What is blended coffee? how do you mix coffee beans? what is blended coffee beans?

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In this day and age, people have an extraordinary pursuit of nature and purity. When the words "pure natural" and "100% no addition" become the standard of the times, pure "single coffee" has become the magic weapon of cafes that sell "boutique coffee". Marked with a single producing area or a single variety of coffee beans, these coffee beans have a distinctive personality and unique flavor, which soon obscures the brilliance of the traditional blending of coffee beans.

In contrast to pure individual coffee beans, blending coffee beans is a complex thing. It is a mixed coffee bean that combines more than two different producing areas, or coffee beans with different varieties, roasting degree, altitude of origin, and so on.

A cup of fruity coffee may be amazing, but such coffee often lacks deep nutty and chocolate flavors, so roasters mix several different coffee beans. so you can have a complex experience of sweetness, bitterness and sweetness at the same time.

This kind of "creative" blending of coffee beans is the "coffee delicacy" presented to everyone after countless attempts by roasters.

Whether it's cooking good food, making cocktails, or mixing coffee beans, the blending of the taste is never a simple thing. The birth of each delicious coffee blend is full of the wisdom of the roaster.

Generally speaking, blended coffee is combined according to the principle of "heterogeneity can be mixed, homogeneity does not mix", that is, coffee beans with different flavors are mixed to achieve complementary results. However, each roaster has his own blending methodology.

The most common of these is to combine coffee beans from different regions to increase the complexity of the flavor, such as mixing Kenyan beans with very berry flavors with Indonesian beans with slightly woody aromas.

But creating a blend of coffee is just the beginning.

As a kind of crops, the flavor of coffee is naturally affected by the climate. In order to ensure the stability of the taste of blended coffee, roasters need to make dynamic adjustments according to the output and quality of coffee beans. So blended coffee is actually a kind of "imaginary coffee" that can only be realized after the roaster has a deep understanding of coffee flavor.

Through blending, roasters transform the coffee flavor in their minds into reality, and combine coffee with different characteristics to create a richer coffee experience.

In addition, blending is also a characteristic between different roasters and different brands, just like the well-known Coke, each company uses similar raw materials, but it gives Coke a subtle difference in taste, and these subtle differences, for coffee with more than 800 aromatic substances, is a world of difference.

Therefore, every coffee blend full of roaster's imagination is a masterpiece of coffee.