400 yuan a cup of coffee, is it expensive? It's a matter of opinion.

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One of the hottest coffee topics recently, I think, is the record-breaking Panamanian geisha beans sold at sky-high prices! (note: it's Gesha, not Japanese Geisha, but if you ask for ease, you don't need to pursue it. This kind of sun bean is grown by the famous Hacienda la Esmeralda Manor, it is definitely an excellent bean, but the price has reached a level that can only be seen from afar, but Hong Kong people are blessed. From October onwards, you can drink it at designated Coffee Academics stores for 400 yuan!

Whether it is worth it or not is really a matter of opinion. Four hundred yuan is too much. A meal can easily cost you three or four hundred yuan, and it is common to easily spend more than a thousand yuan. But recently I bought three packs of multi-Ana Sora Ethiopia Guji from Toronto, Canada, and it cost only C $57, which is less than HK $400. With about 18 grams of beans per cup, I can make a full 60 cups! And Ana Sora is the most enjoyable coffee I've had recently! But if you think about it, the average coffee shop costs NT $560 or NT $70, and NT $400 has become a little closer to the acceptable range.

I also thought that two or three thousand yuan for an excellent table wine is not unusual. Although I usually only drink about three or four hundred yuan, I occasionally drink some excellent top wine. In terms of a cup of 150ml coffee, five cups are equal to the capacity of a bottle of 750ml wine, and 400 yuan a cup of coffee is equivalent to drinking a bottle of wine worth 2,000 yuan. If the performance of this cup of coffee is equal to that of this wine, then the price will become reasonable. However, the success or failure of a cup of coffee does not depend solely on the quality of beans, but the performance of baristas is also very important. if something goes wrong, the effect will be greatly reduced. If 400 caffeine becomes 40 caffeine at any time, those 15 grams of beans will be wasted! For beans bought at sky-high prices, how many beans will coffee shops use to try to produce the most ideal finished products? These questions need to be answered one by one, but the author is still indecisive at this moment, ! Maybe I can only look at the door and sigh when I decide to try.

Space, only send a cup of Ethiopia Ana Sora Heirloom Guji, after several adjustments, use 22g beans, rough grinding, 95 degrees Celsius, use V60, steam 20 seconds to 10 parts of water. It turned out to be okay. It's definitely a pleasure to have a drink before you start work in the morning.

It smells like lively red berries and a little cream, and the entrance is the show! Wave after wave of mellow and sweet black tea slowly poured into the mouth, sweeping every corner of the mouth. As the temperature dropped, full of bouncing and light fruit acid set off on both sides of the tongue, the rhyme lingered for a long time, and the thick sweet-scented tea still lingered ten minutes later. Life is that simple!

Eric

Self-modesty is not a professional, but you can tell the weight of a cup of coffee. You can drink the spirit of every barista and the appearance of every cup of coffee. Because I really love coffee.