Ichiro Kanaguchi, the world's oldest coffee worker, died unmarried for a good cup of coffee.

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Mr. Ichiro Kanaguchi, founder of Cafe deL'Ambre (Amber Coffee), a legendary figure in the Japanese coffee industry, died on March 14, 2018, local time.

Ichiro Kanaguchi, born in 1914, graduated from the Engineering Department of Waseda University. After World War II, Ichiro Kawaguchi is in charge of the management of cinema equipment. He often makes coffee for his business partners and captures a lot of fans. Many people advised him, "Don't do this, just make coffee."

In 1948, Ichiro Kanaguchi opened his own coffee shop, Amber Coffee, in Ginza. In the 1960s, the storefront was destroyed by fire and moved to Badingmu in Ginza. Always choose to open a shop in Ginza because "only when delicious coffee is made here, customers will patronize all the time." And named "Amber" because in the eyes of Ichiro Kanaguchi: "transparent amber coffee is the most delicious." "

From the method of brewing coffee to making pots and other utensils, they are all original by Ichiro Kanaguchi. It took him more than 40 years to finally find a suitable workshop in Kyushu to make his ideal coffee cup! The concentration of root coffee is divided into three types: large, medium, small and medium. The wall of the cup is thinner than ever.

The old Kanaguchi Ichiro has handed over the storefront to his nephew for medical reasons. He got up at eight for breakfast, and then his nephew took him to the store on a motorcycle. I can't stand for a long time because of my poor legs, but I personally bake coffee beans twice a week.

Amber coffee uses not only old beans, but also so-called "aged coffee beans" (Aged Coffee). This kind of coffee beans need to be placed in a certain humidity and temperature environment, in this era of speed, it is not easy to get. Amber coffee is the most valuable bean, even as old as 40 years. Aged coffee beans are like aged wine, with a mature and mellow flavor, and time has removed the excess acidity and moisture from the beans.

In addition to his insistence on beans, Ichiro Kawaguchi found that when the beans were ground into powder, the thickness could not be the same, and some fine coffee powder (called micro-powder in Japanese) would be over-extracted in the process of brewing coffee, causing the coffee to be too sour and bitter. In order to solve the problem of fine powder, he studied engineering and developed a machine different from the general grinding machine. When the coffee powder reached a certain thickness, it was thrown out of the filter by rotating centrifugal force, and the amount of fine powder was reduced to a minimum.

However, the coffee powder ground by the bean grinder invented by Ichiro Kanaguchi cannot be brewed by siphon, because for aged beans, this method of cooking cannot show the mellowness of the beans, so they can only let the water pass through the layers of powder by hand and drip the amber juice through the filter.

When someone asked Ichiro Kawaguchi the reason for his longevity, he pointed to the coffee on the table and said, "because I have it every day, five cups a day." About not getting married all your life! Ichiro Kawaguchi himself said: "I don't know if I regret it, but I don't regret it when I choose coffee." My goal in life is to provide delicious coffee to my guests. Now I am very satisfied. "

Coffee is the companion with the longest relationship.