What are Italian coffee beans? What is the difference between the flavor characteristics of blended coffee beans and individual coffee beans?

Coffee fans who often come to Qianjie coffee shop know that Qianjie coffee provides not only hand-brewed coffee, but also Italian coffee, such as mocha, cappuccino, latte and so on. In the process of making espresso and hand-brewed coffee, Qianjie believes that coffee fans have observed that espresso Qianjie uses mixed coffee beans, while hand-brewed coffee is a single coffee bean. So in this article, let's popularize the science of coffee in front of the street to find out what Italian coffee is with beans.

What is spaghetti beans?

Coffee fans all know that individual coffee is coffee beans from a single producing area, such as Ethiopia's Yejasuefei in the front street or Mantenin in Indonesia. These are all single coffee beans, and the flavor brewed also has the local flavor of the producing area. Italian blended coffee is a mixture of individual coffee beans from different producing areas, but what is emphasized here in the front street is that the mixed spelling is not random. Instead, it is necessary to strictly require the proportion of blending and the coordination of flavor in order to make coffee with a good flavor.

For example, Esseye plus Xuefei coffee beans and Indonesia Mantenin coffee shop to spell beans, the flavor of these two coffee beans are diametrically opposite, one is fresh lemon and citrus flavor, the other is herbal soil flavor, suppose 1:1 mixed, how can not think of that taste is how, in short, it is not a good flavor, so coffee beans are exquisite, not random matching oh.

The idea of blending Italian espresso beans

Qianjie Coffee believes that Italian blending of coffee beans is an art, because coffee blenders must understand the different flavor characteristics of coffee in different producing areas in order to mix attractive aromas and make coffee more delicious. This not only requires a lot of coffee experience and inspiration, but also through accurate proportioning calculation, so it is not too much to say that the process of blending coffee beans is an art.

Well, since it is a blending, it naturally refers to the blending of more than two kinds of raw beans, but a special example is that it can also match the same kind of coffee beans with different roasting degrees, or even the new crop and aged coffee or old crop of the same kind of coffee beans, so the type referred to in the blending is no longer a coffee variety in a narrow sense, but extends to the flavor of coffee in a broad sense. Generally use 2 to 6 kinds of coffee beans when blending, too many kinds will not be able to show the unique flavor of coffee.

Why mix the coffee?

Then there must be coffee fans who will ask Qianjie that the flavor of a single cup of coffee is good enough, so why mix it? In fact, the origin of blended coffee comes from Italy. Italian coffee is common in cafes, whether latte, mocha or cappuccino. This is because blended coffee beans can make coffee that is not mellow enough to become more mellow, there is a natural market for demand, and the first Italian blended coffee appeared because Italian espresso was popular at that time. On the other hand, there is a flavor bias of single-producing coffee, that is, advantages and disadvantages coexist. In addition, the price of high-quality single coffee beans is expensive, and the price of blended coffee is higher, and the price is lower than that of single coffee, but the flavor can also be unique, so at that time, many Italians chose blended coffee rather than individual coffee. blended coffee has developed and become popular today.

The main purpose of Italian coffee blending is to maintain a stable flavor and balanced taste, because coffee fruit is always a crop, and the flavor of coffee fruit is unstable every year because of climatic and environmental problems, which may be sweeter this year and not so sweet next year. Mixing several kinds of coffee beans together can solve this problem, or at least keep the flavor of coffee tasted every year consistent.

There must also be coffee fans wondering why espresso can't be made with individual coffee beans, because one of the features of the Italian coffee machine is that it magnifies the most prominent coffee flavor of coffee beans. For example, the main flavor of Yega Xuefei in Ethiopia is citrus citric acid, so Italian coffee will enlarge its acidity, while Indonesian Mantini's main flavor is bitter herbal soil. The espresso machine magnifies the bitter flavor, so Qianjie coffee does not use a single variety of beans to make espresso, otherwise the coffee is very uneven and affects the taste, which is why Italian coffee is made with mixed beans.

How do you mix coffee?

Blended coffee is divided into raw spelling and cooked spelling, raw spelling is to mix the coffee beans before baking, cooked spelling is first roasted in the mixture. Qianjie believes that the advantage of life and hard work is that the coffee flavor can be stable and uniform by using the same baking degree, and it can be put in place in one baking, and the same baking degree can also greatly reduce the difficulty of quality control and improve the efficiency.

