What kind of coffee beans are suitable for hand-brewing coffee? what are the types of hand-brewed coffee beans?

Some people will ask what beans taste better, or that any beans can be flushed by hand? In fact, Qianjie recognizes why beans can be flushed by hand, and whether they taste good or not depends on the details of whether the beans are fresh and flushed by hand. Perhaps more people want to ask: what kind of coffee beans come out of the flavor is my favorite.

There are many kinds of coffee beans in the world, but which flavor do you like? For some coffee novice, it may not be very clear, but experienced coffee friends, do not need to know for sure what flavor they like, and have a certain understanding of coffee. Coffee is mainly divided into three major producing areas: African coffee bean flavor is mainly floral and fruit acid, which can be said to be sour; American bean flavor is mainly nut, chocolate and caramel, balanced, it can also be said to be neither sour nor bitter; Asian bean flavor is mainly herbaceous, pine and nut flavor, it can be said to be bitter. With such a big category, you basically know what kind of taste you like.

And these three major producing areas of coffee, the front street, and each producing area in front of the street took a most representative coffee beans as rations beans, the performance-to-price ratio is very high, the flavor is very good, so that coffee friends can better through rations beans to choose their favorite flavor, so as to choose a finer boutique coffee in the producing areas. Coffee friends love and pursue coffee, but they are not only keen to enjoy Italian coffee in cafes, but also pursue black coffee in a single producing area.

Ethiopia

The coffee in Africa is most representative of Ethiopia. Its jasmine, citric acid and berry notes are very fresh and bright, making people drink with endless aftertaste. Ethiopia is the birthplace of coffee, and the coffee flavor is different in each of its producing areas. The most representative coffee in Ethiopia is the coffee from Yejasuefei and Sidamo producing areas, and its water-washed Yejasuefei coffee and Sunshine Huakui coffee are the representative coffee in its producing areas.

Yega Xuefei was originally a by-product area under the Sidamo region. Ethiopia is proud of the way and flavor of coffee beans produced in the town of Yejassefi, even naming beans from other producing areas in the name of Yejasuefi. As a result, Yega Xuefei was independent from the Sidamo producing area and formed its own faction.

Needless to say, Yega Chuefei coffee has rising acidity, clean taste and exquisite floral aroma. In Han Huaizong's "boutique Coffee Science", the description of Yejia Xuefei, Qianjie is very recognized as "coffee entrance, flowers in full bloom."

One of the most popular coffee beans in Sidamo is the Hambela Sakuran, which has a wonderful strawberry cream flavor. This coffee bean has been a blockbuster since it was unveiled in Ethiopia's raw bean competition TOH in 2017, breaking Rosa's monopoly in the brewing competition and becoming the only coffee that can compete with it.

Qianjie Huakui coffee flavor is like let people into a fruit world, berries, jackfruit, mango, honey and so on, very sweet.

African Kenyan coffee Kenyan coffee is the god of many coffee gluttons and a pearl of Africa. The varieties of Kenyan coffee were first introduced in Bourbon and Kent in India, and later introduced the Jamaican Blue Mountain Iron pickup to grow in the Elgonne Mountains.

Today, the most famous coffee beans in Kenya are SL28 and SL34. The two varieties were selected and developed from the National Agricultural Laboratory (formerly the Scott Coffee Institute) in Kenya. SL28 is resistant to drought and insect pests and is suitable for planting in middle and high altitude areas. SL34 is suitable for planting in high altitude areas with sufficient rainfall. SL28 is similar to SL34 in flavor, but SL34 is richer in acid and more full-bodied.

The characteristic flavor of Kenyan coffee and the origin of the sour aroma of BlackBerry, in addition to the phosphoric acid-rich ingredients in the local soil of Kenya, there is also the most famous K72 washing treatment in Kenya.

K72 washing process: harvest coffee cherry peeling fermentation, fermentation for 24 hours, rinse with water. Soak in water and ferment for 24 hours, then rinse with water, so repeat 3 times. In order to achieve 72 hours of strong fermentation. The Kenyan Asalia coffee beans on the front street are treated with K72 water, which has a brighter and cleaner flavor.

American bean

Brazil Coffee

Brazil ranks first in coffee production in the world. The cultivation of Brazilian coffee began more than 300 years ago. In the 1820s, a Portuguese captain of Brazil used a beautiful man to win the heart of the wife of the Governor of Cayenne in French Guinea and successfully brought coffee seeds to Brazil. Due to the low altitude of planting in Brazil, between 400m and 1600 m, and the use of sun-exposed planting of coffee in Brazil, coffee cherries absorb enough calories to mature as soon as possible, resulting in low density and soft beans of Brazilian coffee beans. A soft bean flavor. It is in sharp contrast to the flavor of coffee beans in Africa.

