Which Single Origin Coffee Brand Tastes Best - How to Enjoy Single Origin Coffee Beans - The True Flavor Profile of Single Origin Coffee

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What is Single Origin Coffee?

Single origin coffee is made from coffee beans grown in a single origin, ground and brewed without adding milk or sugar. It is a pure coffee with distinct characteristics.

Coffee enthusiasts are generally fascinated by single origin coffee. Whether it's instant coffee or certain brand-brewed coffee that we usually drink, the coffee concentration is extremely low, at best only called "coffee beverages." Just like "milky-flavored drinks" with very low milk content, their tastes cannot be used for judgment. This is extremely unfair to both the hardworking milk-producing cows and the hardworking fruit-bearing coffee trees.

What Do Real Single Origin Coffee Beans Taste Like?

Single origin coffees are generally named after their origin. Due to different climate conditions in various origins, different types of single origin coffees each have their own characteristics. Below, I'll introduce 3 relatively common single origin coffees that I personally tasted on Sunday.

Guatemala Coffee: The greatest characteristic of this coffee is the smoky, roasted flavor imparted by the volcanic soil of its origin. It has a smooth, mellow taste with a slight tropical fruit flavor. Many coffee experts rate Guatemalan coffee as the best variety among all Central and South American coffees.

Kenya Coffee: Aromatic, rich, with balanced and pleasant acidity, excellent fruit flavors, and rich, perfect mouthfeel. It is one of the varieties generally favored by industry professionals.

Mandheling Coffee: Heavy flavor, not astringent or acidic, with body and bitterness fully expressed. Mandheling coffee is considered the most mellow coffee in the world. When tasting Mandheling, you can feel obvious smoothness on your tongue. In addition, this coffee also has a faint earthy aroma.

How Should We Taste a Single Origin Coffee?

When using a hand grinder to grind beans, the more uniform the force applied, the more consistent the particle size, and the more successful the grind.

Smell the aroma of ground coffee beans. Due to differences in origin climate and soil, different types of coffee beans have certain differences in aroma. For example, in Latin American coffees, you will smell nutty, dark chocolate-like flavors; while African region coffees often have floral and fruit-type flavors. Smelling the aroma of coffee beans can also quickly enhance your appreciation for this coffee.

Taste the coffee. When tasting coffee, you can follow the steps of "smell the aroma - small sip to feel acidity - taste." The main purpose of tasting coffee is to experience the acidity, bitterness, sweetness, and body. Of course, some coffees may also have a slightly salty taste.

Feel the aftertaste: The longer and clearer the aftertaste, the higher the quality of the raw coffee beans.

A failed coffee will have shortcomings such as unclean taste, astringency, and obvious fermented flavors. This is not what a specialty coffee should taste like.

PS: The quality of coffee shops on the market today is relatively low, which greatly misleads people who are new to single origin coffee. Therefore, finding a technically reliable coffee shop is the biggest challenge for beginners who want to explore specialty coffee.

Before tasting single origin coffee, you might want to test your taste sensitivity with three glasses of lemonade with different concentrations. You can also experience your sense of smell by blind-smelling the aromas of different vegetables.

As for which single origin suits you better, you'll have to use your tongue to taste them one by one.

For example, I remember in "Meteor Garden," Huaze Lei only drank salted coffee. Actually, if you're pursuing the saltiness of coffee, you can completely achieve it by overheating the coffee.

The ultimate pursuit of the world's top restaurants and best chefs must be to restore the most authentic flavor of ingredients. Just as we spend our lives reminding ourselves not to forget our original intentions. This is probably why many people often use the bitterness, acidity, sweetness, and richness of single origin coffee to describe life!

Single Origin Coffee Bean Brand Recommendations

FrontStreet Coffee's freshly roasted single origin coffee beans - such as Yirgacheffe and Mandheling coffee - have full guarantees in both brand and quality, suitable for brewing with various equipment. More importantly, they offer extremely high cost-effectiveness. A half-pound (227g) bag costs only about 70-90 yuan. Calculating at 200ml per cup with a 1:15 coffee-to-water ratio, one bag can make 15 cups of specialty coffee, with each cup costing only about 5-6 yuan. Compared to coffee shops that often sell cups for dozens of yuan, this offers excellent value for money.

FrontStreet Coffee: A roastery in Guangzhou with a small shop but diverse bean varieties, where you can find various famous and lesser-known beans. They also provide online store services: https://shop104210103.taobao.com

Important Notice :

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FrontStreet Coffee Address: 315,Donghua East Road,GuangZhou

Tel:020 38364473