Many friends have come to visit Front Street Coffee, drawn by its reputation. Besides marveling at the wide variety of coffee beans, they also greatly admire the baristas' brewing skills. Among them, many want to discuss pour-over brewing with the baristas. So Front Street Coffee takes this opportunity to share some thoughts on how to improve coffee brewing skills. Before that, Front Street Coffee asked [more…]

In recent years, with the rise of the specialty coffee wave, more and more people choose to buy beans and take them home to brew a cup of coffee for themselves, enjoying a leisurely moment. But everything is hard at the beginning, and many beginners wonder, "The coffee I drank in your shop was so good, why can't I brew the same flavor when I go home?" Part of the reason [more…]

For more specialty coffee knowledge, follow our WeChat public account: FrontStreet Coffee (FrontStreet Coffee) No matter what equipment is used to brew coffee, the coffee beans must be ground, the purpose being to allow the coffee's flavor compounds to dissolve more quickly. Of course, not all of the coffee's soluble [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…]

"Excuse me, what grind size should I use for pour-over coffee?" "Why is the grind at setting 10 on your machine different from setting 10 on mine?" "When you say 'sugar-like,' do you mean caster sugar, granulated sugar, or brown sugar?" ... Are you still struggling to find the right grind size for your coffee brewing device? Front Street has an article to [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…]

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…]

For more specialty coffee knowledge, please follow: Front Street Coffee (Frontsteet Coffee). The most charming thing about pour-over coffee is its adjustability. Many customers who often come to Front Street for coffee also try making pour-over at home, and they always say that pour-over coffee is too difficult. [more…]

A delicious cup of coffee is hard-won, because from seed to cup is a very long wait. Even at the final step of extraction, you must ensure that the coffee you use meets brewing standards, because extraction is easy—but have you ever thought about it? Coffee grounds are what extract the flavor compounds, [more…]

Coffee mysticism has long become a commonplace topic in coffee circles, and the most discussed aspects are flavor mysticism and brewing mysticism. Front Street is here to help everyone unveil the surface-level mysticism and reveal the underlying science. Flavor mysticism generally refers to when you drink a cup of coffee and only taste bitterness and sourness, while the person next to you [more…]

For more specialty coffee knowledge, please follow: Front Street Coffee (FrontStreet Coffee). Every day at Front Street Coffee, we encounter customers asking about pour-over coffee, perhaps about what pouring technique should be used for pour-over coffee? Or [more…]

With the growing popularity of specialty coffee culture, more and more coffee enthusiasts are starting to study at home how to brew pour-over coffee in order to bring out the flavor of single-origin coffee beans, but they don't know how to do it. They always feel that the coffee they brew doesn't taste as good as what they drink in a café. So how can you brew out the flavor of a single-origin coffee bean? [more…]

When brewing the vast majority of coffees, we always casually press the timer function that comes with the scale to start counting time—this is something that seasoned baristas have emphasized since the very beginning. But for some friends, this behavior is incomprehensible, because they believe that recording time has no effect on the coffee. [more…]

The same beans will perform noticeably differently in different brewing devices. Pour-over emphasizes aroma and clarity, espresso machines highlight intensity and sweetness, while a moka pot requires balancing pressure, heat, and the coffee bed. Bean selection cannot be separated from the brewing device, and the parameters should also be adjusted accordingly based on the roast level of the beans. Pour-over flavor is mainly determined by origin and... [more…]

The same coffee beans placed in different brewing devices will show noticeable changes in performance. Pour-over places more emphasis on aroma and clarity, espresso machines highlight intensity and sweetness, while a moka pot requires balancing pressure, heat, and the coffee bed. Bean selection cannot be separated from the brewing device, and parameters should also be adjusted accordingly based on the roast level of the beans. Pour-over flavor is mainly determined by origin, va [more…]

The same beans will perform noticeably differently when put into different brewing devices. Pour-over places more emphasis on aroma and clarity, espresso machines emphasize intensity and sweetness, while a moka pot requires balancing pressure, heat, and the coffee bed. Bean selection cannot be separated from the brewing device, and the parameters must also be adjusted accordingly based on the roast level of the beans. Pour-over flavor is mainly determined by origin and [more…]

There are many factors that affect the taste of coffee. During the brewing process, the factors that influence coffee include the coffee-to-water ratio, grind size, water temperature, etc. Among them, grind size can be said to be very important. There is a saying in the industry: "You can buy a cheaper coffee machine, but the grinder must be the best." It has to be said that grinding really has an [more…]

Many people, when preparing instant noodles, strictly follow the "scientific instant noodle method," using a stopwatch to steep the noodles in 100°C boiling water for exactly 3 minutes, all to achieve the best possible texture. Similarly, when brewing coffee, we also time it precisely, with the same goal: to consistently brew a delicious cup of coffee. [more…]

The same coffee beans will perform noticeably differently when brewed in different devices. Pour-over places more emphasis on aroma and clarity, the espresso machine focuses on intensity and sweetness, and the moka pot requires a balance of pressure, heat, and the coffee bed. Bean selection cannot be separated from the brewing device, and the parameters must also be adjusted accordingly based on the roast level of the beans. Pour-over flavor is mainly determined by origin, quality [more…]

The same beans placed in different brewing devices will show noticeable changes in performance. Pour-over places more emphasis on aroma and clarity, espresso machines emphasize intensity and sweetness, while the moka pot requires balancing pressure, heat, and the coffee bed. Bean selection cannot be separated from the brewing device, and parameters must also be adjusted accordingly based on the beans' roast level. Cold brew or ice drip's low-temperature extraction will [more…]