Brazilian coffee bean flavor: low sour, nutty, chocolate sweet and mellow, but slightly woody and earthy, floral and orange fragrance is not obvious.

If you ask Qianjie which coffee is not sour, Qianjie baristas usually recommend Brazil in the first place. Just because Brazilian coffee is relatively light, it is not easy to drink the domineering sour and orange aroma of African bean wild.

Colombia

Colombian coffee is one of the few individual coffees sold under the name of the country, and it is also the largest producer of washed Arabica. Those who are familiar with Colombia's "four treasures" all know that coffee is one of Colombia's "four treasures". Colombia's mild climate, humid air, and diverse climate make it a harvest season all year round, with coffee from different producing areas maturing in different periods. Colombian coffee is of unique quality, full-bodied taste and endless aftertaste, which can be called fine coffee.

The Colombian coffee beans in the Qianjie coffee rations come from the Huilan producing area, which is the most famous boutique coffee producing area in Colombia, surrounded by mountains and planted above 1500 meters above sea level, where the most important rivers in Colombia converge, bringing rich water vapor and water resources, and the coffee flavor is mainly floral and fruity. However, with the development of boutique coffee, there is more coffee bean processing in Colombia, such as: Colombian Rose Valley Coffee, Colombian Flower Moon Night Coffee, its flavor is floral, berry and fermented.

Costa Rica

Costa Rican coffee is the representative of "as sweet as honey", mainly because Costa Rican coffee beans are named after honey treatment. Costa Rica grows coffee at a high altitude, with a wide temperature difference between day and night, and is surrounded by fertile volcanic soil, which makes Costa Rica rich in extremely hard beans (SHB grade). Costa Rican coffee is sweet.

Such as the Costa Rican Mozart coffee, Costa Rican Bach coffee and Costa Rican Milasu coffee treated with Qianjie raisin honey, with sweet aromas of raisins and blueberries, and aromas of sweet-scented osmanthus and roses.

Panamanian coffee is famous for its summer caffeine. The reason why Rosa is famous is also because of the jade estate in Panama. The Emerald Manor is both the discoverer and the promoter of Rose Summer. Rose summer seed entered Panama in the 1960s, but after more than 40 years of keeping a low profile, it finally won the first place in BOP in 2004 and became the supreme treasure in the eyes of many boutique coffee lovers. The delicate and elegant flavor of Rosa Variety comes from the specific planting environment. Rose summer varieties are very picky about the growing environment: high altitude, shade cultivation, fertile land. It is these factors that make the early Rose Summer Coffee with obvious floral aroma, delicate and elegant fruit acid. And such elegant flavor is also one of the reasons why it is so popular all over the world. The Emerald Manor is located in the Pokuite producing area, in addition to the Jade Manor, there are many famous estates, such as Arida Manor, Catova Duncan Manor and so on, all of which produce high-quality boutique coffee.

There are Panamanian Emerald Manor Rose Summer Coffee in front Street, and Poquet Rose Summer Coffee in Pokuit area, and in order to make people better taste the flavor of Rose Summer Coffee, Qianjie specially uses Poquet Rose Summer Coffee as rations beans.

Guatemala

Guatemalan coffee has its own sense of smoke, and the first thing that some coffee gluttons think of is the feeling of "smoke". Soft acidity and balanced taste are the characteristics of Guatemalan coffee, but also the characteristics of Central American coffee. The Vivette Nanguo producing area is surrounded by three volcanoes, which provide rich minerals for the soil here, which can be more than 2000 meters above sea level and produce fruity coffee.

Guatemalan coffee, on the front street, there are Guatemalan Vivette Nan Fruit Coffee and Guatemalan Flower God Coffee. Its main flavor is berry, floral, sweet orange and nutty notes.

Asian bean

Indonesian Coffee although the Indonesian Kopi Luwak is very famous, it is easy to accept and the most representative is Manning coffee. Mantenin coffee is mainly produced in Sumatra, Indonesia. Mantenin coffee in Indonesia has a mellow and strong flavor and distinct personality. This unique flavor is related to the treatment of local coffee beans, because Indonesia is located in Southeast Asia, Rain Water is abundant all the year round, and the sunshine time is shorter than that of Ethiopia and Brazil, so it is easy to produce fermented beans or moldy beans by sun treatment; in addition, due to the limited local economic conditions, washing treatment needs to waste a lot of water. Therefore, Indonesia Manning mostly uses the semi-washing method with local characteristics, that is, the wet planing method.

Wet planing, also known as Wet Hulling wet planing, is a process in which coffee cherries are peeled and soaked in water for 1-2 hours, then rub each other to remove part of the pectin and dry for the first time, when the moisture content of coffee beans is reduced to between 20% and 35%. Coffee beans that have not yet solidified in the pectin layer are collected and sent to the processing plant for second drying. This step will reduce the moisture content of coffee beans to about 18%. After the second drying, the sheep skin was removed and dried for the last time until the moisture content was 11%.

