Thomas Tian: devote most of his life to the study of coffee beans

Thomas Tian: founder of Singapore-Nanyang Lion City Coffee Culture Consulting (Beijing) Co., Ltd., Singapore coffee industry celebrity, senior roaster, senior consultant of Dongyi Global International Baking. More importantly, he is a high apprentice of Chen Changhe, a master of the international coffee industry, inheriting the coffee culture and roasting technology that the chef has accumulated for more than 60 years, and has a great love and dedication to coffee. Thomas Tian adheres to the modern coffee roasting concept, European fast baking technology and Italian deep baking technology are rare in the international coffee industry. He is a famous master in the field of international coffee roasting and is committed to making coffee a perfect roasting art.

Mr. Tian's studio is in the writing room in Chaoyang District. If no one tells you, you can't find that office has anything to do with coffee.

Knock timidly at the door for fear of going to the wrong place. Open the door, the aroma is coming, it is the smell of coffee. Through the porch, I saw that the room was small, the left-hand side was a bean dryer, and the shelf on the right-hand side was full of large and small bottles and cans full of coffee beans. There was a large workbench in the middle of the room. An old man in a bowler hat and black-rimmed glasses on the bridge of his nose was making coffee by hand. Two or three young people sat around, relaxed and comfortable. The old man looks less like a Singaporean than a Taiwanese.

See me come in, warm greeting, treat people kindly, will not let people have a sense of distance.

Coffee is ready. This one must be drunk.

Teacher Tian said that if you want to make a good cup of coffee from the source, you have to understand the character of beans. Just like a real delicacy, you have to start with choosing ingredients. What kind of beans, where to grow, how to bake, with what means to flush, water temperature control how many degrees. Every process, every process, all affect the taste of the final cup of coffee.

Mr. Tian can even choose beans, identify them, and make a cup of coffee according to each customer's taste. If not for the deep understanding of beans, how could there be such a level.

I recall that Kazuo Inamori said in his book "living method": "like the carpenter who built the temple, he planned his life as a profession, a field, and worked repeatedly and diligently for a long time to hone his skills and human nature. I strongly feel the charm reflected by these people." "from youth and youth to his seventies and eighties, he was focused and focused. The heaviness and sense of existence of his personality have been highlighted without verbal expression. "

It is not too much for Mr. Tian to say these words. He was born in a coffee family and has been in contact with everything about coffee since he was a child. Later, under the study of international coffee master Chen Changhe, Mr. Tian himself has long been a celebrity in the coffee industry in Singapore, a senior roaster and a senior consultant of Dongyi Global International Baking. He is such a man with his own light and heavy weight.

"all I have in my head is coffee," he said.

A friend asked, "his studio is like a coffee museum." I said, "he is a museum himself."

Thomas Tian wants to teach his lifetime gains on coffee, but in a different way. He wants to teach in China's most traditional form of apprenticeship. In the past, if you want to learn a craft, you need to learn from a teacher. You can be a teacher for one day and a teacher for life. What you learn is not only skills and theories, but the most important thing is the "experience" that cannot be clearly explained in words.

When we both said, "experience is hard to describe in words," we smiled at each other. Maybe that's why Mr. Tian is willing to talk to me more. For this, I am very honored and grateful.

This afternoon is pleasant, not only tasted various flavors of coffee, but also let me know that there is a power, there is no need to show; there is a charm, will highlight their own; there is a personality, is thick.

Careful and tireless persistence is in itself the practice of honing one's character.