How to bake beans for different brewing methods? What is the difference between hand brewing and espresso roasting?

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Coffee fans who often come to the front street shop all know that the front street goons make coffee and espresso, while the coffee beans used in hand-brewed coffee are individual coffee beans, while Italian coffee uses blended coffee beans. in order to highlight their own characteristics and flavor, the roasters in front of the street will also carry out different roasting degrees according to different coffee beans. Then this article on the front street will talk about the difference between the roasting degree of Italian coffee beans and hand-made coffee beans.

What is hand-made coffee?

First of all, what is hand-made coffee? The hand-brewed coffee in the shop in Qianjie is the high-quality coffee often said in the coffee market, also known as single-product coffee, which refers to the coffee beans produced in a single producing area, and can be traced back to the origin of coffee, down to the characteristics of manors and estates in the producing areas. To understand the story of the origin of coffee from the source, this is the charm of single-product hand-brewed coffee.

High-quality coffee is produced in countries all over the world, which can be divided into Latin America, Africa and Asia, and because the altitude climate of each region is different, it will lead to different flavors of coffee. and this allows coffee fans to taste different flavors of coffee.

Among them, like Qianjie Coffee, one of the representatives of Latin America, Brazilian Coffee has a very sweet and mellow flavor, and the Yega Chuefei Coffee produced in Ethiopia, the most famous producing area in Africa, has also captured a group of Qianjie coffee fans with its bright citrus citric acid. Asian coffee is the most popular in Indonesia, and it has won a group of coffee fans for its unique herbal and spice flavor.

In order to show their respective flavor characteristics, these coffee beans will be roasted in different degrees, so as to bring their flavor to the coffee fans in the front street in the best state. because generally speaking, the deeper the roasting, the more mellow the flavor of the coffee beans will be.

Therefore, deep roasting is suitable for Indonesian Mantenin or Brazilian coffee, on the contrary, lightly roasted coffee beans will show more sour quality, so it is more suitable to bake Essex plus Sheffield beans. Because it will destroy its bright sour flavor if it is treated with deep roasting, so the baker in front of the street should consider the baking degree of each coffee bean with different flavor.

How to bake hand-made coffee beans

Hand-brewed coffee strengthens the unique flavor of coffee, so the goal of Qianjie coffee roasters is to retain a specific regional flavor. So as the former street article said, the longer the coffee beans are roasted, the thicker the alcohol will be, but at the same time some of the acidity and fruit flavor will be sacrificed.

Usually, the longer the development time of baking, the more caramelized flavor and sweetness will be. if you want to emphasize fruit flavor, you can shorten the time in the development stage. if you want caramelized flavor such as chocolate, you can try to prolong the development stage.

What are Italian coffee beans?

Espresso is what is often said in front of the street to mix coffee, what is blending, that is, a variety of individual coffee beans mixed together, generally two or three kinds of coffee beans will be more common. Qianjie Coffee currently produces several Italian coffee beans using two and three blending methods.

The purpose of blending is very obvious, is to gather the flavor of different coffee beans together, showing a new flavor, in order to achieve a more balanced effect. For example, if a kind of coffee bean is slippery but lacks aroma, another kind of beans with rich aroma can be added to enhance each other's strengths and avoid weaknesses. Qianjie Coffee believes that it is the complementary nature of Italian coffee beans that makes it more acceptable to the public. For example, the mixed beans currently used to produce espresso in Qianjie store are Honduran Shirley coffee beans mixed with Ethiopian red cherry coffee beans, which show aroma and fermented feeling in flavor, and the mellow thickness is very obvious.

How to bake Italian coffee beans

The roasting part of Italian coffee is roughly divided into two groups, one likes to mix before baking, which is often said in the front street, and the other is roasted separately according to various producing areas and then mixed with beans, which is called cooked spelling; of course, these two different ways also make the flavor of coffee different.

And according to the practice of Qianjie baker, it is found that the color and luster of the baked beans are more uniform and the flavor is more consistent, which is more convenient.

