How to Brew Starbucks Autumn Blend Coffee Beans - Autumn Story Theme and Symbolism

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The Arrival of Autumn with Starbucks' Seasonal Blend

Every autumn, Starbucks brings everyone a Fall Blend coffee bean. The warmth of autumn apricot leaves and the golden hue of sunset reflections fill the packaging with a warm autumn atmosphere. This coffee also delivers the grounded feeling that autumn brings people through its taste.

What Coffee Bean Regions Make Up the Fall Blend?

To create a grounded flavor profile, Starbucks selected coffee beans from the Sumatra region of Indonesia, paired with beans from the Antigua region of Guatemala and the Kenya region. Delicate herbal and cocoa notes paired with subtle spice flavors, combined with medium roast, create a mellow, robust coffee with moderate acidity and a full-bodied flavor—仿佛置身在秋天的树林中。

The Meaning Behind Fall Blend Packaging

The packaging design of Fall Blend coffee is based on tradition and history while continuously evolving to reflect unique flavor characteristics. The packaging illustrations, inspired by this season, invite exploration. The fresh layers displayed by colorful seasonal plants create a harmonious overall feeling—just like this coffee itself.

Fall Blend Flavor Profile

The coffee flavor is balanced, fully expressing praise for this autumn. Starbucks Fall Blend coffee showcases the geographical flavors from the world's major coffee-producing regions. These coffee beans come from the East African Rift Valley in Africa, Sumatra, and the Antigua region of Guatemala. Created by our master blenders, like a chef preparing an autumn feast, we finally tasted this cup of elegant coffee with amber pecan and sage-like flavors, along with the sweetness of dried figs.

When using Fall Blend for cupping, you can connect the packaging design with the coffee's flavor, then associate it with Starbucks' humanistic care, allowing customers to feel the warmth of Starbucks and Starbucks baristas through the story.

Indonesia Sumatra Region Story & Characteristics

Sumatra Island is located in the western part of Indonesia and is also the Arabica coffee bean growing area in the Indonesian region. Sumatra Island runs northwest-southeast, crossing the equator in the middle, and consists of two regions: the Barisan Mountains in the west and swampy land in the east. With sufficient rainfall, warm climate, and the altitude environment required for Arabica coffee. Mandheling coffee, deeply loved by many coffee connoisseurs, comes from here. (Note: Mandheling is a coffee name, not a region, generally referring to Arabica coffee grown on Sumatra Island, named after the local Mandheling people).

On Sumatra Island, there are two main coffee-growing regions: one is the Aceh region in northern Sumatra, representing the coffee bean "FrontStreet Coffee PWN Gold Mandheling Coffee Bean," and one is the Linton region around Lake Toba (Danau Toba) in central-southern Sumatra, representing the coffee bean "FrontStreet Coffee Daily Selected Linton Mandheling Coffee Bean." The Fall Blend uses Mandheling coffee from the Linton region.

The difference between the two is that PWN Gold Mandheling coffee beans undergo at least three pure manual selections after harvesting and drying processing, ensuring that the coffee bean specifications reach above 18. Defective beans are fewer than 3 (300g raw bean sample), belonging to the highest G1 grade. PWN color is darker green, with regular flat bean shapes. Although Linton Mandheling coffee is not as meticulously selected as PWN Gold Mandheling coffee beans, its flavor performance extremely represents Sumatra Island region coffee flavor characteristics: herbal aroma, dark chocolate, caramel, and sweet aftertaste.

Guatemala Antigua Region Story & Characteristics

Guatemala's Antigua Valley has always been the most renowned coffee-producing region in Guatemala. The local microclimate provides excellent conditions for growing coffee. Active volcanoes in the area bring fertile volcanic soil to the Antigua region, as well as unique volcanic pumice. These cooled materials after volcanic magma eruption have porous and insulating properties, very suitable for maintaining moisture in the soil, and also make up for the problem of low rainfall in the region. At the same time, paired with shade trees common in this area, water is less likely to be lost while making coffee fruits have more unique flavors.

The combination of rich volcanic soil, low humidity, sufficient sunlight, and strong day-night temperature differences creates the personality of Antigua region coffee. Coffee grown in Guatemala has soft fruit acidity, nuts, caramel, and slight smoky flavors. Representative works include "FrontStreet Coffee Antigua La Flor coffee bean."

Africa Kenya Region Story & Characteristics

Kenya is located in eastern Africa, with the equator crossing through the central part, and the East African Rift Valley running north-south, belonging to tropical regions. Coffee is mainly grown in volcanic areas at altitudes of 1600-2100 meters around the capital Nairobi to the Kenyan highlands. This altitude is suitable for coffee beans to develop flavors because the mountain temperature is lower, growth is slower, and the aromatic components of coffee beans are fully developed, with more obvious fruit acidity and harder texture.

At the same time, the phosphate content in the soil of Kenya's coffee-producing region is higher compared to other regions. The main formation of coffee flavor comes from plant roots and soil materials. Therefore, coffee beans grown in the Kenya region have very obvious and full acidity. Even with medium-dark roast, you can feel the tomato-like acidity of Kenya coffee beans. Representative coffee beans include "FrontStreet Coffee Kenya Assalia coffee bean."

How to Brew Fall Blend Coffee Beans for Best Taste?

Fall Blend coffee beans show medium roast, but from the coffee bean color appearance, this is a medium-dark coffee bean. When FrontStreet Coffee brews medium-dark coffee beans daily, it uses a Kono filter cup for brewing.

The ribs of the Kono filter cup only extend from the filter hole to 1/3 of the filter cup wall. When the filter paper fits the filter cup, air cannot directly penetrate the entire filter cup, thus slowing down the water flow rate, achieving a soaking effect, and helping coffee flavor substances release more fully, making medium-dark roast coffee perform fuller and more robust.

For parameters, FrontStreet Coffee recommends using medium-coarse grind (coarse sugar size, 70-75% passing rate through China No. 20 standard sieve), 88°C water temperature, 1:15 coffee-to-water ratio with KONO filter cup.

For brewing technique, FrontStreet Coffee recommends segmented extraction. Specific brewing method: Press the timer. First water volume is 30g, then 30s bloom; then proceed with the second small water volume circular injection to a total weight of 125g; wait until the water level in the coffee bed drops to half before adding water again, then continue with small water volume circular injection to a total weight of 225g. After all dripping is complete, the total extraction time is about 2 minutes and 10 seconds.

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