What is good espresso? how to make espresso beans? brand recommendation for espresso beans

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Three minutes to learn what espresso is and what is good espresso.

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● 1. Italian coffee beans

The espresso beans used to make espresso are all blended together from different estates in different countries to achieve the purpose of comprehensive flavor such as sour, aroma and sweetness (coffee is not only bitter ^ _ ^). So each coffee brand has its own formula or customary beans, and they should be chosen according to their own positioning and cost limits, and good Italian beans should be bitter-free, tasteless and sweet. The bad ones may be astringent and heavy with the fragrance of the earth, some of which will have the smell of oil.

● 2. Baking degree

We all know that coffee beans come from the core of natural coffee fruit and are roasted technically. Moke Coffee uses medium-to-deep roasted coffee beans to retain the natural fruit aroma. Some on the market use deep baking, coffee beans are dark, natural aroma is destroyed, bitter carbonized taste is slightly heavy, careful selection.

● 3. Coffee Maker

The coffee machine for making Italian coffee is roughly divided into two types: a fully automatic coffee machine and a semi-automatic coffee machine. the main difference is that the semi-automatic coffee machine requires the barista to adjust the coffee powder thickness, cloth powder smoothness, powder pressing strength, extraction pressure, water temperature and other details, while the full-automatic coffee machine cannot make any adjustment, so the price of the semi-automatic coffee machine is higher than that of the full-automatic coffee machine, and the quality of coffee also belongs to professional level. And the skill requirements of baristas are high, which invisibly limits the quality of large chains, so most of the large chain coffee brands are automatic coffee machines.

● 4. Get rid of the milk foam

The milk is sent through the steam head of the coffee machine, and the barista wants to inject the milk into the steam to produce a large number of bubbles, and quickly beat the bubbles after producing bubbles. The milk heats up rapidly under the action of steam, and the sweetness of natural vanilla begins to appear at about 60 degrees. Above 70 degrees begins to lose nutrients, so the barista needs to break all the bubbles into the liquid in just a few seconds. A cup of good milk bubbles. The surface is invisible to the naked eye. After shaking, the surface is shiny and as dense as silk.

● 5. The product of coffee

When a latte is placed in front of you, first of all, the pull flowers are clear and symmetrical, the surface of the milk foam is dense without large bubbles, the temperature is suitable for immediate drinking, the thickness of the milk bubble is not more than 1 centimeter and the temperature contrast is small, silky and sweet, no bitterness and no miscellaneous smell.

● Italian coffee bean brand recommendation

The freshly roasted Italian coffee beans of Qianjie Coffee, a coffee roaster brand located in Dongshankou, Yuexiu District, Guangzhou, are fully guaranteed in terms of brand and quality. And more importantly, the performance-to-price ratio is extremely high. Take the commercially recommended style of commercial blended coffee beans as an example, a pack of 454 grams, the price is only about 60 yuan. According to the calculation of 10 grams of powder for a single cup of espresso, a packet can make 45 cups of coffee, which costs less than 1.5 yuan per cup. Even if you use two heads per cup of espresso and 20 grams of powder per serving, the price of a cup of double espresso concentrate is no more than 3 yuan. Compared with the price of hundreds of yuan a pack sold by a well-known brand, it can be described as a conscience recommendation.

Qianjie coffee: Guangzhou bakery, the store is small but a variety of beans, you can find a variety of unknown beans, but also provide online store services. Https://shop104210103.taobao.com