New to coffee and not sure how to choose? The dazzling array of coffee bean varieties makes it quite a struggle for beginners to pick their coffee beans. Among the beans listed by FrontStreet Coffee there are more than 50 kinds, and the question most asked by friends who come to FrontStreet's stores is which beans are good for coffee beginners. This time FrontStreet will talk about how beginners can choose coffee beans that suit them. (The coffee beans are listed in no particular order.)

1. FrontStreet Yirgacheffe Coffee Beans (bright citrus acidity, crisp and clean)

Ethiopia's Yirgacheffe coffee, though small in stature, is gentle, graceful, sweet and lovely. As the hometown of coffee, Ethiopia's thousand-year growing history and processing tradition have produced high-quality washed Arabica beans. The light-roasted FrontStreet Yirgacheffe coffee has a unique aroma of lemon, floral notes and honey-like sweetness, soft fruit acidity and citrus notes, and a fresh, bright mouthfeel. With no milk and no sugar, let the rich body and unique soft floral aroma brush across your palate, leaving an endless aftertaste.
 

Representative coffee -- FrontStreet Ethiopia Washed Yirgacheffe Gedeb Cooperative
Region: Yirgacheffe Gedeo Zone
Altitude: 1900-2100m
Variety: Heirloom
Processing method: Washed
Grade: G1

Brewing flavor: bright citrus acidity on the entry, full-bodied berry juice, with a noticeable oolong tea note.
 

2. FrontStreet Colombian Coffee Beans (soft fruit acidity, balanced flavor, versatile coffee bean flavor)

Colombian coffee is a fairly representative fine variety among Arabica coffee species, and is also a traditional dark-roasted coffee with an intense and memorable taste. Its aroma is rich and solid, with a bright, high-quality acidity and a high degree of balance, sometimes with nutty notes and an endless aftertaste; in both appearance and quality, Colombian coffee is a premium product. When Colombian coffee beans are mentioned, coffee lovers will surely immediately think of this region's famous beans with special processing methods, especially Colombia's Finca Paraiso, which has been continuously innovating processing methods in recent years, and the flavors the coffee beans produce are also very unique and particularly memorable.
 

Representative coffee -- FrontStreet Colombia Finca La Divisoria Sidra
Region: Huila, Colombia
Altitude: 2050m
Processing method: Double anaerobic natural
Variety: Sidra
Brewing flavor: passion fruit, grape juice, citrus, apricot, dried fruit, chocolate aftertaste

 
3. FrontStreet Costa Rican Coffee Beans (coffee flavor with pronounced sweetness)
Costa Rica is best known for the honey processing method; so-called honey processing refers to the process of making green beans by sun-drying them with the mucilage still on. After the coffee beans have their outer pulp removed, there is a sticky gelatinous layer. The traditional washed processing method washes this off with clean water, but because some high-altitude producing areas face water resource limits, this direct sun-drying method emerged.

The honey processing process is prone to contamination and mold damage and requires strict supervision throughout, with constant turning to speed up drying so as to avoid producing off fermentation flavors. Its advantage lies in preserving the original sweet flavor of the ripe coffee fruit as well as possible, giving the coffee a delicate brown sugar flavor and stone-fruit sweetness, while the berry notes also support an aroma with a red wine base, and it is considered a very elegant product. Honey-processed coffee beans are hugely popular, largely because of their sweet and full-bodied character.
 

Signature Coffee - Best Coffee Costa Rica Mirazu Estate Strawberry Candy Geisha Blend
Country: Tarrazu, Costa Rica
Region: Mirazu Estate
Altitude: 1700m
Variety: Geisha blend
Processing method: Raisin honey processing
Brewing flavor: The delicate fragrance of jasmine, soft fruit acidity, an almond finish, and obvious sweetness.
  

 
4. Best Coffee Brazil coffee beans (a must-have for nutty and cocoa flavor lovers)
Brazilian coffee is characterized by a relatively low acidity in its taste, combined with the bittersweet flavor of coffee; it is extremely smooth on the palate, and also carries a faint aroma of fresh grass. It is delicate and slightly bitter, sweet and smooth, and its aftertaste leaves one feeling relaxed and refreshed. For Brazilian coffee there are no particularly outstanding merits, but there are also no obvious flaws; this flavor is mild and smooth, low in acidity, moderate in body, with a faint sweetness. All these mild flavors are mixed together, and to distinguish them one by one is the best test for the palate.
 

