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Many of the loyal customers of Blue bottle Coffee come for delicious and refreshing stability and consistency, and the formula beans in our store do reach that level. ("Blue bottle Coffee")

Blend is a mixture of coffee beans from different countries or producing areas, while single producing area beans (single-origin coffee) are coffee beans simply from a country, a certain producing area, an estate or even an area in an estate. Throughout the history of coffee, to measure the advantages and disadvantages of formula beans or single beans, the ruler in people's minds has always been sawed, and the current situation is that single beans win. But if you only focus on rare single-region beans, it's like coming to a restaurant where the wine list says that we only sell a single premium garden burgundy. The wine list of a good restaurant will include selected red wines, approachable spirits and a wide variety of wines with different retail prices, which are really recommended by the store. Sometimes all people want is simple, timely and delicious things. That's what good formula beans can do.

Our main reason for preparing formula beans is to successfully produce a harmonious and consistent flavor. Generally speaking, the world's first formula bean is Mocha-Java (Mocha-Java), which is a mixture of bright Yemeni beans with sour wine aroma (then exported from the Red Sea port of Al-Makha, formerly known as Mocha port) and mixed with thick coffee beans exported from Dutch-controlled Java farmland. As the role of commercial-grade coffee roasters gradually comes to the surface, their demand for an exclusive formula with the same taste throughout the year makes most of the focus on the formulation, regardless of the origin of the raw beans themselves. This allows coffee companies to cover up the odor and increase profits by secretly mixing cheaper, slightly shoddy coffee beans. As big companies use cheaper and cheaper ingredients in the manufacture of commercial-grade canned coffee, the deterioration of quality is immediately apparent. When the Peet's brand first tried to cry in the late 1960s, at a time when the quality of commercial formula beans deteriorated beyond measure, Peet's 's formula beans were carefully prepared from high-quality coffee beans with sufficient acidity to resist extremely deep roasting, which was refreshing.

The formula beans specially prepared for espresso have been in use in the Italian market for many years since the introduction of the espresso machine. Whether it is due to economic constraints or simply requiring simple, palatable and light flavor formulations, Italian coffee beans have spent considerable time and energy on carefully developing and maintaining the level of espresso formula beans for decades. Espresso has been using formula beans from the beginning, and it makes sense. Espresso was indeed suddenly popular in Italy after World War II, for no other reason than the availability of high-quality raw beans at that time. At that time, coffee roasters mixed shoddy beans, including low-quality beans such as Robusta in Africa, with slightly better Brazilian beans. Both kinds of coffee beans have dim acidity, reasonable thickness, and a lot of innate bad taste, which can make a stunning cup of off-flavor coffee if brewed in a modern hand-brewing way. In spite of this, the extraction method of espresso virtually helps to increase the acceptance of the wonderful qualities of acidity, richness and lightness. So one of the reasons why espresso extraction keeps abreast of the times is that the Italians have figured out how to make good things with mediocre and limited materials, and they turn simple cornmeal into corn porridge in the same way. similarly, when there is no chocolate on hand, they use sugar, cocoa powder and hazelnuts to make gianduja hazelnut chocolates.

Blue bottle Cafe offers several espresso formula beans, as well as formula beans brewed in the store, emphasizing the richness and diversity of flavor, all products are very popular. We think carefully and focus on maintaining the consistency of flavor to match high-quality beans, even if the acquisition of selected coffee beans varies with the season. Even though we are amazed at the bright and lively performance of those dazzling individual beans that we can buy, we also know that many of our loyal customers come for delicious and refreshing stability and consistency, and the formula beans in our store do reach that level.

Blue bottle Cafe offers several espresso formula beans, as well as formula beans brewed in the store, emphasizing the richness and diversity of flavor, all products are very popular. ("Blue bottle Coffee")

Today, everyone in the coffee business keeps asking the question of what their ideal coffee tastes like. As far as raw beans are concerned, we have excellent choices and an unprecedented consumer base. What we want is something that drinks as much as possible year after year, round and round. Or something that is constantly changing? Sometimes people come into our store and, thank God, they haven't had coffee yet. They often want to find a sense of stability. They don't want it to taste like green pepper one morning and reminiscent of watermelon-flavored Jolly Rancher fructose the next day. What they want is coffee that is fragrant and pleasing to their liking whenever they come to buy a cup of coffee. In addition, of course, there is no shortage of people who want to taste fresh, pursue excitement and surprise, and they are the ones who will be attracted by individual beans.

Talking about one thing at this time is likely to make people lose their way: to keep a recipe unchanged year after year, it is expensive to make, requires foresight and relies heavily on technology. You have to make a purchase decision six or seven months in advance, and then write a bunch of checks for them based on the ingredients you want to use in a particular recipe. How different beans interact in different ways, we must also be able to adapt to the circumstances in the regulation of alchemy with beans. By contrast, the situation of a single bean is much simpler: when you run out of this one, buy something else.

It is worthwhile and timely to focus on a single producing area. At present, we have more ways to obtain a variety of high-quality beans, these coffee beans should be a hundred schools of thought contend, each take the lead, highlight their own characteristics. Some coffee itself is so unique, dazzling and exciting that it absolutely takes a day for them to do their best, and there is no need for other kinds of coffee beans to play in the middle. Individual beans also make the efforts of coffee farmers get attention and better returns. Having said that, of course, formula beans still have a place: to create a special, sustainable environment that gives coffee drinkers some special, replicable experience that makes them feel relaxed and happy.

* this article is reproduced from Blue bottle Coffee (Building Block Culture Press)