Is it good to make hand-made coffee with Italian coffee beans? Is the blending of coffee beans suitable for hand flushing?

Today, the coffee market is booming, and we can brew and enjoy the same coffee in many ways, the most common of which are Italian coffee, hand coffee, iced coffee, mocha pot and so on. Qianjie noticed that Italian style and hand brewing are the two most widely used brewing methods, so some friends will ask Qianjie two questions: can Italian coffee beans be made by hand? Is hand-made coffee suitable for Italian concentration?

Let's first understand the extraction principle of espresso and hand-brewed coffee.

Hand brewed coffee belongs to trickle extraction.

In the current era of a variety of individual coffee beans "a hundred flowers blossom", most coffee shops keep at least one hand-made coffee on the menu. Hand flushing is the release of aromatic soluble substances from the coffee powder by permeating hot water into the ground coffee powder for trickling extraction.

The basic tools for hand-brewing coffee are: filter cup, bean grinder, sharing pot, thermometer, water injection kettle, filter paper with filter cup, and finally electronic scale. Before the street store products as an example, using 15 grams of coffee beans, ground into a thickness of 20 standard sieve pass rate of 70% 80%, according to the 1:15 powder ratio. The ground coffee powder will be poured into a filter cup that moistens the filter paper, and then the coffee will be brewed with hot water of 87-93 degrees Celsius, and the coffee powder will be injected smoothly in stages to dissolve the aromatic substances of the coffee powder.

Espresso is a pressurized extraction

Our common American style, latte and cappuccino all belong to espresso, and they are all based on espresso. Espresso (Espresso) refers to coffee beans after fine grinding and proper use of powder, the use of semi-automatic or automatic coffee machine, the use of high temperature, high pressure, extracted in a short time. A freshly extracted Italian concentrate will have an iconic oil, also known as Crema, a "product" of fresh coffee beans and multiple atmospheric pressure extracts.

Qianjie needs to adjust the extraction parameters every day according to the state of Italian coffee beans used in the store, such as using 20 grams of coffee powder and 40 grams of coffee liquid for 29 seconds.

Can I make coffee beans with Italian style by hand?

At the beginning of the front street also said that the same coffee beans can be extracted in different ways, but the front street needs to be warned: according to the extraction principle, the baking curve of coffee beans is also different. In other words, when adjusting a coffee bean, the baker will decide the baking degree according to the taste direction of the desired bean, such as shallow roasting if you want to highlight the acidity of African coffee beans and deep roasting if you want to highlight the black and mellow nature of Brazilian coffee.

Espresso is more for the pursuit of balanced and mellow taste, will use medium-depth roasting, flattening more than two producing areas of coffee beans, so as to stabilize the flavor trend. At this time, the coffee is extracted in the form of trickling filter by hand, and the coffee is easy to show a sweet and bitter taste.

Of course, with people's pursuit of coffee flavor, more and more Italian coffee beans with outstanding flavor appear, such as "sunflower sunflower blend coffee" used by Qianjie stores, 30% Yega Sherfield sun-tanned cherries and 70% Honduran sherry, obvious sweet and sour tropical fruit, accompanied by whisky, vanilla cream, sweet and sweet. Made into hand-brewed coffee, with citrus aroma, medium to high mellow thickness, slightly fermented wine, dark chocolate finish.

Can I extract espresso from hand-made coffee?

In recent years, there are more and more coffee in pursuit of personalized flavor, single Italian style has become the main product of many coffee shops, and some friends will buy coffee beans and make them at home. Because espresso will magnify the taste a lot, such as the bright and moderate acidity of hand-brewed coffee, it is easy to become sharp in Italian concentration, while the mellow taste of hand-brewed coffee is very bitter in Italian coffee. Qianjie advises everyone to choose individual coffee beans with moderate roasting degree, which is suitable for brewing in more ways and has a lower fault tolerance rate. The following front street takes several different flavor types of coffee beans on the bean list as an example, you can refer to and try it.

1. Sun plus snow, red cherry, coffee beans

This coffee bean was originally used to brew coffee in the form of hand drip filtration, which shows a very high sweetness and a strong fruity flavor. When used to extract espresso (need to adjust the grinding degree), the surface of the oil is delicate, the color is yellowish, it smells sweet and sweet berries, sweet and sour berries and caramel, taste clean. The hot milk added will show the sweetness of honey.

two。 Treatment of Shirley Coffee beans in Honduran Whiskey barrel

The medium baking degree gives the coffee a roasted aroma while retaining the acidity of the berries. The SOE highlights the aromas of vanilla biscuits and whisky, adding milk to show the smooth aroma of chocolate cream, with a pungent aroma, the overall taste is very soft. Qianjie store sunflower warm sun blend is made of Shirley and red cherry coffee according to 7:3, wine aroma, sweet and sour fruit, Hot Chocolate Milk's smooth perfect blend in a cup of coffee.

3. Costa Rican musicians series Mozart coffee beans

Anaerobic honey treatment allows coffee beans to retain the pectin layer for closed fermentation before drying to maximize the sweetness of coffee beans. This coffee shows rich roses and high sweetness of raisins when brewed. The extracted SOE shows strong tropical fruit and fermented flavor.

4. Yellow bourbon coffee beans at the Queen's Manor in Brazil

If none of the above is your favorite flavor, take a look at this Queen's Manor coffee bean from Brazil, a big coffee country. The medium-deep roasting degree gives the coffee a strong nutty, creamy, peanut aroma, the aftertaste is sweet chocolate, the extracted SOE is beautifully rich in oil, and the coffee is made into milk coffee with full aroma.

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