What kind of mixed coffee are suitable for coffee shops? Definition and benefits of Comprehensive Coffee beans

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Comprehensive coffee beans are also known as formula coffee beans, mixed coffee beans, blended coffee beans (mainland), and blend coffee in English. It is a concept relative to individual coffee beans. The simple distinction is:

Individual coffee beans: in a bag of coffee beans, all are coffee beans from the same origin.

Comprehensive coffee beans: a packet of coffee beans contains more than two kinds of coffee beans from different places.

What are mixed coffee beans?

Take a simple example:

1. Ethiopian Yirgacheffe Worka, Ethiopia: the name refers to the coffee beans produced by the Woka (cooperative) in Yegashafi (large region) in Ethiopia (country). Each coffee bean comes from Waka, which is obviously a single bean, and you can experience the characteristics of Yega Sheffield Wauka as soon as you cook it.

two。 Red velvet (red velvet): this product, which has neither a country nor a producing area, is usually a comprehensive bean. In fact, there are no rules for store names. Most of them like to choose a name that sounds wonderful according to the tonality and taste of the coffee, some simply use the No. 1 work of the experiment, and of course some are inexplicably confused. This is still a hobby of the shop owner. Fortunately, most stores will specifically indicate that these are mixed coffee beans, and some will indicate which individual coffee products are made.

The definition of mixed coffee beans is super simple, but as the fine coffee becomes more and more refined, there are some differences in the definition of mixed coffee beans.

For example, there are three different estates in Ethiopia, such as Flora, Alim and Waka. According to the definition, more than two kinds of coffee beans from different places are mixed coffee, but all three coffee beans are from Ethiopia, but the manor is different. Should this be called Ethiopian Yejasuefei single bean or Ethiopian Yejasuefei comprehensive bean?

Comprehensive definition of coffee beans

It is generally called comprehensive coffee beans. after all, when we worked out this formula, we still treated three Yega Xuefei as independent works with different tastes, and mixed and roasted three beans in different proportions to give different tastes. So it's more appropriate to call it a comprehensive bean.

The purpose of preparing comprehensive coffee beans

Mixed coffee beans are usually prepared for the following four purposes

1. Special use for Italian (fancy) coffee formula

At present, among the boutique coffee, Italian coffee is still the mainstream, and Italian coffee is bound to add dairy products, while over-sour coffee or single coffee with too thin taste is not suitable to be added to milk.

Comprehensive coffee beans

Therefore, boutique cafes usually develop special integrated coffee beans for their own Italian coffee. The common characteristics are: more crema, higher sweetness, emphasis on tail performance (chocolate, honey, drupe, etc.), uniform taste but not particularly sour taste, generally used to be called Italian beans.

Of course, this is only a general conjecture. The performance of Italian beans varies greatly depending on the flavor that each cafe wants to interpret. Here are two more special examples:

♥ places special emphasis on crema, which is so thick that most people will be scared, but the tail rhyme is an adult Italian bean with super bitter chocolate flavor.

♥ does not emphasize crema, with a light texture to make sweet and sour fruit flavor and milk to coordinate the delicate balance of Italian beans

Mixed coffee beans

As can be seen from the above two cases, Italian beans vary a lot, and to be able to bake an ideal taste greatly tests the cafe's understanding and combination of flavor, so studying and judging the quality of Italian beans is one of the criteria for many people to judge the quality of a cafe. However, personal advice is not so critical, it is better to think more, appreciate more, and imagine other people's Italian beans, which will help you more.

two。 Suitable for long-term supply:

This is still related to espresso. The ingredients of espresso in general cafes have a strict proportion in order to maintain the quality of the cup. And the coffee beans with the greatest impact happen to be the most problematic materials, especially when using a single product to make Italian coffee, espresso often faces the problem that a single product is out of stock, and if you want to change it to another single product, you will have the big trouble that the formula must be readjusted.

Italian bean

Therefore, in order to maintain the long-term stability of the supply of Italian beans, the use of large production areas of coffee beans (may not be manor beans) for preparation, as far as possible to avoid the problem of out of stock of some specific coffee.

In addition, because it was originally a comprehensive coffee bean, if the quality of one of the coffee is different, it can also be modified and replaced with other similar coffee beans as soon as possible, because the proportion is less, and the flavor can be more consistent after the extraction and replacement, so that it is not like a single bean. The feature is obvious and accounts for 100%, but it all changes as soon as it is replaced.

3. Simulate special flavor:

This purpose is generally rare in boutique cafes, most of which are commercial coffee using integrated coffee beans for flavor modification in order to simulate some brand-name coffee.

The most common examples are the so-called "Blue Mountain flavor" coffee, "civet flavor" coffee, and "Gukeng flavor" coffee. This kind of product, which bears the flavor name, often does not have a blue mountain in the whole bag of coffee beans. It's just cobbled together with other coffee: the imaginary taste of Blue Mountain. Of course, it may also be mixed with a little bit of coffee of origin, such as Gukeng coffee sold on the market, where the whole bag of beans is often no more than 10%, and a large number of beans from other places are used to make up the number.

Blue Mountain Coffee

Of course, if you can really piece together the flavor of Blue Mountain with cheaper coffee beans, it is actually very powerful, but generally speaking, the reason why commercial coffee uses such a name is mainly to use the fame of brand-name coffee to attract consumers' attention. in my own experience, that is fundamentally different from the real flavor of Blue Mountain.

And the so-called blue mountains, civets, ancient pits and other super-famous coffee beans, in fact, are no longer the mainstream of the current boutique market, or even not included in the category of boutique coffee at all. It is mainly the hype of commercial behavior, and there are a lot of fake goods. If you are not really sure, you don't have to spend a lot of money to buy it.

And I personally think that even the real Blue Mountain is not necessarily better than manor coffee, the CP value is too low. Not to mention the commercial coffee beans that mimic the flavor of the Blue Mountains, they are generally different.

Blue Mountain Coffee

4. The composition of challenging taste:

If a boutique coffee shop has the ability to prepare mixed coffee beans, it will sometimes prepare several mixed beans with different flavors, making the taste of its drinks more varied.

For example, in addition to the comprehensive coffee beans used in Italian coffee, some cafes will specially prepare coffee beans specially used to drink espresso alone, so they may not attach as much importance to crema or balance as Italian beans, thus challenging strong acidity, refreshing tea feeling, citrus flavor, and so on, so that consumers who like to drink espresso alone can indulge. Of course, in addition to the special beans for espresso, there are also coffee beans designed for syphon, hand flushing, ice drops, mocha pots, earbags and other equipment.

Perhaps for most boutique cafes that have developed comprehensive beans, it is not mainly aimed at any equipment, but mainly to challenge their imagination of taste and baking skills, so that consumers, in addition to individual beans, can also use the store's specially prepared comprehensive coffee beans to brew black coffee and taste the store's ingenious integrated beans.

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