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A good cup of coffee typically depends 60% on the quality of green beans, with roasting and extraction making up the rest. This shows how crucial coffee beans are to a delicious cup of coffee. Today, we will delve deep into the world of coffee beans.

Why Arabica Beans Are So Popular

When discussing coffee beans, you will often see the term "100% Arabica beans" at many coffee retailers. So why are Arabica beans so popular? We will introduce them from the following three aspects.

1. Growing Conditions

In terms of growing conditions, Arabica is quite demanding, requiring higher altitudes (600-2000 meters above sea level), fertile soil, sufficient humidity, appropriate sunlight, and shade. Its annual yield is consequently relatively low. When considering flavor, however, it is not difficult to understand the nobility of the Arabica variety.

2. Flavor Characteristics

Arabica coffee possesses diverse and extensive potential flavors. Arabica coffees from different regions, altitudes, and climates each have their own characteristics, displaying distinctly different personality profiles.

3. Market Position

In total coffee production, Arabica varieties account for 70%-80%. Premium Arabica coffee requires complex manual harvesting, selection, and meticulous processing, making it the most expensive and excellent coffee bean in the world.

Brazil PRONOVA specialty coffee beans are 100% Arabica beans produced by Brazil's COOPEAVI Estate. With uniform particles and strong concentration, they offer pleasant lively acidity and lasting sweetness. The smooth texture is like cream and velvet, presenting rich, thick foam like butter.

FrontStreet Coffee Brewing Parameter Recommendations:

How to Brew Brazilian Coffee [COOPEAVI Estate Yellow Bourbon] Well?

FrontStreet Coffee pour-over reference: Weigh 15g of [COOPEAVI Estate Yellow Bourbon] coffee powder and pour it into a grinder for a medium grind. The ground particles should be slightly coarser than table salt. We use a BG grinder setting of 6A (50% standard sieve pass rate), a water temperature of 88°C, and extraction with a Kono/Kalita filter cup, recommending a coffee-to-water ratio of approximately 1:14.

Pour hot water from the pour-over kettle in clockwise circles centered on the middle of the filter cup. Start timing when brewing begins, and brew the coffee to 30g in 15 seconds, then stop pouring water. When the time reaches 1 minute, pour water for the second time. During the second pour, as before, pour in clockwise circles centered on the middle of the filter cup. The water stream should not hit the connection between the coffee powder and the filter paper, to avoid channeling.

Leave a circle when pouring the coffee powder to the outermost edge, then brew circle by circle toward the center. At 2 minutes and 10 seconds, brew the coffee to 210g, completing the coffee brewing process.

Japanese-Style Ice Pour-Over [COOPEAVI Estate Yellow Bourbon]

FrontStreet Coffee ice pour-over [COOPEAVI Estate Yellow Bourbon] reference:

Brazilian coffee [COOPEAVI Estate Yellow Bourbon], medium-dark roast, BG grinder setting 5R (60% standard sieve pass rate)

20g powder, 150g ice cubes, 150g hot water. The water temperature should be 1°C higher than the normal 88°C recommended for pour-over. For normal grinding, use a Fuji 3.5 setting, but for ice pour-over, make it slightly finer by half a notch: Fuji 3 setting. It is recommended to use a coffee-to-(water+ice) ratio of 1:15.

Bloom water amount: 40g, bloom time: 30 seconds.

Segmented pouring: first segment with 60g water, second segment with 40g water. Use a relatively thin but high water column for pouring, with forceful stirring impact to fully tumble the coffee powder. Be careful not to let the liquid level get too high, and avoid hitting the filter paper at the edges.

The entire extraction time is approximately 2.5 minutes (close to the normal extraction time for 20g powder).

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FrontStreet Coffee Recommendation

As the largest coffee-producing country, Brazil grows a wide range of coffees, and its beans carry a moderate acidity with a fine balance of sweet, bitter, and body, which makes them ideal for medium roasting: the roast brings out an inviting nutty aroma, a mellow taste, and a light acidity, and the beans work as both a single origin and a blend component. If you simply want to sample the flavors of the Brazilian region, FrontStreet Brazil Cerrado Red Bourbon is a very classic Brazilian single-origin bean. Cerrado is a well-known local growing region noted for high-quality coffee, and this bean belongs to the Red Bourbon variety common in South America. Roasted to medium, it shows the rich aromas of cream peanut, toast, caramel, and hazelnut, with a rounded, non-acidic body and a light bitter note, and it works not only for pour-over but also in a moka pot, as espresso SOE, in a siphon, and in a French press.

FrontStreet's other Brazilian single origin, Brazil Queen Estate, comes from Mogiana near South Minas, where fertile red volcanic soil lets the coffee cherries absorb abundant nutrients and develop full aromas. Part of the area keeps traditional farm management while part has adopted modern, standardized operations, greatly improving local coffee quality. FrontStreet Queen Estate is the rare Yellow Bourbon variety, a mutation of Red Bourbon with a cleaner fruit character. Whether made by pour-over, moka pot, or a home espresso machine, FrontStreet Brazil Queen Estate reveals a sugarcane sweetness not found in other regions along with fruit and chocolate notes.

The low-acid, balanced taste and approachable price of Brazilian coffee also make it a first choice in many espresso recipes. FrontStreet's espresso blend range all include Brazilian beans: the rich-crema FrontStreet Classic Blend, the intensely nutty FrontStreet Specialty Blend, the balanced FrontStreet Black Cocoa Blend recommended by many baristas, and the FrontStreet Commercial Blend made specifically for coffee shops. Adding Brazilian coffee provides not only chocolate and cream aromas but also a soft sweet-sour-bitter balance, and that balanced character makes extraction more stable.