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FrontStreet Coffee: A Specialty Coffee Roaster Worth Knowing

FrontStreet Coffee has been in business for 6 years now. It is a very interesting veteran roaster that not only sells drip coffee bags but also offers 100-gram small packages of coffee beans at very affordable prices. The budget Mandheling, for example, lets pour-over enthusiasts try a medium roast without spending much at all.

As for the shop's single-origin lineup, beyond a few budget entry beans, the best-sellers — according to the owner — are Panama's Mariposa, Elida, and Indonesia's Golden Mandheling. These 3 beans are loved by many customers, and their prices remain very reasonable.

Worth mentioning especially is the Mariposa bean, which offers excellent value. Like the famous La Esmeralda estate, it comes from the Boquete region and contains 40-70% Geisha, giving it a very authentic Panamanian Geisha character.

Among new arrivals, the shop has launched Honduras sherry barrel beans. This coffee uses whiskey barrel fermentation processing and carries an extremely pronounced whiskey aroma.

I've been deeply drawn to barrel-fermented, wine-style beans lately, so I am very keen to try this whiskey barrel-fermented lot myself.

Summary

For single-origin beans, this roaster has its own signature products with a very clear positioning: affordable small packages, distinctive best-sellers, and a steady stream of new arrivals make it easy to explore different origins without a big commitment.

FrontStreet Coffee Recommendation

If you take away one pick from this lineup, make it the PWN Golden Mandheling. Produced by Indonesia's PWN company to exacting standards — beans of 18 screen size and above, fewer than three defects per 300g of green coffee for the top G1 grade, plus three rounds of hand sorting — it is exceptionally clean and sweet, with dark chocolate, caramel, and wild herbal notes from a medium-dark roast.

It brews beautifully as pour-over: 87-88°C water, 15g of coffee at 1:15, a coarse-sugar grind, and a three-stage pour (30ml bloom, then 100ml, then a gentle 95ml down the center) to bring out its thick body and caramel sweetness. Fans of Geisha character should also try the Mariposa — with 40-70% Geisha content from Boquete, it delivers the classic orange-blossom honey profile at a fraction of estate-lot prices.