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What's the Difference Between Mandheling and Espresso Coffee? Mandheling Coffee Bean Brewing Temperature and Ratio Parameters

Published: 2026-01-27 Author: FrontStreet Coffee

Last Updated: 2026/01/27, For more professional coffee knowledge and coffee bean information, please follow Coffee Workshop (WeChat official account: cafe_style). Mandheling coffee comes from Mandheling, Indonesia, and is a coffee with a very rich and wild taste. Its flavor is similar to spices and herbs. It was favored by many people during World War II. Produced in Indonesia,

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Although both Mandheling coffee and espresso are renowned worldwide for their rich and mellow characteristics, they represent two completely different things. The former refers to Arabica coffee beans grown on the island of Sumatra, Indonesia, while the latter represents a coffee preparation method that uses steam pressure for extraction.

What is Mandheling Coffee?

Mandheling coffee specifically refers to Arabica coffee beans grown on the island of Sumatra, Indonesia. Due to the local warm climate, low growing altitude, and Indonesia's unique coffee processing methods, Mandheling coffee exhibits subdued coffee flavors such as herbal, spice, and pine notes.

However, with careful selection that ensures more uniform bean size, even heat distribution during the roasting process, and proper extraction, Mandheling coffee can display a rich coffee taste, clean mouthfeel, and distinct aftertaste. A representative example is "FrontStreet Coffee—PWN Golden Mandheling Coffee."

To ensure that Golden Mandheling coffee beans can showcase their rich characteristics while clearly displaying unique herbal flavors, FrontStreet Coffee roasts the Mandheling beans just before reaching the second crack, resulting in a medium-dark roast level. Good coffee requires fresh roasting, and FrontStreet Coffee ships all coffee beans within 5 days after roasting.

When brewed using medium-coarse grind (coarse sugar size, 70% passing rate through China No. 20 standard sieve), 88°C water temperature, 1:15 coffee-to-water ratio, and a KONO dripper, Golden Mandheling coffee exhibits a rich and clean flavor profile with high balance. It has intense nutty and caramel aromas, with chocolate notes and a persistent finish.

What is Espresso?

Espresso refers to the process of using an espresso machine with steam power to force hot water through finely ground coffee powder at 9-10 bar pressure, extracting an extremely concentrated coffee liquid.

Steam coffee machines use high pressure to extract coffee essence, which infinitely amplifies the flavors of coffee beans. Different coffee beans have different flavors—some acidic, some bitter—so using single-origin coffee beans for espresso can easily produce extremely intense acidity or bitterness. Although in principle all coffee beans can be used for espresso machine extraction, not all coffee beans can produce good-tasting espresso.

FrontStreet Coffee believes that good-tasting espresso should maintain stable flavor and quality for extended periods, exhibit balanced taste, be rich and full-bodied, be bitter without being burnt, have a distinct aftertaste, and sometimes even have slight fruit acidity.

Therefore, FrontStreet Coffee does not recommend using light roast coffee beans for making espresso. Because light roast coffee beans extract more acidity and less oil, the espresso can easily taste sharp and thin in both flavor and mouthfeel.

Therefore, FrontStreet Coffee recommends using dedicated espresso blend coffee beans for espresso extraction. FrontStreet Coffee has also launched four medium-dark roast espresso blend coffee beans based on the taste preferences of general consumers, allowing everyone to choose different flavored blend coffee beans according to their personal preferences. All coffee beans ordered online are shipped by FrontStreet Coffee within five days after roasting, ensuring everyone can experience the best aroma of freshly roasted coffee.

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