Front Street Coffee encounters customers asking about pour-over coffee every day, whether it's about what pouring technique should be used for pour-over coffee, or how much coffee grounds to use for pour-over coffee. In fact, with the development of coffee culture, more and more people no longer think of coffee as [more…]

In yesterday's post, Front Street mentioned that one of the advantages of pour-over coffee is its high level of controllability. During the brewing process, we can adjust the pouring method based on the actual situation, so that the coffee's flavor does not stray from being delicious. This statement is not unfounded; many techniques can help us do [more…]

Front Street Coffee (FrontStreet Coffee) entered the coffee industry in 2013, and has come step by step from coffee cultivation and coffee roasting to coffee service. Today, the more than 30 coffee beans displayed in the shop are only Front Street Coffee (FrontStreet Cof [more…]

For more specialty coffee knowledge, please follow: Front Street Coffee (Frontsteet Coffee). One of the great joys of pour-over coffee is using different brewing techniques to interpret a cup of coffee. And as for pour-over methods, I believe everyone pays close attention. So the most widely spread pour-over technique at present is the one-pour method. [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…]

When it comes to Indonesian Mandheling, the most famous and popular is undoubtedly the Golden Mandheling coffee beans produced by the Indonesian PWN company. As a result, many people come to try Golden Mandheling coffee and decide to buy the beans to brew at home, but they can never reproduce the taste they had in the coffee shop. Why is that? [more…]

Many people ask Front Street, how long does it take to learn latte art? If we're just talking about producing a good-looking pattern, with a bit of luck it only takes one day. If we're talking about truly mastering a pattern, it takes at least 4 days. So many people ask, where do these 4 days come from? It's simple: Day one, read this article from Front Street; day two, practice; day three, [more…]

For professional coffee knowledge exchange and more coffee bean consultations, please follow Coffee Workshop (WeChat public account cafe_style). If you love drinking coffee, pour-over coffee is a skill you absolutely must master. Whether it's ordinary coffee beans or specialty coffee beans, pour-over coffee is one of the most widely used extraction methods. [more…]

For more specialty coffee knowledge, please follow our WeChat official account: Front Street Coffee (FrontStreet Coffee). For a delicious latte, Front Street believes the most important factors are the quality of the coffee beans and milk, the ratio of coffee to milk, and the extraction and blending technique. Point one: choose suitable ingredients as [more…]

Pour-over coffee is a brewing method that places great emphasis on technique and coffee expertise. Factors such as the amount of coffee beans used for pour-over, the coffee grind size, the coffee-to-water ratio and time, and the brewing technique all affect the flavor extracted in pour-over coffee. So how can you brew a perfect-tasting pot of pour-over coffee? In the rest of this article, Front Street [more…]

Latte art mainly includes three forms: free pouring, etching, and stenciling. Stenciling uses a stencil to sprinkle cocoa powder, chocolate powder, or cinnamon powder onto the coffee to create a pattern. Free pouring and etching are collectively known as Latte Art; the former involves pouring hot [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…]

Pour-over coffee is a process where flavor extraction and filtration happen simultaneously, with extraction occurring centered around the spot where water is poured, and the key lies in how to control and balance it. At Front Street, when adjusting pour-over coffee parameters, we usually consider the grind size of the coffee beans and the brewing water temperature first, but in fact the coffee-to-water ratio is also very important. During brewing, the water [more…]

Front Street often encounters many pour-over beginners asking a question: Why does pour-over coffee need blooming? The most indispensable step in pour-over coffee is the blooming phase. The purpose of blooming is to allow the coffee to release gases and ensure even extraction, and it also clearly reveals whether the beans being brewed are fresh. Front Street focuses on freshness [more…]

Latte art mainly takes three forms: free pouring, etching, and stenciling. Stenciling uses a stencil to dust cocoa powder, chocolate powder, or cinnamon powder onto the coffee to create a pattern. Free pouring and etching are together known as Latte Art: the former involves pouring steamed [more…]

After reading the title, I bet some of you are already nodding and going, "Yes, yes, that's exactly what happens to me!" So scroll down quickly to clear up your confusion. You clearly followed the steps in the tutorial: tear open—hang it up—boil water—pour water—wait for it to drip through... Yet it feels like ages have passed, so why is the water still sitting on top, cof- [more…]

Coffee comes in different roast levels, and the flavor expression of coffee varies under different roast levels. The appreciation of specialty coffee has become a trend, and more and more people have fallen in love with the unique fruity and floral flavors of specialty coffee, so the roast level of pour-over coffee beans on the market has also become lighter and lighter. But in fact, no one likes to drink coffee that is only sour, even if it is [more…]

When we say coffee is sweet, besides referring to the sweetness on the palate, we are actually also referring to the sweet aroma on the nose. So from a tasting perspective, only an acidic coffee with a sweet, fragrant base can be considered a high-scoring flavor experience, and to make coffee appropriately sweet and sour, roasting plays a key role. From the moment a coffee bean begins to be heated as green beans until [more…]

When asked what coffee brewing dripper Front Street recommends, the baristas at Front Street almost unanimously answer: V60! The V60 dripper's long ribs help rapidly extract flavor compounds, and its large hole poses no risk of clogging, resulting in coffee with layered complexity. Whether you're a beginner or a seasoned connoisseur, whether you want a refreshing [more…]

Yesterday a friend chatted with Front Street about a rather interesting phenomenon: he noticed that most people, when brewing coffee, even during the waiting intervals when they're not pouring water, still choose to fix their eyes intently on the changes in the dripper, as if trying to glean some information from the coffee bed. And you know what, there really is some truth [more…]