What kind of coffee is mixed coffee? How do you drink coffee if it's expensive? The method of blending coffee and brewing

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In recent years, it is not only necessary to make espresso, but even gluttons who drink individual coffee love to make their own dream coffee with matching beans, siphon and so on.

In the past, there are coffee shops in order to reduce costs, or to reduce the losses caused by leftover expired beans. Will be different origin of the lower price beans mixed, billed as their own brand, the only one. This practice is called "mixed beans" in the domestic coffee industry to distinguish between high-quality blended coffee.

With the increasing number of coffee lovers, there are also different levels of coffee and cup testing courses, leading to the rapid popularization of coffee knowledge. This kind of practice can no longer meet the needs of a large number of coffee fans.

Today, the purpose of blending coffee is no longer a matter of cost, but more likely to be a roaster working with the public to explore what kind of new flavor coffee beans with different characteristics can produce.

And the so-called "formula" of matching beans is no longer a trade secret, but is open to everyone for discussion and research.

Mixed coffee is generally made of three or more different varieties of coffee, which is mixed into another coffee with unique flavor according to its sour, bitter, sweet, fragrant and alcohol.

Comprehensive coffee after the completion of the deployment of fragrance, smooth and refreshing, golden color, is the top grade of coffee. Mixed coffee drinks are very random, so they seek individual colors.

People mix coffee beans with coffee mainly for the following purposes:

A stable flavor

Because coffee beans are a kind of crop, the flavor of even the same kind of coffee beans will be different from year to year, so mixing several kinds of coffee beans can solve this problem and keep the taste basically the same every year.

Balanced taste

Because one of the features of the Italian coffee machine is that it magnifies the most prominent flavor feature of coffee beans, we almost never use a single variety of coffee to make Espresso, otherwise if that coffee bean is more

Bitter, then make the Espresso will be extremely bitter, partial acid will be very sour. So we need to balance the flavors by blending coffee.