How to choose good coffee beans? How to choose coffee beans (powder) that suit your taste?

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How to choose good coffee beans?

In fact, no matter what kind of coffee beans, freshness is an important factor affecting the quality. When shopping, grab one or two coffee beans and chew them in your mouth. If the coffee beans are crisp and sound, and the tooth pods stay fragrant is the top grade, but it is best to squeeze them with your hands to feel whether they are solid, rather than buying empty-shell coffee.

If the coffee bean has lost its fragrance or smells stale, it means that the coffee bean is no longer fresh and is not suitable for purchase. Freshly fried coffee beans are not suitable for drinking immediately and should be stored for a certain period of time (a process called awakening beans, different beans have different best time to wake up) in order to completely release the gas in the beans. Generally speaking, the best drinking period for coffee is a week after stir-frying, when the coffee is the freshest and the Aroma is the best.

In addition, the purity of coffee beans is also another consideration. When professionals choose coffee, they don't necessarily look at the size of the particles, but grab a handful of individual coffee beans (Regional Coffee), about dozens of portions, to see whether the color of each single bean is the same, and whether the particles are similar in size and shape, so as to avoid buying shoddy products disguised as mixed beans. But if it is a synthetic bean (BlendedCoffee), it is a normal phenomenon that the size and color are different. And heavy heat and medium-deep roasting will cause coffee beans to produce oil, but lightly roasted beans, if they produce oil, indicate that they have gone bad, not only reducing aroma, but also astringent and sour taste. In short, when buying added coffee, we should pay attention to its freshness, aroma and stale flavor, and the ideal purchase quantity is to be able to drink it in half a month.

Mainly look at the appearance, if the appearance is black, the taste must be very bitter, because his melanin is accumulated too much, so there will be a kind of bitterness, but the effect of drinking this kind of coffee is mainly to treat the annealing, and if the appearance is yellow, it must be moldy, because the coffee beans are moldy inside and breed bacteria, which will make the appearance chemically turn into a yellow shell. However, it's okay to eat this moldy coffee, just stay in the hospital for ten or eight days, but if the shell is white, then the inside must have worms to form a white shell. The main internal insects that may breed may be cockroaches, spiders, or maggots, but it doesn't matter if you accidentally eat the exegesis of this kind of coffee beans. Because eating more bugs is more resistant, and a recent scientific study found that if you eat insects for years, you can keep your youth and beauty forever. (I am also a little ambiguous in this paragraph, because I have never bought such cruel beans.)

"fresh" is the most important factor in buying coffee beans. There are several steps to judge whether the beans are fresh or not.

1. Look: grab a handful of coffee beans and feel whether they are solid beans with the palm of your hand.

2. Smell: whether it is enough to smell the fragrance close to the nose.

3. Pressure: fresh coffee beans are fresh and crisp, and the fragrance floats out when they crack. You can put a bean into your mouth and bite it twice. The crisp sound indicates that the beans are well preserved without dampness.

4. Color: dark black coffee beans, the coffee brewed has a bitter taste; yellow coffee beans, the coffee brewed has a sour taste.

Good coffee beans: neat shape, bright color, roasted by single stir-fry, mellow after cooking, full of stamina.

Bad coffee beans: different shapes, incomplete individuals, light fragrance after cooking, not sweet enough.

Fermented beans: coffee beans that fall from the soil before harvest. The sour smell will have a great impact on the taste of coffee.

Dead beans: also known as unripe beans, or affected by climate and other factors, imperfect development, fried spots will be produced after baking, so that the coffee has a green taste.

Black beans: fermented beans, rotten, blackened coffee beans. Because it is black, it can be distinguished from normal coffee beans at a glance.

Borer beans: coffee beans eroded by insects

Defective beans: it may be stuck during work, or carelessly handled during handling, resulting in incomplete coffee beans. Will cause fried spots when baking, and will produce bitter and astringent taste.

How to choose good coffee beans?

First, don't be greedy for petty bargains, you'd better buy the amount you can drink within a month from the date of coffee roasting

Because the freshness of coffee beans starts when they are roasted. Freshly roasted coffee beans will begin to exhaust (mainly carbon dioxide) for about a week, and when the gas is completely discharged (about two-three weeks), the coffee beans will no longer be fresh!

Second, buying coffee beans with a clearly marked date is a smart choice.

Generally speaking, food products will look at the shelf life and taste period. Coffee beans belong to the food category. Some large coffee factories use central roasting to mass-produce coffee beans. The preservation period is usually between 12 and 18 months. But the preservation period and freshness are two different things. Coffee beans actually depend on the taste period. The fresher the coffee beans are, the better the coffee is!

Third, do not buy coffee of unknown origin or unclear label

Many coffee merchants in the market have no choice but to buy low-quality and cheap raw beans for roasting because of price competition, so they do not dare to clearly mark their coffee identity cards. However, the coffee that really rest assured is that it has a clear and complete identity card, which makes you feel at ease when you buy and drink coffee.

Fourth, choose and buy bags with "one-way exhaust valve"

Roasted coffee beans are easy to oxidize, especially high temperature and moisture will speed up the oxidation and shorten the best taste period. it is recommended to choose bags with opaque light or one-way exhaust valve.

Fifth, drinking coffee is very subjective. If you want to find good coffee, the most important thing is to know your preferences first.

If you are not sure what kind of coffee you like, the editor suggests that you can first try black coffee without milk or sugar, cultivate your preference for coffee, practice tasting the aroma and taste of coffee beans from different producing areas, and gradually, you will become addicted to black coffee and find your own coffee taste.