Many friends have come to visit Front Street Coffee, drawn by its reputation. Besides marveling at the wide variety of coffee beans, they also greatly admire the baristas' brewing skills. Among them, many want to discuss pour-over brewing with the baristas. So Front Street Coffee takes this opportunity to share some thoughts on how to improve coffee brewing skills. Before that, Front Street Coffee asked [more…]

Nobody wants to ruin their own coffee, especially specialty coffee beans that aren't cheap. Nobody wants to drink a cup of terrible coffee, but with these common mistakes, if you hit even one of them, no matter what you use, it's not just a wasted pot of coffee—if you never realize where the problem lies, then you will [more…]

Pour-over coffee can be quite a magical thing for many coffee enthusiasts. Front Street Coffee (FrontStreet Coffee) believes there's no need to view pour-over coffee as too profound. When frequently chatting with customers, Front Street Coffee (FrontStreet Cof [more…]

Front Street Coffee often encounters many pour-over beginners who ask a question: Why does pour-over coffee need blooming? The most indispensable step in pour-over coffee is the blooming stage. The purpose of blooming is to allow the coffee to release gases and ensure even extraction, and it also clearly reveals whether the beans being brewed are fresh. Front Street Coffee focuses on fresh [more…]

For more specialty coffee knowledge, please follow: Front Street Coffee (Frontsteet Coffee). Do people who drink pour-over coffee not drink drip bag coffee? Do people who drink drip bag coffee not understand pour-over coffee? If you think so, you are greatly mistaken. In fact, there is no essential difference between pour-over coffee and drip bag coffee. At Front Street, there are [more…]

Whenever Front Street brews a pour-over for a customer's order, if the coffee bed puffs up quite a bit during blooming, there's a good chance the customer will ask: "Why doesn't my coffee bed puff up this much when I brew?" This is a topic Front Street often discusses! Honestly, although the bloom [more…]

For more specialty coffee knowledge, please follow: Front Street Coffee (Frontsteet Coffee) In some coffee shops, there is such an option, SOE. SOE stands for Single Origin Espresso. Many specialty coffee shops [more…]

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…]

For more specialty coffee knowledge, please follow our WeChat official account: Front Street Coffee (FrontStreet Coffee). The four common types of iced coffee we often see are iced Americano, iced pour-over, cold brew, and iced drip coffee. Some friends may not be very familiar with these four types of iced coffee, so Front Street will try to start from a few [more…]

For more specialty coffee knowledge, please follow our WeChat official account: FrontStreet Coffee. Everyone's perception of and preference for coffee flavors is different. Some friends think of coffee as that rich, aromatic bitter drink, while others love sour coffee, and still others [more…]

For more specialty coffee knowledge, please follow: Front Street Coffee (Frontsteet Coffee). Today Front Street Coffee (FrontStreet Coffee) will introduce six popular single-origin coffee beans, each with unique regional characteristics. Front Street Coffee (FrontStreet [more…]

After years of development, specialty coffee has formed a scientific system. From cultivation and processing at the green bean stage, to roasting, and then to brewing and tasting, there is a very complete body of knowledge. The improvement of green bean quality, roasting, and brewing quality ultimately serves to give us a better experience when tasting coffee. [more…]

What exactly is black coffee? It is not a specific coffee beverage, but rather a broad umbrella term. As long as a cup of coffee is made with only coffee beans and water, without any additional ingredients such as milk or sugar, it can be classified as black coffee. Americano is certainly a typical representative, but pour-over, siphon, cold brew, French press, and other devices that produce pure coffee also belong to this family. In contrast, coffee with added milk, syrup, alcohol, and other flavorings is collectively referred to as fancy coffee. This article will systematically sort out the definition of black coffee, common categories, and its differences from fancy coffee, helping coffee lovers be clearer when ordering. [more…]

For more specialty coffee knowledge, please follow our WeChat public account: Front Street Coffee (FrontStreet Coffee) Drip bag coffee and pour-over coffee share many similarities in their brewing methods. However, for the same coffee beans, pour-over coffee tastes somewhat better than drip bag coffee. Drip bag [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…]

For more specialty coffee knowledge, please follow: Front Street Coffee (Frontsteet Coffee). In the past, when Front Street shared knowledge about espresso extraction, it focused on parameters such as grind size, dose, ratio, extraction time, and pressure, and also provided in-depth analysis of steps like receiving the grounds, distributing the grounds, and tamping. [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…]

Many people believe that experiencing the charm of great coffee begins with pour-over. But as a beginner who hasn't yet gotten started, it's easy to feel overwhelmed by the endless varieties. So if you're interested in deepening your coffee knowledge, it's recommended that newcomers first try the representative varieties from the world's famous coffee-producing regions, so you can figure out what you like. [more…]

For more specialty coffee knowledge, please follow our WeChat official account: Front Street Coffee (FrontStreet Coffee). As the temperature warms up, iced coffee is gradually making its way back into everyone's sight. A refreshing and palate-cleansing iced coffee is very appealing. Common iced coffees include cold drip coffee and cold brew coffee. [more…]

For more specialty coffee knowledge, please follow: Front Street Coffee (Frontsteet Coffee) How to choose drip coffee bags? 1. Production date: Generally, freshly ground coffee powder is the freshest. Drip coffee bags are produced by carefully roasting and finely grinding the coffee, then immediately sealing it in bags. You should try to buy beans that are as close to the roast date as possible. [more…]