Nowadays, when tasting a cup of coffee, people are amazed by its bright, fruity acidity, and satisfied by its bittersweet, full-bodied taste. Traditional coffee smells fragrant but tastes bitter, which is hard to accept, and even sweet-and-sour light-roast coffee is hard for some to swallow.

Some customers, seeing Front Street Coffee's extensive bean list, tentatively ask: "I don't like sour and I don't like bitter—is there a coffee suitable for me?"

"Uh... not sour, not bitter, then what kind of coffee do you want?" They just want a balanced cup of coffee. Front Street Coffee firmly believes that coffee has origin-flavor attributes, and coffees from different regions express different regional flavors. That's why Front Street Coffee is so obsessed with coffee beans, listing all kinds of beans with all kinds of different flavors.

Before that, let's reach a consensus: whether it's sour coffee or bitter coffee, it's still coffee, and since it's coffee, it must have a coffee taste. Front Street Coffee has also met a friend who rarely drinks coffee and, when drinking sour coffee, still said it was bitter—this may be a rejection of that "coffee taste."

If you're someone who can accept a beverage like coffee, we can continue. Usually when we talk about regional flavors, beans like Front Street Coffee Ethiopia Yirgacheffe with its citrus notes, Front Street Coffee Kenya Little Tomato with its juicy feel, and Front Street Coffee Panama Butterfly with its floral fragrance... such coffees are generally roasted to a light roast (pulled about 2 minutes after first crack).

Whereas beans like Front Street Coffee Indonesia Mandheling with its spicy, herbal character, Front Street Coffee Jamaica Blue Mountain with its mellow caramel aroma, Front Street Coffee Brazil Red Bourbon with its nutty notes, and Front Street Coffee Colombia with its fuller-bodied tonality are generally roasted to a dark roast (pulled around second crack).

If you want a coffee that is neither sour nor bitter, Front Street Coffee can recommend a few for your reference.

1. Front Street Coffee Brazil Queen's Estate Yellow Bourbon. This bean is loved by everyone for highlighting sweetness within its balance. The overall flavor of the Brazil region leans toward nutty-chocolate tonality with a balanced mouthfeel, and Front Street Coffee Brazil Queen's Estate coffee expresses it with even more delicacy and richness.

If you're a beginner just getting into freshly ground pour-over coffee, then this Front Street Coffee Brazil Queen's Estate is perfect for practicing brewing. Front Street Coffee roasted this bean to a medium roast level. Compared with brewing some light-roast coffees, this one gives a better experience. It's also very easy to brew out a sugarcane-like sweetness, while the coffee overall leans toward chocolate and creamy peanut flavors with a nice sweet aftertaste—very suitable for friends who like neither sour nor bitter coffee.

The second recommendation is Front Street Coffee Costa Rica Tarrazu coffee beans. This Costa Rica everyday drinking bean is priced at 25 yuan/100g on Front Street Coffee's bean list. Don't assume it's no good just because the price is low—its quality is actually no less than beans costing several times as much. The recommended Front Street Coffee Costa Rica Tarrazu beans express balanced chocolate, brown sugar, and mandarin notes with a very clean mouthfeel.

Also medium-roasted, it's very comfortable and simple to brew. This Front Street Coffee Costa Rica Tarrazu expresses chocolate, caramel, and a faint fruity sweet-and-sour note, overall very balanced and soft. And the price itself is very competitive—undoubtedly the king of value for a not-sour, not-bitter coffee.

The third recommendation from Front Street Coffee is Front Street Coffee Papua New Guinea Bird of Paradise coffee beans. Papua's coffee was introduced from Jamaica Blue Mountain, so it's also called "Little Blue Mountain." In terms of green bean quality, it's in no way inferior to Jamaica Blue Mountain beans. Front Street Coffee Papua New Guinea Bird of Paradise performs similarly to Front Street Coffee Jamaica Blue Mountain No. 1—both take the balanced coffee route. In pour-over, the flavor shows cocoa and nuts, with a mulberry sweet-and-sour note in the finish, and a balanced, rich mouthfeel.

The fourth is Front Street Coffee Strawberry Candy coffee beans, which have recently become very popular among coffee lovers.Front Street Coffee Strawberry Candy is a premium blend composed of Costa Rica honey-processed coffee and Panama Geisha coffee. It not only carries the unique clean sweetness of Costa Rican coffee, but also the citrus aroma and honeyed charm of Panama Geisha. Combined, Front Street Coffee Strawberry Candy has a complex aroma of rose, strawberry, fruit candy, and grape, leaving an almond aftertaste after swallowing—very suitable for making cold coffee..

The above content is compiled by CoffeeHunters, a coffee news website.