What about making hand-made coffee with Italian coffee beans? Recommendation of the characteristics and flavor of Italian coffee beans

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With the increasing growth of the fine coffee market, many people have also begun to contact Italian coffee and hand-brewed coffee. Coffee fans who often drink Italian coffee know that the coffee beans used in Italian coffee are blended coffee beans, while the hand-brewed coffee is used as single coffee beans. What is the difference between the two? Can espresso beans be used to make hand brewed coffee? This article on Front Street Coffee is about coffee fans.

What is espresso?

As mentioned above, coffee beans are mainly used to make Italian coffee, while coffee beans are mixed with coffee beans of different origins and varieties. Generally, two or three kinds of coffee beans are mixed together. The purpose of blending is obvious, that is, to bring together the flavors of different coffee beans to present a new flavor, in order to achieve a more balanced effect, but also as a store signature.

For example, if a coffee bean is smooth but lacks aroma, you can add another kind of aroma rich beans to enhance the strengths and avoid weaknesses and complement each other's promotion defects. Another purpose of Italian blended coffee beans is to reduce costs. Traditionally, Italian blended beans are mixed with Robusta coffee beans, because Robusta coffee beans have a rich poetic flavor. Although the cup evaluation score is not as high as that of single-serve coffee, it can provide richer and thicker coffee fat for Italian coffee when paired with single-serve coffee. At the same time, it can provide thick and smooth taste characteristics as the base of milk coffee.

And according to Qianjie Coffee, the appearance of the original Italian coffee blend was due to the popularity of strong and bitter Italian espresso coffee at that time, and the existence of a single origin coffee flavor bias, that is, advantages and disadvantages coexist. In addition, high-quality single coffee beans are expensive, while blended coffee is more cost-effective and cheaper than single-item coffee, but the flavor can also be unique. Therefore, many Italians chose blended coffee instead of single-item coffee at that time, and blended coffee has developed and become popular so far.

What is hand-brewed coffee?

Single-origin coffee beans refer to pure coffee produced from a single coffee bean from a single origin and brewed without milk or sugar. Single coffee has strong characteristics, special taste, or fresh soft, or mellow smooth, high cost, so the price is also more expensive.

For example, the famous single-item coffees in Qianjie Coffee Shop include Jamaica Blue Mountain Coffee, Ethiopian Yega Shefi Coffee, Indonesian Mantenin Coffee, etc., all of which are named after the place where coffee beans are produced. These coffee beans also represent the flavor of the producing area; secondly, the single coffee can also be traced back to the producing area manor and story, such as the planting conditions of the manor, the level of treatment, etc. These information can ensure the flavor quality of the coffee beans, so each package of coffee beans in Qianjie Coffee will also have some relevant information.

The difference between blended coffee and single-serve coffee

It can be seen from the above description of Front Street Coffee that blended coffee refers to mixing several single coffees from different producing areas together to form a blend, while single coffee refers to coffee beans from a single producing area. The reason why they are distinguished is that Italian coffee machines have a characteristic that they will amplify the bitter flavor of coffee beans. Therefore, Front Street Coffee will not use a single variety of coffee beans to make Italian coffee. Otherwise, the flavor of coffee beans made is very unbalanced and affects the taste. That's why espresso is made from blended coffee beans.

However, single-item coffee beans can also be made by Italian coffee machines. This model of coffee beans is called "soe coffee", but its parameters have to be adjusted all the time, and the flavor is also very unstable. The original intention of the former street coffee shop is to let coffee fans drink the stable flavor of coffee producing areas, so for the time being, they dare not risk launching soe coffee.

Can Italian coffee beans be made into hand coffee?

Since the single coffee beans can be made by Italian coffee machine, the same Italian blend coffee beans can also be used to brew in the form of hand brewed coffee, but the brewed flavor and the brewed flavor of the Italian coffee machine are always slightly different. Similarly, the grinding hand brewing parameters are also adjusted, and the flavor may be more "special". It mainly depends on personal preferences. If interested coffee fans are friends, you can also try Front Street Coffee. Front Street Coffee will provide hand-brewed data reference for coffee fans below.

