“How do you taste citrus in coffee?” Quite a few friends say they envy baristas for being able to casually name the specific flavors in coffee. Some friends also say, I can taste that the coffee is acidic, but that’s far from the citrus you’re talking about. Still others say flavors are all just nonsense. Front Street, in its daily online [more…]

Whether sun-dried or washed, coffee processing originally existed simply to dry the beans so they could be stored conveniently. But once people discovered that different processing methods give coffee different flavor variations, more and more processing methods emerged to serve flavor. For example, now [more…]

同一咖啡品种，种在不同国家与产区，杯中的风味走向往往大相径庭。本文梳理了瑰夏、铁皮卡、波本、马拉戈吉佩、肯特、帕卡斯、帕卡马拉、SL28、SL34、Mundo Novo以及卡图艾等主要品种，在巴拿马、哥斯达黎加、哥伦比亚、危地马拉、秘鲁、洪都拉斯、墨西哥、巴西、尼加拉瓜、坦桑尼亚、印度、萨尔瓦多、肯尼亚等地的具体风味表现。无论你是想了解瑰夏的花香柑橘谱系，还是想弄清波本的巧克力焦糖底色，这份品种与产区的对应关系都能提供直观参考。前街咖啡也建议，在实际冲煮中结合烘焙度与处理法综合判断，才能更准确地还原这些风味描述。 [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…]

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…]

In the past, when some friends who wanted to taste Geisha coffee came to Front Street Coffee and ordered Geisha, the baristas at Front Street would carefully ask, "Do you mean Ethiopian Geisha or Panamanian Geisha?" Everyone would be confused about the difference between these two Geishas. Nowadays, the name of Panamanian Geisha [more…]