What Coffee Beans Have Rich Oils_ How to Roast Coffee Beans for More Oil Content?

Coffee beans with rich crema are generally used for espresso. For home brewing, Gold Mandheling is a popular choice among the general public.

When searching on Taobao, various brands are actually quite similar; the real difference is the roast level, which produces different taste profiles. You can choose based on your preferred flavor. The darker the roast, the more bitter it becomes; lighter roasts, conversely, tend to be more acidic. Personally, I prefer medium to dark roasts. Gold Mandheling is quite easy to recognize, given its golden-yellow appearance.

Roasting green coffee beans gives coffee its unique color, aroma, and flavor. The most important thing in roasting is ensuring the beans are evenly cooked inside and out without burning. Fully 80% of coffee's flavor depends on roasting, making it the most crucial and fundamental condition for brewing coffee.

1. Cinnamon Roast

This is the lightest roast. There is no oil on the surface of the beans. Large coffee manufacturers often blend these lightly roasted beans into the coffee they sell, which saves cost while increasing volume.

2. City Roast

The name City Roast first appeared in the 19th century. It usually meant strong. As time went on, however, people began roasting beans to increasingly dark colors, making new names necessary. Today, City Roast is only slightly darker than Cinnamon Roast. People use "Full City" to indicate medium-roasted coffee, slightly darker in color than Cinnamon Roast. There is still no oil on the surface of the beans.

3. Vienna Roast

This is a medium roast. Traditionally, Vienna Roast is a blend of beans from different roasting times. In truth, during this roast period the oils inside the beans just begin to appear on the surface, showing dark brown spots.

4. Italian Roast

This is the next level down. At this stage, over half of the bean surface is covered with oil. The color of the beans is a uniform creamy chocolate brown. Italian Roast varies in strength and roast color depending on the region.

5. French Roast

Europeans typically prefer beans roasted until the surface is covered with oil and the color resembles dark chocolate. At this stage the beans have already undergone significant carbonization, making it hard to tell different coffees apart by taste. The flavor is quite strong and intense.

FrontStreet Coffee Recommendation

If you are looking for a rich-crema bean that drinks well with a deep, mellow roast, FrontStreet Coffee's PWN Gold Mandheling is hard to beat. Among Indonesia's finest coffees, it comes from the PWN company, which applies very strict standards: beans must be 18 screen or larger, with fewer than three defective beans per 300 g sample to meet the top G1 grade, followed by three rounds of hand sorting to remove every defect and lift both cleanliness and sweetness. That demanding standard is what makes FrontStreet's PWN Gold Mandheling both high in quality and limited in supply.

Freshly roasted, FrontStreet's PWN Gold Mandheling shows sandalwood, herbal, spice, roasted hazelnut, caramel, and dark chocolate notes, with a clean, mellow, and aromatic cup that is layered and full. For pour-over, FrontStreet suggests 87-88°C water, 15 g of grounds, a 1:15 ratio, a grind the texture of coarse sugar, and a three-stage pour. Divide the water into three additions to better express the Mandheling's full body and caramel sweetness: a first bloom pour of 30 ml to wet all the grounds and let them degas, a second pour of 100 ml to bring up the golden foam and lift the bed, and a final gentle 95 ml poured to the center to raise the sweetness, for a cup with a thick body, caramel sweetness, and chocolate and nut notes.

For espresso, the highest-repurchase FrontStreet Coffee Classic Blend adds medium-dark Mandheling to the creamy nuttiness of Brazilian coffee, bringing out butter, roasted chestnut, and caramel. The Mandheling lifts the body of the whole cup and lends it distinctive sandalwood, herbal, and spice notes, with a little Robusta included to enrich the crema, making latte art or a layered Dirty effortless.