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…]

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…]

I don't know under what circumstances everyone first learned about pour-over coffee. For Front Street, it was one day when I walked into a café and saw the barista pouring water in circles over the coffee grounds in the dripper, and then getting a cup of rich, aromatic black coffee. I found it absolutely fascinating, and so I fell under the spell of pour-over coffee. What does pour-over coffee mean? [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…]

When brewing pour-over coffee, Front Street Coffee insists on using a 1:15 coffee-to-water ratio—why is that? Was this result arrived at by chance, or was it derived from various brewing experiments based on data? In this article, Front Street will explain why. [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…]

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…]

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…]

Mandheling coffee beans mainly exhibit a rich mouthfeel and a sweet, caramel-like flavor with a pleasant bitterness. Therefore, they are generally dark roasted. Taking Front Street's Golden Mandheling coffee beans as an example, before roasting Golden Mandheling, Front Street will roughly determine the roasting direction based on the growing information. The Golden Mandheling coffee beans are grown at an altitude of 1100–1 [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…]

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

The charm of pour-over coffee lies in the ability to adjust various subtle parameters and tweak the extraction variables at different stages to achieve a cup with the flavor and mouthfeel you enjoy. Front Street Coffee believes that the coffee-to-water ratio is a very important parameter affecting pour-over coffee. Mastering the coffee-to-water ratio not only makes the extraction more stable but also allows the flavor to present more [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…]

What is the English for pour-over coffee? If translated literally, it could be rendered as "Hand coffee," but that term is definitely incorrect. Next, expressions like "Hand punch" are also common mistranslations. The correct term should be "Pour over coffee." Now, pour-over [more…]

What is "pour-over coffee"? Coffee beans undergo a series of chemical reactions during high-temperature roasting, generating various aromatic compounds. When we brew coffee, we use water and equipment to release these aromatic components. Pour-over coffee involves first grinding the coffee beans into powder, then pouring hot water to contact the coffee bed, "dissolving" the substances in the coffee. [more…]

As the saying goes, a good horse deserves a good saddle, and good tea belongs in a fine jar. As the main vessel for holding coffee, the impact of different cup designs on tasting has gradually drawn people's attention. Some coffee shops even spend lavishly on a set of coffee cups dedicated to serving, in order to create a dual experience for the eyes and the palate. Just like wine, cups [more…]

With the growing popularity of specialty coffee culture, more and more coffee enthusiasts are starting to study at home how to brew pour-over coffee in order to bring out the flavor of single-origin coffee beans, but they don't know how to do it. They always feel that the coffee they brew doesn't taste as good as what they drink in a café. So how can you brew out the flavor of a single-origin coffee bean? [more…]

For pour-over brewers, the first thing to consider before developing a brewing plan is the roast level of the coffee beans, as the extraction performance of coffee differs across roast levels. Light roast beans, due to their lighter roast level, retain more floral and fruity aromas, and are therefore deeply loved by coffee enthusiasts. So which coffee beans are considered light roast? Today [more…]

Coffee is gaining popularity among more and more Chinese people, even somewhat rivaling fast-food tea drinks like milk tea, though consumption groups each have their own preferences. When it comes to coffee, one cannot help but mention pour-over coffee and espresso. Pour-over coffee most often uses single-origin beans, and its unadorned beauty is not crude, [more…]