What is single coffee (Single Origin)? Classification difference between individual coffee beans and boutique coffee beans

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Even if there is nothing wrong with it, Alice still wants to introduce the so-called "Single Origin". But why do we need to know the term? Because he shows up too often! Even many coffee shops have taken this as a trend, adding the option of "single coffee" to the menu in recent years, and usually after you order, the clerk will ask you which one you want, and then tell you what country coffee you have. Speaking of which, do you already have some ideas? Photo-1428550443830-190057dc8098

But in fact, choosing a coffee producing country does not mean choosing a single cup of coffee, but to know more carefully where the producing area, that is, the source of a cup of coffee (Origin) comes from. The emergence of this term is different from Blend Coffee, which is usually used in espresso (espresso, American, latte or cappuccino that we come into contact with earlier). It is a mixed coffee made by bean roasters who choose coffee from different places and flavors and mix it with roasting (or individual roasting). Through the characteristics of different coffee to combine an unassailable flavor, and single coffee is exactly the opposite of this concept, only drink coffee from the same producing area, appreciate the unique flavor of this producing area, so that people directly have different flavor choices, instead of just a fixed combination of formula coffee.

Today, the custom of tasting individual coffee has been developing for some time. Today's single coffee does not really fully represent the flavor of this producing area, but has more coffee flavor of the bean baker's own style, and the bean baker has a special preference for a certain flavor, so most of the coffee he bakes will have common characteristics, such as Alice himself likes to make the coffee a little sweeter. Making coffee less sour than it is, making a delicious cup of coffee is the style of Alice. A cup of coffee whose acidity is so sharp that it is difficult to enter the throat can be modified into a wonderful coffee with full sweetness and pleasant acidity by adjusting the baking curve. This way of roasting to adjust the coffee flavor according to customers' preferences has also become a manifestation of the skill of the bean baker.

For those who really want to taste the original flavor of the coffee producing area, Alice will recommend light or medium roasted coffee. Even if the bean roaster deliberately adjusts the roasting method, the shallow and medium roasted coffee still has more characteristics of the producing area than the medium and deep roasted coffee. Also pay attention to the way of brewing coffee, some coffee shops will use Italian machine, hand brew, race style, love pressure and other instruments, usually Italian machine brew single product concentration we referred to as S.O.E. (Single Origin Espresso), in the case of high pressure, this is a way to magnify the details of the flavor, but usually drink coffee by hand or race style coffee may be more unacceptable, acidity, sweetness and bitterness are magnified and concentrated. In particular, friends who are more sensitive to acid will feel that the acid has become more acute, and they can only taste it one sip at a time, but they have a deep feeling about the flavor. Secondly, the strong flavor can be felt by the Philharmonic pressure, which is also brewed with pressure, and the coffee with more obvious flavor is extracted but sharper than S.O.E. It is much lower (after all, the brewing pressure is also much lower), which is acceptable to the general public, while hand-brewing and racing-style Alice feel that the coffee will have the style of a barista, and whether it can present the flavor of the producing area depends on the barista's extraction method.

The next time you go to a coffee shop to order a single cup of coffee, ask the clerk about the roasting degree and brewing method of the coffee, and then taste whether the flavor of a cup of coffee meets your expectations.

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