Recommendation of three interesting coffee documentaries that senior coffee lovers must see

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According to the statistics of the International Coffee Organization, the world consumes 400 billion cups of coffee every year, and an average of 14,000 cups of coffee are drunk every second. If the retail price is estimated, the annual output value of global coffee has already exceeded 100 billion yuan. Such a huge black gold wave, coffee is called "black gold industry", which deserves its name.

Do you like coffee? Coffee in addition to charming aroma and refreshing effect, modern people for coffee pursuit not only drinking function, drinking coffee behavior has become a symbol of life taste, if you walk in the streets of first-tier cities, almost every few streets will meet convenience stores coffee, Starbucks, coffee shops, drinking coffee has gradually begun to become a part of the Chinese daily drink culture.

In the context of coffee's slow popularity, have you ever wondered when the beverage "coffee" was discovered? How did coffee change from a processed fruit to a daily beverage that is readily available to modern people?

Today, Xiaobian sincerely recommends three coffee documentaries to show you how coffee is popular all over the world and how people in the coffee industry work hard to provide a good cup of coffee.

1. Coffee: The Drink That Changed America (2016)

Life without coffee is like life without air.

This film not only talks about the history of coffee, but also details how the revolutionary changes in the coffee process took place in the United States, the birth of chain coffee enterprises, and the rise of the third wave of coffee in modern times.

One of the two hosts in the film, Dean Seacon, Dean Cycon, originally a human rights lawyer focused on indigenous issues, was the founder and owner of Dean's Bean Coffee Company, a fair trade and organic certified coffee roaster, you could say Dean Cycon. Dean Cycon is a human rights lawyer, coffee traveler, importer of fair trade coffee beans, and more importantly, he promotes the idea behind fair trade in coffee beans. Business should not only be for profit, but also create positive economic activities, bringing social development and environmental protection to the third world.

Grandpa Dean Cycon will lead you through the history of coffee in the United States, from the 17th century, after the Dutch introduced coffee to North America, after a long time of indirect influence on American history.

For example, the film mentions the transportation changes of coffee beans. In the early days of technology, people transported coffee beans in moldy cabins. After the packaging technology developed during the American Civil War, the invention of mechanization in the early 20th century made coffee beans have more perfect technology in packaging and transportation to extend the shelf life of coffee beans. Through continuous progress in technology, more and more people are willing to spend time and effort to improve the flavor of coffee.

Another hostess, Judith Jones, is a food travel critic who visits coffee shops in various countries to sort out the development of coffee for you.

This film is quite worth seeing, not the general tedious story, Dean Cycon grandfather will be interspersed with interesting dialogue from time to time in the film, with a relaxed and happy atmosphere to describe the coffee culture, after reading there is a kind of coffee big supplement, absorb full coffee knowledge.

Coffee: The Drink That Changed America-Promo (2016)

2. Barista-The Spirit of the Craftsman (2015)

Every barista is as unique as the beans in his hand!

If the Olympic Games is the highest level of comprehensive sports events in the world, then the World Barista Championship (WBC) is the top event in the coffee industry, which can be said to be the highest temple among the milestones of baristas. WBC attracts excellent baristas from all over the world every year. For example, in 2016, Wu Zelin, a barista from China Taiwan, won the championship of that year and became the first Chinese to win the championship in WBC history.

The documentary Barista, which began filming in 2013, tracks five baristas participating in WBC events, starting three months before the event, following their preparation and mentality, and presenting the most important WBC event.

During the competition, contestants had only 15 minutes to make three coffees for four judges: espresso, milk coffee and creative coffee.

In such a limited time, the contestants have to fully demonstrate their brewing and service skills, and the music during the competition also needs to be prepared before the competition, as well as the evaluation manual…to ensure that all the links are presented in the highest standard, so every contestant must be fully prepared before the competition. On the stage, there are three tests of intelligence, physical strength and mental strength. Even under the slightly trembling hands, the barista must hold his breath and concentrate on presenting the best 15 minutes!

If you are interested in WBC competition, you can find out how baristas practice before the competition, and how they constantly search for the best coffee beans through cup testing, just to win WBC championship.

Barista Official Trailer 1 (2015) – Coffee Documentary HD

3. A film about coffee.（2014)

If you want to understand the development of modern coffee, look at it!

An hour-long film, through interviews with well-known figures in the global coffee industry, to fully explain to consumers the hidden story behind a cup of coffee.

How does a coffee bean affect people's lives? Let the common people enjoy the delicious coffee, and even regard drinking coffee as an important spiritual support every day. Some people gratefully rely on coffee beans to support their families. Others use it as a way to make money. They record the process of farmers harvesting coffee fruits in the producing areas, from transportation to raw beans to processing, and fully describe the close relationship between growers, traders, baristas and consumers in the coffee production chain. It gives you a thorough understanding of how coffee can be transformed from a fruit into a delicious drink in a cup.

I have heard the senior barista say: "The quality of green beans determines 70% of the coffee flavor, and the other 30% depends on roasting and brewing techniques." George Howell used an easy-to-understand metaphor to describe the importance of a coffee fruit to the processing method affecting the flavor of coffee.

Photo from A FILM ABOUT COFFEE

George Howell：“If your getting ripe fruit and ripe coffee.that's the landscape. So now you've picked the beautiful landscape.

But the processing is like the window through which you see the landscape.

If the processing isn't perfect ,your window is dirty.”

Harvesting sweet coffee fruit is like a beautiful scenery, and processing is like a window. If the processing process is not handled properly, it means that this window is not clean. When you look at this beautiful scenery through this window, you have lost the original charming scenery.

This is a movie worth recommending to coffee lovers or coffee practitioners to re-examine the quality of coffee in your cup, rather than focusing solely on the efficacy of drinking coffee.

A Film About Coffee (2014)

If you are curious about the story behind coffee, you may wish to look for these three films, so that you can analyze the style of coffee in depth.

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