How to choose fresh coffee beans? eat fresh coffee beans directly? how much is a pack of fresh coffee beans?

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Many friends leave messages saying that they will not choose fresh coffee beans, or do not know how to distinguish whether the coffee beans they buy are fresh, so today's small editor just talked about how to choose fresh coffee beans, and next time you buy coffee, you are not afraid to buy bad coffee beans. Next, let's take a look at the four basic steps you need to know about choosing coffee beans: smell, look, peel, taste.

Here we explain one by one, how to judge the quality and freshness of coffee beans through the above four steps.

●. smell

Close to the coffee beans, smell deeply, if you smell a strong aroma, it means that the coffee beans are fresh enough; if the aroma is weak, or even has begun to appear greasy, it means that the coffee beans are not fresh.

Please note that when I say greasy, I mean smell, not form, otherwise the coffee beans in the deep roast are all oily and stale.

We go to buy coffee beans, contact with the general is already packaged, we can only squeeze a one-way exhaust valve, smell whether the aroma inside is strong enough.

● See

From the shape, color, size and other aspects to examine the quality of coffee beans is excellent.

First of all, the shape is required to be complete. The presence of defective beans will affect the taste of coffee.

Which beans are defective beans? What are the causes of each?

Round beans. As mentioned in the coffee quiz above, a round bean is a coffee fruit with only one round seed, which is caused by the environment in which the coffee tree grows. When the number of round beans is relatively small, it does not affect the taste of coffee.

Black beans. Premature coffee beans fall to the ground before picking and ferment easily into black beans, which are easier to pick out.

Pests beans: caused by insects drilling into coffee fruits to lay eggs.

Shell beans: caused by improper handling during drying.

Cracked bean: Bean produced when dehulled and pulped by machinery.

Malformed beans: The climatic conditions, rainfall and soil nutrition of coffee growing countries will affect the growth of coffee beans. When nutrients are insufficient, it is easy to produce malformed coffee beans.

Other causes of defective beans:

When treated with sun, if it rains, or if the coffee beans are not turned evenly in time with a rake, they are prone to over-dried beans and moldy beans.

In the process of transportation and storage, if the environment is too humid, it will also cause moldy beans.

With washing treatment, if the sink is not clean, it will produce fermented beans. The influence of fermented beans is much worse than other defective beans, because it will make good coffee beans also smell bad."A mouse droppings destroys a pot of porridge" is it.

Second, look at color. Different coffee beans are suitable for different degrees of roasting. The darkest color (or the darkest degree of roasting) is Italian coffee, followed by mantinin, Brazil, Colombia and mocha. Coffee beans from the same origin should be roughly the same color, otherwise it means that the roasting is not uniform enough.

Finally look at the size. All kinds of coffee beans are different in size, both big blue mountain coffee and delicate Yunnan small coffee. It is difficult to compare coffee from different origins, but in coffee from the same origin, we still take a big and full coffee as the best.

● Stripping

Coffee beans are peeled by hand. If they can be peeled easily and feel crispy, it means that the coffee beans are very fresh. If they are old beans, they need to be peeled very hard.

In addition, after peeling, if the skin and the inner layer of the bean are the same color, it means that the fire is evenly baked; if the surface color is much darker than the inner layer, it means that the fire is too large when baking.

●. tasted

Lightly bite coffee beans, such as the feeling of crispness, it means that coffee beans are fresh.

Through the above steps you should be able to very smoothly pick to drink fresh coffee beans.

● Fresh coffee brand recommendations

Front Street Coffee Fresh Roast & Italian Fresh Coffee Beans: Yerga Sherfi Coffee, Brazilian Coffee, Mantelin Coffee, etc. are fully guaranteed in terms of brand and quality, suitable for brewing in various appliances. More importantly, the cost performance is extremely high, a pack of half pounds 227 grams, the price is only about 80-90 yuan. According to the calculation of 15 grams of powder per cup of hand-brewed coffee, a pack can make 15 cups of coffee, and each cup of single-item coffee only costs about 6 yuan, which is extremely cost-effective for the normal price of 30 or 40 yuan for a cup in a cafe.

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