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Since Japanese real pot Jia Jia and American Starbucks coffee entered the Taiwan market, Taiwanese brands (one Coffee, 85C, Yike Coffee) have sprung up like bamboo shoots after a spring rain. The number of coffee drinkers has grown rapidly in recent years, and even convenience stores have begun to sell coffee. in addition, in addition to tea-making utensils, every household also buys all kinds of coffee brewing utensils and coffee beans from various places to entertain guests. Do you drink three-in-one instant coffee, or are you used to drinking a cup of bitter coffee and adding a lot of sugar and cream balls? Or really enjoy the flavor of a cup of coffee?

At present, there are more and more choices for buying coffee beans, most of which can be sold directly from coffee stores, department store counters, shopping malls, the Internet and even places of origin. In terms of current market prices, the price of a pound of coffee beans ranges from 200 yuan to 1800 yuan, and the name of coffee beans is a lot of baskets. such as Manning caffeine, Costa Rica-Tara beads, Brazil-yellow bourbon, rainforest coffee, fair trade coffee, Gukeng coffee and so on. When ordinary consumers buy, they are even more confused. In the past, the price will be taken into account when buying, and when important guests are entertained, they will choose coffee with a higher unit price to show respect for the guests. As for the taste and taste of coffee, consumers often ignore its "importance" and its "best tasting period", that is, "the trilogy of determining a good cup of coffee" and "the life cycle of coffee". Many people recklessly calculate the price of coffee when buying coffee, but how many people care more about the quality and value of coffee beans? To talk about "how to taste good coffee", we should first understand the main conditions of a good cup of coffee. We can simply talk about the quality of coffee raw beans accounting for about 50%, roasting technology accounting for about 35% and brewing technology accounting for about 15%.

Table 1 the correlation between storage time, flavor and price of raw beans

For a longer time, the sweetness naturally increases; in terms of later treatment, there are water washing, sun exposure and honey treatment.

In terms of the defects of raw beans, there are black beans, molds, moth-eaten coffee beans, immature, sour, broken beans and so on. These small factors will affect the quality of coffee beans.

Taste the flavor. There is a correlation between the flavor and price of raw beans.

General consumers enter the store to buy cooked beans, pay little attention to the quality of raw beans, the following is the correlation table between the storage time, flavor and price of raw beans, in order to facilitate readers to understand!

Part II Coffee roasting

The charming aroma of coffee is not only in the quality level of raw beans, but also the music given by master! Early processing plants always roasted coffee beans until they were deep-roasted, prompting people to drink coffee with sugar and cream. However, due to the promotion of their own bakery and community college, the recent cultural taste of coffee has gradually changed.

The following can be divided according to the degree of baking:

1. Shallow baked Cinnamon Raost for a burst tail to the end of an explosion under the beans. To maintain the most original flavor, aroma and fruit acid is the most full, if you want to learn to taste the special flavor of coffee, this baking degree is the best choice.

two。 The medium and shallow roasted Medium--High Raost is the bean from the first burst to the front before the second explosion. The flavor performance retains the rich taste, the aroma is more obvious, and the acid balance is not irritating, which can change your habit of drinking early coffee.

3. Medium-baked City Raost starts to drop beans for second explosion. The original flavor of fruit acid and coffee beans reaches a balanced stage, and the flavor of this baking degree is more popular, which is suitable for you who taste black coffee and healthy diet.

4. The medium and deep baked Full City Raost is the lower bean from the first to the middle of the second explosion. At this stage, the baking degree of the fruit acid becomes weaker and the flavor becomes more stable, while the coffee beans will bring out a bitter taste and strong sweetness, which is suitable for drinking with milk.

5. Deep baked French is from middle to dense in the second explosion. Dark brown coffee beans with a little trace of oil on the surface, the flavor becomes thick, at this time the coffee beans bitter and taste strong, fruit acid no longer appear, this baking degree is mostly used as the standard of Italian formula beans and iced coffee.

When you understand the effect of roasting degree on flavor, your favorite producing area and the roasting degree of coffee beans, then comes the knowledge of coffee beans selection and purchase. The principle of choosing and buying coffee beans is the same as buying fresh fruits and vegetables, paying attention to the freshness of ingredients, fresh coffee beans have the following characteristics:

1. "smell": put the coffee beans close to the nose and smell them deeply to see if you can clearly smell the aroma of the coffee beans. If so, it means the coffee beans are fresh enough. On the other hand, if the aroma is weak, or if it has begun to smell greasy (like peanuts or nuts after a long time), it means that the beans are no longer fresh. Such coffee beans, no matter how much you spend, can't make a good cup of coffee.

2. Peel: take a coffee bean and try to peel it off with your hands to see or eat it. If the coffee beans are fresh enough, they should be able to pull away easily and have a crisp sound and feeling. If the coffee beans are not fresh, you will find that it seems to take a lot of effort to poke away a bean.

3. "Heat": another important point to observe when peeling coffee beans is to see if the firepower is uniform when baking. If it is uniform, the appearance of the beans should be the same as the color of the inner layer. If the color of the surface layer is much darker than that of the inner layer, it means that the firepower during baking may be too large, which will also affect the aroma and flavor of coffee beans, and are more likely to produce astringent taste.

The best taste period for coffee beans is four weeks, about a week after grinding, moisture and heat are the enemies of coffee beans. The coffee bought is packed in small bags and sealed with duct tape, but vacuum packaging can be preserved for a long time as long as it is not unsealed. If the ground coffee powder is stored without an airtight container, it can be stored in the freezer (sub-zero temperature) storage box.

In fact, it is not difficult to drink a cup of delicious coffee, but you must know how to buy and preserve it. Improper preservation methods will affect the quality and flavor of coffee. Packaging is an important subject in order to minimize the physical and chemical changes of caffeine. Due to the small area of contact with the air, coffee beans are more durable than coffee powder in quality and flavor preservation, so in order to maintain the coffee flavor, try to start grinding when brewing coffee.

The third song brews coffee.

There are all kinds of coffee brewing utensils on the market, which can be extracted according to their own needs and convenience. General consumers will often mistakenly think that a certain kind of coffee beans must be extracted with a certain fixed apparatus, or that a certain kind of coffee utensils must only boil a certain kind of coffee beans. In fact, the coffee utensils vary according to the way you like to taste the coffee. For example, consumers who like black coffee can choose a hand drip filter, siphon pot or American coffee machine; consumers who like to add a lot of fresh milk can choose a mocha pot or an Italian coffee maker, and then choose the characteristics and roasting degree of the coffee beans you want.

In addition, the grinding scale of coffee beans is extremely important, which will deeply affect the flavor of coffee. The larger the number of the scale is, the thicker the particles are, the lighter the flavor is, and the more the coffee powder is, the stronger the coffee powder is; on the contrary, the less the coffee powder is, the lighter it is, and the brewing time should not be too long. It's easy to produce astringency. The following table shows the comparison of various brewing methods:

Having a cup of coffee in the morning is the beginning of the day. Having a cup of coffee in the afternoon is the best choice. Having a cup of coffee in the evening is an after-dinner drink. If you don't have a cup of coffee in the middle of the night, you won't be able to sleep.

How many cups of coffee do you drink a day? Have you ever really understood and paid attention to when coffee has become a necessary drink in your daily life? It enters your body and mind every day. Is it a good element or a bad element? Whatever it is, I don't think it matters anymore. If you can, please pay attention to it from now on! So that you can drink a good taste of coffee!

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