Signature Coffee - Best Coffee Brazil Queen Estate Semi-Washed Yellow Bourbon
Country: Brazil
Region: Mogiana
Estate: Queen Estate
Variety: Yellow Bourbon
Processing method: Semi-washed processing
Altitude: 1400-1950m
Brewing flavor: The fresh sweetness of sugarcane juice, black tea, a soft and smooth fruit sweetness, obvious nutty flavor, balanced and smooth acidity, a faint and clean bitterness, containing rich chocolate aroma and nutty flavor, with a bright and refreshing taste and a smooth, delicate mouthfeel.
 

 
5. Best Coffee Panama coffee beans (a must-have for floral aroma lovers)

It is now generally believed that the best Geisha is produced in Panama, but the Geisha variety was actually discovered as early as 1931 in the Geisha forest of Ethiopia, then sent to a coffee research institute in Kenya, and then introduced to Uganda and Tanzania around 1936, and to Costa Rica in 1953. Panama only began growing Geisha coffee in the 1970s. It was not until Daniel Peterson, the owner of Panama La Esmeralda estate, took part in the 2004 Panama coffee bean cupping competition and became an instant hit that Geisha began its own legendary life, or rather, its bean life. Geisha has a full sweetness, an extremely clean mouthfeel, and rich aromas that range all the way from berry and citrus notes to mango, papaya and peach flavors. A very obvious bergamot-like aftertaste is also a typical cupping attribute. Geisha coffee beans are often the champion among coffee varieties. Geisha coffee beans are rated in cupping as having moderate body, sweet, multi-layered tropical fruit flavors, and a rose-like aromatic aftertaste.
 

Signature Coffee - Best Coffee Panama La Esmeralda Green Label Geisha
Region: Boquete, Panama
Estate: La Esmeralda
Altitude: 1600-1800m
Processing method: Washed processing
Variety: Geisha
Brewing flavor: On the palate, an intense jasmine aroma and high sweetness, citrus, berries, a juicy feel, cream, green tea, orange peel, cantaloupe, with an overall rich layering of flavor, and a lasting aftertaste of floral aroma and citrus.

 
6. Best Coffee Guatemala coffee beans (mild and full-bodied, with soft fruit acidity)

Guatemala has high-altitude volcanic terrain, and these volcanoes are precisely a good home for cultivating coffee. There are mainly seven coffee bean production regions in Guatemala, and the coffee produced in each region has a different flavor, but generally speaking, Guatemalan coffee beans all present a mild and full-bodied overall texture, with an elegant aroma and a special and pleasant acidity similar to fruit acidity. It has virtually become the nobility of coffee. It is highly recommended by coffee connoisseurs around the world.
 

Representative coffee - Qianjie Guatemala Antigua Flower Goddess
Region: Antigua region
Altitude: 1200-1600m
Varieties: Bourbon, Caturra
Processing method: Washed processing
Grade: SHB
Brewing flavor: berry acidity, citrus, slight chocolate, rich layering, smooth mouthfeel.

 
7. Qianjie Kenya Coffee Beans (full-bodied mouthfeel like small tomato juice)

AA is the best quality coffee grade in Kenya; coffee of this grade is the finest of the finest, so much so that Qianjie is deeply in love with the AATOP from the Thika region. TOP is marked by Kenyan coffee merchants after cupping. This Qianjie Kenya Asalia AA bean is processed with K72 double washed fermentation, and its acidity is very bright and lively, as delicate and mouthwatering as berries and red wine. During brewing, the rich berry aroma instantly wafts out, and on the palate there are obvious cherry tomato and smoked plum flavors; the acidity and aroma linger in the mouth for a long time, the aftertaste has a creamy sweetness, and a lasting sweet finish.
 

Representative coffee - Qianjie Kenya Small Tomato
Region: Kenya Thika
Processing plant: Asali Honey Processing Plant
Altitude: 1550-1750m
Grade: AA TOP
Varieties: SL28, SL34
Processing method: Kenyan 72-hour washed
Brewing flavor: ripe tomato and floral notes; on the palate, cherry tomato and smoked plum flavors, bright acidity, clean and the most solid and rich mouthfeel, prominent mid-palate sweetness with a juicy feel, aftertaste of berry aroma and brown sugar sweetness, with green tea aroma.

