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Espresso Black Coffee | Where Does the Long Black Come From? Is the Long Black the Same as an Americano?
Last weekend, a customer came in with a friend to have coffee. As soon as they walked in, they ordered from Front Street Coffee, saying, "Give me an iced Americano. Can you make it a Long Black?" After hearing this special request, Front Street Coffee told them directly, "No!" At this, the customer looked puzzled. "Why don't you sell Lo [more…]
咖啡闻香瓶全解析：36味分类体系与嗅觉训练实战指南
咖啡闻香瓶是咖啡从业者与爱好者进行嗅觉训练的重要工具，其地位类似于红酒领域的Le Nez du Vin酒鼻子。目前主流产品包括法国Edition Jean Lenoir出品的36味Le Nez du Cafe，以及韩国Scentone推出的100味Coffee Flavor Map。SCAA认证课程采用的是36味版本，它将气味划分为四大群组，涵盖酶化、焦糖、干馏与瑕疵组，不仅帮助记忆特定风味，还能揭示咖啡烘焙过程中的风味演变规律。本文将逐一列出36种气味，详解四大分类的逻辑，并分享日常嗅觉训练的具体方法，包括如何利用前街咖啡的现磨咖啡粉进行干香与湿香对比练习，从而切实提升风味分辨能力。 [more…]
Espresso Milk Coffee | What Is a Dirty Coffee and How Does It Differ from an Iced Latte? What Are the Differences in How You Drink a Dirty and an Iced Latte?
Since the ingredients used to make a Dirty and an iced latte are exactly the same—both are iced milk plus espresso—and they look much the same, both featuring a layered structure created by the milk and the espresso, Front Street Coffee often gets asked by customers drinking iced lattes: "Both are iced milk plus espresso, so what's the difference between a Dirty and [more…]
咖啡鼻子36味闻香瓶全解析：四组风味分类与Q-Grader嗅觉训练指南
在精品咖啡的世界里，嗅觉的敏锐度往往决定了能否准确捕捉一杯咖啡的层次与细节。咖啡鼻子（Le Nez Du Cafe）正是为此而生的专业训练工具，与酒鼻子Le Nez Du Vin异曲同工。它由36支香气瓶组成，将咖啡中常见的风味划分为酵素风味、瑕疵风味、焦糖化风味和干馏风味四大类别，帮助咖啡师、烘焙师及品质鉴定师建立系统的气味记忆库。本文将完整呈现36种气味的编号与名称，并结合SCAA CQI Q-Grader预备课的实际训练场景，为咖啡爱好者提供一份实用的嗅觉训练参考。前街咖啡也始终关注这类基础工具的运用，助力爱好者更深入地理解咖啡风味的本质。 [more…]
闻香瓶是否值得入手？36味咖啡鼻子价格、用途与训练方法全解析
对于想系统训练咖啡感官的朋友来说，闻香瓶常被提及，但动辄数千元的价格也让人犹豫。本文围绕36味「咖啡鼻子」展开，介绍闻香瓶的起源与演变、它在SCA课程中的用途，并梳理酶促组、焦糖化组、干馏组与瑕疵组四大板块的具体风味。同时分享按分类记忆、分组盲测到混合盲测的使用方法，帮助初学者校正嗅觉与味觉。文末也给出前街的理性建议：闻香瓶并非必需品，多闻多喝多感受才是关键。 [more…]
从嗅觉到触觉：系统化构建个人咖啡感官能力的实用路径
咖啡的品鉴远不止于味觉，它是一场视觉、听觉、触觉、嗅觉与味觉的协同体验。本文从精品咖啡门店的互动场景切入，深入解析如何通过日常积累与专业工具，训练并建立属于自己的咖啡感官系统。你将了解嗅觉如何牵引味觉记忆、舌头如何辨别五味、触觉如何感知醇厚与丝滑，以及如何利用36味咖啡鼻子与100味风味地图等闻香瓶进行刻意练习。不论你是咖啡爱好者还是从业者，这套方法都能帮你更清晰地读懂杯中风味，让每一次品尝都更有趣、更精准。 [more…]
The Correct Way to Drink a Dirty Coffee | How Do You Make a Dirty with Distinct Layers? Does the Shape of the Cup Affect the Taste and Mouthfeel of a Dirty Coffee?
