Is the quality of the mixed coffee stable? Which is better, SOE or mixed coffee?

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Baristas are used to a time scale of 25 seconds, or 3 minutes, and they want you to use the least amount of time.

The world of coffee is as big as the world of wine. Different places, estates, planting and processing methods, as well as baking and blending, can bring a variety of flavors.

In the Italian concentration era in the past, Espresso was made up of many different producing areas, and French recipes were all "secret recipes." of course, it is not convenient to reveal where they come from. To this day, there are still many cafes that do not want to disclose the origin of formula beans.

Blended coffee beans are made from a variety of coffee beans mixed with different proportions and tastes of different or similar coffee beans, which can make the original coffee produce distinctive characteristics and unique flavor. The blending of coffee beans is also an art, repeated attempts, looking for inspiration can make a good bag of beans. Usually this well-balanced blend of coffee beans is used to make espresso, and the mellow espresso liquid is extracted by high temperature and high pressure.

Traditional Italian coffee mix

Traditional Italian coffee beans are made up of a variety of coffee beans. in Italy, a bag of coffee beans can be made up of several or even dozens of coffee beans. Many people think that it is not easy to drink when they hear the blended coffee, and they think it is a mixture of coffee beans of unknown origin, but the truth is that the mixed beans can also be made entirely of fine coffee beans, or they can also be very good to drink.

The biggest advantage of using mixed coffee beans is to ensure the stability of the coffee taste. When the quality of a certain coffee bean changes, or the output decreases or the price increases, the baker can choose similar coffee beans instead without affecting the overall taste. Roasters need to determine the flavor of coffee to be presented, such as sour, sweet, bitter performance, and even the expectation of coffee Body, when choosing mixed beans and formulating blending formula. General coffee shops will mix their own "Signature Blend" (signature blended coffee), the flavor is absolutely as good as coffee beans from a single place of origin.

The formation of the trend in a single producing area

SOE stands for single-origin espresso, although it is not necessarily equivalent to fine coffee, but if you select single-origin coffee beans with easy to identify flavor as SOE, you can produce a typical espresso with unique flavor. For example, Yega's typical citrus flavor, Kenyan fruit flavor, etc., coupled with espresso will magnify the taste of coffee, so specific flavors will be more prominent than hand brewing. However, although SOE is outstanding, its shortcomings are relatively easy to be magnified because it comes from a single place of origin, so factors such as roasting and particle size will affect the flavor, so it is not necessarily better to drink than coffee.

SOE tastes better than mixed coffee?

There are many factors that determine whether a cup of coffee tastes good, such as coffee beans, roasting, coffee maker, production process, personal taste preferences, etc., while SOE only refers to espresso made of individual coffee beans, the coffee beans used are not necessarily better than those used in blending coffee, and several other factors also have a great impact on the quality of coffee, so you can't generalize what kind of coffee tastes good!

The front street coffee is blended with [Colombia] and [Brazil]. The concentrate has a bright but soft acidity, a charming nutty aroma in the middle, and a long caramel finish. With the addition of milk, the sweetness has been improved, but it feels a little cookie.