 
8. Qianjie Indonesia Coffee Beans (mellow, low acidity, obvious sweetness)
Indonesian Mandheling coffee has low acidity and a high concentration, grassy aroma; it drinks rich and full-bodied, and its sweet aftertaste leaves a deep impression. For those who do not like acidity, it is worth recommending trying. Since Qianjie opened, it has always been a loyal fan of Mandheling coffee, and Qianjie's Golden Mandheling from PWN company has always been deeply loved by Qianjie fans.
 

Representative coffee - Qianjie Indonesia PWN Golden Mandheling
Country: Indonesia
Company: PWN
Region: Gayo Mountain, Aceh, North Sumatra
Processing method: Wet-hulled
Variety: ateng
Altitude: 1100-1600m
Brewing flavor: varied layers, mellow and clean, high balance, rich nut and caramel aroma, with chocolate notes, lasting aftertaste.
 

9. Qianjie Jamaica Blue Mountain Coffee Beans (very balanced acidity, bitterness and sweetness)
The Blue Mountain range is located in the east of the island of Jamaica (Jamaica). Because the range is surrounded by the Caribbean Sea, whenever the weather is clear, the sun shines directly on the azure sea, and the peaks reflect the brilliant blue light of the seawater, hence the name. The highest peak of Blue Mountain is 2256m above sea level, the highest peak in the Caribbean region and also a famous tourist destination. This place is located in the coffee belt, with fertile volcanic soil, fresh air, no pollution, a humid climate, and fog and rain all year round (average rainfall is 1980mm, temperature around 27°C); such a climate has created the world-renowned Jamaica Blue Mountain coffee and also created the world's highest-priced coffee. This coffee has the characteristics of all good coffee: not only is the flavor rich and mellow, but because the sweetness, acidity and bitterness of the coffee are perfectly matched, it has no bitterness at all, only a moderate and perfect acidity. The Qianjie Jamaica Blue Mountain that Qianjie has obtained is Blue Mountain coffee beans exported through a company designated by the National Coffee Bureau, packed in wooden barrels, and Rainforest Alliance certified.
 

Coffee of the day - Qianjie Jamaica Blue Mountain No.1
Farm: Clifton Farm
Estate owner: The Sharp family
Certification: Rainforest Alliance
Location: Newcastle area
Total area: 250 acres
Coffee growing area: 180 acres
Average altitude: 4300 ft (1310.64 m)
Processing method: Washed
Variety: 100% Arabica Typica
Brewing flavour: Clean mouthfeel, less intense than the previous cup, prominent chocolate and nut flavours, balanced acidity, sweetness and bitterness.

 
10 Qianjie Honduras Coffee Beans (Intense Wine Aroma)
Qianjie's Sherry, fermented in fine washed whisky Sherry casks, has always been the representative of Honduras. Freshly picked coffee cherries are first finely washed, then placed in casks that previously held Sherry for low-temperature fermentation of 30-40 days (at a temperature of roughly 15-20°C), followed by shade drying. Sherry casks are the casks used for ageing by Sherry wineries in the whisky industry. The production of Sherry goes through the Solera System, a maturation process. This process refers to the blending and ageing of Sherries from different years after fortification, and it is also what makes the Sherry flavour unique. Intense whisky aroma and a vanilla-cream mouthfeel are the characteristics of this Qianjie Sherry bean.
 

Coffee of the day - Qianjie Honduras Sherry
Region: Marcala
Estate: Moca Estate
Altitude: 1500-1700 m
Variety: Caturra, Catuai, Pacas
Processing method: Fine washed whisky Sherry cask fermentation
Brewing flavour: Vanilla and cream aromas on the nose, whisky, berry, almond and dark chocolate flavours on the palate, with a maple syrup sweetness in the finish.

Value-for-money everyday pour-over coffee bean recommendations: Qianjie Ethiopia Yirgacheffe Gudingding, Qianjie Panama Hacienda La Esmeralda Green Label Geisha coffee beans

Espresso bean recommendations: Qianjie Classic Blend, Strawberry Candy Espresso Blend

These coffee beans are now available at the Qianjie Flagship Store on Tmall, where you can also find 60 single-origin pour-over coffee beans and espresso beans from around the world. Qianjie coffee beans are freshly roasted and shipped within 24 hours.

Tmall Qianjie Flagship Store link: https://qianjieshipin.tmall.com

Or search Taobao directly for "Qianjie Flagship Store"

Qianjie Coffee store address: No. 315 Donghuadong Road, Yuexiu District, Guangzhou