How to choose coffee beans? which brand is good? how to choose coffee beans?

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Many people think that buying some entry-level coffee beans with grinding in Starbucks or buying Italian or Rabasa in the supermarket is like OK. To tell you the truth, when you drink more and more good coffee, you will despise yourself.

● freshness is the basic bottom line:

The extraction of coffee requires a high degree of freshness of beans. The fresher the beans, the thicker the flavor you can get. Like tea, coffee comes in a variety of grades, usually in pounds (454g a pound). Except for earbags, the smallest unit is half a pound of 227g. The expensive ones are thousands of pounds, and the cheap ones are 20-30 pounds.

Coffee is different from tea, coffee flavor retention period is very short! Please note that this is the retention period, not the shelf life! You can see whether it is Italian or Rabasa in the supermarket. These beans are marked with a shelf life of one to one and a half years. It is true that eating within the date marked by the manufacturer will definitely not have diarrhea! But beans that have been around for a long time must taste like soda that has been open for two days. What I mean here is that if you want to have a good cup of coffee, go to Taobao to find a freshly baked coffee shop that placed an order. Basically, freshly baked beans in well-known stores can kill the likes of Italy bought in the supermarket if the extraction is qualified. So how long is the retention period of coffee? This should be linked to the season and temperature. In general, there is no big problem with single coffee beans in winter within 1-2 months, while Italian coffee beans can last longer. If it is summer, the single coffee beans will last for half a month, and the Italian style will last for one month at most. With this standard, I believe you have already passed the first hurdle in choosing beans.

● entry Coffee beans Preservation

Fresh beans are suitable for sealing and preservation in a bag with an one-way exhaust valve. be sure to empty the air in the bag as much as possible after use, and then keep it sealed. Usually put beans in a cool and ventilated cabinet, as long as it is not close to the heat source is not a big problem. If it's not for special reasons, don't put beans in the fridge! Keep it in a cool place at room temperature. Because the low temperature of the refrigerator will bring condensed water to the package. This is a big taboo for coffee! If you really don't have time to drink, but the beans are very good, those you don't want to throw away can be frozen in the freezer and thaw later. Although the flavor will certainly be greatly damaged, it is better than throwing it away.

● raise beans:

I just said that the freshness of coffee beans has a lot to do with the flavor of coffee extraction. But it is not the beans that are just baked that are suitable for immediate extraction. Because the gas in the freshly baked beans is not discharged, the stability of the extraction will be affected to a great extent. And there are some special roasting methods that require more stable ingredients in coffee beans to taste better. So in the boutique coffee industry, there is a talk of growing beans. Bean cultivation is to make the beans reach the best and most suitable extraction state after baking, so that you can drink better coffee. So the question is, how to judge the time of growing beans? This is really a complicated problem, and it takes a lot of experience to judge. Different roasters, different beans, different seasons, different extraction methods. Too complicated. I can't say a word at all. Here to recommend a suitable for most cases of bean cultivation time for your reference. In general, the best drinking time is 2-5 days after baking, while Italian beans usually take 15 to 20 days to drink. Summer beans can be better extracted the next day after baking, Italian beans are generally 5 to 7 days after the best drinking time. Beans are recommended to be killed within a month in summer and within 2 months in winter.

● found his favorite flavor:

Now people begin to have a new understanding and understanding of the real boutique coffee flavor. The way of roasting coffee also began to develop from the original French, or completely urban roasting to medium-shallow roasting, and gradually began to pursue the flavor of origin. So the question is, what is the flavor of origin? This is really complicated. To put it simply, beans from different producing areas show fruits, flowers, almonds, chocolate, honey and caramel at the right baking degree. Wait for the flavor. These flavors will basically disappear under the traditional deep culture in the past, and the beans can only be left bitter when baked deeply. For example, you can often hear Yega Xuefei's sweet and sour tangerine, Brazilian chocolate caramel. But there are so many sources of coffee that it can be said in a few words. Here deep and simple, direct and simple to classify according to personal preference.

● first of all, let's take a look at the treatment of coffee (from coffee fruit to raw coffee beans). Different treatment methods will bring completely different flavor orientation to beans. So it is necessary to understand this! Generally speaking, the traditional treatment methods are divided into water washing, semi-washing and solarization. The water washing method belongs to the treatment method with higher precision system, and the beans treated by the water washing method generally have a clean flavor and tend to a clear new flavor. And then there's the sun. The beans treated by the sun have a thick flavor and a strong fermentation flavor. It will be accompanied by the smell of red wine or bread! But sun beans are generally recommended to buy expensive varieties (ARICHA, Kongjia, etc.), cheap sun beans, because the fine system is not high, rotten beans, insect beans, dead beans and it is difficult to eat. Generally speaking, many high-grade beans will choose the method of sun treatment, but the fine system is very high. Like the secret kisses of 90 PLUS. Later, in order to integrate the advantages of sun exposure and water washing, people invented semi-washing, honey treatment, red wine treatment and other treatment methods. I won't talk about them one by one because of the space. You can try more for yourself!

● secondly, let's know the roasting degree of coffee. This is also a way to greatly influence the taste of coffee! Generally speaking, we can be divided into very shallow baking, shallow baking, medium baking, medium deep baking and deep baking. Because beans are different, good bakers will choose the best baking degree to bake beans according to their understanding of beans, so that beans can achieve their ideal flavor expression. But what is certain is that from shallow to deep, the same kind of beans will change from sour to sweet to bitter. At this point, we need to drink more, and then establish a framework understanding of baking. Combined with the previous treatment, plus your own preferences, you can basically choose your favorite beans.

The flavor of coffee is really an extremely complicated process, and it is difficult to write a book to make it clear. Here, we can only simply popularize the basic concepts. I still want everyone to drink more and try more.

● 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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