Coffee beans the difference between new beans and old beans how to avoid minefields and choose coffee that suits you

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Some people choose the "star product" of the coffee competition or the famous "expensive bean" when buying coffee. At the same time, merchants will also use "competition ranking" and "rare" as gimmicks to promote, thus catering to the hearts of the public. But most people may not know, maybe "thunder" from when you are tempted to start.

Green coffee may seem easy to understand, but traders who have no contact with green coffee beans at all can still influence coffee prices.

Coffee is a commodity that represents the buying and selling of coffee in regulated markets. Arabica beans are traded at the C-Price, which affects the buying price of coffee. Coffee beans are raw regardless of origin or other factors, and even the price of fine coffee (which is of course more expensive) is usually related to C-Price.

"Speculators" assess the buying and selling price of the product (in this case coffee), and they negotiate prices by predicting what the merchant will ask later. The raw beans may be stored forever in the warehouse of the harvest, and the speculator does not intend to "actually own" them at all, but regards them as a means of trading and profits.

What's the difference between a $30 cup of coffee and a $300 cup? As mentioned in the article, good quality coffee beans will be selected beans, and now many professional independent coffee shops often say that their coffee has been selected beans, so what exactly are the beans being selected?

We're picking out "defective beans."

Defected beans are bad coffee beans, or substances other than coffee beans mixed into the whole bag of coffee beans. We select the green coffee beans before roasting (the more you select, the better the quality, and the higher the relative price).

There are several main types of flaws in green coffee beans:

foreign substances

Substances other than coffee beans, such as small gravel, sand, branches and other impurities, will be received in the whole batch of coffee beans because they are not specifically selected and removed during processing. (Please refer to the production process for the cup of coffee in your hand)