The principle and purpose of blending coffee beans which is better, single product or mixed coffee?

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There are many kinds of coffee. I wonder if you have ever heard of mixed coffee. Today, Xiao Le will introduce you to the blending of coffee and tell you the common method of making mixed coffee. Let's have a look at the coffee lovers.

What is mixed coffee?

Mixed coffee, also known as mixed coffee, blended coffee, is one of the general terms of coffee classification. Nowadays, almost all of the popular Italian coffee belongs to the category of blended coffee. We generally mix two or more different varieties of coffee or the same variety of coffee but roast different degrees of coffee together. a coffee with a unique flavor mixed according to its sour, bitter, sweet, fragrant and mellow taste.

Blending coffee is not a simple addition, but hopes that through the unique understanding of coffee flavor, different coffee beans can learn from each other and blend with mixed coffee beans with excellent flavor. High-quality mixed coffee after the completion of the fragrance, smooth and refreshing, golden color, is the top grade of the coffee.

The purpose of blending coffee beans

one

A stable flavor

Because coffee beans are a kind of crop, the flavor of even the same kind of coffee beans will be different from year to year, so mixing several kinds of coffee beans can solve this problem and keep the taste basically the same every year.

two

Balanced taste

Because one of the features of the Italian coffee machine is that it magnifies the most prominent flavor feature of coffee beans, we hardly use a single variety of coffee to make Espresso, otherwise if that coffee bean is bitter, the Espresso will be very bitter and sour. So we need to balance the flavors by matching them.

three

Reduce the cost

In fact, the cost reduction is due to the fact that coffee production is often reduced due to natural and man-made disasters. At that time, since it is matched, it is only necessary to find a coffee bean with similar taste to replace the corresponding coffee bean in the recipe. There is no need to pay a lot of money to snap up coffee beans that have increased prices as a result of reduced production.

But after arriving in China, we creatively appeared coffee blends such as Blue Mountain flavor, which means that we can't drink the real Blue Mountain, so we drink Blue Mountain-flavored coffee. Anyway, no one knows what Blue Mountain coffee tastes like.

The reason and purpose of matching

People need to put coffee from different places together for several different purposes. The ideal goal, of course, is to piece together a coffee that tastes better than any of them. But generally speaking, Arabica coffee from a single origin is enough to make coffee that tastes good for export; it has a delicate flavor, a soft taste and a sweet aftertaste. So there is no need for "blending" (that is, putting together coffee from different places).

The main commercial purpose of blending coffee is to reduce costs and mix coffee with coffee that is not very good. In order to improve sales profits. There is also a possible purpose, that is to put together a unique taste, the unique taste of a brand. Customers who like this taste have to go to this factory to buy it, but can't get it from other suppliers. Another advantage of this is that the taste of this blended coffee will not change no matter how the taste of the coffee from different years varies from place to place.

Here we ignore other possible commercial purposes and concentrate on understanding the blending for the purpose of improving the taste and quality of coffee.

Before blending any coffee, you should first understand the taste characteristics of all kinds of coffee, and at least make it clear in your heart that the taste of the kind of coffee you want to mix can not be achieved by any single coffee. It would be a pity if the blended coffee doesn't taste better than one or more of them. It would be better not to match. If you use some pretty good quality coffee for blending, the result is likely to be so.

Although some fixed varieties of coffee can be drunk directly as individual coffee, most of the coffee has more or less defects in flavor, such as no special flavor, lack of depth, not strong enough or a certain flavor is too strong. In order to make up for these deficiencies, it is necessary to combine several kinds of coffee beans with different characteristics to create a harmonious and deep flavor. Some people think that the fun of coffee is focused on baking and blending, while drinking coffee is just enjoying the fruits of your own victory. Blending coffee is not a random mix of coffee beans.

Sometimes the blending of two kinds of boutique coffee will suppress each other's unique flavor, so blending is not simply blending several kinds of boutique coffee together. Matching is just like a painter adjusting and creating charming colors in a palette, so the mixer can also blend with coffee beans to produce an attractive flavor. Therefore, it is not too much to say that matching is an art. as an artist, the assembler needs not only experience and inspiration, but also through certain scientific calculation. The emergence of works of art will not be accidental, but the outbreak of long-term accumulation. The average blended coffee does not need to use more than five kinds of coffee beans. Because if there are too many kinds of coffee beans, the situation can be very complicated. Almost only a very special expert would not be confused by so many different coffee beans.

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