Coffee blending method, what do you need to pay attention to when blending coffee?

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As the friends of coffee rookies, did they get a bit of a hoop when they heard about the blending of coffee for the first time? what the heck is mixing coffee? In fact, the coffee we usually drink is blended coffee, which is made by mixing several coffee beans of different varieties, different producing areas or different roasting degrees, so that a cup of blended coffee is completed. To tell you a little secret, blended coffee tastes better than individual coffee.

1. What is blended coffee?

Blended coffee is relative to individual coffee.

Single coffee refers to coffee beans of a single variety, single origin, or single roasting degree; blended coffee refers to coffee beans of different varieties, different producing areas, or different roasting degrees, which are generally composed of 2 or 5 kinds of coffee beans according to a certain need.

Five elements of coffee "blending"

2. Why do you want to match?

Cost reduction: in order to pursue a certain flavor, some low-priced coffee beans are used to prepare the flavor of some relatively high-priced coffee beans. Such as: blue Mountain flavor coffee.

Balanced taste: the espresso machine has a feature that magnifies the most significant flavor of coffee beans, so it is almost impossible to use a single variety of coffee beans to make espresso, otherwise if that coffee bean is bitter, the espresso made will be extremely bitter and sour. Therefore, it needs to be matched to balance all kinds of flavors.

Stable flavor: because coffee beans are a kind of crop, the flavor of coffee beans in the same producing area will be different from year to year, so mixing several kinds of coffee beans can solve this problem very well. can keep the flavor basically the same every year.

Unique flavor: for those who drink any kind of coffee can not satisfy their taste, or some businesses, in order to have their own unique flavor of coffee beans, will mix several kinds of coffee beans.

3. Can I make coffee by hand?

Many people have a misunderstanding that coffee beans used for hand brewing must be individual coffee, while blended coffee beans need to be made with a coffee machine, which is wrong.

Hand brewing is just one way we make coffee, it has no specific requirements for coffee beans.

Usually we use individual coffee to taste the flavor of the coffee of origin, and some well-matched coffee beans can also show its unique flavor by hand.

Five elements of coffee "blending"

4. How to match it?

Rookies, this job is left to professional coffee practitioners. We just need to know how to drink a good cup of coffee and ok. Anyway, we can't even test the cup! (cup test? Whatis cup test?)

5. Which is better, mixed coffee or single coffee?

There is no difference between good and bad, only which one you like better.

The price is not absolutely expensive or cheap, although the matching is sometimes to reduce the cost, but some of the beans used with coffee beans are not cheap, at the same time condensed a lot of painstaking efforts of the roaster, but also won everyone's praise, so the price is not cheaper than some individual coffee.

When drinking espresso in a cafe, what you usually drink is made of blended coffee beans; but if you drink hand-made coffee, Xiaobai is advised to start with individual coffee and be familiar with the flavor of coffee from each producing area. it is possible to drink a blend of coffee one day, immediately say which origin or variety of coffee beans are made! Wow, see if the other side is stupid? Are there any eyes of admiration?

Do coffee controllers who have common sense of coffee know what blended coffee is? if someone makes it, it would be humiliating for you to be at a loss as a coffee controller. As coffee control, we'd better practice coffee skills and accumulate coffee knowledge, so that we are not far from an excellent coffee control.