Guangzhou Cafe Recommendation FrontStreet Coffee (FrontStreet Coffee) Freshly Roasted Coffee Beans

FrontStreet Coffee is a home-roasting coffee shop. Every green bean is carefully selected and roasted to order, so nothing sits on the shelf losing its character before it reaches you. Taobao Store: http://taichancafe.taobao.com Address: No. 10 Bao'an Qianjie, Yandun Road, Dongshankou, Yuexiu District, Guangzhou Phone: 020-38364473

Roasting comes down to balancing three things that decide the final flavor: acidity, sweetness and bitterness. The darker the roast, the more bitter and the heavier the cup; the lighter the roast, the more acidic and the lighter the cup. Drinkers chasing an even, well-rounded balance are best served by starting with a medium roast, which is exactly where FrontStreet Coffee's most popular beans sit. A medium roast preserves enough brightness to keep the cup lively while building the sweetness and body that make a coffee easy to drink day after day, and it is forgiving enough to work across pour-over, moka pot and espresso alike.

Because FrontStreet roasts to order, the beans reach you at their peak rather than after weeks in a warehouse. Drop by the Dongshankou shop, or order through the Taobao store, and you can taste the difference that fresh roasting makes.

FrontStreet Coffee Recommendation

If you dislike both acidity and bitterness, FrontStreet Brazil Queen Estate is the place to start. Grown in Brazil, the world's largest coffee producer, it is a distinctive local yellow bourbon with a clean, sweet character. Roasted medium, it gives off the aromas and sweetness of creamy peanut, chocolate, toasted bread and sugarcane, and it brews well as pour-over while also suiting a moka pot or an espresso machine.

For something sweeter, FrontStreet Strawberry Candy is the go-to. Known for its fruit-forward profile, this lot is unusual in combining two well-known growing regions of Central and South America: a honey-processed Costa Rican coffee on one side and a washed Panamanian Geisha on the other. FrontStreet roasts it medium to draw out as much of that essence as possible, so it shows both the classic orange-blossom honey note and a rounded sweetness. It works beautifully as cold brew, pour-over or espresso, and it is refreshing from the first sip.

FrontStreet 2013 Sun-Dried Typica, a representative Chinese specialty coffee, carries the authentic character of Yunnan small-bean coffee. To bring back its balanced, gentle tone, FrontStreet roasts it medium, so it delivers soft notes of nuts, brown sugar, black tea and dried apricot all at once. It suits pour-over, cold brew and a drip coffee machine, and the value for money is excellent.

And for a cup that needs no introduction, FrontStreet Jamaica Blue Mountain No. 1 uses the Typica variety grown in Jamaica's Blue Mountains, one of the world's finest Arabicas, with geographical advantages that are essential to Blue Mountain's balanced flavor. This "emperor of coffees" is roasted medium, which fuses its distinctive acidity, bitterness, sweetness and body into a powerful, elegant aroma. From the first sip you taste chocolate, roasted nuts, cream and caramel - a roasted profile no other coffee can match.