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Espresso is of epoch-making significance in the history of coffee in the world. It is the emergence of espresso that leads to all kinds of espresso, such as latte, Cabo, Australian White and so on. They are all combinations of espresso and milk. In this article, Qianjie Coffee will introduce you to the production of espresso.

Espresso extracted from an espresso machine tastes so bitter that few people like it, even less in a coffee shop. Most people still like milk coffee like cappuccino and latte.

The core of espresso is espresso made by espresso machine under high temperature and high pressure, and the front street of espresso production is to choose the right espresso beans. Generally speaking, espresso beans are different from hand-brewed coffee beans, because the roasting degree of hand-brewed coffee is shallow. Qianjie coffee has more than 50 producing areas, and they are used for medium-shallow roasting, except for special beans using medium-deep roasting. Light roasted coffee is not suitable for espresso. The deeper the roasted beans, the stronger the espresso, the lighter the beans, the more sour the coffee. So if you want to make a good espresso, you have to choose the right beans.

Qianjie Coffee currently uses home-baked sunflower sunflower beans, which are a blend of Honduran Shirley Coffee and Yega Chevy Sun Red Cherry Coffee at 6:4. The acidity of citrus and berries immediately emerges at the entrance, with the aroma of whisky and dark chocolate in the finish.

In addition to this bean, there are three other beans with different flavors. For example, Qianjie Coffee is based on the blending of coffee beans: the coffee beans used are Yunnan coffee beans that have become popular in recent years, and the Brazilian beans are mixed according to the proportion of 3:7 to produce Italian coffee with soft acidity and sweetness of caramel. the flavor of nut and dark chocolate is smooth and sticky, but the taste is light.

Qianjie boutique coffee mix: using Colombia: Brazil, mixed according to the proportion of 3:7, the Italian coffee produced is soft, slightly sour, sweet, nutty, the overall feeling is not too exciting, peaceful, the fat is medium.

There is also this commercial blend, Qianjie Coffee is blended with appropriate Robusta beans to increase the oily feel, the recipe is Columbia: Brazil: Robsta = 3:6:1, the extracted espresso has the sweetness of caramel. the flavor of nut and cocoa and dark chocolate is balanced between sweet and sour, slightly bitter and bitter, with a lingering finish.

I wonder if you have noticed that Qianjie Coffee uses beans from different countries to match each other when roasting this Italian coffee bean. This is because there is a problem with the coffee machine used to extract Italian concentrate, that is, it magnifies some characteristics of coffee beans, such as using red cherry beans from Yega Chuefei to extract a cup of very sharp and sour espresso. even with milk, the flavor of the milk coffee will not taste good, which is why Qianjie Coffee is paired with this sunflower warm coffee bean. Will add the reason for Shirley from Honduras.

The purpose of Qianjie coffee collocation is to use the characteristics of each coffee bean to mix a balanced Italian blend of beans. Therefore, we can start from this aspect when buying beans. After choosing the beans for espresso, there is the question of milk.

Qianjie coffee usually uses whole milk to make milk foam, and the milk will be put in the refrigerator before use. Whole milk whole milk it contains fat and protein can not only enhance the flavor, but also make the foam more stable, more conducive to frothing and beating.

When making milk foam, first pour the milk into the milk tank, the liquid level should not exceed half of the milk tank, preferably located in 1 to 2 to 3. Put the milk tank close to the steam pipe so that the steam pipe just goes into the liquid surface, no point slightly deviates from the center of the liquid level. Open the steam valve and listen to the hiss of the steam operation. After getting enough fine milk bubbles, slowly remove the milk tank. By the time the milk tank starts to burn, the temperature should reach 60-65 ℃, or you can touch the bottom of the tank with your hand. At this temperature, you should not last for 3 seconds. The surface of the finished foam is delicate and shiny, and there is no coarse foam. The surface of unsuccessful milk foam has coarse foam, less foam, less milk foam, and it is not easy to form when mixed with espresso. But don't be discouraged, after all, foaming is a technical job, just practice more.

When espresso and foam are finished, you can make lattes! Qianjie Coffee uses the sunflower blend just introduced to you, using 20 grams of coffee powder and 40 grams of coffee liquid extraction time is about 28 seconds. Here are the parameters that Qianjie Coffee adjusts according to the characteristics of its own Italian coffee machine:

Pressure: 9 bar ±2

Temperature: 90.5 ~ 96 °C

Time: 20: 30 sec

Ratio of powder to water: 1. 7: 1. 1: 2.

Powder content: 12g (single espresso) 20g (double espresso)

Extraction concentration: 20ml (single part) 40ml (double part)

Then the extracted espresso is fused with 40ml espresso: 260ml hot milk to make a latte according to the ratio of latte coffee to milk. Cappuccino coffee can also be made according to the above method, but it is thicker than the latte when milking. The hot latte made in front street coffee has whisky aromas and milky sweetness, with a nutty finish like hazelnuts.

If your latte tastes bitter, it may be that the coffee beans you choose are deeply roasted, and the espresso extracted from the deeply roasted beans will mask the flavor of the milk. so a high-quality coffee bean determines the flavor of a cup of espresso. Another reason is the transition extraction, because the transition extraction is very easy to make the bitterness more prominent, so the technology and related parameters of espresso need to be improved.

The above is about the simple production process of espresso. The production of a latte requires the careful production of every barista to ensure that every cup of espresso is fragrant and delicious and let everyone feel the charm of the coffee.

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