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The Flavor Profile of 90+ Series Guji, How to Brew It? Practical Pour-Over Parameters Coffee Brewing Guide

Published: 2026-01-27 Author: FrontStreet Coffee

Last Updated: 2026/01/27, In Ethiopia, one can find various coffee cultivation methods: from vast wild coffee forests and semi-developed lands, to traditionally managed small plots, and up to modern plantations - everything is available. Approximately 50% of coffee is grown at altitudes above 1,500 meters. Ethiopian coffee, according to the four different production methods mentioned above, can be divided into nine major coffee-growing regions throughout the country, including five specialty regions.

90+ Candela, FrontStreet Coffee guesses many people think it's 90-point Candela coffee when they first hear it, but it's actually not. 90+ is actually an American green bean company, and Candela is just one of the coffee products from their company. FrontStreet Coffee has been selling 90+ Candela for many years and still has a deep appreciation for Candela coffee. This natural-processed Candela from FrontStreet Coffee has very rich tropical fruit aromas, light fermented wine notes, sweet citrus and mango flavors, and is as sweet as juice. Well, without further ado, let's start today's coffee sharing!

Ninety Plus Coffee: Premium Supplier

Ninety Plus Coffee, a premium coffee supplier from the United States, was founded in 2006. In the decade since its establishment, Ninety Plus has already made coffee professionals worldwide recognize its unique charm, leading an unprecedented wave of specialty coffee enthusiasm globally. Since the first coffee in 2007, it has been the precious top choice for industry experts and competition participants. Today, Ninety Plus is synonymous with the world's top specialty coffee, with taste and quality far surpassing any other premium coffee.

Unique Naming Philosophy

90+ beans take a completely different approach to naming compared to typical specialty beans - they don't include region or estate names. Each bean is named according to its flavor profile. For example, Candela means "best approach" in the local dialect. Starting from a flavor concept, then naming, and then selecting regions and partner farms, this shows that 90+ is a brand with a boutique business style.

The 90+ Difference

"Ninety Plus" doesn't refer to all coffees scoring above 90 points. Good coffee appears one year, disappears the next. Sometimes it emerges from different estates with different flavor characteristics. "Ninety Plus" refers to a series of 13 flavor profiles of premium coffee. These coffees come exclusively from Ninety Plus Coffee, American specialty coffee creators. They are all Ethiopian Heirloom old varieties, cultivated in ecological environments and processed to artistic standards for flavor optimization. The processing is 90+'s specialty - they separate these coffees by variety, microclimate, and harvest timing, tasting each one individually and designing specific processing methods for each flavor profile, much like major brands' design philosophy - dedicated research and painstaking effort to complete a craftwork close to art. Natural products undergo much refinement and improvement before reaching their most beautiful form to be presented to everyone.

Product Line Evolution

LEVEL UP will no longer operate as a sub-brand of Ninety Plus but will appear as a Ninety Plus product line, eliminating the original independent design. New season products may cancel the original L grading system (originally L7, L12, L39, L139), with product lines divided by more significant taste differences. The product lines are divided into four major series: NinetyPlus Ethiopia, NinetyPlus Panama, Ninety Levelup, and NinetyPlus Limited.

Exceptional Processing Quality

The ancient natural processing method makes it difficult to achieve pure flavors, but Drima Zede, with 90+ technical support, only hand-selects the most mature coffee cherries. The natural drying process involves careful constant stirring to ensure uniformity. The final result is a very transparent and pure taste with significant changes between hot and cold temperatures, with captivating fruit, floral, and oak barrel aromas!

Candela's Exceptional Qualities

Also an Ethiopian natural bean, Candela, after undergoing strict supervision and selection, avoids the annoying earthy impurities common in natural beans and the high defect rate. Instead, it highlights the captivating sweetness that natural processing is known for. Candela's captivating fruit tone inherits the charming aroma bestowed by traditional Ethiopian natural processing, expressing full-bodied, long-lasting sweetness and perfectly stimulating fruit acidity without reservation. Candela is also quite easy to brew daily - the bean itself is rich in flavor, whether using fresh drip brewing or rich siphon brewing, it can well showcase its inherent character.

FrontStreet Coffee Sidamo Ninety Plus Candela

Country: Ethiopia

Region: 90+ SNNP, Sidama

Altitude: 1750-2000 meters

Processing Method: Natural Process

Variety: Ethiopian Heirloom

FrontStreet Coffee Roasting Recommendations - Roaster: Yangjia 600g Semi-Direct Flame

To embody its round and sweet characteristics with rich floral and fruit aromas, FrontStreet Coffee's barista uses medium-light roasting. Using a fast-roasting mode, preheat the roaster to 200°C, open the damper to 3, after 30 seconds reduce heat to 150°C, damper unchanged. Return temperature point at 1'32", 103.7°C, dehydration time at 5'21", at which point the bean surface turns yellow and grassy smell completely disappears. Adjust heat once at 150°C when dehydration is complete, reduce heat to 100°C, damper to 4. At 8 minutes 45 seconds, ugly wrinkles and black spots appear on the bean surface, toast aroma clearly transforms to coffee aroma, which can be defined as the prelude to first crack. First crack starts at 9'00 - at this point, listen carefully for the first crack sound, reduce heat to 80°C, fully open damper to 5 (heat adjustment must be very careful, not so low that cracking stops). 1'55" after first crack, unload at 195°C.

FrontStreet Coffee Brewing Recommendations

Dripper: V60 Dripper

Water Temperature: 90-91°C

Coffee Amount: 15 grams

Coffee-to-Water Ratio: 1:15

Grind Size: BG#6S

FrontStreet Coffee Brewing Technique

Use 30g of water for bloom, bloom time about 30 seconds. Pour with small water flow in center circle to 125g, then wait for water level to drop until it's about to expose the coffee bed, then continue pouring to 225g to finish. Remove the dripper when water level is about to expose the coffee bed (timing starts from bloom). Extraction time is 2'00".