The concept of specialty coffee has been in China for over thirty years, and has developed rapidly in the past decade. At the same time, people have also raised questions about the concept of specialty coffee. Pour-over is generally considered specialty coffee, so are Americano, espresso, and others also specialty coffee? In fact, in international coffee competitions, especially in Northern Europe, espresso [more…]

Mainstream Third Wave Specialty Coffee Nowadays, cafes often emphasize that they serve "specialty coffee." What exactly is "specialty coffee"? Why is it that among the home-roasting businesses blooming like wildflowers, over ninety percent choose the so-called light-to-medium roast to interpret the flavors of green coffee beans? Just pay a little attention to coffee-related articles. [more…]

Coffee is more than just a beverage, and a café is more than just a place to drink coffee. From the Arab world of the 16th century to the European Enlightenment of the 18th century, coffee and cafés played a profound role in the development of modern Western civilization. Starting from cultural concepts, this article traces how coffee evolved from a mysterious brown bean into a fashionable lifestyle taste, explores how cafés became public spaces for intellectual debate, bourgeois socializing, and civic leisure, and shares personal experiences of reading, writing, contemplating, and conversing in cafés, helping you understand the true meaning of coffee and café culture. [more…]

For more specialty coffee knowledge, please follow our WeChat official account: FrontStreet Coffee. Blended coffee beans are commonly found in espresso, but are rarely seen in pour-over coffee. So, will blended coffee beans taste good when brewed as pour-over? - Understanding blended coffee beans [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…]

Have you noticed that many coffee shops nowadays have added a "swap to SOE" option on their menus, and some even offer several SOE choices? I believe quite a few friends have begun to wonder what these letters actually mean. First, let's understand the concept of SOE. SOE is Single Orig [more…]

If you hear someone beside you describing the taste of a cup of drink, "floral, fruity acid, honey sweet, tea charm……" There is no doubt that this is probably describing the flavor of the coffee in his cup. Nowadays, it is hard to know what the "coff [more…]

We often see the words "pure Arabica coffee beans" in TV commercials, or in coffee shops and convenience stores. Many people are very curious: what are Arabica coffee beans? In this article, Front Street will answer these questions one by one ~ What are Arabica coffee beans? There are three main types of coffee beans in the world. [more…]

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Without adding sugar or milk, how to hand-brew a delicious and distinctive cup of coffee is a difficult challenge for many enthusiasts just starting out in coffee. Pour too much water and the coffee will be weak; pour too little and it will be very strong and harsh on the throat. Therefore, you must pay attention to the coffee-to-water ratio. So exactly how much water should be used to brew a cup of coffee? The coffee-to-water ratio is probably what every [more…]

Green Mountain Coffee and Blue Mountain Coffee differ by only one word, yet they belong to completely different concepts. The former is a commercial coffee brand from Vermont in the United States, known for its K-Cup single-serve system and its environmental and fair trade philosophy; the latter is a top-tier single-origin coffee produced in Jamaica's Blue Mountains, subject to strict regional standards, with scarce output and a high price. This article will sort out the essential differences between the two one by one from the perspectives of origin background, brand positioning, market history, and quality standards, and introduce the Blue Mountain No. 1 coffee beans recommended by Front Street Coffee along with brewing suggestions, helping coffee lovers clearly distinguish between these two coffees that are often confused. [more…]

For more specialty coffee knowledge, please follow our WeChat public account: Front Street Coffee (FrontStreet Coffee). With the advancement of coffee specialization, SOE has gradually become popular. So what is SOE? Is SOE coffee tastier than blended coffee? Now Front Street Coffee (Fron [more…]

Have you noticed that many coffee shop menus now include a "switch to SOE" option, and some even offer several SOE choices? I believe quite a few friends have started to wonder what these letters actually mean. In this article, Front Street will summarize SOE and the blended coffee we commonly see. [more…]

In recent years, many coffee shops have introduced SOE coffee. Even quite a few friends who come to Front Street's store ask as soon as they walk in whether SOE is available here. So Front Street will briefly analyze why SOE has become popular. SOE (single origin espresso) means single-origin espresso. [more…]

From light roast to dark roast, coffee beans change not only in color, but also in aroma, sweetness, acidity and mouthfeel weight. Single-origin emphasizes the personality of a certain origin or batch, while a blend combines the characteristics of different beans; pour-over is an extraction method, and is not the same as a fixed type of bean. Keep these concepts separate, and then, from [more…]

Iced coffee has been around for centuries, and the concept seems to have originated in places as far-flung as Vienna and France, so don't be ashamed if it's your go-to. Cold brew coffee has rapidly gained its own fame over the past five years or so, as it has become more readily available. The difference between cold brew coffee and iced coffee [more…]

For more specialty coffee knowledge, please follow: Front Street Coffee (Frontsteet Coffee). While researching information, Front Street Coffee (FrontStreet Coffee) discovered that the concept of cold brew coffee was proposed by Toddy Simpson, who is an American Conne [more…]

There always is such a group of people who have obtained a code for self-reference due to the particularity of their profession. Even in the seemingly not vast field of coffee, there is also such a profession. After the concept of specialty coffee wa [more…]

The scoring criteria for coffee cupping. The cupping of coffee beans was initially to ensure whether the quality of the coffee beans that are about to enter the trade is qualified. With the passage of time, after the concept of specialty coffee was b [more…]

With the rise and popularity of the specialty coffee concept, emphasizing the flavor of origin—that is, the taste of the bean itself—has become a consensus, at least among some people. And after 2000, the third wave emphasized origin and light-roast flavors, and many single-origin coffees became increasingly well known. Among them, Kenyan coffee is known for its bright acidity. [more…]