For more specialty coffee knowledge, please follow: Front Street Coffee (Frontsteet Coffee) Many friends in their daily lives, when brewing pour-over coffee, do not use a thermometer and brew a coffee bean with an approximate water temperature, and then because the taste is different every time, they start to question whether it is the coffee bean. [more…]

Before writing this article, Front Street asked several coffee professionals/enthusiasts: "Under normal circumstances, when making cold brew coffee, if you use the same water, coffee beans, amount of coffee grounds, brewing container, and brewing time, how would you increase the extraction concentration of the coffee?" I believe everyone, like the interviewees, would [more…]

With the rapid development of the specialty coffee market, more and more people are beginning to explore pour-over coffee. Many beginners feel completely lost when it comes to making pour-over coffee—the dazzling array of brewing equipment, coffee brewing techniques, and so on make many people feel it's a hassle. Quite a few friends have also come to Front Street Coffee asking how to get started with pour-over coffee, how to brew [more…]

Why is pour-over coffee so fascinating? What is the key to a good cup of pour-over coffee? In the following article, FrontStreet Coffee will introduce the basics of pour-over coffee, so you can brew great coffee at home too! What is pour-over coffee? Pour-over coffee, as the name suggests, [more…]

For more specialty coffee knowledge, please follow: Front Street Coffee (Frontsteet Coffee). If you want to drink cold brew coffee but don't want to go out and buy it, then Front Street Coffee (FrontStreet Coffee) is here to teach you how to make cold brew coffee at home. Cold brew coffee is a [more…]

For more specialty coffee knowledge, please follow: Front Street Coffee (Frontsteet Coffee). Ice drip coffee has always been a very popular coffee at Front Street Coffee (FrontStreet Coffee). Especially in summer, the baristas at Front Street make ice [more…]

The happiness of summer is probably being able to stay indoors, enjoy the air conditioning, and still sip a cup of cold brew coffee that beats the heat. Because it's so easy to make, even those who don't know how to brew coffee can effortlessly whip up a smooth, rich, full-flavored, clean and refreshing iced coffee that's perfect for summer. Another [more…]

Although floral aromas are not uncommon in coffee, they are undoubtedly one of the most appealing flavors among the many. After all, quite a few friends became fascinated with coffee precisely because they tasted floral notes in it. But brewing floral notes out of coffee is not a simple matter, because friends often tell Front Street that they [more…]

For more specialty coffee knowledge, please follow: Front Street Coffee (Frontsteet Coffee) The happiness of summer is probably being able to stay indoors, enjoy the air conditioning, and sip a cup of cold brew coffee that beats the heat. Because the brewing method is simple, even those who don't know how to brew coffee can easily make [more…]

For more specialty coffee knowledge, please follow our WeChat official account: FrontStreet Coffee. Cold brew coffee has always been very popular. On hot summer days, when people come into the shop, many of them choose a cold brew coffee. Take a sip of cold brew—the icy coffee feels clean and smooth in the mouth. [more…]

In such hot weather, in such a hot Guangzhou, taking a sip of iced coffee is simply one of life's great pleasures. Everyone may have had plenty of iced coffee, so what exactly is cold brew coffee? Why isn't it available in every coffee shop? Today Front Street is here to give everyone a little primer on the category of cold brew coffee. The production process of cold brew and Americano [more…]

Latte art is a romantic expression of a barista's skill, with white milk foam blooming into heart or leaf patterns on the surface of dark brown espresso. Latte art is divided into two types: free-pour latte art and etched latte art created after pouring. The wonder of the former lies in the pattern forming simultaneously with the pour, while the latter offers a wider range of designs because the stable foam allows for leisurely drawing. From a physics perspective, the core of latte art lies in surfactants—molecules that possess both hydrophilic and hydrophobic groups, capable of stabilizing the interface between air and liquid to form lasting foam. Milk proteins and coffee lipids act together as surfactants, enabling the two micron-scale foams to remain clearly separated for a long time after mixing, thereby allowing the pattern to persist. This article will guide you from the basic principles of surfactants to understand espresso's crema, the formation of hot milk foam, and why foam mixing rather than liquid mixing is the key to successful latte art, while also revealing the widespread applications of surfactants in daily life and industry. [more…]

With the development of the specialty coffee market, single-origin coffee is increasingly recognized by the public, so many coffee enthusiasts are teaching themselves how to brew pour-over coffee at home. As a result, coffee-loving friends often ask, when buying coffee beans at Front Street Coffee, how the coffee-to-water ratio for pour-over coffee should be determined. So in this next article, Front Street [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…]

Espresso is surely familiar to everyone; the coffee base for many milk-based coffee drinks is made by extracting espresso under pressure from an espresso machine and then adding milk. Many beginners have also asked Front Street Coffee (FrontStreet Coffee) whether espresso can be drunk directly. [more…]

For more specialty coffee knowledge, please follow: Front Street Coffee (Frontsteet Coffee). There are many ways to brew coffee, and the most common is pour-over coffee, but pour-over coffee requires attention to many small details; and today Front Street wants to introduce to you a relatively simple coffee brewing method. [more…]

For more specialty coffee knowledge, please follow: Front Street Coffee (Frontsteet Coffee). Iced coffee has a refreshing and palate-cleansing taste; even in the dead of winter, some customers come to Front Street to order this kind of iced coffee. Because iced coffee and hot coffee differ in extraction principles, the flavor of the coffee also differs. [more…]

For more specialty coffee knowledge, please follow: Front Street Coffee (Frontsteet Coffee) In the hot summer, a glass of iced coffee is truly delightful, but now that autumn has arrived, will iced coffee still be so favored? Front Street tells everyone: absolutely! Because although the weather [more…]

For more specialty coffee knowledge, please follow: Front Street Coffee (Frontsteet Coffee). Iced coffee has a refreshing and palate-cleansing taste. Even in the dead of winter, some customers come to Front Street to order this iced coffee. Because iced coffee and hot coffee are extracted using different principles, the flavor of the coffee will also be different. [more…]

For more specialty coffee knowledge, please follow our WeChat official account: Front Street Coffee (FrontStreet Coffee). A while ago, a Starbucks report showed that cold drinks now account for 70% of total beverage sales. Among them, cold brew coffee is increasingly favored by the new generation of consumers. A simple [more…]