Espresso Coffee Flavor and Taste Description: Premium Coffee Estate Origin Region Variety Characteristics Processing Method Introduction

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The Art of Perfect Espresso

Making a perfect espresso requires exceptional skill, as every step affects the quality of this coffee. From the coffee farmer to the roaster, to the equipment, to the barista—each element is indispensable. When you drink a good espresso, you're also tasting the dedication of coffee professionals and the masterful performance of the barista. Please give them your applause and encouragement.

Importance of Consistency

Secondly, a delicious espresso cannot be separated from stable flavor and quality. Although more and more coffee shops are trending toward using single-origin coffee beans for espresso, blended coffee beans remain a popular option. While single-origin coffee beans can highlight richer flavors when extracted as espresso, their stability is relatively lower.

As agricultural products, coffee beans' flavors are influenced by terroir and climate. Therefore, new crop coffee beans each year, even from the same growing region, will exhibit different flavor characteristics.

Because achieving long-term stability is impossible, professional roasters and baristas conduct in-depth research on coffee beans from each region. They blend different varieties of coffee beans in various proportions before roasting (or blend after roasting), striving to achieve a harmonious taste when these beans are extracted as espresso, while also supporting stable flavor performance in every cup.

Misconceptions About Blended Coffee

Many people have misconceptions about blended coffee beans, believing that espresso blends are made from poor-quality coffee beans mixed together, then deep-roasted to let bitterness mask the beans' undesirable flavors. However, not all coffee shops do this. Today's coffee beans on the market meet the SCA definition of specialty coffee. As long as the coffee beans are high-quality, made with professional coffee knowledge, and accompanied by professional customer service, both blended and single-origin espressos qualify as specialty coffee.

FrontStreet Coffee's Espresso Blends

FrontStreet Coffee has also launched four blended coffee beans specifically designed for medium-dark roasted espresso based on consumer taste preferences. Everyone can choose different flavored blends according to their personal preferences. For all online orders, FrontStreet Coffee ships within five days after roasting is completed, ensuring everyone can experience the best aroma of freshly roasted coffee.

"Frontsteet Sunshine Blend Coffee Beans": Ethiopian natural processed red cherry coffee beans (30%) + Honduras sherry barrel-aged coffee beans (70%), featuring rich wine aroma, vanilla cream, berry sweetness and acidity, with roasted nut flavors.

"Frontsteet Premium Blend Coffee Beans": Colombian washed coffee beans (30%) + Brazilian natural processed coffee beans (70%), featuring nut, dark chocolate, and caramel flavors, meeting daily coffee shop production needs.

"Frontsteet Commercial Blend Coffee Beans": Robusta washed coffee beans (10%) + Colombian washed coffee beans (30%) + Brazilian natural processed coffee (60%), featuring nut, cocoa, and caramel flavors, suitable for daily coffee shop operations.

"Frontsteet Basic Blend Coffee Beans": Yunnan washed small bean coffee beans (30%) + Brazilian natural processed coffee beans (70%), featuring gentle fruit acidity, caramel, and nut flavors, suitable for users who prioritize cost and have moderate flavor requirements for both shop and home use.

The Foundation: Cerrado Coffee

Three of these espresso blends use red Bourbon coffee beans from Brazil's Cerrado region—a variety with nutty notes, rich balance, and prominent sweetness, making it particularly suitable as the main flavor foundation for FrontStreet Coffee's espresso blends.

Cerrado occupies 22% of Brazil's total area as vast grasslands deep in the Brazilian interior. The Cerrado coffee region referred to by FrontStreet Coffee is not the entire Cerrado grassland, but limited to coffee-growing areas above 1,000 meters elevation in the mid-west of Minas Gerais state that can be called the Cerrado coffee region. This area represents the essence of the Cerrado grassland, with high altitude and fertile soil, producing specialty coffee beans with high sweetness, rich body, and high clarity.

Bourbon Variety Characteristics

Bourbon is a sub-species created by mutation from Typica, belonging to the same category as Typica as one of the oldest existing coffee varieties. When green fruits ripen, they display bright red color. Compared to Typica, Bourbon plants have broader leaves and grow more densely. Although the yield is higher than Typica, the harvest period is still 2 years, making it a low-yield variety. Through FrontStreet Coffee's cupping, we found that Frontsteet's Brazilian red Bourbon coffee has excellent quality, with wine-like acidity and sweet aftertaste.

Roasting Philosophy

To allow Brazilian coffee beans to express a rich, solid mouthfeel, FrontStreet Coffee roasts the beans to just before the second crack—that is, medium-dark roast level—then pairs them with coffee beans from different regions also roasted to medium-dark level, adding gentle acidity (Yunnan)/caramel sweetness (Colombian)/even richer body (very small amount of Robusta) to the flavor profile.

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