Beginner's Guide to buying Coffee beans-starter how to buy Coffee beans

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A simple guide to getting started with coffee

Hand-brewed coffee has become a craze, and many white-collar workers begin to care about the first condition for drinking coffee-how to buy entry-level coffee beans? What is the difference between coffee beans and coffee powder? Coffee beans and coffee powder, which used to be bought in professional coffee shops, are now available in many high-end supermarkets. What must be known about the basic knowledge of coffee bean purchase?

A brief introduction to the purchase of coffee beans--

Does ● buy beans or powder?

The flavor of a cup of coffee begins to take shape from roasting, grinding begins to lose, and the aroma changes every day, and freshness is almost the biggest indicator of coffee aroma. Therefore, for the purchase of coffee beans or coffee powder, the first consideration is how to maintain freshness.

If you are not a coffee enthusiast in pursuit of the ultimate taste, but use coffee as a drink for daily consumption, then the flavor preservation period given by the expert is simply: coffee beans (cooked beans) for a month in home packaging, coffee powder for a week.

Raw coffee beans go through different roasting procedures to stimulate their flavor, but roasting is a bit complex and professional for the average player, so if you are not a player who has to manually control the roasting, there is no need to buy raw beans.

When coffee beans are roasted, various flavors begin to disappear with the volatilization of water and carbon dioxide. Therefore, it is generally believed that coffee beans are best drunk within a month after baking in order to maintain the best aroma. When the roasted coffee beans are ground into powder, the contact surface with the air is increased, and the flavor will soon be lost, so experts recommend that it is best to drink it within a week after grinding in household packaging.

● single bean or mixed bean?

The so-called mixed beans, in fact, is for single beans. For coffee enthusiasts, a single bean can try the outstanding flavor of different coffee. Blended beans, on the other hand, mix single beans with different flavors according to different proportions, and mix the finished products with a balanced taste, just like the different emphasis of appreciation between single malt whisky and mixed whisky. if you want to drink in a more convenient way and have a more stable taste, some big brands of mixed beans will be a good choice.

● cargo flow, freshness is the king!

For a cup of coffee, aroma is the most direct indicator. Freshness is an important indicator to ensure that you taste the aroma of coffee.

For lovers of hand-brewed coffee, to buy single beans with different flavors, grinding and drinking is certainly the best option. But not everyone has the time and props to grind it before every cup of coffee. So in order to strike a balance between aroma and convenience, buying coffee powder packed in vacuum or canned with inert gas is a compromise. But once the vacuum package is opened, the coffee powder will come into contact with the air, so estimating the amount you drink in 2-4 weeks is the best cost-effective solution. (or buy freshly baked beans for the store to grind into flour.)

If you are a little lazier, there are still a lot of good fresh coffee earbags on the market, which is the best choice for home, office and travel.

● practical Tips: how to look at the label?

If you buy coffee beans (powder) in the supermarket, will you read the label? The origin, baking degree and production date are all important information about coffee beans, which will be listed on the label.

The origin of ● is very important!

Does the place of origin matter? As a kind of agricultural product, the origin of coffee is indeed very important. Different producing areas reflect different local characteristics, different producing areas from the characteristics of beans to the production of sun washing will be different. In the packaging of coffee beans, in general, in addition to the origin, but also clearly marked on the sun or washing production methods, you can pay attention.

The method of tanning, which is widely used in Brazil, Africa and Asia, is the most common in the world. It is generally believed that sun-cured coffee beans are more mellow and richer, while water-washed beans are brighter and more sour. However, this does not mean that there is a difference between the two. For example, the Ethiopian boutique coffee Yega Xuefei is mostly washed with water.

The baking degree of ● reflects personal preference.

Baking degree is also an indispensable item on the label. The color and flavor of beans will deepen and thicken with the increase of baking degree, but it is not that the deeper the roasting degree, the better the coffee.

Special reminder: due to the coffee roasting degree is too deep, strong incense can often cover up some bad flavor, so some poor quality coffee beans, often use this way to "hide clumsy"; light roasting degree is more able to taste the subtle flavor of the coffee bean itself. But if it is roasted too lightly, the aroma of coffee beans cannot be released. Therefore, the flavor of coffee beans from the same origin will be very different with different baking degrees. How to choose to control the degree of baking is like mixing wine, which requires experience and different personal tastes.

● entry Coffee Bean Brand recommendation

The entry-level coffee beans of Qianjie Coffee roasting: Yega Chuefei Coffee, Panamanian Flower Butterfly Coffee, Indonesian Manning Coffee and so on are fully guaranteed in terms of brand and quality. And more importantly, the performance-to-price ratio is extremely high, a pack of half a pound 227 grams, the price is only 80-90 yuan. According to the calculation of 15 grams of powder per cup of hand-brewed coffee, 15 cups of coffee can be made in a bag, and each cup of coffee costs only about 6 yuan, which is very cost-effective for coffee shops to sell dozens of yuan a cup.

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