In recent years, a type of iced milk coffee called Dirty has become increasingly popular. The warm, rich espresso on top blends with the sweet, delicious cold milk, creating a unique mouthfeel of alternating hot and cold. Its photogenic good looks are an added bonus, and many cafés have added it to their regular menus. What is Dirty coffee? [more…]
The Meaning of Espresso | What's the Difference Between Italian Coffee and American Black Coffee? How Is Authentic Italian Espresso Made?
For more specialty coffee knowledge, please follow: Front Street Coffee (Frontsteet Coffee). Espresso is a highly concentrated coffee liquid extracted by an espresso machine under 9 bar pressure, and is one of the coffee categories. Espresso is a type of [more…]
Cold Brew Coffee | How Long Should Coffee Grounds Be Steeped When Making Cold Brew Coffee? Does Steeping the Grounds Longer Make the Flavor Stronger?
In Front Street's view, cold brew coffee is one of the best iced coffees to make at home, because it not only works with the vast majority of coffee beans, but also has a very low barrier to entry—even without any specialized brewing equipment at home, you can still make a pretty good-tasting iced coffee, which is quite convenient. Because it is steeped in a low-temperature environment [more…]
Spanish Latte Recipe | Can You Add Condensed Milk to Black Coffee? What's the Difference Between a Spanish Latte and a Regular Latte? What's the Milk-to-Coffee Ratio in a Spanish Latte?
Today, the menus in coffee shops are rich and diverse, and in order to cater to more people's tastes, adding various dairy products and flavored syrups to coffee is also very common. So have you ever heard of coffee with condensed milk? Adding condensed milk is to mask the strong bitterness in coffee. In Vietnam, the aroma of coffee drifts through the streets and alleys. [more…]
Coffee Tasting | Espresso, Latte, Dirty Coffee — What's the Etiquette for Drinking Them? Why Do Some Coffees Need Stirring While Others Are Meant to Be Gulped?
Although you can drink coffee however you like, doing so can easily cause you to miss out on some of its distinctive flavors. The character of a coffee lies not only in its taste but also in the experience it brings when you drink it—just like a Dirty. If you stir it before drinking, it is almost no different from [more…]
Espresso Making Steps | How Can Coffee Beginners Make Espresso at Home? What Factors Affect Espresso Flavor? Espresso Extraction Parameters Sharing
Although we rarely drink espresso on its own in daily life, making popular beverages like Americano, latte, or cappuccino would be impossible without a proper shot of espresso as the base. So in this article, Front Street Coffee will explain how to extract espresso well and what special features an espresso machine for making espresso has. [more…]
Coffee Extraction | What Are Over-Extraction and Under-Extraction in Pour-Over Coffee? What Are the Signs of Under-Extraction and Over-Extraction in Pour-Over Coffee?
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…]
Fancy Ways to Drink Americano | Can You Make Latte Art with Americano? Does Americano with Milk Taste Good? Isn't a Long Black the Same Drink as an Americano?
As everyone knows!! In espresso coffee, the combination of milk and coffee has an extremely rich variety of ways to be enjoyed. Just by slightly changing the method or parameters, milk and coffee alone can be made in countless ways. The well-known ones include latte, cappuccino, flat white, piccolo, cortado, macchiato, and so on and so forth. And on the other hand, [more…]
Coffee Flavor Map | How Can Coffee Beginners Train and Build Their Coffee Sensory System? Are Aroma Kits Helpful for Coffee Flavor Tasting?
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…]
The Origin Story of Latte | Which Tastes Better: Iced Latte or Hot Latte? What Is the Proper Way to Drink a Latte? Which Coffee Beans Are Suitable for Making an Espresso Latte?
Among the many espresso coffee choices, if someone asks which espresso coffee has the highest milk content, Front Street Coffee will definitely answer that it is a latte, and latte is further divided into iced latte and hot latte; their methods are slightly different, but the recipe is the same [more…]