What are the Best Commercial Coffee Bean Brands? How to Choose Commercial Coffee Beans & Commercial Coffee Bean Brand Recommendations

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How to Choose Suitable Commercial Coffee Beans

A good cup of coffee has rich layers and distinct flavors. So how do you choose suitable commercial coffee beans? Technique is also quite crucial.

1. What type of coffee equipment do you use?

You must tell the seller this, so that the seller can recommend suitable coffee beans specifically for you. Just like that, exchange usage experiences with the seller, and you might have unexpected gains.

2. Understand the flavors of different coffee beans before purchasing

Although coffee beans themselves have obvious regional characteristics, during the roasting process, the roaster might adjust according to their understanding of coffee taste, resulting in diverse variations even for the same coffee. Understanding coffee bean flavors in advance might help you understand why the same coffee beans purchased from different places have different tastes.

3. Your preferred coffee taste

Inform the seller about what flavors of coffee you like, for example, more bitter and fragrant, or slightly more acidic. This way, the seller can recommend the most suitable coffee based on your description.

4. Learn to ask about the roasting date of coffee beans

The quality of coffee doesn't depend on its price, but on its freshness. Peanuts oxidize and decompose to produce aflatoxin, a harmful substance. Coffee is even worse, decomposing to produce many times more aflatoxin than peanuts. The indicator for judging coffee freshness is the "roasting date." It's recommended to buy coffee beans within two weeks of roasting, as different coffees and roasting levels affect the optimal drinking period. For example, medium-dark roasted coffee beans, due to their heavier smoky and fiery flavors, are best consumed after seven days of roasting, with the best flavor two weeks later; lightly roasted coffee beans can be consumed two to three days after roasting, with the optimal flavor period one week later, allowing you to taste the flavor changes of the beans. Both are best consumed within one month.

However, many people express that they find it delicious when tasting on-site but the flavor is poor when brewing at home. There should be several reasons affecting this: first, the particle uniformity of home grinders differs from commercial grinders, especially the difference between manual and electric grinders - manual grinders can't achieve the uniformity and fineness of electric ones; additionally, some coffee shops might use water quality relatively superior to home water quality; third is materials - different price ranges of espresso machines have different pressure and stability indices, all of which affect the result, and for pour-over coffee, the material of the filter cup, the material of the pour-over kettle... etc., all have an impact.

5. Try to buy whole coffee beans

Basically, sellers will provide free coffee grinding services, meaning they can help customers grind whole coffee beans into coffee powder for free. If you want to fully enjoy the aroma of a cup of coffee, it's recommended to buy whole coffee beans.

Commercial Coffee Bean Brand Recommendations

FrontStreet Coffee's roasted single-origin & espresso commercial coffee beans: Yirgacheffe coffee, Kenya AA coffee, Panama Butterfly coffee, etc., all have full guarantees in brand and quality, suitable for brewing with various equipment. More importantly, the cost performance is extremely high - a half-pound 227-gram package costs only about 80-90 yuan. Calculating at 15 grams of powder per cup of pour-over coffee, one package can make 15 cups of coffee, with each cup of single-origin coffee costing only about 6 yuan. For normal cafe prices of thirty to forty yuan per cup, this is extremely cost-effective.

Blended Coffee

Blended coffee, also called mixed coffee, is the mixing of various single-origin coffee beans to fully utilize the strengths of each single-origin coffee bean. Blended beans are made from coffee beans of different origins to create a more balanced taste. For example, if one coffee bean is smooth but lacks aroma, another bean rich in aroma can be added, taking the strengths of individual coffee beans to complement each other's weaknesses, either complementing or strengthening in taste, thus creating a coffee with richer new flavors. Sometimes the beans are mixed first and then roasted, this is called raw blending; sometimes the coffee beans are mixed after roasting, this is called roasted blending.

Commercial Blend:

Colombia: Brazil: Robusta; ratio 3:6:1, raw blending;

Medium-dark roasting together

[Robusta] beans have strong disease and pest resistance and high yield. Usually not as acidic as Arabica beans, often with a slight woody aroma. The caffeine content is 2.2%, higher than Arabica beans' 1.2%, and the chlorogenic acid content is also higher, making them quite bitter. They are usually used in commercial beans, cheaper than Arabica beans.

In terms of flavor from individual beans, the coffee taste from commercial beans is much inferior to that of specialty coffee beans. Generally, commercial beans are chosen for blending. After blending, they can also produce coffee with excellent taste, suitable for making lattes, cappuccinos, and other espresso drinks. Our commercial blend for Espresso, because it contains Robusta beans, will have richer crema, classic taste, with caramel sweetness, nutty and cocoa-like, dark chocolate flavors, balanced sweet and sour, with a slight bitterness, and a long-lasting aftertaste.

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