Italian mixed beans, what kind of beans are they?

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Do you know? The cup of coffee you drink is actually made up of beans of different kinds and quality, and the main reason is to get a sustained and delicious flavor.

What's a coffee mix--

Coffee blending is a combination of coffee beans from different countries and producing areas; coffee beans used in single source coffee come from the same country, the same region, the same plantation, or even the same piece of land.

Mixed coffee is not an unfamiliar term, it is also called blended coffee. Nowadays, almost all the popular Italian coffee belongs to the category of mixed coffee! The espresso that everyone drinks in the adventure is also made of mixed beans!

Usually for a cup of coffee with excellent flavor, it is common to mix two or more different varieties of coffee or the same variety of coffee but roast different degrees of coffee together, through the dispenser's unique understanding of the coffee flavor, so that different coffee beans learn from each other and blend the mixed coffee with excellent flavor.

Unlike the habit of naming individual coffee after its place of origin, blended coffee is generally named after a brand, just like Lipton Black Tea, maybe we have drunk Lipton for N years, but we never know exactly what kind of black tea Lipton has, and the brands of blended coffee almost never disclose their recipes, so when we choose blended coffee, we choose a brand or flavor rather than a specific kind of coffee beans.

People mix coffee beans mainly for the following purposes:

Stable flavor

Because coffee beans are a kind of crop, the flavor of even the same kind of coffee beans will be different from year to year, so mixing several kinds of coffee beans can solve this problem and keep the taste basically the same every year.

Balanced taste

Because one of the features of the Italian coffee machine is that it magnifies the most prominent flavor feature of coffee beans, we hardly use a single variety of coffee to make Espresso, otherwise if that coffee bean is bitter, the Espresso will be very bitter and sour. So we need to balance the flavors by matching them.

Reduce the cost

In fact, the cost reduction is due to the fact that coffee production is often reduced due to natural and man-made disasters. At that time, since it is matched, it is only necessary to find a coffee bean with similar taste to replace the corresponding coffee bean in the recipe. There is no need to pay a lot of money to snap up coffee beans that have increased prices as a result of reduced production.

Formula

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Colombia SUP (50%), Brazil NO.219 (30%), Java Robusta WIBI (20%).

In order to highlight the rich and heavy taste, it is necessary to choose Colombian beans with heavy taste and moderate acidity, accompanied by Brazilian coffee beans with balanced taste, as well as a combination of rich flavor and bitter taste.

There are two spelling methods for spelling beans: first bake, then mix and then bake, also known as cooked and cooked, which is a greater test for bakers; the purpose of raising the mixed beans for a few more days is to make the beans blend and have a balanced flavor; cooked beans usually take about a week; raw and mixed beans can be used in 3-4 days, because different beans are already affecting each other when baking.

Four basic principles of matching

1. First decide the coffee beans as the bottom flavor.

If it is your favorite beans, use more than 50% of the proportion, which is the trick to ensure that the blending will not go wrong. First, use the beans you like as the base flavor, and then add the beans that make up for the deficiency and the beans that add aroma, and mix them according to a certain proportion.

two。 Mix beans with opposite characteristics to each other

If you want a more obvious sour taste, putting two kinds of sour beans together will cancel each other out. It is best to choose a balance system or bitter system that can set off the original taste of beans. Blending all kinds of beans with opposite characteristics in the coming year is a key technique.

3. Don't have too many kinds of beans.

If you mix too many kinds of beans, it will be more difficult to mix and the taste will be blurred. Basically, just add one or two kinds of beans as the bottom flavor. If you don't think it's enough, try to mix beans with different baking degrees.

4. Change the proportion of allocation according to your preference

Beans from different places can be properly mixed together according to the desired flavor. This is a very effective method, as long as you master the balance of allocation, you can give full play to the characteristics of each kind of beans.

The role of coffee blending must not be erased: this customized, constant formula gives coffee drinkers a specific, repeatable experience, thus making them happy.