Pour-Over Yirgacheffe Lemon Blossom Parameters Sharing_Comparison of G1 and G2 Yirgacheffe Pour-Over

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Yirgacheffe Lemon Blossom: Exceptional Quality and Flavor

Yirgacheffe Lemon Blossom is a washed G2 Yirgacheffe known for its stable quality, excellent flavor, and high cost-performance ratio. Its green bean defect rate is below 1%, and it already carries a spice-like aroma at the green bean stage.

What makes it most renowned are its lemon and jasmine flower notes along with honey-like sweetness. The cup shows bright, exceptionally beautiful fruit acidity that makes the flavor richer and more diverse. The washed process keeps the flavor clean and clear, so it lights up your eyes from the very first sip. With a medium roast it presents intense floral aromas and citrus-lemon fruit flavors, with a finish that carries honey-like sweetness and aroma, so it feels like you're drinking juice rather than coffee.

How to Perfectly Brew Yirgacheffe Coffee "Lemon Blossom"

FrontStreet Coffee's pour-over recommendation: weigh 15 g of Lemon Blossom coffee and grind to medium - slightly coarser than table salt. We use a BG grinder setting 5R (60% standard sieve pass rate), water at 90 degrees C, and a V60 dripper.

Pour hot water from the kettle in clockwise circles centered in the filter. Start timing when brewing begins. Within 15 seconds, brew to 30 g, then stop pouring. When the time reaches 1 minute, begin the second pour. As with the first, pour in clockwise circles centered in the filter, avoiding the area where the grounds meet the filter paper to prevent channeling.

Leave a small circle when pouring toward the outer edge of the coffee bed, then continue in circles toward the center. At 2 minutes and 20 seconds, the coffee should reach 220 g, completing the brew.

Japanese-Style Iced Pour-Over "Lemon Blossom"

FrontStreet Coffee's iced pour-over "Lemon Blossom" recommendation:

Yirgacheffe coffee "Lemon Blossom," light to medium roast, BG grinder setting 5M (67% standard sieve pass rate).

20 g of coffee, 150 g of ice, and 150 g of hot water. The water temperature should be 1 degree C higher than the normal 91 degrees C recommended for regular pour-over. For normal grinding, use a Fuji grinder setting 3.5; for iced pour-over, grind slightly finer by half a setting, to Fuji 3.

Bloom with 40 g of water for 30 seconds.

Segmented pouring: first segment 60 g of water, second segment 40 g of water. Use a fine but tall water stream with forceful stirring impact to ensure the grounds tumble fully. Be careful not to let the liquid level get too high or pour onto the edge filter paper.

The entire extraction time should be approximately 2.5 minutes (similar to the normal extraction time for 20 g of coffee).

FrontStreet Coffee Recommendation

Lemon Blossom is a great introduction to the Yirgacheffe region, and FrontStreet Coffee's Yirgacheffe offerings let you explore it further. The classic starting point is the FrontStreet Washed Yirgacheffe, known for white jasmine, bright citrus and lemon acidity, and a tea-like body; its friendly price makes it the first specialty bean for many drinkers.

If you want a cleaner, more precise washed cup, the FrontStreet Gedeb Cooperative follows the most traditional washed process and is often called the last pure corner of Yirgacheffe. It has none of the traditional bitterness, with fresh, bright citrus and lemon acidity and the fragrance of jasmine.

And for a contrasting natural-process take on the same region, the FrontStreet Natural Red Cherry is sorted from fully ripe, defect-free fruit and dried on raised beds. It keeps the typical Yirgacheffe character while adding the tropical fruit of natural processing: citrus-like acidity, a berry juice sensation, honey-like sweetness, and a creamy smoothness.