For more specialty coffee knowledge, please follow: Front Street Coffee (Frontsteet Coffee). One of the great joys of pour-over coffee is using different brewing techniques to interpret a cup of coffee. And as for pour-over methods, I believe everyone pays close attention. So the most widely spread pour-over technique at present is the one-pour method. [more…]

Front Street Coffee (FrontStreet Coffee) entered the coffee industry in 2013, and has come step by step from coffee cultivation and coffee roasting to coffee service. Today, the more than 30 coffee beans displayed in the shop are only Front Street Coffee (FrontStreet Cof [more…]

Compared to other single-origin coffees, pour-over coffee has a great many brewing methods. For example: one-pour, three-stage, volcano pour, variable-temperature brewing, stirring, and so on. Today let's get to know some of the brewing methods that commonly appear in pour-over coffee~ 1. One-pour The one-pour method and the single-pour method are still [more…]

Front Street Coffee encounters customers asking about pour-over coffee every day, whether it's about what pouring technique should be used for pour-over coffee, or how much coffee grounds to use for pour-over coffee. In fact, with the development of coffee culture, more and more people no longer think of coffee as [more…]

In yesterday's post, Front Street mentioned that one of the advantages of pour-over coffee is its high level of controllability. During the brewing process, we can adjust the pouring method based on the actual situation, so that the coffee's flavor does not stray from being delicious. This statement is not unfounded; many techniques can help us do [more…]

The ancients said: The plan for a day lies in the morning. In the early morning, preparing a hearty breakfast for yourself and your family, and brewing a pot of fragrant coffee, not only benefits our physical and mental health and refreshes our minds, but also gives us a perfect start to the day. The technique of pour-over coffee is based on the same principle as brewing Kung Fu tea; different teas [more…]

Recently, a friend asked how drip bag coffee should be brewed and if there are any particular techniques. Well, you've come to the right person! As someone who once brewed drip bag coffee as if it were instant coffee, I'm here to teach you the ultimate secret of brewing drip bag coffee! Let's first talk about drip bag coffee! Drip bag coffee is a filter with a hanging ear paper card. [more…]

For professional coffee knowledge exchange and more coffee bean consultations, please follow Coffee Workshop (WeChat public account cafe_style). If you love drinking coffee, pour-over coffee is a skill you absolutely must master. Whether it's ordinary coffee beans or specialty coffee beans, pour-over coffee is one of the most widely used extraction methods. [more…]

Latte art mainly includes three forms: free pouring, etching, and stenciling. Stenciling uses a stencil to sprinkle cocoa powder, chocolate powder, or cinnamon powder onto the coffee to create a pattern. Free pouring and etching are collectively known as Latte Art; the former involves pouring hot [more…]

When asked what coffee brewing dripper Front Street recommends, the baristas at Front Street almost unanimously answer: V60! The V60 dripper's long ribs help rapidly extract flavor compounds, and its large hole poses no risk of clogging, resulting in coffee with layered complexity. Whether you're a beginner or a seasoned connoisseur, whether you want a refreshing [more…]

For more specialty coffee knowledge, please follow: Front Street Coffee (Frontsteet Coffee). The most charming thing about pour-over coffee is its adjustability. Many customers who often come to Front Street for coffee also try making pour-over at home, and they always say that pour-over coffee is too difficult. [more…]

After patiently listening to the barista's explanation and painstakingly choosing a bag of coffee beans to take home, you also "follow the same pattern" according to the brewing suggestions, only to find that the coffee you brew is vastly different from what you drank in the shop. You think it over and over, but still can't figure out where the problem lies... This is very likely caused by overlooking a certain detail. [more…]

Pour-over coffee is a brewing method that places great emphasis on technique and coffee expertise. Factors such as the amount of coffee beans used for pour-over, the coffee grind size, the coffee-to-water ratio and time, and the brewing technique all affect the flavor extracted in pour-over coffee. So how can you brew a perfect-tasting pot of pour-over coffee? In the rest of this article, Front Street [more…]

When it comes to Indonesian Mandheling, the most famous and popular is undoubtedly the Golden Mandheling coffee beans produced by the Indonesian PWN company. As a result, many people come to try Golden Mandheling coffee and decide to buy the beans to brew at home, but they can never reproduce the taste they had in the coffee shop. Why is that? [more…]

Many people ask Front Street, how long does it take to learn latte art? If we're just talking about producing a good-looking pattern, with a bit of luck it only takes one day. If we're talking about truly mastering a pattern, it takes at least 4 days. So many people ask, where do these 4 days come from? It's simple: Day one, read this article from Front Street; day two, practice; day three, [more…]

Among all drip coffee methods, drip bags are the most convenient: just prepare a drip bag, a cup, and hot water to brew a decent single-origin black coffee. There is no complicated technique or parameters to worry about, and no need to think much about cleanup afterward—it couldn't be more convenient. However, although [more…]

For a long time in the past, people around the world made coffee in a simple and crude way: they ground coffee beans, put them into a pot to boil, and then filtered out the grounds with burlap or a metal strainer before drinking it directly. Constrained by the production techniques of the time, strainers could not be made with sufficiently fine holes. [more…]

Front Street Coffee (FrontStreet Coffee) Introduction - Single-Origin Coffee Recommendations. Single-origin coffee best expresses the unique regional character of coffee beans. Due to differences in the geographical regions of various countries, some are more acidic and some more bitter, and the roasting style of the roaster can also change the bean's character. For coffee beginners, [more…]

Pour-over coffee is a process where flavor extraction and filtration happen simultaneously, with extraction occurring centered around the spot where water is poured, and the key lies in how to control and balance it. At Front Street, when adjusting pour-over coffee parameters, we usually consider the grind size of the coffee beans and the brewing water temperature first, but in fact the coffee-to-water ratio is also very important. During brewing, the water [more…]

Blooming is an important step in brewing coffee, and there's a popular saying that "you can tell if a coffee will taste good just by looking at its bloom." So when people learn to brew coffee, they intentionally or unintentionally "perfect" a flawless "coffee burger." But if you understand the logic behind blooming, you'll discover that blooming is actually [more…]