Are Fresh Roasted Coffee Beans Good? How to Brew Fresh Roasted Coffee Beans at Home_ Small Bean Fresh Roasted Coffee

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Seeing the call for submissions about coffee in the experience topics, I couldn't help but reflect on my various coffee experiences over the past few years: from my early childhood black history of drinking McDonald's coffee with endless refills leading to midnight insomnia, to a later period of European life visiting coffee shops daily, then starting to experiment with various coffee methods at home, and finally to today where I can no longer drink too strong coffee due to health reasons. Various memories of coffee intertwine together, as if experiencing a romance: first encounter – inseparable – going separate ways.

I'm not a professional barista, just an ordinary person who loves coffee, with only some superficial understanding of coffee. So if there are any mistakes, please forgive me and don't hesitate to correct me.

Getting to the main topic: How to brew fresh-roasted coffee beans at home?

I don't know how many people are like me, who initially thought that drinking fresh-ground coffee at home was an extremely sophisticated thing: requiring preparation of various dazzling equipment and going through numerous complicated processes just to get such a small cup of coffee. Indeed, coffee is a tiny bit more complex than tea, but when you actually operate it at home, you'll find it's not as complicated as imagined. Except for Espresso which has high equipment requirements and relatively tedious processes, other types of coffee are still very easy to make at home. Aeropress and pour-over can also make a good cup of coffee.

All the above is just to tell everyone not to get caught up in purchasing various coffee equipment at the beginning. In my opinion, the only essential things at the beginning are quality beans, a good grinder, and a love for coffee. The equipment used for making coffee later can be purchased according to your own needs. I will mention the equipment requirements for different brewing methods in later experiences.

Coffee Beans: The Most Important Part of a Cup of Coffee

As the first article in this series of reviews, of course, I have to mention the most important part of a cup of coffee – coffee beans.

Coffee beans weren't born this way. Let me briefly explain the production process of coffee beans.

First, you need a coffee tree.

Then the coffee tree bears coffee fruits.

The picked coffee fruits undergo sun-drying or water-washing treatment to remove the skin and pulp, yielding raw coffee beans.

The raw beans are roasted to become beautiful fresh-roasted coffee beans.

Ground into coffee powder.

Forms of Coffee Available on the Market

Everyone can buy the latter three forms of coffee on the market: raw beans, roasted beans, and coffee powder. Here, I recommend purchasing roasted coffee beans, and the fresher the better! Because raw beans don't have much coffee flavor, they need to be roasted to bring out the flavors inside, but after roasting, various flavors will disappear with the evaporation of water and carbon dioxide. Therefore, I suggest everyone purchase fresh-roasted coffee beans from local coffee shops or online, and don't buy too much at once – about two weeks' worth is enough. Additionally, because coffee beans increase their contact surface with air after being ground into powder, the flavor will quickly dissipate. The fine powder needed for espresso can even lose half its flavor within two minutes. So I still recommend purchasing roasted beans and grinding them fresh when drinking. As for raw beans, although their storage time is much longer than roasted beans, home roasting requires preparation of specialized roasting machines, which are expensive aside from high technical requirements, so they are also not recommended.

Fresh-Roasted Coffee Bean Brand Recommendations

FrontStreet Coffee's single-origin fresh-roasted coffee beans: Yirgacheffe coffee, Kenya AA coffee, Panama Geisha coffee, etc., all have full guarantees in terms of brand and quality, suitable for brewing with various equipment. More importantly, they offer extremely high value for money. A half-pound (227g) package costs only about 80-90 yuan. Calculating based on 15g of powder per pour-over coffee, one package can make 15 cups of coffee, with each single-origin coffee costing only about 6 yuan. Compared to coffee shops selling for dozens of yuan per cup, this is extremely cost-effective.

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 shop services: https://shop104210103.taobao.com

Important Notice :

前街咖啡 FrontStreet Coffee has moved to new addredd:

FrontStreet Coffee Address: 315,Donghua East Road,GuangZhou

Tel:020 38364473