In everyday articles, Front Street Coffee often uses "juiciness" to describe a cup of coffee. "What is juiciness?" friends occasionally ask Front Street Coffee after reading. When we taste a cup of coffee, we combine the flavors and aromas we encounter with our own taste preferences and memories, associating them with [more…]

Piccolo Latte is an espresso drink made with espresso and steamed milk. It is served in a small cup, usually only 90–100ml in capacity, so it is also known as a shrunken version of a hot latte. Because baristas use lightly roasted coffee beans to make it, it has a rich coffee aroma. [more…]

What are the characteristics of Brazilian coffee, given that Brazil is the world's largest coffee-producing country? As a South American coffee, Brazilian beans have a relatively balanced flavor, low acidity, and a smooth mouthfeel, making them very suitable for use in espresso blends. Therefore, Front Street Coffee's basic blend, specialty blend, and commercial blend all use Brazilian beans as their base beans. Brazilian coffee [more…]

The base of a latte is espresso, while milk provides a smooth mouthfeel and natural sweetness. Whether the coffee beans are roasted light, medium, or dark will change the aroma, acidity, and body in the cup. If you want the coffee flavor to come through more clearly, pay attention to the intensity brought by the roast; if you prefer something soft and easy to drink, focus on the beans' sweetness and body. [more…]

Nowadays, more and more people are paying attention to single-origin coffee, but in terms of orders at FrontStreet Coffee, espresso-based drinks still account for a larger proportion. When it comes to choosing espresso beans, what FrontStreet Coffee focuses on is [more…]

For more specialty coffee knowledge, please follow our WeChat official account: Front Street Coffee (FrontStreet Coffee). Front Street believes that as a derivative of Americano, sparkling Americano truly offers a more refreshing experience. Its characteristic lies in not affecting the original coffee flavor of the Americano, and moreover [more…]

For more specialty coffee knowledge, please follow our WeChat official account: Front Street Coffee (FrontStreet Coffee). Front Street believes that as a derivative of Americano, sparkling Americano truly offers a more refreshing experience. Its feature is that it does not affect the original coffee flavor of the Americano, and moreover [more…]

If you want to reduce your caffeine intake, you can start with the roast level when choosing beans for pour-over, but you can't directly equate light or dark roast with high or low caffeine. Light-roasted beans usually retain more of the aromas of their origin, while dark-roasted beans lean more toward caramel, cocoa, and roasty notes. What truly affects your intake also includes the bean variety, the number of grams used, the cup size, and the extraction efficiency. For example, [more…]

You may find the term "flat white" unfamiliar, but anyone who has been to Starbucks will surely know the "Fu Rui Bai." In fact, names like "Xiao Bai Coffee," "Fu Rui Bai," "Chun Yi Bai," "Ao Rui Bai," and "Aussie White" all refer to the flat white. It originated in Oceania (Australia), which is why it is also called Aussie white coffee. [more…]

Water flow control, timing of pouring, and the harmonization of various parameters are all details we need to pay attention to during the coffee brewing process. Even for the three-stage pour, which Front Street Coffee considers the easiest way to brew good coffee with the highest margin for error, none of these three details can be neglected during brewing. When you stay focused for a long time or over many repetitions, [more…]

At FrontStreet Coffee, you'll see ceramic cups of all sizes lined up on the espresso machine, and these cups have specific meanings—different types of coffee are served in different cup sizes. In this article, Front Street tells you the secrets behind these coffee cups. [more…]

Starting a refined day for the working crowd often takes just a cup of freshly ground coffee, and an Americano is the top choice for countless office workers. No matter what factors are at play, the Americano is always the "pillar" of any coffee shop, so its taste often directly shapes people's first impression of the place—sometimes even prompting the thought, "They can't even make a decent [more…]

Bolivia is a fascinating place. Although it is called a paradise for coffee growing, its production has always been low. Front Street Coffee is deeply impressed by the delicate flavors of Bolivian coffee. In terms of flavor expression, Bolivian coffee is mostly characterized by rich sweetness and soft acidity. At the 2017 WBC (World Coffee [more…]

The allure of Yirgacheffe lies in how white flowers, citrus, and a tea-like quality gradually unfold after roasting. Brewing it soon after roasting means the cup may be disturbed by more gas, with the aroma slightly tight and the acidity and sweetness not yet fully integrated; leave it too long, and the bright fruity notes slowly fade. Freshness is not about being as close to the roast date as possible, but about the beans [more…]

Front Street Coffee has found that many friends always run into this problem when they first start learning coffee brewing: they find that the coffee they brew doesn't taste good, but they can't quite say exactly what's wrong with it. To be honest, if we want to brew a good cup of coffee, besides learning the underlying logic of brewing and mastering the correct extraction parameters, [more…]

Americano is one of the most popular coffees. Whether it's office workers during the week or people out having fun on weekends, holding a cup of Americano is standard. So what is the magic of Americano that makes everyone love it so much? Made only of espresso and water, the Americano is available at almost every cof [more…]

In coffee history, the specialty coffee wave and its three waves form the basic understanding people have of coffee. People often compare and contrast specialty coffee beans with commercial coffee beans, as if the two were opposites. So what are the differences and connections between them? To understand the differences between the two, we must first understand specialty coffee's [more…]

For more specialty coffee knowledge, please follow: Front Street Coffee (Frontsteet Coffee). When making pour-over coffee, we usually perform the bloom first, which is especially common in filter-style brewing methods. So, is a bloom still necessary in immersion-style coffee extraction? [more…]

If you want to taste flavors like cocoa, nuts, and caramel from a moka pot, don't just look at the flavor labels when buying beans—pay attention to the roast date and how quickly you open and finish the bag. When coffee beans first leave the roaster, they still hold a large amount of carbon dioxide internally, and their aroma hasn't yet stabilized; leave them too long, and the aroma and sweetness gradually fade. When choosing and drinking beans, [more…]

Latte art almost always uses espresso as its base, and when brewing espresso, there are actually tricks to make it more suitable for latte art. So, which kind of coffee beans is more suitable for latte art? Front Street Coffee is here today to give the answer. Recommendations for choosing latte art coffee beans. To make perfect latte art, we first [more…]