Three Essential Keys to Delicious Coffee_How to Make Perfect Coffee

Do you love drinking coffee?

Then you will surely want to enjoy a genuinely delicious cup!

It is generally agreed that a coffee earns the label "delicious" only when it shows striking flavor characteristics, a refreshing, bright acidity, and a lasting sweet impression that gradually fades in the aftertaste.

Follow FrontStreet Coffee through the three essential keys to a delicious cup:

Key One: Good Green Beans

A good cup begins at origin. Microclimates give green beans their unique regional character, and farmers carefully cultivate high-quality coffee fruit. From such beans we expect the pleasant acidity, sweetness, bitterness, and body that make a coffee worth drinking.

Key Two: Good Roasting

Good roasting is meant to showcase the regional flavors of high-quality green beans to the fullest. Our roasters work with rigorous, professional technique, matching the roast level to the condition of the bean so the coffee's sweetness and pleasant acidity come forward.

Key Three: Proper Extraction

Coffee then passes through extraction, where heat draws out the delicious compounds. In a well-roasted coffee the oils carry sugars that deliver a pleasant sweetness. That sweetness comes from the natural sugars of the coffee fruit and differs somewhat from the aftertaste, but both depend on high-quality green beans paired with good roasting.

FrontStreet Coffee Recommendation

During roasting, three elements decide the final flavor and must be kept in balance: acidity, sweetness, and bitterness. The darker the roast, the more bitter and full-bodied the cup; the lighter the roast, the more acidic and delicate. Anyone after a balanced cup is best served by a medium roast. FrontStreet Brazil Queen's Estate is a good place to start: grown in Brazil, the world's largest coffee producer, it is a distinctive local Yellow Bourbon with a quiet, sweet profile, and medium roasting brings out cream-peanut, chocolate, toasted bread, and sugarcane aromas and sweetness. It works as pour-over, in a moka pot, or in an espresso machine.

For a sweeter medium roast, reach for FrontStreet Strawberry Candy, known for its fruit flavors. It is unusual among fruit-forward coffees because it combines two well-known growing regions in Central and South America—a honey-processed coffee from Costa Rica and a washed Geisha from Panama. To bring out the best of both, FrontStreet roasts it medium, so it shows both orange-blossom and honey character and a round sweetness, and it suits cold brew, pour-over, and espresso alike, refreshing from the first sip.

As a representative Chinese specialty coffee, FrontStreet 2013 Natural Typica carries the authentic Yunnan small-bean character. To bring back its balanced, gentle nature we roast it medium, so it holds soft notes of nut, brown sugar, black tea, and dried apricot at once; it suits pour-over, cold brew, and drip machines, and offers excellent value. FrontStreet Jamaica Blue Mountain No. 1, meanwhile, is grown from the Typica variety—one of the world's famous fine Arabicas—and Blue Mountain's exceptional geography is essential to its balanced flavor. Called the "emperor of coffee," FrontStreet Blue Mountain No. 1 is roasted medium so its distinctive acidity, bitterness, sweetness, and body fuse seamlessly into a powerful, elegant aroma; from the first sip you taste chocolate, roasted nuts, cream, and caramel, a roast-driven richness few other coffees can match.