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What Coffee Beans Are Suitable for Beginners to Brew? Are Pour-Over Coffee Beans Expensive? Roast Level and Water-to-Coffee Ratio Recommendations

Published: 2026-01-27 Author: FrontStreet Coffee

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Pour-over coffee is currently in its golden age. Baristas and many coffee enthusiasts emphasize the subtle and complex flavors in pour-over coffee. Choosing coffee beans that suit your personal taste is very important, so how do you choose the best coffee beans for brewing? There are too many different coffee beans on the market, and you can't possibly know which one to choose. FrontStreet Coffee is here to provide everyone with some useful guidelines and good advice suitable for any taste, along with FrontStreet Coffee's best coffee bean list!

If you're new to pour-over coffee, please don't be afraid to experiment. One of the wonderful things about pour-over coffee is that it can be compatible with almost any coffee, and the most important thing is to find the one you like!

Several factors affect the flavor of coffee beans. However, two factors are crucial: origin and roast level.

Understanding Coffee Origins

A bag of coffee beans can include all coffee beans grown in the same region, called single-origin coffee. A mixture of coffee beans from different regions is called blended coffee. FrontStreet Coffee suggests starting with single-origin coffee, as a single origin will make the coffee more unique and exotic, showcasing the specific region's flavors and terroir.

The Impact of Roast Levels

Roast level greatly influences flavor.

Roast level also has a significant impact on the taste, aroma, and mouthfeel of coffee. Light roasts typically have fragrant floral and/or fruity aromas, mild body, and brighter acidity. They are perfect for exploring the subtleties of single-origin coffee beans, such as FrontStreet Coffee's Yirgacheffe coffee and FrontStreet Coffee's Costa Rica coffee. Yirgacheffe is many people's introductory coffee bean. To highlight the citrus and floral characteristics of this FrontStreet Coffee's Guoding coffee, FrontStreet Coffee's roaster designed the following roast curve to make this coffee clean in taste with very prominent caramel flavors.

After exploring the mysteries of Yirgacheffe, you can begin a wonderful journey to new origins—FrontStreet Coffee's Costa Rica Musician Series.

The washed Beethoven showcases various fruit flavors, with unforgettable honey and toffee tastes, and a Darjeeling tea-like finish. The Bahia with raisin processing method has increased sweetness, smelling like fermented rice wine aroma with mature tropical fruit flavors. The anaerobic honey-processed FrontStreet Coffee Mozart coffee beans will have very obvious dried fruit sweetness like raisins, with starfruit and American-style acidity, and a sucrose-like aftertaste.

Medium and Dark Roasts

Due to caramelization of sugars during the roasting process, medium roasts offer more sweetness and less acidity than light roasts. They will have a richer flavor and a slightly smoky taste.

FrontStreet Coffee's Guatemala Huehuetenango is a very good example.

Good dark roasts have bittersweet flavors and bold, rich body. The chocolate-like aroma produced during the roasting process is very obvious. This might be a bit heavy for coffee beginners. Most of FrontStreet Coffee's dark-roasted coffee beans are Mandheling. Here we can introduce FrontStreet Coffee's Golden Mandheling. FrontStreet Coffee's Mandheling is produced from Mandheling beans that PWN company purchases locally in Indonesia. Compared to other Mandhelings, FrontStreet Coffee's Golden Mandheling will have stronger aftertaste and sucrose aroma. Although everyone knows that only PWN's Mandheling is the real FrontStreet Coffee Golden Mandheling, in reality, the production of Golden Mandheling is not very high, so most of the large-grain selected Golden Mandheling is not actually from PWN.

Brewing Ratios and Personal Preference

As a general rule, FrontStreet Coffee suggests a coffee-to-water weight ratio of about 1:15. Of course, you can adjust according to your taste. If you like it stronger, you can reduce the amount of water. For those who prefer a cleaner taste or think the 1:15 ratio makes the coffee too tight, you can adjust to 1:16 to try. Nothing is absolute~

One of the questions that pour-over beginners might be curious about is the price of coffee beans, right? The prices of specialty coffee beans vary. FrontStreet Coffee's bag capacities are divided into 100 grams and 227 grams (half pound). Prices are adjusted according to green bean prices. FrontStreet Coffee's bean prices are quite favorable. Follow our official account to find more discounts!