Teacher Han Huaizong once described the flavor characteristics of wet planing coffee beans in his book: this is also a rare treatment in the world, accidentally creating Mantenin's special low-acid, thick and smelly flavor.

Qianjie food bean manning coffee taste is very mellow, but gold manning coffee is more mellow and cleaner, herbal taste is cleaner.

Yunnan coffee, China

In China, the history of tea is more than a thousand years longer than that of coffee, and the circulation history of coffee in China can be traced back to 1870. The history of coffee cultivation in Yunnan, China is controversial, one is 1902, one is 1892, and the other is 1904. The coffee varieties in Yunnan were iron pickups at first, but with the opening policy, international brands such as Starbucks and Nestl é entered Yunnan to promote the cultivation of Katim varieties with strong disease resistance, high yield but poor flavor. Over time, Yunnan small-grain coffee, from the previous tin card species, evolved into today's Katim species.

The coffee growing areas in Yunnan are mainly distributed in the southwest of Yunnan Province: Lincang, Baoshan, Pu'er and Dehong. Lincang is bordered by Pu'er to the east, Dali to the north, Baoshan to the west and Myanmar to the southwest. The annual average temperature is between 16.8 and 17.2℃. The dry and humid seasons are obvious and the sunshine is abundant. In 2013, Qianjie started growing coffee in Lincang, Yunnan Province. Unlike most of the varieties grown in Yunnan, Qianjie is planted with Tieka, an ancient excellent variety of Yunnan. In 2021, Qianjie Coffee launched its first home-grown coffee bean.

The above is the introduction of the coffee representatives of the major producing areas in Qianjie and Qianjie Grain and beans. Knowing these basic information, you can probably know what flavor you like. Of course, these coffee beans can be washed by hand, which are usually light or medium-roasted, such as Ethiopian coffee, Guatemalan coffee, Costa Rican coffee, Yunnan small-grain coffee, and some are deep-roasted. For example: blue Mountain Coffee, Colombian Coffee, Manning Coffee and Brazilian Coffee. And Brazilian coffee because of its low altitude and balanced taste, many Italian coffee will choose Brazilian coffee as the basis for blending beans.

In addition, Qianjie believes that if you want to make a cup of coffee by hand, you should not only understand the basic situation of coffee beans, but also be familiar with the details of hand brewing. But even for the same person, every time the coffee comes out, it doesn't taste exactly the same. Here are the small details that Qianjie reminds you:

Water quality

Up to 98.5% of a cup of hand-brewed coffee is water. in order to make a good cup of hand-brewed coffee, the first step is to manage the water quality. In our daily hand-brewed coffee, we try not to use tap water directly. Instead, we recommend using water purified by filter or mineral water with appropriate mineral content. The temperature of the water is also very important. According to the characteristics of different coffee beans, the water temperature is generally between 88 and 91 ℃.

Grind coffee beans into coffee powder is the first step in hand-brewing coffee, is a key step. If the grinding is too fine or too thick, it will directly affect the cooked flavor and taste.

The ratio of powder to water is also a key factor in hand-brewed coffee. Different ratio of powder to water will greatly affect the flavor performance of coffee. Qianjie recommends a powder-to-water ratio of hand-brewed coffee between 1:15 and 1:16.

Filter cup

Through many brewing experiments and repeated tests in Qianjie, it is found that different filter cups have obvious differences in expressing coffee flavor, sour sweetness, alcohol thickness cleanliness and so on. If you are shallow-baked coffee beans, the front street is recommended to use V60 filter cup, if it is deep-baked coffee beans, the front street is recommended to use Kono filter cup.

As long as you practice, you will certainly be able to brew the delicious cup of coffee you like.

Suggestions for making coffee in front of the street:

For the brewing of coffee, Qianjie has always believed that the freshness of coffee beans has a great relationship with the flavor of coffee, so the coffee beans shipped in Qianjie coffee are roasted within 5 days. The purpose of Qianjie roasting is "freshly roasted coffee", so that every guest who places an order is the freshest coffee when he receives it. The bean cultivation period of coffee is about 4-7 days, so when the guest gets it, it is the time when the flavor is the best.

For those who need to be ground, Qianjie warmly reminds you that if the coffee beans are ground in advance, there is no need to raise the beans, because in the process of transportation, the pressure caused by carbon dioxide in the package can also make the coffee flavor round. so you can drink a cup of coffee as soon as you receive the coffee powder. But the coffee powder needs to be brewed in time, because the coffee powder oxidizes more quickly after contact with the air, that is to say, the flavor of the coffee will dissipate more quickly, and the flavor of the coffee is not so good. Therefore, Qianjie suggests buying whole beans, grinding and flushing now, so that we can better taste the flavor of coffee.

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