What do you mean by single coffee beans and Italian coffee beans? can Italian coffee use single coffee beans?

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At present, the coffee on the market is mainly divided into two categories, one is individual coffee, the other is blended coffee. Single coffee is a single coffee bean from the country of origin, which is usually black coffee without milk or sugar, while blended coffee refers more to Italian coffee, which is made of coffee beans from different places and paired with milk to make all kinds of milk coffee. Today, in front of the street, I will introduce to you what kind of coffee beans are suitable for hand brewing.

Generally speaking, an important feature of individual coffee is that you can know the source and treatment of this coffee bean and other relevant information. You can even know which manor it comes from, because the taste of a type of coffee represents the origin and producing area, and becomes a distinctive flavor. For example, in front of the street, Ethiopia's Yega Chuefei, Panama, Kenya and so on are all individual coffees, and the coffee flavors of these countries are all different, so they can brew out their flavor by hand.

If you know more about individual coffee, you will find that it can be divided into boutique coffee and commercial grade coffee. Generally speaking, the flavor of boutique coffee will be more unique and prominent than commercial coffee. According to the SCAA standard, a score of more than 80 can be regarded as boutique coffee, and less than 80 can not be regarded as boutique coffee, that is, commercial grade single coffee.

When you understand the concept of individual coffee, Qianjie thinks that it is very important to choose a single coffee bean that suits you. Qianjie believes that it is not difficult for beginners to choose a single coffee bean that suits them. We can start with the big picture. Because the world coffee is mainly divided into three major producing areas, namely, Asia, America, and Africa. If you like individual coffee beans with a mellow taste, you can choose from beans from Asia first. Mantenin coffee beans in Indonesia, for example, are famous for their mellow taste and low acidity. Take the Mantenin coffee beans in the front street coffee shop as an example. There are five kinds of Mantenin coffee beans alone, each of which has its own flavor. If you like the fragrance of Mantenin coffee beans, then Qianjie recommends that you can choose tiger mantenin coffee beans: if you like smooth taste and obvious sweetness, Qianjie thinks you can consider gold mantenin coffee beans: like mellow coffee beans with high thickness. And sweet, but also with a little fermented wine coffee beans, you can choose aged Mantenin, this single coffee beans have been stored for up to three years, so the alcohol thickness is very high, and the acidity is low. The taste of these mantenin coffee has the taste of herbal medicine, some a little heavier, some a little shallow, the herbal flavor of golden mantenin coffee beans is relatively light, this herbal flavor is brought about by the local use of wet planing to treat raw beans in Indonesia, this flavor is rarely found in other regions.

However, not every coffee bean in Asia has a strong herbal flavor. For example, Yunnan coffee, which is popular in recent years, tastes mellow and thick, and the sweet and sour taste of Yunnan coffee is also very obvious, such as Yunnan coffee beans from the front street. Yunnan Huaguoshan coffee beans, the variety is better flavor, more sweet tin card coffee There are several small grains of coffee and suntan Katim coffee, these two single coffee bean varieties are Katim, sweet are more inclined to sucrose, brown sugar sweet, Yunnan coffee is more representative of coffee.

There is another Asian country that you may not have heard of, that is, Papua New Guinea. The individual coffee in this Asian country is also good. Qianjie Cup tested a coffee bean from the Paradise Bird Manor in Papua New Guinea, because the coffee beans produced by the Paradise Bird Manor are more stable and the flavor is more prominent. can represent the basic flavor of Papua New Guinea. Its flavor is also very suitable for hand-brewed coffee beans. The overall flavor is the sweetness of toast, the sweetness of nuts and the acidity of micro-fruit. It is similar to the aroma of fruit, with a spicy finish and a rich and balanced taste. The above countries are the more representative coffee beans in Asia. Now Qianjie will introduce the individual coffee beans in America.

