Front Street Coffee uses a standard dose of 15 grams of coffee per serving, so when sharing brewing methods, 15 grams is always used as the demonstration standard. However, the dose used to brew coffee varies widely. Based on Front Street Coffee's observations, the most common doses are multiples of 6—12 grams, 18 grams, and 24 grams—and these are mostly used to make a single serving of 120 [more…]

Many friends can handle brewing a single serving of coffee with ease, effortlessly producing a delicious pot of coffee. However, when the dose of grounds is doubled and they brew coffee for multiple people, their performance isn't quite as impressive! After going through the whole process, the coffee they brew not only lacks the rich layering it once had, [more…]

If you want to reduce your caffeine intake, you can start with the roast level when choosing beans for pour-over, but you can't directly equate light or dark roast with high or low caffeine. Light-roasted beans usually retain more of the aromas of their origin, while dark-roasted beans lean more toward caramel, cocoa, and roasty notes. What truly affects your intake also includes the bean variety, the number of grams used, the cup size, and the extraction efficiency. For example, [more…]

We often hear experienced coffee enthusiasts or bloggers say something like this: "Master your puck bed management, and your pour-over coffee will taste better!" Some friends find this quite puzzling! Since they've just started out, they haven't even had the chance to figure out what exactly a puck bed is, let alone manage it. [more…]

It might be used for making specialty coffee drinks, or perhaps you just want a light taste of coffee to get a hint of the flavor~ Occasionally, some friends have the idea of "brewing just a small cup of coffee with only a small amount of coffee beans." But if you've actually tried it, Front Street believes it shouldn't be hard to notice: compared to brewing with a large dose of coffee grounds, brewing a good cup with a small dose [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…]

For coffee brewing, the coffee-to-water ratio is one of the important factors that need to be considered first. But because it does not need to be adjusted according to the roast level of the coffee beans like water temperature and grinding, we often fix a ratio to brew coffee of all roast levels. For example, Front Street often recommends new [more…]

For more specialty coffee knowledge, please follow our WeChat official account: Front Street Coffee (FrontStreet Coffee). Before opening for business each day, every coffee shop's task is to dial in a qualified and delicious espresso. We know what delicious means, but what is a qualified espresso? Today Front Street [more…]

According to today's meteorological bureau report, the high temperatures in Guangdong will persist until around November. This means that for nearly two months to come, we still won't be able to do without the ultimate heat-relief weapon—iced coffee! So some friends, just like Front Street, after drinking too many sweet-and-sour light-roast iced coffees, sometimes want to switch to [more…]

Front Street Coffee's Huakui coffee has a citrussy and guava-like acidity on the palate, full of berry juice flavor, with a hint of sugarcane sweetness in the aftertaste, and a lingering lemon black tea note in the finish. The flavor is long-lasting and highly layered. It is not only suitable for pour-over, drip bag, and cold brew methods, but can also be used for espresso SOE and moka pot extraction. Below, [more…]

Every independent café has its own unique character, and the coffee beans they choose for brewing also differ. However, for large chain cafés like Starbucks, the espresso bean blends used to make coffee drinks are almost always consistent, so no matter which Starbucks you visit, you can enjoy the same coffee flavor. [more…]

For more specialty coffee knowledge, please follow our WeChat official account: Front Street Coffee (FrontStreet Coffee). When it comes to iced coffee, the first thing that comes to mind for many might be methods like ice drip or cold brew. Today, Front Street is sharing another very simple iced coffee method: ice extraction. [more…]

After buying Front Street Coffee's PWN Golden Mandheling coffee beans, a friend asked Front Street, "Why does the taste I brew at home differ from what I drink in the shop? I've already scanned the QR code on the coffee bean packaging and followed your parameters for grinding and brewing. [more…]

The roasting levels of coffee beans are divided into many types, and in specialized terminology the roasting levels mentioned can even be subdivided into eight stages, but in daily life we only need to summarize them into three: light roast, medium roast, and dark roast. Dark-roasted coffee beans can provide a large amount of mellow flavor and caramel aroma, because the longer the dark roasting time [more…]

For more specialty coffee knowledge, please follow: Front Street Coffee (Frontsteet Coffee). When making pour-over coffee, we usually perform the bloom first, which is especially common in filter-style brewing methods. So, is a bloom still necessary in immersion-style coffee extraction? [more…]

High-value Yirgacheffe recommendation. Front Street Coffee washed Yirgacheffe coffee beans. Region: Ethiopia Yirgacheffe. Altitude: 2300 meters. Variety: heirloom. Processing method: washed. Flavor notes: lemon, citrus, tea-like, honey, berry. Recommended because: classic Yirgacheffe flavor, affordable price, can be brewed [more…]

"Boss, please extract the coffee a bit longer—I want a stronger cup." Front Street Coffee believes this is a scenario many friends working in coffee shops often encounter. Some customers, wanting a more intense cup of coffee, occasionally make this request to the shop. It's not hard to understand, because in most [more…]

Recently, many coffee-loving friends who come to Front Street Coffee to buy coffee beans have asked Front Street how to correctly brew pour-over coffee to bring out its best flavor. Front Street also often says that the process of pour-over coffee is a kind of enjoyment, and coffee brewed by one's own hands feels even more delicious on a spiritual level. So this Front Street article will introduce [more…]

Water flow control, timing of pouring, and the harmonization of various parameters are all details we need to pay attention to during the coffee brewing process. Even for the three-stage pour, which Front Street Coffee considers the easiest way to brew good coffee with the highest margin for error, none of these three details can be neglected during brewing. When you stay focused for a long time or over many repetitions, [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…]