Can I use SOE beans to make espresso? Flavor characteristics of espresso and soe coffee

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What single coffee and SOE coffee have in common is that they are both single origin beans, but the two beans have undergone a mission change when they are handed over to the roaster.

Although there are a variety of utensils for making single coffee, a hundred flowers blossom, but the mainstream extraction methods are manual extraction and siphon extraction under atmospheric pressure, if it has to be divided into the first and second, the order quantity of hand-brewed single coffee in coffee shops is relatively more than that of other single-product production methods in most coffee shops. The reason should be attributed to: convenient production, clean and convenient, of course, as well as the grasp of the taste and the pursuit of the point. The production of SOE coffee will rise to the espresso system, which will involve the Italian coffee machine about the atmospheric pressure of 9bar as another extraction condition. So this is one of the reasons why the baking rhythm of single coffee and SOE coffee is different.

Since this is only one reason, what are the other reasons? As mentioned earlier, SOE coffee is to eventually enter the espresso system, so to determine whether the bean can be identified as a successful SOE after roasting is not only to pass the cup test, but also to evaluate whether the final SOE espresso meets the criteria for a cup of espresso.

In recent years, at the China qualifier and final of the World barista Competition, more and more contestants choose SOE to participate in the competition, which is first the pursuit of roasting skills and then the further pursuit of boutique coffee, because a coffee bean that can be roasted by SOE has to have many characteristics and advantages, of course, do not misunderstand that mixed coffee beans are not good, everything is absolutely not absolute.

The above discussion quotes the author: PARLAPASS (coffee roaster, professional barista coach)

So why don't you use beans to make espresso?

Because the Italian coffee machine has a feature! It magnifies the most prominent flavor characteristics of coffee beans, so we hardly use a single variety of coffee to make Espresso. If the single coffee bean is bitter, the Espresso will be extremely bitter, and the beans with high acid value will be very sour.

So we need to balance various flavors by matching beans, but this does not mean that mixed beans will have a worse flavor than single beans, because good beans also need good single beans to spell.

Of course, it does not mean that Italian coffee can not be made with single beans! Beans have their own flavors, and there is no final conclusion on how and how to extract them.