There are too many individual coffee beans suitable for hand-brewing in America. So Qianjie is going to introduce some of the most representative American coffee beans. Generally speaking, the main tone of American coffee is nutty and chocolate flavor. Friends who like nutty flavor can choose their own hand-brewed coffee beans from the American region. The first American bean recommended by Qianjie comes from the world coffee giant Brazil. Brazil's coffee exports have broken a new record this year, and the largest buyer is the United States, followed by Germany and Belgium. The coffee picking technology in Brazil is very advanced, almost all the coffee fruits are picked by machine, and the full manual picking is rarely used. The use of machine picking will pick the immature coffee fruit, although the immature coffee fruit will be removed through the follow-up process, but one reason is that the maturity of the fruit is not consistent. In addition, Brazilian coffee trees are generally planted in plain areas, so the taste of Brazilian coffee is thin and the sense of hierarchy is poor. Therefore, there will be a saying that Brazilian coffee is a cup of coffee.

But not all Brazil has a thin taste. For example, the Qianjie Cup tested a coffee bean from the Queen's Manor of Brazil, and the flavor is also very good. The variety is Yellow bourbon, and the number of this variety is very rare. but the flavor of this coffee is very representative of Brazil, and it has a high sweetness, so it is put on the coffee bean list on the front street.

Another country in the American region is Colombia. The coffee flavor of Colombia is very good, its coffee planting area is opposite to the elevation of Brazilian coffee trees, it is planted on the slopes of the Andes, the general Arabica coffee beans are required to be more than 1200 meters above sea level. Colombian coffee beans taste smooth and rich in layers. But it's not just that when it comes to beans, people are framed by nuts and chocolate.

Another factor that should be mentioned about the flavor of coffee is the method of treatment. the same kind of coffee beans use different bean treatments to show a very different flavor. Qianjie recommends two types of Colombian beans, namely Flower Moon Night and Rose Valley. These two are treated by anaerobic treatment, so their flavor tends to be floral and juicy, which is completely different from the nutty and chocolate flavor mentioned in Qianjie. There are also individual coffee beans from Honduras, Shirley and Litchi Orchid, these are two coffee beans with a very strong wine flavor in the front street, in which Shirley coffee beans are closer to the smell of whisky, while litchi orchid is closer to the smell of brandy. Colombia's San Jose coffee beans are closer to the aroma of rum. Qianjie highly recommends these unique flavor beans, coffee beans. There are many coffee beans in the Americas, such as honey-treated coffee beans from Costa Rica and rosy summer coffee from Panama, which are very suitable for hand-brewing.

The last coffee producing area is Africa, where coffee beans are generally sour. Such as Ethiopia and Kenya, Tanzania and so on. Ethiopia in Africa is the hometown of coffee, in which the Yegashifi and Sidamo producing areas in Ethiopia are very famous. The coffee beans here are very suitable for hand-flushing coffee beans. On the front street, there are many kinds of coffee beans that come from Ethiopia, such as Tintin, sun red cherry coffee, COE#22, TOH washing group champion, Arsi, and Huakui coffee beans and so on. All of them are very suitable for individual coffee beans, among which the lemon and citrus flavors in Yega Xuefei are the most famous, so they are often washed with water. On the other hand, the Sidamo producing area generally uses the sun treatment method to deal with the coffee beans, so the Sidamo coffee has a mellow taste, sufficient aroma and sweetness more obvious than that in the Yega Sheffield area. For example, Sakuran Coffee in Sidamo is famous for its rich flavor from strawberry cream. These are some of the more classic coffee beans, like a perfect display of the flavor of coffee beans, but also need to match with the appropriate hand-flushing equipment.

The production of single coffee is generally "atmospheric pressure brewing", such as the above-mentioned hand brewing, siphon pot and so on, simply "dripping filter" category. Espresso is generally made with a pressurized Italian coffee machine. Of course, this is only the usual situation, not unbreakable. You can think of this as a universal method.

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