How to choose good quality coffee beans? How should beginners choose coffee bean brands?

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Choose coffee beans, depending on how you buy coffee beans to drink, here is recommended to use some simple utensils at home to brew the selected coffee beans: because the coffee is special and needs to be fresh, it is recommended that you do not choose a brand. Choose your own baked coffee shop in your city to buy freshly roasted coffee beans. The advantage is that you buy about 227 grams and a half pound. You can be sure to finish it in about 20-30 days, which is the shelf life of the roasted coffee beans.

How to choose coffee beans depends on what kind of equipment you use, such as single product or Italian style.

Which brand of coffee beans do you choose?

If it is a single coffee bean, the recommended brands are domestic minority, fisheye and 90 + coffee, but the price is more expensive.

The easiest and most straightforward way to select beans for these brands is to ask for the score of the beans, check the grades on the packaging, and the date of production.

Need entry-level, so deliberately choose beans with a score of more than 85 points, beans with high scores, and then rookie people will not make the coffee very bad.

You can choose the most classic ones: Sumatra Mantenin, Ethiopia Yega Sheffield, Colombian or Brazilian beans. These styles are unique and obvious in flavor and easy to taste.

And if the coffee beans below 80 points are used as a single product, it is very difficult for coffee masters to flush out any obvious flavor. Generally speaking, coffee beans with less than 80 points are more suitable for matching beans to extract Italian coffee.

Like coffee beans, in fact, it takes a lot of complicated preparation work, such as a well-grinded bean grinder, a stable hand pot and filter cup, or a siphon pot with complex operation, and so on.

Which brand of commercial coffee beans do you choose?

If it is really difficult to buy freshly baked beans, you can also choose commercial beans, although there is a lot of controversy over commercial beans, some people say that they have completely lost the flavor of coffee, but modern packaging still has a great effect in maintaining the original flavor, and the biggest advantage of commercial beans is that they are easy to get. If you have to buy commercial beans, recommend illy and lavazza, after all, is a big company, the quality of beans is relatively stable.

Illy

The Italian brand, which uses modern inert gas cans, plays an important role in preserving the flavor of coffee. An excerpt from a brief introduction "illy Coffee Company uses 100% selected Arabica Arabica coffee beans to produce a unique mellow flavor, which is sold in individual packages to hotels, restaurants, homes and offices. Illy coffee is the number one brand used in restaurants, restaurants and bars in Italy, with a 7.5 per cent market share, while home use accounts for 30.3 per cent of the market. Every day, 3 million cups of illy coffee (illycaffe) are sold in Italy alone, while a staggering 6 million cups are sold worldwide. Every coffee bean has been tested by an electron spectrometer and there is no tolerance for any defects. This effort makes illy the first coffee company in the world to receive ISO9001 certification. " Illy beans are Italian mixed beans, mainly divided into medium-baked red canned beans.

Deep-baked black cans

Decaffeinated green cans

The medium-baked ones are slightly sour, while the deep-baked ones are more bitter and mellow.

Lavazza

Like illy, it is also an Italian brand, mostly using vacuum packaging, and I feel that illy is slightly better in the degree of fresh-keeping. The introduction about lavazza "LAVAZZA, which spans a whole century, has a strong Italian traditional family color, which has been handed down from generation to generation. Founder LuigiLavazza is a born business expert, devoted all his life to the management of coffee, in the country of coffee, is a quite legendary figure. In 1895, LuigiLavazza bought a small grocery store Paissa olivero in Torino, the old business district of northern Italy, for 26000 lira (about US $20). This is the seed of the kingdom of LAVAZZA. In that era, grocery stores played both the role of producer and retailer, and LuigiLavazza bought raw beans himself. At the request of the customer, he roasted all kinds of coffee to suit the customer's taste. because of his high interest, he soon mastered every deep skill in the baking process. after World War I, his three sons, Mario, Beppe, and Pericle, left the army and joined one after another, and Luigi Lavazza was able to make more efforts to develop retail into a wholesaler, and took a big step forward in the coffee kingdom. "

Yunnan Coffee:

Look at the comments, many people on duty asked me to talk about Yunnan coffee, I have more or less contact with some beans on the Yunnan side, added some content, trouble the editor to review again.

When it comes to Yunnan coffee, the first reaction of many people is small grain coffee. In fact, the name "small grain" is still open to question, and there are various versions of this name. One of the more credible ones is that, compared with Robusta's "medium grain", Arabica is called "small grain". At the beginning of its introduction, it was afraid that the name Arabica would not be easy to remember, so it was simply called Yunnan small grain coffee. Later, probably because of various misunderstandings, small-grain coffee was regarded as a variety by many people, but there is no such kind of "small-grain" coffee.

When it comes to varieties, the most cultivated variety of coffee in Yunnan is Katim, a hybrid introduced by Nestl é, in which Robusta's pedigree is often criticized, but the characteristics of disease resistance, high yield and suitable for instant coffee make this variety vigorously promoted in Yunnan. And with the continuous improvement, there has been a great improvement in quality, and some decent beans have been produced. In addition to Katim, Yunnan also planted a small number of tin cards, which was an old tree before Katim was introduced. On the whole, it tastes better and the price is higher than Katim. There are also some bourbon varieties.

As for the evaluation of Yunnan coffee is still somewhat controversial, some people think it is good, some people scoff. In my personal feeling, although there are good beans in Yunnan, there is still a gap between the overall quality and the high-quality beans in the world. The taste is generally flat and thin, and the level is weak.