What does the three waves of instant, Italian and boutique coffee mean? What is the definition of fine coffee?

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Coffee actually has a long history, long enough to tell a long story. So this is the coffee story we want to tell. Coffee has become a popular drink all over the world, which can be divided into three waves, that is, the so-called coffee wave.

The first wave of coffee | instant coffee

From 1940 to 1960, it was mainly used for refreshing use, so whether it tastes good or not is not the point. The first to be widely used was on the battlefield of World War II, when soldiers used instant coffee as a daily drink to improve efficiency. When the soldiers left the army, they brought the habit of drinking coffee into their lives, which made "instant coffee" and "three-in-one coffee" very popular at that time.

In 1938, the Brazilian government and Nestle developed a more advanced spray drying method for the manufacture of instant coffee. The practice is to use hot steam to vaporize the water in the coffee beans, leaving the dry coffee extract. Instant coffee can quickly dissolve in hot water, storage and transportation space is small, resistant to storage, so it is very popular in the market. Due to the industrial production, low-quality coffee beans are often used, and there may be harmful residues in the production process, which is not recognized by the traditional coffee industry. And instant coffee on the baking degree of coffee beans is often not enough, stay in a more primary stage, can not fully reflect the aroma of coffee beans.

The second wave of coffee | espresso

Espresso (espresso)-based espresso began to appear in 1966, and the establishment of Starbucks in 1971, brought the second wave of coffee, latte, cappuccino and other Italian coffee began to become popular, but also developed to add syrup, whipped cream, concentrated flavor, soy milk, and spices and other changes. There were a large number of cafes during the second wave of coffee, and the popularity continued until 2000 and is still hot today. Espresso has been popular since the 1980s. The Pacific coast of the northwestern United States is believed to be the birthplace of this trend. In other parts of the world, espresso has also become a common method of making coffee in restaurants, bars and coffee shops.

The third wave of coffee | back to the original boutique coffee

Since the beginning of 2000, with more and more people drinking coffee, coffee lovers began to study the flavor of coffee and gain an in-depth understanding of the great influence of local conditions on the flavor of coffee, so the third wave of coffee emerged in pursuit of refinement. The desire to pursue the depth of coffee is then reflected in the choice of brewing forms and utensils of coffee, and the fine coffee is carefully tasted in the form of pure black coffee. For example, Aricha, Beloya and Geisha have the same texture as red wine, varying degrees of acidity, thickness, finish, vintage, grower, process, all deeply affect the flavor and taste. Baristas also began to pursue more detailed flavors in a more scientific way, and to gain an in-depth understanding of the source of each unique flavor. Emphasize and pay attention to the characteristics of each kind of coffee beans, the varieties of coffee beans planted, which manor from which producing area, when to harvest and so on, while coffee farmers or estates also manage and master the quality of their own coffee beans, this concept is called "FROM SEED TO CUP from beans to cups", that is, the circulation process of coffee beans is completely transparent. With the advent of the third wave of coffee, with the spirit of "openness and sharing", the return of taste itself is more in pursuit of taste, and the concept of boutique coffee has gradually become widely known. The third wave of coffee is really an eye-opener. Unlike the bitter and charcoal-burning flavor of old-school coffee, coffee is just a cup of adult drink for people who don't like bitterness. Then through the way of roasting and brewing back to the original taste, consumers can rediscover the depth of each kind of coffee and taste it like tasting red wine.