"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…]

"A sweet aftertaste that promotes salivation, with bitterness giving way to sweetness" is the highest praise people give to a good cup of tea, and in coffee tasting, people also often use the term "sweet aftertaste," usually referring to coffee having a pleasing mouthfeel. So what exactly kind of taste experience is it when you perceive a sweet aftertaste in coffee? And how does it differ from the sweetness of coffee? [more…]

"This coffee has a rich fruity profile, with notes of citrus, lemon, oolong tea, and jasmine!!!" For someone who has just been introduced to specialty coffee, this might sound unbelievable—how can you taste so many flavors in one cup of coffee! (Are they just making it up?) In this installment of Barista Growth Diary, we'll share a little [more…]

After light-roasted coffee beans leave the roaster, subtle gas exchange continues inside them. The large amount of carbon dioxide accumulated during roasting slowly escapes through the loose fibrous structure, and this natural release process directly affects the penetration efficiency of hot water molecules. Understanding the breathing rhythm of coffee beans can help me [more…]

For more specialty coffee knowledge, please follow: Front Street Coffee (Frontsteet Coffee) Americano is made by diluting espresso with water, typically using dark-roasted Italian-style coffee beans. The Americano beans crafted by Front Street are a blend of single-origin beans from two different regions, which [more…]

For more specialty coffee knowledge, please follow: Front Street Coffee (Frontsteet Coffee). Espresso is the soul of Italian coffee, commonly known as espresso; as the name suggests, it comes from Italy, with high concentration and a strong taste. A good cup of espresso is like a good base liquor, [more…]

In recent years, the domestic coffee industry has developed rapidly. Even when black swan events occurred and most industries were struggling, the domestic coffee market still maintained stable growth. So as an ordinary enthusiast, when faced with merchants' marketing claims, how should one evaluate a coffee bean? When drinking coffee and buying coffee beans, [more…]

For more specialty coffee knowledge, please follow: Front Street Coffee (Frontsteet Coffee). Espresso is the soul of Italian coffee, commonly called Italian-style espresso. As the name suggests, it comes from Italy, with high concentration and a strong taste. A good espresso is like a good base liquor, [more…]

Introduction: Tasting coffee is like tasting wine. When we savor a cup of specialty coffee, we naturally have the desire to discern its flavors and express them. How should one taste a cup of coffee? This question can be broken down into two aspects: one is about the process of tasting coffee, and the other is about the perspective from which to approach [more…]

Americano is made by diluting espresso with water, typically using dark-roasted Italian-style coffee beans. Front Street's Americano beans are a blend of single-origin beans from two different regions, which has the advantage of compensating for the low acidity of traditional Italian-style coffee and making the flavor richer. Many people ask about Americano beans. [more…]

For more specialty coffee knowledge, please follow our WeChat official account: FrontStreet Coffee. Tasting coffee is like tasting wine—when we savor a cup of specialty coffee, we naturally aspire to discern its flavors and express them. Since many of our readers have given feedback about coffee tasting-related [more…]

For more specialty coffee knowledge, please follow: Front Street Coffee (Frontsteet Coffee). Americano is made by diluting espresso with water, typically using dark-roasted Italian-style coffee beans. The Americano beans used by Front Street are a blend of single-origin beans from two different regions. This [more…]

For more specialty coffee knowledge, please follow: Front Street Coffee (Frontsteet Coffee). Every region has its own way of drinking coffee, and because some regions' coffee-drinking methods are quite representative, a local culture has emerged, just like Turkish coffee or Italian coffee. And speaking of [more…]

For more specialty coffee knowledge, please follow: Front Street Coffee (Frontsteet Coffee). Each region has its own way of drinking coffee, and because some regional coffee-drinking methods are quite representative, a kind of local culture has emerged, just like Turkish coffee and Italian coffee. And speaking of [more…]

If you want to learn how to brew coffee, you must first learn how to drink coffee. Of course, "learning to drink coffee" here does not mean being able to describe gorgeous flavor notes; it is more about being able to judge whether a cup of coffee is good or bad—that is, whether it tastes good or not. Whether a coffee tastes good or not, subjectively and objectively, depends to a fairly large extent on personal preference. [more…]

Each region has its own way of drinking coffee, and because some regional coffee-drinking methods are quite representative, they have given rise to a kind of local culture—just like Turkish coffee or Italian coffee. When it comes to these coffees, a picture may already have formed in your mind. But when it comes to Americano, everyone's mind... [more…]

Buffalo milk has long been a specialty dairy product in the Guangdong and Guangxi regions, and in recent years it has been increasingly used by coffee enthusiasts to pair with espresso. It contains higher levels of protein, fat, and calcium than regular milk, with a lower water content, making it sweeter and silkier to drink. So, is buffalo milk actually suitable for latte art? And what does it taste like in an iced latte or a Dirty? This time, Front Street Coffee selected the refrigerated fresh buffalo milk from the local Foshan brand Baifulu, paired with Front Street Coffee's classic blend coffee beans, to make three drinks: a flat white, an iced latte, and a Dirty. From milk foam texture and latte art performance to the flavor on the palate, we tested each one to see whether the combination of buffalo milk and coffee can achieve an effect where 1+1>2. [more…]

As coffee has gradually become more widely recognized, specialty coffee promotion in cafés has emerged in response, and we too have begun tracing things back to their roots—we have come to treat coffee as culture. The rise of specialty pour-over coffee undoubtedly reflects the demands of the market and the needs that cafés have identified. Café counters have also begun to lower their "status," no longer featuring the early design of a bar raised a foot high. [more…]

For more specialty coffee knowledge, please follow the WeChat official account: Front Street Coffee (FrontStreet Coffee). Mandheling is a coffee produced in Sumatra, Indonesia, Asia, so it is also called Sumatra coffee. Its main producing areas include Java, Sulawesi, and Sumatra. [more…]