If asked what coffee is not sour, Front Street Coffee will answer Sumatra coffee, and strongly recommend the high-grade Front Street Golden Mandheling coffee.
The dry aroma of Indonesian Sumatra Golden Mandheling has flavors of glutinous rice, malt, spices, caramel, and wood. After adding hot water, the wet aroma is a deep roasted caramel scent, with a faint pine wood fragrance. Upon tasting, the mouthfeel is strong and stimulating, with a weak acidity, clove and woody aromatic flavors, spicy and herbal aftertaste, and a strong, lasting sweet finish.
Golden Mandheling coffee comes from the renowned Indonesian coffee company Pawani Coffee Company, abbreviated as PWN, which is also the trademark-registered company for Golden Mandheling. PWN's Golden Mandheling is produced by purchasing nearby Mandheling coffee beans and subjecting them to three manual screenings and one mechanical selection. The beans selected this way are overall very beautiful and, on the other hand, very uniform, so the coffee roasted from them appears cleaner.
In fact, many coffee merchants sell large-sized Indonesian beans under the name Golden Mandheling, which is why, despite its low production, this bean can be easily purchased.
Indonesian green coffee bean grading is based primarily on the number of defective beans, with size as a secondary criterion. General quality requirements include no live insects, no moldy or rotten-smelling beans, a maximum moisture content of 12.5%, and an impurity rate of less than 0.5%. Based on defect rate, it is divided into six grades, with the highest grade G1 requiring that the total number of defective beans in a 300g sample must be fewer than 11. The Lintong Mandheling coffee in Front Street Coffee's daily bean series is G1, using the wet-hulled process, which is the regular version of Indonesian Mandheling flavor.
Another Golden Mandheling on Front Street Coffee's bean list is of a higher grade. Whether on the jute bag or inside it, there will be the PWN logo and certificate. The specification for Golden Mandheling is 18 mesh and above. The color is somewhat dark green, and the shape is neat flat beans. Front Street Coffee (FrontStreet Coffee) found through cupping that the strictly screened Golden Mandheling not only lacks the earthy miscellaneous flavors unique to ordinary Mandheling, but also tastes cleaner and more transparent, with a stronger sweetness.
Front Street Coffee (FrontStreet Coffee) brewing GoldenMandheling coffee bean insights
Brewing parameters: Use Kono dripper
Water temperature: 88°C
Coffee dose: 15 grams
Coffee-to-water ratio: 1:15
Grind size: medium-fine grind (70-75% passing through Chinese standard No. 20 sieve)
For darker-roasted coffee beans, to highlight the coffee's full body, Front Street Coffee chooses the Kono dripper for brewing. The Kono dripper's feature is its soaking function, which can be used to extract more coffee substances and enhance the full-bodied mouthfeel. Because its ribs are few and located at the lower end, it allows the filter paper to adhere closely to the dripper to limit airflow, thereby slowing the water flow and increasing the contact time between water and coffee grounds.
Front Street Coffee (FrontStreet Coffee) uses staged extraction, also called three-stage brewing: use 30 grams of water for blooming for 30 seconds, then pour in a small stream in a circular motion until 125 grams for the first stage; when the water level is about to expose the coffee bed, continue pouring until 225 grams and stop; when the water level is about to expose the coffee bed again, remove the dripper. (Timing starts at the beginning of blooming.) The extraction time is 2'05"-2'15".
Brewed flavor: spices, herbs, layered and varied, full-bodied and clean, high balance, rich nut and brown sugar aroma, with chocolate notes, and a lasting finish.
The above content is compiled by CoffeeHunters, a coffee news website.