But it is not perfect, and the limitation of life is very great, so it is generally recommended to use several beans with similar coffee bean density in Shengpin Qianjie, otherwise the flavor will not be as good as that in the original producing area. For example, beans that have always been suitable for shallow baking have to be baked together with the same shallow baked beans to achieve double good results, while a shallow baked bean and a deep baked bean do not match. It will lead to bad flavor.

On the other hand, Qianjie believes that the advantage of cooked spelling is that it can be baked according to the best baking degree of each bean to maximize the characteristics of each bean. But the disadvantage of cooked spelling is that daily quality control and management will be more difficult, baking dates are inconsistent, you need to pay more attention to more bean cultivation period, imagine using 4-5 coffee beans to do cooked spelling, this product needs to focus on 4-5 baking dates. Therefore, cooked spelling also has a variety of advantages and disadvantages, but the purpose is the same, all in order to make the coffee flavor more delicious.

Of course, there are also two ways of blending coffee. One is the blending of coffee beans from different producing areas. For example, the sunflower sunflower mix on Qianjie Coffee is made with Honduran Shirley mixed with Yega Shirley to bask in the red cherries. Why did you choose these two coffee beans for blending? The reason is that African coffee beans are rich in acidity, but lack mellow thickness / solid feeling, of which the most representative are those from Yega Sheffield, while Central American coffee beans are rich in aroma and sweetness. the most impressive of these is Shirley coffee beans fermented in Honduran whisky barrels. This blend of coffee beans Shirley provides most of the fermented wine flavor and mellow thickness, while the sunny Yejafei red cherry coffee beans provide the sour aroma of the fruit to increase the layering of the whole Qianjie sunflower coffee beans.

Another way of blending is the blending of different coffee varieties. For example, Qianjie Butterfly is famous for mixing about 70% of the rose summer varieties, and the former street coffee Costa Rica Mira Pearl Manor is also famous for mixing half of the rose summer varieties, half of the SL28, ET47, and Maico. However, Qianjie believes that coffee beans made from a mixture of different varieties are also called "blending" just to highlight one of the varieties, not in the traditional sense. Interestingly, if we mix different varieties of coffee beans, then most of our common coffee beans will be blended. For example, Kenya often mixes SL28 and SL34.

Four kinds of Italian coffee beans of Qianjie coffee

As the former street article said, Italian blending of coffee beans is an art, which can not be spelled casually, but depends on the repeated attempts of coffee mixers to make a cup of coffee with good flavor.

Therefore, the Qianjie baker has also made a choice of sunflower sunflower matching, boutique matching, commercial matching and basic matching launched in the Qianjie store after repeated matching tests. The difference between these combinations is to make a balanced and high-quality flavor for different prices. Let's introduce these four kinds of mixed coffee in detail in the front street.

1. Qianjie Coffee Base with beans (1 pound / 454g)

Flavor: with soft fruit acid, caramel sweetness, nutty, dark chocolate flavor, smooth and sticky, but light.

Recipe: Yunnan: Brazil = 3:7

two。 Qianjie Coffee Commercial Coffee blending (1 pound / 454g)

Flavor: caramel sweetness, nutty and cocoa, dark chocolate flavor, sweet and sour balance, a little bittersweet, lingering finish.

Recipe: Colombia: Brazil: Robusta = 3:6:1

3. Qianjie coffee boutique coffee mix (one pound / 454g)

Flavor: soft slightly sour, sweet, nutty, the overall feeling is not too exciting, peaceful, grease belongs to medium.

Recipe: Colombia: Brazil = 3:7

4. Qianjie Coffee Sunflower Coffee blend (half pound / 227g)

Flavor: obvious acidity, light berry aroma, wine aroma, rich chocolate flavor.

Recipe: Honduras Shirley: Yega Red Cherry = 6:4

This sunflower sunflower blend bean is currently used in Qianjie coffee shop to produce espresso. It has a good flavor of fermented wine and berries. It is very suitable for producing espresso. The flavor is very mellow and unique.

The above is the relevant content and knowledge about espresso beans sorted out by Qianjie Coffee, hoping to help coffee fans who want to know about espresso so that they can better choose Italian coffee beans that suit their taste in the future.