What's the difference between individual coffee and hand-made coffee? How to make mixed coffee by hand?

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What's the difference between individual coffee and hand-made coffee? How to make mixed coffee by hand?

Generally speaking, Arabica coffee from a single origin is enough to make coffee that tastes good for export; it has a delicate flavor, a soft taste and a sweet aftertaste. So there is no need for "matching", hand-mixed coffee beans, also known as hand-mixed coffee beans, mixed coffee beans, blend coffee, is a concept relative to individual coffee beans. Each baked bean master has his own secret hand match, sometimes there will be more than one style, can also be said to be unique kung fu, but also the treasure of the town shop. Two or more coffee beans with different characteristics in different producing areas are treated as independent works with different tastes, and three beans are mixed and roasted in different proportions to produce different flavors.

Hand-made coffee beans (Blend, or hand-mixed coffee beans) is a name relative to individual coffee beans (Single Origin). As the name implies, it is a mixture of different kinds of coffee beans to brew together.

If a boutique coffee shop has the ability to make hand-made coffee beans, it will sometimes make several hand-made beans with different flavors, making the taste of its drinks more changeable. This is a bit like whisky. Is a single malt better than blended whiskey? Not really, it can only be said that each has its own advantages. Some people do not like the taste of distinctive personality, some people ask for balance and coordination, and some people only need the word "Shun".

But coffee has to be single, okay?

It is not easy to bring up a coffee bean with a balanced and supple taste. Just like a bartender making a balanced cocktail, it takes a long time to practice and experiment. Both of them are very difficult techniques in the definition of beverage process. Therefore, there is no good or bad difference between singleness and blending, but it is only chosen according to personal preference. Perhaps for most of the boutique coffee people who have done research on comprehensive blending beans, it is not mainly aimed at what kind of equipment. The key point is to challenge their imagination of taste and baking skills, so that consumers can also use specially prepared hand-mixed beans to brew black coffee in addition to individual beans. Taste the hand-made comprehensive combination of beans developed by the bean baker.

Generally speaking, mixed beans will use a key point to reconcile the taste, aroma and taste. From the sweet, bitter or sour coffee, pick out the preferred flavor, and then mix it according to a certain proportion; the coffee flavor includes the aroma smelled before drinking, the aroma contained in the mouth, and the aroma that recovers from the throat after drinking. Pick out the preferred aroma to enrich the taste, but still focus on one focus. After mixing beans, you can emphasize the taste and aroma of coffee and meet your own "exclusive coffee". First of all, before matching beans, we should first know the flavor of different varieties of coffee in the world, and beans have different characteristics according to their origin.

Central and South America has a mild taste and a balanced aroma: Africa has a charming floral fragrance in freshness; after knowing the mellow taste of Asia, you can make a great mix of beans, or you can pick out one from different continents to mix. Mix 2murmur3 varieties to match, and then choose a proper name, whether you enjoy it or as a gift is very good. In the way of matching beans, the most representative ones are "bake first and then mix" and "match first and then bake". Mixed beans will also vary with different baking methods of raw beans, and each has its own advantages and disadvantages. Although it is difficult to say which method is better, it is "baked first and then mixed" in taste, and "baked first and then baked" is better in management.

First bake separately, then mix the beans:

Each variety of raw beans is roasted separately, and then mixed in a certain proportion according to the coffee drink and taste. Mark the respective roasted beans and mix them with a small amount by hand according to a fixed proportion; you can also use a bean blending machine with a blender function to expect the best flavor of the coffee. The disadvantage is that when baking separately, in order to maintain the flavor, strict quality management is needed.

Before baking, mix the raw beans:

Mix and bake all kinds of raw beans. When baking, because the aromas of different varieties are mixed together, it will reduce the characteristics of different aromas and emphasize the overall aroma. The advantage of baking raw beans at one time is that the steps are simple and easy, but the disadvantage is that the original characteristics of raw beans can not be retained.

Benefits of hand-made matching:

There is no certainty about the hand blending of hand-mixed beans, although you can mix the beans according to your own taste, but you must first master the fragrance characteristics of different kinds of beans in order to make delicious hand-mixed beans. Generally speaking, hand-mixed beans are mainly mixed with 5 varieties, but for beginners, mixing less than 3 kinds first is easier to succeed, and it is better to increase the raw beans (or coffee beans) that want to emphasize the taste to more than 30%.

[1. Create fullness]: coffee extracted by high pressure often has a concentrated and unitary taste. If you can't take into account [aroma], [firmness] and [tail rhyme] with a single bean, it is more obvious on commercial beans with less prominent flavor. therefore, the coffee from different producing areas and different roasting degrees are mixed according to proportion to achieve the performance of truncated taste.

[2. Stable flavor performance]: coffee beans are agricultural products after all, even if they are in the same producing area, the bean flavors of different years and batches are still different. In order to provide stable taste at the end of the consumer market, we will make use of the blending of different coffees to achieve similar flavor and stabilize cup quality.

Hand flushing is recommended in Qianjie:

Filter cup: Hario V60

Water temperature: 89-90 degrees

Degree of grinding: small Fuji 3.5

Cooking methods: the ratio of water to powder is 1:15, 15g powder, the first injection of 25g water, 25 s steaming, the second injection to 120g water cut off, waiting for the powder bed water to half and then water injection, slow water injection until 225g water, extraction time about 2:00

Analysis: using three-stage brewing to clarify the flavor of the front, middle and back of the coffee. Because the V60 has many ribs and the drainage speed is fast, it can prolong the extraction time when the water is cut off.