What's the taste of espresso? is espresso bitter? how do you drink espresso?

Espresso (espresso) is the least frequent single drink in coffee shops, such as the front street store will directly "hide" it, customers will take the initiative to order will "appear". Qianjie today, let's talk about the flavor of such a small cup of coffee and how to drink it.

Is Espresso bitter?

When a guest orders "give me an Espresso", the front street barista will start to produce the product, serving a cup of water and a small cup of rich coffee liquid with golden brown foam two minutes later. Drink a mouthful of water before drinking Espresso to rinse your mouth so as not to affect your sense of taste. A standard Espresso has rich fat and mellow taste, but each coffee shop's Espresso coffee beans have their own characteristics. The Italian coffee beans used in the Qianjie store are a "sunflower sunflower mix" baked in Qianjie, which is made up of 30% sun Yega Shirley red cherries and 70% Honduran Shirley.

Enjoy a cup of freshly extracted Espresso, Qianjie will first smell the aroma of coffee, this coffee with full aromas of whisky, vanilla, nuts, cream. Can be drunk directly, can also add sugar, milk and other excipients.

Gently stir the coffee liquid with a prepared metal spoon and drink the dense Cream (grease) in the first sip, full of baking aroma. Then the entrance is warm coffee liquid, you can feel the rich flavor of nuts, chocolate, berries and wine. Take another sip of water halfway to feel the sweetness in the mouth. After drinking, the bottom of the cup shows a strong aroma of caramel, let people aftertaste.

What are the characteristics of Espresso?

Espresso's Chinese name espresso, as its name implies, comes from Italian coffee, and "Espresso" means "fast" in Italian. It takes only a few minutes for the Espresso to go from production to the hands of the guests, and the Italians name it with the word "Express".

The biggest difference from other extraction methods is that the Espresso is made using an Italian coffee machine with a pressurized function. The common commercial espresso machine provides more than nine stable atmospheric pressure and more than 90 ℃ of hot water. High pressure forces the hot water to pass quickly through the finely ground coffee powder to extract the coffee liquid with rich oil, rich aroma and heavy taste. In order to extract an ideal cup of espresso, the barista's job is to master various parameters that will affect the flavor of the coffee, and then adjust the best extraction range.

In theory, the production of Espresso will not be limited to a certain kind or a certain degree of roasting coffee beans, as long as you like the type can be used to extract Espresso. However, due to the fine grinding, high water temperature and high pressure extraction of Espresso, espresso converges a variety of flavors, and various flavor compounds hit our tongues exponentially. So if we use lightly roasted coffee beans for extraction, the hand-made coffee shows elegant and sweet fruit flavor, which is likely to be a strong sour taste when it comes to Espresso; the mellow taste of hand-brewed coffee becomes very bitter in Italian coffee. Therefore, in order to extract high-quality and stable Espresso, most coffee shops generally use Italian blending of coffee beans.

Italian mixed coffee beans are cooked beans made by roasters who carefully select coffee beans from different producing areas and different flavors for mixed roasting (or roasting separately and then blending them in proportion). The aim is to highlight the mellow aroma of Espresso, maintain a balanced flavor, and make the espresso produced by stores more stable. Qianjie's understanding of blended beans is to maintain a stable flavor and a balanced taste, so that the blended coffee shows the effect of one plus one greater than two. For example, if a kind of coffee beans is slippery but lacks aroma, you can add another kind of beans with rich aroma to make up for your weaknesses in taste, thus creating a richer new taste of coffee.

Recommendation for making Italian coffee beans for Espresso

Many friends are fascinated by the unique charm of Espresso and want to recreate the taste of espresso at home. Here in Qianjie, we recommend some espresso beans that help us to stabilize the extraction. Qianjie hopes that you can taste the most fragrant coffee and will ensure that only freshly roasted coffee beans are shipped within 5 days. As the coffee beans just roasted need to discharge a large amount of carbon dioxide gas (medium and deep roasting takes 7 to 10 days), so when they are received, they are usually still in the bean cultivation period and can be stored in a cool and dark place for a few days, which is more conducive to stable extraction.

Delicate wine flavor-sunflower warm sun mixed with coffee beans

Ethiopian sun red cherry coffee beans (30%) + Honduran sherry bucket coffee beans (70%)

This blend of coffee beans is a daily recipe for Qianjie stores. Espresso shows a very strong dark chocolate flavor with a strong aroma of caramel. After swallowing, it gives off the aroma of whisky and sweet and sour tropical fruit, which is loved by many guests in Qianjie. Whether it is American coffee diluted with water or latte with milk, it presents a variety of aroma and taste.

Slightly sour and mellow thick type-Qianjie basic blending of coffee beans

Yunnan washed small coffee beans (30%) + Brazilian half-sun coffee beans (70%)

Yunnan small Coffee has a soft acidity with the mellow aroma of Brazilian Hilado Coffee. Espresso has the taste of caramel, nuts and soft plum acid.

Balanced Luzhou-scented coffee beans with Qianjie boutique

Colombian washed coffee beans (30%) + Brazilian half-sun coffee beans (70%)

Colombian coffee is added to the nuts of classic Brazilian coffee, which is concentrated in Italian style with dark chocolate flavor, caramel sweetness and roasted aroma.

Classic mellow and thick type-- Qianjie commercial blending coffee beans

Robusta washed coffee beans (10%) + Colombian washed coffee beans (30%) + Brazilian half-sun coffee (60%)

The espresso has rich golden grease and nutty aromas. When you taste it, the coffee will be bitter, but it will be more creamy and full, and after swallowing, the bitterness will dissipate and the lips and teeth will stay fragrant.

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