Shenzhen boutique coffee industry elite figure, Douwu coffee founder long elder brother

Follow the caf é (Wechat official account vdailycom) and found that Beautiful Cafe opened a small shop of its own.

Boutique coffee is still a minority in Shenzhen, not to mention that 99% of people knew nothing about boutique coffee seven years ago. In such a market environment, Brother long, who loves coffee, still decided to open a boutique cafe.

Douwu Coffee is the earliest boutique cafe in Shenzhen. it has been relocated several times before it has been opened to the quiet two-story house in Longhua Minzhi. Unlike other petty-bourgeois cafes, there is no indoor location, only a 10-square-meter bar and a few tables and chairs in the open air.

In summer, many people complain that there is no air conditioning and there are many mosquitoes here. Brother long's original intention of opening a coffee shop is just to make a good cup of boutique coffee and does not spend much effort on decoration. But the cafe has been open for a long time, and coffee lovers know that they can get good coffee from Brother long, and they don't care.

The owners of 90% of boutique cafes in Shenzhen used to be guests of bean dance, and coffee practitioners and lovers from all over the country often come to learn from Brother long.

This month is the 7th anniversary of Douwu Coffee. For seven years, Douwu only sells coffee beans baked at home. In order to ensure the quality of coffee beans, each coffee bean produced is baked by Brother long himself.

In addition to going out to communicate, Brother long almost likes to stay in the baking studio to bake coffee beans and enjoy what he loves in this small world of less than 10 square meters. At most, he has to bake 50 or 60 jin of coffee beans a day.

Two large buckets of coffee beans need to be baked in ten or twenty batches.

Due to the different characteristics of each kind of coffee beans, it is necessary to set different temperature and time before baking. It takes a long time to control the baking degree and the best roasting time of coffee beans.

You should also keep a high degree of concentration when baking, and always pay attention to the changes of various parameters such as the temperature of bean baking. Some people say that he will never grow old when he loves things. Brother long's back is like a warm-blooded youth when he carefully observes the baking data.

Coffee beans are rolling, accompanied by a crisp explosion, the color slowly darkens, and then begins to glossy, the process should be constantly observed. Coffee beans are the happiest when they are roasted and poured down, braving the heat with a strong aroma of coffee.

Roasted coffee beans need to be cooled, and then Brother long will pick out the bad beans and throw them away. After baking for so many years, the beans have long been refined into a golden eye, and all kinds of rotten beans are found at once.

For Brother long, who bakes coffee beans every day, coffee beans jump in the roaster like a graceful dancer, which is the origin of the name "bean dance".

The coffee made by his hand tastes clean and pure.

Most people still have a strong bitter stereotype of coffee. Boutique coffee is fine because each type of coffee has its own character and presents a very different unique flavor.

Brother long is dedicated and affectionate to coffee, and always stubbornly insists on looking for the original taste of coffee. The coffee made by his hands tastes clean and pure, and there is no uncomfortable smell in the entrance.

When making coffee, we should grasp the ratio of coffee to water, water temperature and strength, but there is no need to be demanding as to how to make it. The coffee brewed by each barista has different characteristics, there is no absolute good or bad, as long as it tastes good.

Delicious coffee is like drinking fruit juice. It has the sour citrus, sweet blackcurrant, and even scented tea, which is the original flavor of coffee. Whether a cup of coffee is good or not depends on whether it releases the original flavor of the coffee bean itself.

He has never been short of money in his investment in coffee.

"here are the most expensive coffee beans in the world."

Brother long believes that the most important link of coffee is the cultivation and treatment of raw beans. If the quality of raw beans is not good enough, it will be useless to transport, store and roast them well.

So Brother long spends a lot of money every year to buy high-quality coffee raw beans from all over the world, and the ultimate requirement for coffee starts from the source. For example, it is said that "every coffee lover should drink at least once in his life" from the Jade Manor of Panama! "the flavor is amazing but the output is very small, which is obtained by Brother long participating in global bidding.

The most expensive in the world, the production area is carefully divided into every piece of land on the coffee farm, and even if the roasted Panamanian summer is stored for a long time, the taste is still clean and rich.

After purchasing raw beans, we need to repeatedly test the results of different treatments of raw beans, evaluate why there are different flavors of raw beans, and the conclusions will be shared with the planting areas to optimize the treatment of raw beans.

"one of the few coffee machines in Shenzhen worth 180000 dollars."

They are not stingy on coffee utensils, throwing money into it with hundreds of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of dollars. There are only two hand-controlled coffee machines worth 180000 in Shenzhen, one in the spring cocoon shop of Doudou Dance, and the other sold to them by Brother long.

In order to feel good, Brother long will transform the coffee utensils he bought and replace them with wood he likes. Each piece of wood has a different natural texture, just like making coffee is a very personal and personal thing.

The wood part of the coffee machine used to be metal, and the logs used for renovation are often more expensive than the coffee machine itself.

There is a way of life called bean dance.

Bean dance represents a way of life, a way of life that loves coffee. Coffee lovers from all over the country and even all over the world gather here like family just because they love coffee.

In order to spread coffee culture, bean dance non-stop organized coffee sharing meetings and salons, and coffee lovers gathered together to popularize coffee knowledge and extraction technology.

As a senior in the coffee industry, Brother long has never stopped learning coffee, adhering to high standards of strict self-discipline, and is never too old to learn. The rigorous, dedicated and dedicated craftsman spirit is applied to Brother long word for word.

Every barista who invisibly affects the bean dance requires himself to a high standard and takes every cup of coffee seriously.