat official account: FrontStreet Coffee. In different European countries, iced coffee is also different! Some add ice cubes to hot coffee, some add ice cream to hot coffee, and some use cold water immersion extraction. For example, in Amer [more…]

For more specialty coffee knowledge, please follow: Front Street Coffee (Frontsteet Coffee). Coffee has become an indispensable part of everyone's work and life, especially in today's fast-paced, high-pressure environment, where a cup of coffee in the morning is even more necessary to wake you up. But [more…]

Many friends, when ordering pour-over coffee in a café, will prioritize the hot brew method, because as everyone knows, if we want to experience a relatively complete flavor profile in pour-over coffee, then hot brewing is absolutely the best choice. But when the weather is too hot, we always find it hard to [more…]

It's May, and summer has arrived. In the scorching heat of Guangzhou, even after rain, it remains so muggy that without a refreshing cold drink, one truly lacks the courage to survive in this furnace-like city. That's why recently, many more friends have been coming to Front Street Coffee (FrontStreet Coffe [more…]

Many coffee enthusiasts encounter a headache-inducing problem while teaching themselves: they search for a technical term and end up with a pile of associated words that seem similar but each carry different meanings, leaving them more confused the more they look into it. This is especially true in the realm of iced coffee—cold brew, ice drip, ice brew, cold soak, Dutch coffee, Kyoto coffee... these names appear frequently in various articles, but what exactly are the differences between them? Which one does ice brew coffee actually refer to? This article will start from the broad concept of cold brew coffee, sort through the various branches of low-temperature extracted coffee one by one, analyze the relationship between ice brew and cold soak and ice drip, and explain the essential differences between ice brew coffee and ordinary hot coffee poured over ice in terms of production principles and flavor expression, helping readers build a clear cognitive framework. [more…]

Many Moka pot enthusiasts often ask Front Street: Which beans are suitable for a Moka pot? How can I use it to make delicious iced coffee? As the home appliance closest to an espresso machine, the Moka pot is essentially a simple pressure-extraction device. Under ideal conditions, it can produce intense, full-bodied, powerfully flavored coffee, sometimes with a moderate amount of crema. Therefore, when choosing beans, it is advisable to prioritize medium or darker roasts, while also considering crema performance and flavor balance. This article will focus on the bean-selection logic for Moka pots, three Front Street espresso bean recommendations, and the coffee-to-water parameters for a 3-cup Bialetti pot along with the steps for making an iced Americano, providing a reusable operating plan. [more…]

The iced pour-over coffee I've shared with you before is the Japanese-style iced pour-over method, which is essentially hot coffee cooled with ice. In this article, Front Street Coffee will introduce a true iced pour-over coffee brewed with ice water—don't blink! Can ice water really brew coffee? A normal cup of pour-over coffee takes only 2-3 minutes to brew, using just [more…]

Dirty coffee is espresso extracted over iced milk, creating a beautiful layered look. As time passes, the coffee liquid on top slowly encroaches on the pristine white milk, forming a lovely gradient inside the transparent glass, as if the pure white milk has been dirtied. Put simply, a Dirty coffee is a visually striking drink that [more…]

There are many ways to brew coffee, and cold drip is one of them. Cold drip coffee is also a type of iced coffee, and in summer, iced coffee is even more of a favorite among coffee lovers. Cold drip coffee is naturally not brewed with hot water, but with low-temperature water, which is different from our usual pour-over coffee. [more…]

Guests and friends often ask Front Street Coffee this question when brewing iced pour-over: "Why isn't iced pour-over brewed with ice water? Does it have to be hot water?" It's not surprising that this question comes up, because for those who haven't been in the coffee world or have only just encountered it, iced pour-over coffee indeed [more…]

For more specialty coffee knowledge, please follow our WeChat official account: FrontStreet Coffee. Drip bag coffee, as the name suggests, is coffee brewed using a drip bag. The drip bag was a product developed by the Japanese; the filter bag is used to hold the coffee, and on each side there is a small piece of cardboard, like two [more…]

Some friends who enjoy using a Moka pot often ask Front Street, "Can this coffee bean be used to make Moka pot coffee?" "Will that coffee bean taste good when brewed in a Moka pot?" And then they pick coffee beans whose flavor descriptions include acidity (fruity) to ask about. In response, Front Street will brew all these types of coffee beans to see how the Moka pot [more…]

Recently, many friends have purchased drip bag coffee and asked for brewing recommendations. Today, the barista from Front Street Coffee (FrontStreet Coffee) is here to share how to brew drip bag coffee. Drip bag coffee Drip bag coffee is coffee ground into powder and packed in a sealed filter bag. The reason it is called drip [more…]

After the typhoon passed, the temperature didn't drop but rose instead, and the air was filled with so much water vapor that everything around began to feel muggy and hot. Thanks to this, the iced coffee at Front Street Coffee's shop became "hugely popular" once again. Iced pour-over coffee in particular, since there's a much wider variety of coffee beans to choose from, is practically a "bestseller" that gets ordered at almost every table. [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…]

In the hot summer, a glass of iced coffee is truly refreshing, but now that autumn has arrived, will iced coffee still be so popular? Front Street tells everyone: absolutely! Because although it's autumn, the temperature is still there, and the taste of iced coffee is still there. Friends who like this flavor still [more…]