Introduction to Yunnan Arabica Coffee Varieties: The western and southern parts of Yunnan Province lie between 15° north latitude and the Tropic of Cancer, with most areas at elevations of 1,000–2,000 meters, and the terrain is mainly mountainous and sloping. The land here is fertile, with abundant sunshine, ample rainfall, and a large temperature difference between day and night. These unique natural conditions have formed [more…]

How did Geisha coffee get its name? Front Street Coffee believes that from a literal sense, Geisha coffee is a coffee bean full of floral fragrance, but this is not actually the case. Geisha's floral aroma is not strong; instead, its fruity aroma is more intense, such as passion fruit, strawberry, mango, jackfruit, and citrus. According to what Front Street Coffee has learned: Geisha [more…]

Welcome to the Front Street Coffee website. Front Street Coffee — freshly roasted, great coffee. You can order freshly roasted authentic Jamaican Blue Mountain, Panama Hacienda La Esmeralda Geisha, Indonesian Golden Mandheling, and other coffee beans online through the Tmall Front Street Flagship Store! https://qianjieshi [more…]

In making espresso, some seemingly unimportant details are often overlooked, yet they can gradually affect the taste of the coffee. Today, Front Street Coffee will talk about those details that are often forgotten—count how many you've missed. - Forgetting to flush water before attaching the portafilter. If there is a long interval between this espresso extraction and the last one, [more…]

Cupping is one of the core tasks of coffee industry professionals, and it is a way to help people evaluate coffee flavors and characteristics in a relatively fair and systematic manner. Cupping takes place throughout the entire coffee supply chain, not only at the consumer end in coffee shops, but also at the production end, including mid- and upstream roasteries and places of origin. So how do you perform a cupping? [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…]

The concept of specialty coffee has been in China for over thirty years, and has developed rapidly in the past decade. At the same time, people have also raised questions about the concept of specialty coffee. Pour-over is generally considered specialty coffee, so are Americano, espresso, and others also specialty coffee? In fact, in international coffee competitions, especially in Northern Europe, espresso [more…]

There are many ways to brew coffee, from the siphon method that feels like a chemist conducting an experiment, to simple extraction methods like the French press. Among them, pour-over may be the one with the most room for experimentation. Most brewing tutorials online are for a single serving, so how do you brew for multiple people? Attentive readers may have noticed that most brewing tutorials [more…]

In recent years, with the rise of the specialty coffee wave, more and more people choose to buy beans and take them home to brew a cup of coffee for themselves, enjoying a leisurely moment. But everything is hard at the beginning, and many beginners wonder, "The coffee I drank in your shop was so good, why can't I brew the same flavor when I go home?" Part of the reason [more…]

As specialty coffee sweeps the globe, more and more people enjoy drinking coffee. But over the past two years of black swan events, people have realized that sometimes having money is not true freedom—mastering a skill is. Pour-over coffee may be the most fun and simplest way, but beginners with poor technique often [more…]

For coffee lovers, among the coffees they've tried, there's always at least one African coffee bean. Among them, the Ethiopian Yirgacheffe coffee beans, originating from the birthplace of Arabica, are highly renowned for their excellent flavor and are much loved by many. In recent years, domestic specialty coffee has developed rapidly, and this coffee, which enjoys great fame in the international coffee circle, [more…]

There are many important parameters in coffee brewing. If you want to enjoy a delicious cup of coffee, you need to precisely control the brewing parameters and follow them as closely as possible during brewing, so that you can have a high probability of getting a tasty cup of coffee. Among these, brewing time is crucial for pour-over coffee. Regarding the coffee dose, [more…]

In freshly roasted and freshly brewed coffee, there is a crucial small detail: baristas emphasize the need to "bloom." There is even a saying in the coffee community: "Bloom well, and brewing will be trouble-free," forming a positive link between blooming and brewing. So what is blooming, and how do you bloom? Careful [more…]

Blooming is a crucial step in coffee brewing. To get straight to the point, blooming plays a vital role in determining whether the brewed coffee tastes good or not. The blooming process can even indicate whether the cup of coffee will be enjoyable, and a proper bloom can even enhance the flavor and mouthfeel of the coffee. Blooming is the starting point of brewing a pour-over coffee; if this step goes wrong, the subsequent... [more…]

I wonder if everyone has heard this saying: pour-over is easy to get started with but hard to master. It means that anyone can brew coffee, but wanting to brew a delicious cup of coffee freely and according to your own vision is actually very difficult. There aren't many factors that affect pour-over coffee, and among them, water temperature is one of the four major elements of brewing. Hand [more…]

Espresso is the foundation of Italian-style coffee. The wide variety of milk coffees we see on café menus are mostly based on espresso. In addition, although many people like espresso with milk added, there is still a group of enthusiasts who love espresso. No matter from which angle you consider it, making [more…]

What is the first step in brewing coffee? Grinding beans. In recent years, with the rise of the specialty coffee wave, more and more people have come to enjoy drinking coffee, and at the same time, more and more people hope to fully experience the beauty and leisure of drinking coffee, so they choose to buy coffee beans and brew them at home. And so at this point, a [more…]

Without adding sugar or milk, how to hand-brew a delicious and distinctive cup of coffee is a difficult challenge for many enthusiasts just starting out in coffee. Pour too much water and the coffee will be weak; pour too little and it will be very strong and harsh on the throat. Therefore, you must pay attention to the coffee-to-water ratio. So exactly how much water should be used to brew a cup of coffee? The coffee-to-water ratio is probably what every [more…]

For many people, coffee is a drink that is enough to refresh the mind and wake them up in the early morning. People like the convenience and functionality of coffee, and the representatives of this are espresso and Americano. Americano is made by adding water to espresso. So what should the ratio of water to Americano be? Americano water [more…]

Espresso-based coffee is probably the most universally popular series of coffee drinks. You might not like black coffee that hits your palate with either sourness or a burnt bitterness, but espresso drinks can be adjusted in their ratios to offer you different tastes and flavor experiences. Among these, adjusting the ratio of espresso to milk is likely the most basic technique in espresso drinks. [more…]