How would you like Starbucks hand-made coffee? What is the difference between the variety and flavor of Starbucks' regular hand-brewed coffee beans?

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Hand-brewed coffee is brewed by hand, and different coffee is extracted by controlling water flow, water temperature and grinding degree, so as to stimulate the flavor of coffee.

A lot of starry fans who like black coffee will have to click on their hands to Starbucks.

The purpose of this sharing is to popularize some basic knowledge for star fans who want to try black coffee but don't know much about black coffee outside the United States, so that they can choose hand-brewed coffee for the first time.

There are 13 kinds of regular coffee beans in Starbucks.

According to the baking curve (Starbucks' unique baking curve, which means the depth of baking) is breakfast synthesis, Columbia, Pike Market, Kenya, Guatemala, Ethiopia, preferred, Fengwu Xiangyun, Sumatra, low Inxiang Dragon synthesis, Fona, concentrated baking, Italian baking.

In addition, the baking degree of light willow synthesis in Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan is shallower than that of breakfast synthesis.

Due to the working time and the types of coffee beans in the store, I only share the beans I have drunk. Other flavors are for reference only. The following may be long.

The taste of coffee beans from shallow to deep roasted is completely different, the most obvious is the sense of pressing the tongue, and the flavor of coffee beans in different producing areas is also very different.

Starbucks coffee beans generally come from three producing areas, Latin America, Africa, and the Asia-Pacific region. In addition to beans from these three regions, there is also a season-limited comprehensive bean, such as East Timor, and anniversaries.

Let's start with Latin America. Latin American coffee beans are mostly cocoa or nutty. The first coffee bean I first came into contact with was Colombia from Latin America, with a balanced taste, a blend of subtle nutty and fresh herbal flavors. generally, people who taste it for the first time can't drink it. I felt bitter the first time I drank it, but this coffee is moderately mellow and acidity. It is more suitable for people who taste black coffee for the first time

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Suggested food pairing: Starbucks French Chocolate Cake, Chocolate Muffin

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I'd like to say one more thing about Latin America, that is, Guatemala.

Guatemala is a bean with rich taste. The fine taste can feel the delicate taste of citric acid on the tip of the tongue, the subtle flavor of cocoa, and the spice flavor in the mouth. The main economic source of the Guatemalan country is the import and export of coffee, so its quality can be imagined. Coffee trees are known locally as green gold.

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Recommended food pairing: caramel Bigan fruit tower, French chocolate

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Latin America is more suitable to match chocolate cake because of its unique cocoa flavor. I would like to emphasize here that the cocoa flavor and lemon flavor mentioned above are not daily flavors that we are familiar with. Cocoa taste is similar to dark chocolate with a little bitterness. Lemon taste is similar to lemongrass flavor, including the flavor to be mentioned below, are very subtle.

African coffee is washed with floral aromas (imagine the unknown flowers on the open prairie) and citrus (similar to tangerine).

What I want to say about African coffee beans is Kenya, which is an ice hand brew that almost all Starbucks partners recommend to customers in the summer. Kenyan coffee has high acidity. Kenya with excellent black aprons will emit obvious floral fragrance and very bright acidity, which will taste smoother and richer than cold iced coffee. In fact, according to Starbucks description, Kenya has the flavor of grapefruit and blackcurrant, but I don't know what these two things taste, and I can't describe them, but because of the high acidity, some people may not accept them very well.

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Recommended food pairing: lemon, orange

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Sumatra must be the most famous in the Asia-Pacific region.

Sumatra is very mellow and has a strong sense of tongue pressure. it far exceeds the above three types of coffee and has a strong herbal flavor, which will cause people who do not like black coffee to feel like drinking traditional Chinese medicine directly, but it is precisely because of its heavy mellowness. so this kind of coffee in Sumatra is very fragrant, it stays between lips and teeth for a long time and has a long aftertaste, and it is the most popular bean for many star fans to make coffee. This coffee has little acidity and is easy to accept.

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Suggested food pairing: Starbucks whirlwind cinnamon cake, blueberry cheesecake, New York cheesecake

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The above three kinds of beans are more representative, in addition, Starbucks Christmas synthesis, anniversary synthesis, are very worthwhile to try, but only at a certain time of year have the opportunity to taste season-limited beans.

After talking about beans, let's briefly talk about brewing. Generally, hand-flushing stores use single-hole filter cups and X_max tools.

The single-hole filter cup is generally steamed at first, and then injected directly with pencil water. Some people may ask why the single-hole filter cup is not injected in a circle, because the diameter of the filter hole in the single-hole filter cup is relatively small, and the circle injection will lead to excessive contact time between water and coffee, excessive extraction and affect the flavor.

My master uses X_max, and my best friend uses an ordinary single-hole filter cup.

X_max uses three times of water injection in circles, compared with the former, the taste of the extracted coffee will be purer, a few yuan more expensive, and the waiting time is longer.

Of course, like the Shanghai Bakery and some selection stores, there will be more complex cooking methods such as siphon. The beans in the selection store are different from the ordinary stores, because I do not work in the selection store, so I don't know. I won't introduce you too much.

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Hand-made coffee

Through this simple and easy to operate way, enjoy a full-bodied cup of coffee.

Guide to brewing:

1. Prepare boiling water

Estimate and boil the water to be used in advance, including the amount of flushing utensils.

two。 Wet filter paper

Rinse the hot water evenly on the filter paper, make it all wet, stick it tightly to the filter cup, and then pour out the hot water in the sharing pot. This step will restore the pure taste of coffee.

3. Prepare coffee powder

Next, prepare the right amount of coffee powder. Pour the ground coffee powder into the filter cup and gently pat flat. Usually fine ground coffee powder looks a lot like the texture of granulated sugar. Please prepare every 2 tablespoons of freshly ground coffee powder with 6 ounces of hot water.

4. Brewing and extraction

Pour the freshly boiled hot water evenly on the coffee powder and stop for 10 seconds when the amount of water reaches half of the filter paper, so that the coffee powder expands after fully absorbing water. The fresher the coffee powder, the bigger the expansion, the more it can stimulate the taste of the coffee.

5. Complete the brewing

Slowly pour in the rest of the water, and to keep the flow steady, you can draw a concentric circle in one direction to inject water to the outside of the coffee powder. Please enjoy it as soon as possible after brewing.

Tips

It is recommended to use a timer when pouring water by hand. Generally speaking, the best brewing time for a cup of coffee is 3 minutes.