The difference between Commercial Coffee beans and High-quality Coffee beans introduction to the taste evaluation characteristics of commercial coffee beans

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Coffee sold in the market is generally divided into three categories: "industrial coffee", "commercial coffee" and "boutique coffee". The distinguishing criteria are as follows: (1) Industrial coffee: 100% pure robusta coffee beans. (2) Commercial coffee: mixed beans of Robusta seed and Arabica seed (the ratio is about 7%, 3%, 3%, 3%, 7%). (3) Fine coffee: 100% pure Arabica coffee beans.

The main uses of the three types of coffee on ● are summarized as follows:

(1) "industrial coffee": it is mainly used to extract coffee and as the main raw material of instant coffee.

(2) "commercial coffee": it is mainly used in integrated coffee, that is, a mixture of robusta coffee (such as Brazilian coffee) and Arabica coffee (such as Mantenin, mocha, Colombia, etc.) (with a ratio of about 7%). For example, the popular mamba coffee on the market is commercial coffee beans. In order to reduce the finished product, some individual coffee is added with Robusta coffee, but it is still sold under the name of single coffee, but the market price of this single coffee is usually lower than the market price, which is difficult for consumers to detect. some people even hide from consumers and then make huge profits by selling ordinary single-item coffee.

(3) boutique coffee: as 100% pure Arabica coffee beans, such as Mantenin, Golden Manning, Moka, Kenya AA, Yegashev, Hawaii Kona, etc., the traditional international coffee grading criteria can be divided into the following three categories:

The main results are as follows: (1) the quality is evaluated by the height of the producing area: in principle, the higher the altitude is, the lower the relative temperature is, the coffee fruit takes more time to mature, the fully ripe fruit has better expansibility, the baking is easy, and the quality of coffee bean is good. However, the "Blue Mountains" and "Hawaii Kona" from Jamaica Island, the lowland coffee producing country of the coffee belt, are lowland producing areas. They carefully select and create the best growing environment for coffee, such as "suitable temperature", "rainfall and soil", "morning fog and great temperature difference between day and night" and other topographic and climatic conditions. High-quality coffee can be produced by picking coffee by hand and picking impurities and defective beans by hand. Coffee producers in Taiwan, whether they grow coffee at high altitudes or at low elevations, can produce high-quality coffee as long as they carefully select and create climatic conditions and top post-processing procedures for producing high-quality coffee. and they must specifically and clearly tell consumers why their coffee beans have good quality climate conditions and how to complete the post-processing process. Let consumers know and accept the quality and price of the coffee produced.

(2) evaluate the quality by sieve: evaluate the quality according to the size of coffee raw beans, because the taste of large granule coffee beans is richer and more changeable than that of small granule coffee beans, and it is easier to grasp the taste of roasted coffee after screen classification. Some coffee producers in Taiwan do not grade coffee beans because of their low production, or some people do not know where to buy equipment to grade coffee beans, or some people simply do not know to screen and grade coffee beans, or some people do not know clearly, and so on. There is a lot of room for growth and progress in this part. Coffee producers in Taiwan must honestly face it and faithfully inform consumers whether their own roasted coffee is indeed screened and graded, so as to reach a consensus between them.

(3) evaluate the product value according to the proportion of sieve and defective beans: this is the unique evaluation method of Brazil, which is a big coffee producing country. Three grading methods of "defective bean proportion" (deduction method), "sieve" and "taste test" are used to evaluate coffee. Among them, the "taste test" of Brazil is worth learning from. They divide the coffee taste cup test benchmark into "very mild", "mild", "slightly mild", "difficult", "iodine taste" and other levels. it can make people (including coffee producers and consumers) better understand how to taste coffee and correctly explain the taste of coffee, rather than inventing special terms that make people confused and confused.

Strictly speaking, ● "Manor Coffee" is the standard to further improve the level of boutique coffee. At present, it is evaluated by boutique coffee associations internationally, and it is known to have the following characteristics:

(a) Coffee production will provide the buyer with a "traceable producer (Trace ability)" mechanism.

(2) it is based on a single manor as the production unit. apart from the fact that the location of the manor is very suitable for growing coffee as a necessary condition, manor coffee usually refers to beans from a single coffee farm, or at least coffee beans produced by cooperatives made up of several coffee farmers. The quality of "Manor Coffee" beans can be maintained at a certain level, and the coffee beans in different estates have different flavors, which reflects the local characteristics to a certain extent.

(3) "Manor Coffee" is sometimes shade-planted coffee, sometimes organic coffee, or environmentally friendly coffee beans, etc., or some are certified by international organizations, or some are awarded to participate in the boutique coffee competition. "Manor Coffee" usually represents that the coffee garden has compound vegetation that can provide habitat for wild animals, birds and insects, while planting coffee trees to use natural resources. So as not to cause further harm to nature. Or planting a variety of other cash crops and rotation crops in the coffee garden can make the farm have a diversified income, can also allow the recycling of land resources, shade coffee beans must also be fully in line with the production standards of organic coffee. In other words, "Manor Coffee" represents the pursuit of high quality rather than output.

(4) many famous international coffee farms introduce themselves through the Internet, and competitions to judge top-quality coffee (specialty coffee, also known as boutique coffee) will publish cupping results on the Internet, so that people who are interested in "manor coffee" can easily find the ranking of race beans on the Internet. In Taiwan, some operators even buy sample beans and come back for testing. However, it should be noted that the performance level of beans produced by the same manor is not necessarily the same every year. After all, coffee beans are agricultural products that change with climate change.

After you have a preliminary understanding of the above coffee grades, you will know which grade of coffee you drink. For those who like "fine coffee", the advanced threshold is "picking out defective beans". If you do not pick out defective beans, you can only drink real single coffee, which is one step away from "fine coffee", but it is already quite tasteful, for those who like "manor coffee". The advanced threshold is to discard the general idea that rich and heavy coffee is the taste of coffee. In particular, there are many people in Taiwan who "eat bitterness rather than sour" and think that sour coffee is not good. People who drink "manor coffee" should not drink manor coffee with a given impression. If they do not drink the very sour "manor coffee" flavor, it reflects the understanding of the local local characteristics. Even if it can only be regarded as "chasing fashion" or raising its price by means of "manor coffee", it does not really enter the "coffee palace", because "manor coffee" is a characteristic coffee, which is heavy in quality rather than weight, and it often smells rich in aroma, but it doesn't taste like drinking coffee, such as boutique champion coffee, geisha, all at a considerable level, only in the ranking of participating in the competition. After all, "Manor Coffee" represents high quality boutique coffee.

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