What is mixed coffee? The principle of coffee blending method of coffee blending bean coffee blending

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The blending of coffee is the same.

Blending coffee is the blending of two kinds of high-quality coffee will suppress each other's unique flavor, matching should also pay attention to color, matching coffee beans also have different characteristics to reconcile an attractive taste. Coffee blending depends on constant attempt, so a blending schedule should be drawn up mathematically before blending, and then the best plan should be determined through the process of blending-tasting cups. After the rise of boutique coffee, we may want to drink coffee beans from different countries, different places and different estates, so we may not repeatedly choose to taste the same beans. The variety and treatment of coffee beans make even two kinds of coffee beans grow in the same place show two different flavors. Year after year, different climatic conditions also affect the taste of coffee. In addition, the difference between the effect of baking and the time of brewing scheme will also affect the taste of coffee.

Then why match it?

Generally speaking, there are four purposes for matching:

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, even coffee beans of the same kind in the same producing area have different flavors from year to year, so mixing several kinds of coffee beans can solve this problem very well. it 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.

But not all matches are the same.

Two types of matching

The blending of coffee can be divided into two situations, the poor quality and the good quality. Poor quality is generally used to cover up the defective characteristics of beans, save costs, and only want to meet the standard taste. But another kind of Italian blending is quite different. Some coffee roasters seek to put different coffee beans together and collide with a coffee that can bring customers a more mellow and enjoyable coffee. Most bakers go through many experiments in order to get the most desired results.

Blended coffee beans are designed to restore classics while breaking through an innovation. The density of beans is a big limit, so it depends more on the technology of the baker. Italian blending uses different beans to improve the flavor of coffee. Coffee beans treated with sun, water, and pectin can present a new and surprising taste. And this taste can not be achieved only with coffee beans from a single producing area.

For most Italian roasting, the quality of coffee beans is guaranteed. For us, the focus is on improving flavor rather than lowering quality standards.

There are two main types of coffee blending: spelling and cooked.

Live and fight

It means that the roaster will mix different beans in proportion during the raw period of the coffee beans and then bake them together. The surface of coffee has many small holes, which release and absorb aroma and flavor from each other during baking, making the flavor of roasted coffee beans more uniform.

Ripe spelling

As the name implies, different coffee beans are roasted separately, and then the roasted coffee beans are matched in proportion. The advantage of cooked products is that they do not worry that coffee beans with different density and water content are overbaked or underroasted by the same firepower.

Different matching methods have different advantages and disadvantages, and will show different flavors.

Matching: a complex skill

The blending of coffee is a more complex skill to study. It is a science. You need to know enough about your raw materials, how different coffee beans react when roasted, and how they behave when mixed together. This is not a simple math problem, there are n factors will affect the composition of the formula.

If you have two different coffee beans, one with rich floral aroma and the other with sucrose sweetness, but that doesn't mean the two match well. If you want to capture all the flavors and blend them well, you need to understand the chemical reaction behind the coffee-how the size and structure of the bean reacts with calories, how each flavor is excited during the baking stage, and so on.

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.