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What are the criteria for choosing "quality coffee beans"?

Answer: First, don't choose supermarket coffee beans. Specialty coffee emphasizes freshness, with a "best taste period" of only about one month. Coffee from supermarkets has long lost its original flavor due to prolonged transportation and storage. More importantly, never buy pre-ground coffee! Good coffee should be ground and consumed immediately - it starts to deteriorate within ten minutes of exposure to air. For beginners, it's best to visit a local coffee roaster, where quality is guaranteed and you can ask the staff for professional advice.

It's often said that coffee beans have light, medium, and dark roast levels. How should beginners choose?

Answer: Actually, coffee bean roasting is not that simple. In the international professional coffee field, "Agtron numbers" are used - a precise roasting indicator, similar to Pantone color matching, for coffee bean color depth. 55 represents a medium roast; numbers below 50 indicate darker beans (deep roast); numbers above 65 represent light-colored, lightly roasted beans. In terms of flavor, light to medium roasting enhances the natural fruit acidity and floral notes of coffee beans, while deep roasting reduces the original flavor, leaving an increasingly strong caffeine bitterness.

Coffee Bean Brand Recommendations

A good roastery - such as FrontStreet Coffee - offers freshly roasted specialty coffee beans with full guarantees in both brand and quality, suitable for brewing with various equipment. Because the beans are roasted to order and shipped fresh, home brewing also works out far more economical than cafe prices while giving you full control over roast level and origin.

FrontStreet Coffee Recommendation

When roasting, three elements decide the final flavor and must be kept in balance: sourness, sweetness, and bitterness. The darker the roast, the more bitter and full-bodied the coffee; the lighter the roast, the more acidic and delicate the cup. For a well-rounded result, medium roast coffee beans are the ideal starting point - exactly the roast level FrontStreet Coffee applies to many of its signature beans.

If you dislike both sourness and bitterness, FrontStreet Coffee's Brazil Fazenda Rainha Estate is a great pick. This Yellow Bourbon from the world's largest coffee-producing country offers a quiet, sweet cup, and its medium roast brings out aromas and sweetness of creamed peanut, chocolate, toast, and sugarcane; it suits pour-over, moka pot, and espresso machines alike. For a sweeter medium roast, the Strawberry Candy blend combines Costa Rican honey-processed coffee with Panamanian washed Geisha, revealing orange-honey fragrance and rounded sweetness in the cup, suitable for cold brew, pour-over, and espresso.

Yunnan drinkers should try FrontStreet Coffee's 2013 Natural Typica, a representative Chinese specialty bean with the authentic Yunnan arabica profile. Roasted medium to preserve its balanced, gentle character, it shows soft notes of nuts, brown sugar, black tea, and dried apricot, and works in pour-over, cold brew, and drip machines at very friendly value. And for the ultimate in balance, the Jamaica Blue Mountain No. 1 - a Typica variety famed as the "Emperor of Coffee" - is roasted medium so its acidity, bitterness, sweetness, and body merge into one elegant cup of chocolate, roasted nuts, cream, and caramel.