How to mix espresso beans to simulate special flavors Challenge taste composition

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. Simulate special flavor:

This purpose is generally less common in boutique cafes, and most of the commercial coffee uses mixed beans to modify the flavor in order to simulate some brand-name coffee.

The most common examples are the so-called "Blue Mountain flavor" coffee, "civet flavor" coffee, and "Gukeng flavor" coffee. This kind of product, which bears the flavor name, often does not have a blue mountain in the whole bag of coffee beans. It's just cobbled together with other coffee: the imaginary taste of Blue Mountain. Of course, it may also be mixed with a little bit of coffee of origin, such as Gukeng coffee sold on the market, where the whole bag of beans is often no more than 10%, and a large number of beans from other places are used to make up the number.

Blue Mountain Coffee

Of course, if you can really piece together the flavor of Blue Mountain with cheaper coffee beans, it is actually very powerful, but generally speaking, the reason why commercial coffee uses such a name is mainly to use the fame of brand-name coffee to attract consumers' attention. in my own experience, that is fundamentally different from the real flavor of Blue Mountain.

And the so-called blue mountains, civets, ancient pits and other super-famous coffee beans, in fact, are no longer the mainstream of the current boutique market, or even not included in the category of boutique coffee at all. It is mainly the hype of commercial behavior, and there are a lot of fake goods. If you are not really sure, you don't have to spend a lot of money to buy it.

And I personally think that even the real Blue Mountain is not necessarily better than manor coffee, the CP value is too low. Not to mention the commercial coffee beans that mimic the flavor of the Blue Mountains, they are generally different.

Blue Mountain Coffee

4. The composition of challenging taste:

If a boutique coffee shop has the ability to mix coffee beans, it will sometimes make several mixed beans with different flavors, making the taste of its drinks more changeable.

For example, in addition to the blended beans for Italian coffee, some cafes will specially prepare coffee beans specially used for espresso, so they may not attach as much importance to crema or sense of balance as Italian beans, thus challenging strong acidity, refreshing tea taste, citrus flavor, and so on, so that consumers who like to drink espresso alone can indulge. Of course, in addition to the special beans for espresso, there are also coffee beans designed for syphon, hand flushing, ice drops, mocha pots, earbags and other equipment.

Perhaps for most boutique cafes that have developed matching beans, it is not mainly aimed at any equipment, but mainly to challenge their imagination of taste and baking skills, so that consumers, in addition to individual beans, can also use the store's specially prepared comprehensive beans to brew black coffee and taste the store's ingenious blended beans.