When using the method of baking and then mixing, you need to know in advance the different soybeans in different producing areas, including their hardness and water content, and the baking process will be adjusted according to these conditions. Baking and mixing is equivalent to an one-to-one model, showing the flavor of each coffee bean one by one, with a richer sense of hierarchy than the former, but it also challenges the baker's understanding of the beans.

Why are roasted coffee beans divided into hand-brewed coffee and espresso?

Coffee fans who have been to the Qianjie shop know that espresso is basically a completely different brewing method from hand-brewing coffee. Espresso is made by using hot water and pressure from an Italian coffee machine to extract coffee pressed powder. The extraction time is very short, so fine grinding is used so that coffee can extract the substance in a short time.

On the other hand, the extraction time of hand-brewed coffee is longer, and it is usually brewed with a rougher grind than espresso. Hand-brewed coffee has more water, allowing the hot water to absorb coffee substances for a longer time, rather than through pressure extraction, even if the same coffee bean is brewed, the acidity and alcohol thickness of hand-brewed coffee will be lower than that of espresso.

On the other hand, deep-roasted coffee beans have more holes than shallow roasted beans, which means that deeper-roasted beans are more likely to dissolve, that is, substances are extracted faster, and brewing methods that can be used are wider than light-roasted coffee. Therefore, the baking degree must be adjusted to ensure that the coffee bean flavor can be perfectly presented.

The above is the knowledge about the roasting of hand-made coffee beans and Italian coffee beans in Qianjie. I hope this article can help coffee fans who want to know about coffee roasting. Then Qianjie recommends some coffee beans suitable for making espresso and hand-brewed coffee to coffee fans.

Qianjie Coffee Italian mixed beans recommendation

1. [Qianjie coffee boutique mix]

Choose the ratio of Goran to Brazil at 3:7.

Flavor features: comfortable sweet and bitter taste, the entrance is very smooth, with a hint of grass, the fragrance is slightly bitter, smooth and smooth, the aftertaste can be pleasant.

2. [Qianjie Coffee Sunflower warm Sun]

Choose the ratio of Honduran Shirley to Yega Red Cherry at 6:4.

Flavor characteristics: it has obvious acidity, a hint of berry aromas, rich aromas of wine and chocolate, and a comfortable finish.

3. [Qianjie Coffee Commercial blending]

Choose Colombia, Brazil and Robusta at 3:6:1.

Flavor characteristics: oil will be richer, taste classic, caramel sweet, nut and cocoa, dark chocolate flavor, sweet and sour balance, a little bittersweet, lingering finish.

4. [Qianjie Coffee basic blending]

Choose the 3:7 ratio of Yunnan coffee beans to Brazilian coffee beans.

Flavor characteristics: the flavor is characterized by soft fruit acid, sweet caramel, nutty, dark chocolate flavor, smooth and sticky, but light taste.

The front street coffee hand flushing coffee beans is recommended.

Qianjie Coffee Yega Xuefei Fruit Tintin Cooperative Coffee beans

Producing area: Yega Xuefei Gedeo Zone producing area

Altitude: 1900-2300m

Variety: original species (Heirloom)

Treatment: insolation

Grade: G1

Cooking flavor: the overall taste is solid, fermented and tropical fruits are more prominent, with the change of temperature, showing the flavor of berries and cream, the aftertaste of citrus between the teeth and lips is more long-lasting.

Qianjie Coffee Jade Manor washed Green label Coffee beans

Producing area: Pokuit, Panama

Manor: Jade Manor

Altitude: 1600-1800m

Variety: Rose summer

Treatment: washing treatment

Cooking flavor: strong jasmine fragrance, high sweetness, citrus, berries, juice, cream, green tea, orange peel, cantaloupe, the overall flavor is rich, aftertaste, citrus lasting.

Front Street Coffee Costa Rica Carnett musicians Series Bach Coffee beans

Country: Costa Rica

Producing area: Tarazhu

Altitude: 1950m

Treatment: raisin honey treatment

Grade: very hard bean SHB

Variety: Kaddura

Brewing flavor: it smells like the fermented aroma of rice wine, with sweet and sour taste of ripe tropical fruits and berries, nutty and creamy flavor, caramel and a hint of flowers on the finish.

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