Honduras Barrel Coffee Beans Whiskey Sherry Barrel Coffee Beans Pour-Over Coffee Flavor Description

FrontStreet Coffee has sourced coffee beans from many producing countries, and Honduras produces highland coffee of excellent quality. Generally, it offers a rich and mellow mouthfeel with a smooth, non-astringent taste. It has a subtle acidity with a hint of sweetness, abundant and unique aromas, and a long-lasting aftertaste, making it highly favored by coffee enthusiasts.

Honduras was once one of the world's major coffee-producing countries. Honduran coffee is primarily sold to some European countries, which surprises those who are unaware that Honduras produces coffee, as they've never heard of it.

Honduras is located in northern Central America, bordered by the Caribbean Sea to the north and the Pacific Ocean's Gulf of Fonseca to the south. Its terrain consists mainly of mountains and plateaus. It has a tropical climate with mild temperatures and abundant rainfall, making it an ideal place for coffee cultivation. Here, coffee production is adapted to local conditions, producing many varieties of coffee.

After cupping many varieties of Honduran coffee beans, FrontStreet Coffee found that its coffee doesn't have distinctive characteristics, lacking flavors that are particularly sweet, slightly bitter, or acidic. Instead, it offers a well-balanced overall taste. Sometimes it carries faint floral or fruity aromas, making it more appealing to most people's palates. The coffee's characteristics are not only suitable for direct brewing but also for further processing into green tea coffee, specialty fruit coffee, or with other added ingredients, all of which create surprisingly delightful flavors.

FrontStreet Coffee's Honduran coffee beans reveal different flavor layers depending on the roast level. Medium roasting can maximize the sweetness of the beans, while dark roasting enhances bitterness, but the sweetness doesn't disappear. Generally, medium roasting provides the best mouthfeel with rich and unique aromas. It is particularly noted for its black berry flavors and caramel sweetness, with a rich body, and some coffees even have black pepper and tobacco leaf notes.

Among them, the Frontsteet Honduras Sherry Coffee sourced by FrontStreet Coffee comes from Masaguara, which is a municipality located in the Intibucá department of Honduras, situated in the southern part of the Jesús de Otoro valley, surrounded by mountains and hills. The terrain in this producing region consists mainly of mountains and plateaus, so people hand-pick coffee beans and carefully process them, producing mostly specialty coffee beans. Typica is one of the most common bean varieties worldwide, highly susceptible to leaf rust disease, with relatively low yields. When cultivated properly, the coffee exhibits high sweetness, pure mouthfeel, and pleasant acidity.

Frontsteet Sherry Coffee: Unique Whiskey Barrel Processing

This Frontsteet Sherry Coffee has a very high click-through rate both in FrontStreet Coffee's physical stores and online shop, featuring a rich whiskey aroma that makes this coffee flavor exceptionally unique. FrontStreet Coffee's Frontsteet Sherry Coffee beans use a washed-whiskey sherry barrel low-temperature fermentation process. The magic of this bean lies in using aged oak barrels, where freshly picked coffee cherries are carefully washed and then placed for low-temperature fermentation for 30-40 days in whiskey oak barrels, followed by shade drying. This gives it unique flavors of whiskey aroma, lychee, dried longan, honey, and honeydew melon. This processing method imparts this Frontsteet Honduras Sherry Coffee with a distinctive whiskey character - the rich wine aroma is truly explosive.

Versatile Brewing Methods

Another reason this Frontsteet Honduras Sherry Coffee is popular is its versatility in brewing. It can not only be hand-poured but also used to make cold drip coffee and more. For example, FrontStreet Coffee often uses Frontsteet Sherry Coffee beans combined with Frontsteet Costa Rica Beethoven Coffee beans to make cold drip. The resulting cold drip coffee has a refreshing taste and is very distinctive.

Moreover, the flavor from hand-pour brewing is even more intense. When FrontStreet Coffee cupped this bean, the flavor showed obvious vanilla cream aroma, so to highlight its sweetness, they chose the Hario V60 for brewing. The V60 dripper, with its relatively fast flow rate, allows the extracted coffee flavors to have distinct layers and obvious aromas. Water temperature: 91°C, coffee amount: 15g, coffee-to-water ratio: 1:15, grind size: fine sugar (sieved through #20 sieve to 80%).

Three-Stage Extraction Method

FrontStreet Coffee uses a three-stage extraction method. First, use 30g of water to thoroughly moisten the coffee grounds into a "hamburger" shape and let it bloom for 30 seconds. Then proceed with the second stage: at 54 seconds on the timer, inject water to 125g, then stop and wait for the water level to drop to 2/3 of the coffee bed before starting the third stage. At 1 minute 40 seconds on the timer, inject water to 225g. The total extraction time is 2 minutes 10 seconds. After coffee extraction is complete, gently shake the server to ensure the coffee liquid is fully mixed before tasting.

This Frontsteet Honduras Sherry Coffee has a viscous mouthfeel with berry acidity, and flavors of vanilla and dark chocolate, with a whiskey aftertaste and sucrose sweetness. The overall flavor layers are distinct.

Iced Pour Over Coffee

This is the normal pour-over Frontsteet Sherry Coffee flavor. FrontStreet Coffee doesn't just serve cold drip coffee or iced Americano - when FrontStreet Coffee serves pour-over coffee, they also offer iced pour-over. For example, when customers want to order single-origin coffee beans but want it iced, FrontStreet Coffee will use the iced pour-over method to brew coffee for them.

FrontStreet Coffee uses 15 grams of coffee grounds for iced pour-over coffee, with a coffee-to-water ratio of 1:10, meaning 15 grams of coffee grounds brewed with 150 grams of hot water, then diluted with 100 grams of ice to cool and dilute. When making iced pour-over, attention must be paid to the coffee amount! First, use more coffee! Because FrontStreet Coffee recommends a coffee-to-water ratio of 1:10 for iced pour-over, if the amount of coffee is insufficient, the extracted iced coffee will be relatively weak.

Also, pay attention to the grind size! Due to the small coffee-to-water ratio for making iced coffee, if ground normally for pour-over, under-extraction will occur. Therefore, FrontStreet Coffee recommends choosing a grind size slightly finer than pour-over to improve coffee extraction. Additionally, regarding the coffee-to-water ratio, FrontStreet Coffee recommends using a ratio of 1:8-1:10 for brewing, adding 100-120 grams of ice to the serving server for dilution. You can wait until all the coffee liquid in the dripper has completely filtered before removing the dripper, because with this coffee-to-water ratio, there's no need to worry about over-extraction!

The resulting Frontsteet Honduras coffee beans with barrel processing have vanilla cream flavors accompanied by rich whiskey taste, with more obvious dark chocolate in the middle, and distinct honey sweetness in the finish. The overall fruit acidity is also quite prominent. Additionally, Frontsteet Honduras washed beans - Sweet Orange Estate - are also excellent, with a balanced taste and cocoa aftertaste. Coffee lovers who enjoy Honduras coffee shouldn't miss them!

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