Novice beginner | choose coffee beans from "tasting"

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When many books introduce how to choose coffee beans, they mostly ask to look at the beans, smell the beans, touch the beans and even bite them. although these are important, the prerequisite is whether the taste of coffee roasting suits you or not. each roasting stage will vary according to the roaster's understanding of coffee roasting, and will adjust the roasting method for the maximum benefit because of the cost factor. The "Mentlin" of A shop is not the same as that of B store, so the best way is to try it in person: "try it".

"tasting" starts with getting to know a store. Sit on the bar, order a cup of coffee, see how the bar master (miss) makes coffee, talk to him, learn about the history of the shop, and the most important thing is to understand the store's attitude towards coffee, which is usually willing to accept new knowledge and detailed answers. and objective and meaningful, understand the dynamics of the entire industry, the attitude towards coffee will be more proactive, but also more able to take care of the quality of coffee. Natural coffee wouldn't be so bad.

Many of the mid-market traders who supply coffee beans sell wholesale beans and do not roast themselves, so try to find shops with roasting ability if they can, because "coffee brewing is a level, and roasting coffee will be promoted to another level." if the roaster can go directly to the origin to buy coffee, the level is even higher, but it is not known in Taiwan whether there are such people who may retire. There should be some in the future! So at present, only people in Taiwan who have enough experience in coffee roasting can barely say that they know coffee, and the rest are just following others. Just listen to it and don't take it seriously!

Some people suggest that we should choose according to whether the coffee beans are oiled or not. This suggestion is not wrong with shallow roasting, but it takes more than ten days for shallow roasted beans to produce oil, and there is no need to wait for the oil to produce fragrance, while for deeply roasted coffee beans, the oil will come out in a little faster than 24 hours, and it will take only 3 days at the slowest time. If you choose according to the oil situation, then the deeply fried beans will not be discarded. And the future coffee beans will move towards the direction of packaging, can not see, can not touch the coffee beans, so depending on whether to oil or not to choose persuasive!

Freshly roasted coffee beans have a crisp bite, but coffee beans that have been kept for more than ten days will not feel too bad, so it requires a crisp bite, and the suggestion for 7 to 10 days after baking during the best drinking period seems to be impractical. Peel the coffee beans and see if the color is uniform inside and outside, which is the basic requirement of baking, not to do with freshness, and the requirement of smooth and smooth surface is even more surface kung fu. So there is no other way to choose coffee beans, but to "try it". The more bubbles and bubbles you cook, the fresher you are, but does freshness mean everything?

Stable quality is the key point of choice, especially coffee beans of large brands, which usually take more than a month to be roasted to consumers. If it is normal to import brands for half a year, how to maintain the stability of quality is the focus of major coffee companies. For example, super oro of Lavazza in Italy has a reputation that remains unchanged for ten years. Imagine that the taste and quality of Mantlin coffee from a roaster are often different. How do you ask people to evaluate it?

Whether the taste of coffee is good or not is another key point, this is personal subjective consciousness, other people's suggestions are only suggestions, so choose coffee beans or can only work and respect driving, "try drinking, try drinking" to do more comparison!