A surprise question from Front Street Coffee: when you pour coffee grounds into the dripper and end up with the scene shown below, what would you choose to do? A: Pat it flat. B: Pat it flat. C: Choose one or two. I believe most friends, just like Front Street Coffee, would choose to tap the dripper to make this unevenly distributed coffee bed become more level. [more…]

According to the news of the Chinese business website, on May 11, 2023, China and Ecuador signed the "Free Trade Agreement between the Government of the People's Republic of China and the Government of the Republic of Ecuador". At present, both China [more…]

Coffee is a drink many people can't do without every day, but what exactly are its positive and negative effects on the body? This article starts with coffee's main components, systematically sorting out the effects of substances such as caffeine, tannic acid, fat, and sugar, then separately explains the benefits of drinking coffee in moderation, including refreshing the mind, protecting the skin, sobering up, and preventing gallstones, while also discussing problems that may be caused by excessive intake, such as caffeine poisoning, insomnia, and anxiety. The article also specifically lists six groups of people who should not drink much coffee, and gives reminders about drinking on an empty stomach and for people with high blood pressure. If you care about the relationship between coffee and health, this content can serve as a fairly complete reference. [more…]

The most primitive purpose of coffee is to refresh the mind. Whether it's an espresso you drink and go, the drip coffee maker that's a fixture in the office, or even a pour-over single-origin coffee you make a special trip to the coffee bean shop for, they all have the function of refreshing you. It's just that everyone chooses the appropriate one based on different requirements for the scenario, function, and taste. [more…]

To be honest, Front Street Coffee thinks that coffee filter paper can really be called a very versatile tool. Because it's not just for pour-over coffee—it's also used for iced drip coffee, cold brew coffee, espresso, and some friends even use it when making coffee with a moka pot! And at this point, some friends have raised a question. [more…]

Before buying beans, go through your daily scenarios: is it black coffee in the morning or a milk coffee with meals, the ritual of pour-over or the efficiency of a machine. These answers determine how to choose the roast level, flavor intensity, and brewing method. Espresso extraction can be understood as a balancing game among dose, grind size, yield, and time. Blend beans [more…]

A coffee shop's espresso recipe is called a House Blend, usually made by blending two or more different single-origin coffees, primarily used to make espresso-based drinks such as cappuccino, Americano, latte, and flat white. Having a bag of espresso beans just like the coffee shop's is how we recreate it at home. [more…]

Dirty coffee has always existed as a hidden menu item at Front Street Coffee, because in Front Street's view, Dirty is simply a "special" way of drinking a latte. Until one day, I happened to overhear a customer explaining it to his friend, which boiled down to "Dirty is made with ice bock milk [冰博克奶] as the base, then pouring espresso over it." [more…]

Introduction: Dirty coffee burst onto the scene a few years ago, converting many latte loyalists into Dirty devotees. Unlike iced latte, Dirty coffee offers a visual and taste-bud double delight as you watch the espresso and milk create a gradient effect, and with one sip you go from rich coffee to sweet milk. [more…]

If we want to add some extra aroma or flavor to coffee, we do so by adding other ingredients to the coffee so that it takes on their aroma/flavor—this is a very common practice. For example, if we want the coffee to have a certain floral scent, we can steep dried flowers of some kind in the coffee; such as [more…]

Mandehling is a relatively traditional coffee bean, originating from the island of Sumatra in Indonesia. It is usually dark roasted, so it does not have a pronounced acidity, but instead shows a strong, bitter profile of nuts, chocolate, and caramel, with a rich, sweet aftertaste. Here are two everyday drinking Mandehling coffees worth recommending. [more…]

Drip coffee bags, also called filter-hanging coffee, break the need for complex equipment to brew specialty coffee. You don't have to worry about the grind size of the coffee beans, nor do you need a specific pouring technique. Just open the drip bag and hang it on your cup, pour in hot water, and you can recreate the joy of drinking pour-over coffee. It is the top choice for many office workers. [more…]

Freshly ground and freshly roasted may sound like they are both about pursuing coffee "freshness," but their meanings and value are actually completely different. Fresh grinding is to let you taste the fullest aroma of the coffee beans, because once the beans are ground into powder, the aromatic substances will accelerate their loss, so it needs to be drunk as soon as possible. And if you want to taste freshly ground coffee, then [more…]

"By rinsing our mouths with ice water, we can better appreciate a cup of coffee and more easily capture its delicate flavors." This is a saying that has long circulated in the community. That's why we often see customers in cafés, after ordering their coffee, ask the barista for a cup of ice water, and their main purpose is precisely this. [more…]

Every espresso machine and espresso grinder performs differently, and different coffee beans also have different states. It is not a hundred percent guaranteed that you can extract a delicious espresso under such data. Through extremely fine grinding, and in a 9-10 bar vacuum environment, let 94-degree water quickly pass through the coffee grounds. [more…]

Black coffee, also known as "zhai coffee," means black coffee in Cantonese. So zhai coffee refers to pure black coffee with no additives whatsoever, such as the commonly seen espresso, Americano, iced drip, cold brew, and coffee extracted by various brewing devices all belong to zhai coffee, like siphon, French press, moka pot, and so on. Among them, iced Ameri- [more…]

Dirty coffee is espresso extracted over iced milk, creating a beautiful layered look. As time passes, the coffee liquid on top slowly encroaches on the pristine white milk, forming a lovely gradient inside the transparent glass, as if the pure white milk has been dirtied. Put simply, a Dirty coffee is a visually striking drink that [more…]

A cost-effective espresso bean for home use isn't just about memorizing a few names. When buying beans day to day, you need to consider how fast you'll go through them, how much to buy at once, and whether your household mainly drinks black coffee or milk-based coffee. What's truly worth referencing is the sweet-to-sour ratio on the palate, the body's thickness, and the aftertaste once it cools, combined with your brewing habits, [more…]

Drip bag coffee is a portable pour-over coffee made by grinding roasted coffee beans to a suitable coarseness, then packaging the grounds in specially designed drip bag coffee packets that are individually sealed. The coffee brewed from drip bag packets is generally black coffee with no sugar, no milk, and no additives. The benefits and drawbacks of drinking drip bag coffee, according to "The Aroma of Coffee [more…]

Finally! Under the wash of cold air, Front Street Coffee has at last felt the chill that autumn should bring in Guangzhou. Although it's said to be short-lived, it's still better than nothing. And as Front Street Coffee has often shared, a drop in temperature does have a certain effect on coffee. This effect isn't just on extraction, but also on what is made. [more…]