What is the difference between soe Coffee and mixed Coffee? do Italian beans have to be matched?

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In the field of coffee, SOE coffee is mentioned, which refers to single-origin espresso. To expand this abbreviation, it is Single Origin Espresso, and the direct opposite is Espresso Blend, which refers to Italian spelling beans.

Single Origin Espresso

SOE is not equal to fine coffee

SOE doesn't mean delicious.

SOE does not mean that the quality of mixed beans is higher.

SOE is not equal to shallow drying and concentration

About Italian matching

Traditional Italian coffee beans are made up of a variety of coffee beans. In Italy, a bag of coffee beans can be made up of several or even dozens of different coffee beans. The biggest advantage of using a variety of coffee beans is to ensure the stability of the coffee taste. When the quality of a certain coffee bean changes, or the output decreases, or the price increases, the roaster can choose coffee beans of similar quality to replace them without affecting the overall taste. Therefore, some famous coffee roasters will regard their blending formula as a trade secret.

What is mixed coffee?

Blended coffee is relative to individual coffee.

Single coffee refers to coffee beans of a single variety, single origin, or single roasting degree; blended coffee refers to coffee beans of different varieties, different producing areas, or different roasting degrees, according to certain needs, generally composed of five kinds of coffee beans.

Why do you want to match?

There are generally four purposes for matching.

Cost reduction: in order to pursue a certain flavor, some low-priced coffee beans are used to prepare the flavor of some relatively high-priced coffee beans. Such as: blue Mountain flavor coffee.

Balanced taste: the espresso machine has a feature that magnifies the most prominent flavor feature of coffee beans, so it is almost impossible to use a single variety of coffee beans to make espresso, otherwise if that coffee bean is bitter, the espresso made will be extremely bitter and sour. Therefore, it needs to be matched to balance all kinds of flavors.

Stable flavor: because coffee beans are a kind of crop, the flavor of coffee beans in the same producing area will be different from year to year, so mixing several kinds of coffee beans can solve this problem very well. can keep the flavor basically the same every year.

Unique flavor: for those who drink any kind of coffee can not satisfy their taste, or some businesses, in order to have their own unique flavor of coffee beans, will mix several kinds of coffee beans.

There are both living and familiar ways to match.

Raw coffee refers to mixing different raw coffee beans according to the proportion in the formula and then baking.

Cooked means that different raw coffee beans are roasted separately and then mixed according to different proportions in the formula.

It is not easy to match:

When choosing mixed beans and formulating a formula, roasters need to determine the characteristics of the coffee they want to present, including the bitter and sour performance, the expectation of body, the flavor of the coffee, and whether it is produced in a milk coffee or American style, or espresso, which need to be considered when choosing raw beans, determining the roasting method, and determining the formula. Not only that, the formula will be tested, adjusted, retested and adjusted many times before it is finally determined.

Mixed beans can also be composed entirely of boutique coffee beans.

Mixed beans can also be composed of boutique coffee beans with different roasting degrees.

Mixed beans can also taste good.

Matching beans is not equal to deep-baked Italian beans.

About Single Origin Espresso (SOE)

Espresso made from an espresso machine can drink espresso directly or make espresso based on espresso.

Coffee beans come from the same or the same batch of sacks. Due to the post-processing and trading status of raw coffee beans, only a small number of coffee beans can confirm their true provenance.

Raw coffee beans in the same sack often contain different kinds of beans, especially those from Central and South America. Coffee beans can be roasted and blended together by the same batch of raw beans according to different roasting methods. Strictly speaking, it is a SOE coffee bean.

When the native flavor or variety flavor of coffee beans is easily identified, roasters tend to roast slightly to show the characteristics of coffee beans. When bakers pay more attention to taste balance and body, they will choose a more suitable baking method to improve the consumer experience.

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