Is it a waste of fine coffee beans to make espresso? Which kind of beans is better for espresso beans?

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Coffee Xiaobai has a question. There is an understanding that is not correct: using espresso as espresso requires less espresso than hand-brewed or cold-extracted coffee, so it is relatively common, or blended coffee beans are more suitable for making espresso beans. On the other hand, coffee beans of single origin and relatively high quality are more suitable for hand flushing, or cold extraction and other ways to better reflect their unique flavor.

● has a low requirement for coffee beans is "commercial coffee" rather than "espresso", the two overlap but can not be equated.

First of all, coffee beans are a kind of agricultural products, and the production of agricultural products is quite unstable. Factors such as altitude, precipitation, day-night temperature difference and other factors will affect the taste of coffee beans. For commercial coffee, this instability is obviously unacceptable. One taste today and another tomorrow, who dares to drink coffee at your house in the future? So the merchant adopted the simplest and roughest method-deep baking. I don't want your gaudy flavor. I just need to be able to drink coffee after mixing milk.

Then, since most commercial coffees are mainly Italian, most people have the impression that "Italian = business = low quality".

In fact, in terms of extraction methods, Italian is more fastidious about the quality of espresso beans. The extraction environment of high temperature and high pressure makes coffee substances extracted in large quantities in a short time. At the same time, the higher concentration of coffee liquid also makes the flavor and miscellaneous flavor more prominent. If an ordinary single bean is flushed by hand, it can avoid some defects in baking by reducing the extraction rate, but it is almost inevitable on Italian machines. It is like taking off the makeup of a beautiful girl and putting it in front of her to observe carefully, good-looking is good-looking, not good-looking is not good-looking.

In addition, WBC is one of the most authoritative events in the coffee industry, and there are many players who use beans from a single producing area. I don't think these contestants who can stand on the world stage will go to the competition with "relatively ordinary" coffee beans.

● hand cold extraction espresso machine is one of the extraction methods, there is no difference in the choice of beans.

Large chain stores need stable flavor, so make Espresso with mixed beans, mix different places to unify their Espresso flavor all the year round, coupled with a large number of purchases, you can only choose large manors instead of boutique estates.

You can't have sweet and sour African beans in the first half of the year and Asian beans full of fragrance of traditional Chinese medicine in the second half of the year, right?

In recent years, there are also many stores using single-product beans to make espresso beans, which is amazing.

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