Front Street Coffee parameters: V60 filter cup, powder amount 15g, water temperature 90℃, powder-water ratio 1:15, grinding degree (No.20 standard sieve pass rate 80%, coarser than Italian coffee)

Brewing method of Qianjie coffee: staged extraction, stewing with 30g water for 30 seconds, injecting water in a small circle to 125g for segmentation, continuing to inject water until 225g when the water level is about to expose the powder bed, removing the filter cup when the water level is about to expose the powder bed,(stewing start timing) extraction time is 200 ".

Italian coffee beans recommended

Moreover, Front Street Coffee believes that blending coffee beans is an art, because coffee blenders must understand the different characteristics of coffee flavors in various major producing areas, so as to mix attractive aromas and make coffee more delicious, which not only requires a lot of coffee experience and inspiration, but also through accurate ratio calculation, so it is not too much to say that the process of blending coffee beans is an art. Then the next front street to share the flavor characteristics of the four blended coffee beans developed by the front street coffee blenders over the years.

Qianjie Coffee Sunflower Warm Sun Matching

Flavor: Distinct acidity, light berry aromas, wine bouquet, rich chocolate flavor, clear sweetness.

Recipe: Honduras Shirley: Yega Red Cherry =6:4

This blend front street is made of yejia sherry sun red cherries and honduran sherry. Front Street's design concept for this blend is Italian and hand punch can be used. It is used to make espresso when the flavor emitted by the obvious fermentation of wine, citrus and berry taste on the mouth of the acid immediately emerged, with whiskey aroma, aftertaste is dark chocolate.

When brewed by hand, this warm sun blend coffee bean flavor is not as rich as when making espresso coffee. After brewing, it has fermented wine fragrance and a little citrus aroma. When the temperature is high, there is only obvious wine fragrance and dark chocolate aftertaste. After the temperature is lowered, it will slightly reflect the acidity of citrus and berry. The whole is clean and fresh, without vanilla cream taste.

Qianjie Coffee Boutique Pinpei

Flavor: Soft and slightly sour, sweet, nutty and sweet, overall feeling is not too stimulating, mild, oil belongs to medium.

Formula: Colombia: Brazil =3:7

This blend of Brazil and Colombia has a light aroma of baked grass, a slightly bitter fragrance, a smooth, sweet finish and a pleasant finish. This is because the coffee beans from Colombia Cymbidium region have pleasant acidity, mellow smell, moderate acidity and rich sweetness, while the coffee beans from Brazil's Xilado region have comfortable sweet and bitter taste and extremely smooth taste. So it's a perfect match.

Qianjie Coffee Business Pinpei

Flavor: caramel sweetness, nutty and cocoa, dark chocolate flavor, sour and sweet balance, slightly bitter, lingering finish.

Recipe: Colombia: Brazil: Robusta =3:6:1

This blend features Brazilian, Colombia and 10% Robusta coffee beans. Classic taste, Front Street thinks this blend tastes rich in fat a and taste and caramel sweetness, but also with nuts and cocoa, dark chocolate flavor, sour and sweet balance, slightly sweet and bitter, lasting finish. This commercial blend uses the same Colombia and Brazilian coffee beans as the Front Street Coffee Boutique blend, but with the addition of Robusta to provide a rich fat, making the coffee taste more mellow.

Qianjie Coffee Basic Blending

Flavor: With soft fruit acids, caramel sweetness, nutty, dark chocolate flavor, smooth and viscous, but taste light.

Formula: Yunnan: Brazil =3:7

This blend front street uses Brazil and Yunnan to blend, front street thinks tastes with soft fruit acid and caramel sweetness, as well as nuts, dark chocolate flavor, smooth and thick, but taste light. This is because Yunnan's natural conditions are very similar to those of Colombia, with high altitude, large temperature difference between day and night, mellow flavor, moderate sour taste, rich flavor, uniform particles, rich oil and fruity fruit. Its quality and taste are similar to those of Colombia coffee. But it's still slightly lighter than Colombia, while Brazil's Cilado coffee beans have a pleasant sweet and bitter taste and a smooth taste. Therefore, the flavor of these two kinds of coffee beans is also good, and this basic blend coffee bean is very cost-effective, suitable for Italian beginners and small coffee shops.

The above is the relevant information about the difference between Italian coffee and hand-brewed coffee organized by Front Street Coffee. I hope it can help coffee fans to understand more about the relevant knowledge so that they can choose coffee beans with appropriate flavor in the future.

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