Starbucks adds basic espresso-what's the taste of Blonde Espresso? The comments of the masses lit up!

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On January 9, Starbucks announced on its US website that it would add a basic espresso option: Blonde Espresso. Starbucks has been preparing for the listing of Blonde Espresso for at least six years.

Official: this is the first time in more than 40 years that Starbucks has added a basic espresso menu that emphasizes freshness by mixing and slightly roasting beans from Latin America and East Africa, with a silky taste and sweet citrus aromas. 10 milligrams of caffeine per serving.

Starbucks added basic espresso for the first time in more than 40 years, selling ads unexpectedly.

If you walk into any Starbucks in the United States now, it's hard to miss the news about gold roasted coffee: bright yellow signs have replaced most menu boards.

Gold concentration advertisement

Andrew Linnemann, vice president of Starbucks Global Coffee, said: "We started by setting a standard for deep-roasted black coffee. In this case, we decided to break some of our own rules with sweet citrus and smooth flavor. "

What would an ideal cup of espresso coffee taste like? Espresso tasting: how does a cup of espresso meet the standard?

Taste characteristics:

Strong and rich. The strong bitterness of the entrance hits the tongue, but in an instant a variety of rich flavors will gush out at the same time, filling the whole mouth. After a cup, endless sweetness goes on and on, and the bitterness in the whole mouth disappears, completely a variety of subtle flavors based on sweetness, incomparably mellow, exhilarating and aftertaste. After drinking, even the bottom of the cup is full of caramel sweetness.

An ideal espresso should be able to strike a balance between the various elements, taste bright, and feel sweet but not bitter in the throat after drinking it. To put it more specifically, it should have moderate sour, bitter, sweet, rich taste, solid and mellow consistency, lasting, and make people feel as refreshing and sour as citrus.

Starbucks coffee machine is the mastrena brand of Thermoplan in Switzerland, mastrena has basically become Starbucks "royal coffee machine", this is a fully automatic coffee machine, of course, some stores use verismo 801 or LaMarzocco, the price of this automatic coffee machine is about 15-180000, the editor has drunk Starbucks classic double concentrate, alcohol thickness can be ensured, but just imported strong sour, not soft It makes people feel shudder. After drinking, the bottom of the cup remains fragrant, and the coffee in the mouth remains fragrant for a long time. From the barista's point of view, Starbucks' concentration is not an ideal concentration.

In addition, its own Italian extraction will magnify the taste of coffee, so the concentration of shallow roasting will normally magnify the sour taste.

Blonde Espresso will become a permanent menu item for Starbucks, and consumers across the United States now have two choices when ordering lattes, cappuccinos, Frappes, macchiato, American and Italian concentrates: use Starbucks' classic Signature beans, or roast beans with the new Blonde gold.

At least six years of preparation.

What's it gonna smell like?

The crowd said, it smells like tar.

Dare you try?

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