When choosing a tasty Brazilian coffee bean, you can set the complex information aside for now. For everyday bean buying, you need to consider how quickly you'll drink it, how much to buy at once, and whether you'll mainly make black coffee or milk coffee at home. Starting from these two pairs of differences—light or full-bodied, black coffee or milk coffee—and then looking at the roast date and processing method, your judgment will be more in tune with daily life. [more…]

As is well known, Front Street Coffee recently launched a new fruity and floral espresso blend on Taobao Tmall—Front Street Strawberry Candy Espresso. Perhaps because the flavor is quite appealing, friends often ask our customer service like this: "Your espresso beans are so delicious, can they be used for pour-over?" The answer is [more…]

Whenever the perceived temperature rises above 25°C, people start looking for refreshing iced coffee, and cold brew is one of the most popular homemade iced coffee options, because it is easy to make with simple equipment—as long as you have a bag of fresh, good beans, you can effortlessly make delicious coffee at home. If you were to recommend one suitable for begin [more…]

As we all know! The condition of coffee beans and the weather are constantly changing every day, and this directly affects espresso extraction, causing the coffee's taste to vary each day due to these changes. If we want to keep the coffee consistently delicious, we have to adjust parameters to correct the coffee's flavor. And this is [more…]

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 integration process. First point: choose suitable ingredients. Why is a latte so simple? Basically, every coffee bean menu has it as a staple, yet every shop's latte doesn't taste exactly the same. [more…]

For professional coffee knowledge exchange and more coffee bean information, please follow Coffee Workshop (WeChat official account: cafe_style). For more specialty coffee beans, please add our private WeChat: Front Street Coffee (FrontStreet Coffee), WeChat ID: qjcoffeex. Under the scorching weather [more…]

Dirty (dirty coffee) has been a perennial staple on café menus in recent years: hot espresso slowly sinks into iced milk, without stirring, and you drink it from top to bottom, so that in a single sip you get the alternation of hot and cold and the layering of milk and coffee. It looks simple, but between a delicious one and a mediocre one lies the gap of bean selection and details. The principle of Dirty: why [more…]

When choosing a delicious espresso coffee bean, you can set the complex information aside for now. For everyday bean buying, you need to consider how quickly you'll drink them, how much to buy at once, and whether you mainly make black coffee or milk coffee at home. Start from the two sets of differences—light or rich, black coffee or milk coffee—then look at the roast date and processing method, and your judgment will be closer to your daily needs. [more…]

In fact, making a latte doesn't have many key points; just pay attention to a tiny bit of detail, and you can double its deliciousness! So today, Front Street Coffee is here to share how to make a latte at home that tastes just as good as one from a café! 1. Choosing coffee beans Coffee beans are the main controller of a latte's flavor. The roasting of a bean [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…]

For professional coffee knowledge exchange and more coffee bean information, please follow Coffee Workshop (WeChat official account: cafe_style). For more specialty coffee beans, please add our personal WeChat Front Street Coffee (FrontStreet Coffee), WeChat ID: qjcoffeex. Quite a few friends have asked [more…]

I often see friends leaving messages in the background asking: Are there any recommendations for affordable and delicious coffee beans? For this question, the answer is undoubtedly: Of course there are. Without further delay, today I will recommend a few coffee brands that are most worth buying. Not only are they economical and affordable, but they also offer a wide variety of flavors and types—definitely cheap and generous daily staples. [more…]

For more specialty coffee knowledge, please follow: Front Street Coffee (Frontsteet Coffee) Recently, more friends have been visiting Front Street stores to ask about Mocha coffee. Unfortunately, Mocha coffee has already been removed from Front Street's menu, so these friends have all hit a dead end one after another. "Since [more…]

Coffee is one of the world's three major beverages. It has a richer aroma than cocoa and is more refreshing than tea, which is why many people have made a habit of drinking coffee. But nowadays there are so many kinds of coffee on the market, and the taste of freshly ground coffee varies so much. Given all these variations in taste, how exactly should you choose freshly ground coffee? How can you buy something that is both delicious and [more…]

To make delicious cold brew coffee, Front Street believes three things are essential: choosing floral and fruity coffee beans: since cold brew coffee is extracted at low temperature over a long period, more small-molecule substances in the coffee beans such as floral notes and fruit acids are extracted, while large-molecule substances such as tannic acid and other bitter compounds are difficult to extract. [more…]

When ordering a coffee at a café, have you ever been asked by the barista, "Would you like to try our SOE?" The so-called "SOE" is short for "Single Origin Espresso," which means espresso made from a single-origin coffee. Many people think that single origin is better than blends. [more…]

Honestly, among all the coffee gear out there, Front Street Coffee's favorite is the French press. Why? Because it's incredibly easy to use—no need for any precise pouring technique or complicated variable control to brew a delicious cup of coffee effortlessly. It's just too relaxing (and the key point is it's also very cheap). But then again, [more…]

A good-tasting Americano coffee bean isn't something you can pin down just by memorizing a few names. For everyday bean buying, you need to consider how fast you'll go through them, how much to buy at once, and whether your home setup is mainly for black coffee or milk drinks. What's genuinely useful for reference is the sweet-to-sour ratio when it hits your palate, the body's thickness or thinness, and the finish once it cools—then combine that with your brewing habits, and your options become [more…]

When you go to a café and want to order an Americano or a milk coffee, you often face two options: one is the default espresso blend, and the other is the SOE that costs extra. At this point, some people might wonder, why is this "SOE" more expensive than the blend? What exactly makes it more expensive? What is SOE coffee? SO [more…]

As coffee becomes increasingly popular, the moka pot, as an affordable coffee brewing device, has gained widespread popularity. More and more people keep a moka pot at the office or at home so they can enjoy delicious coffee at any time. But many friends are not familiar with how to use a moka pot, so after buying one they find themselves at a loss. [more…]