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The characteristics and differences between individual coffee and fine coffee. Is the standard of fine coffee a single product?

Published: 2024-11-18 Author: World Gafei

Last Updated: 2024/11/18, Professional coffee knowledge exchange more coffee bean information Please pay attention to the coffee workshop (Wechat official account cafe_style) with the increasing popularity of coffee, there are more and more different types of coffee, what is the difference between the Blue Mountains, Mocha, Yega Snow, Colombia, individual products, boutique and so on? How will the merchants' coffee under the banner of individual and high-quality products be?

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The existence of coffee is a kind of consumption behavior, no matter what kind of coffee, Qianjie believes that the core is to be able to provide high-quality coffee, to taste the flavor characteristics and differentiation of different countries of origin, different places of origin and different varieties. Single coffee and specialty coffee can provide a pleasant spiritual enjoyment, but the two often confuse the concept. Both are single-origin coffees, but single-origin coffee is not equal to fine coffee, because there are strict scoring standards for fine coffee. However, high-quality boutique coffee must be a single coffee, and there is a big difference between the two. So Qianjie today will share with you the differences and characteristics between the two. Today, let's talk about the difference between single coffee and fine coffee.

What is single coffee?

As the name suggests, a single item means "single". As we all know, the coffee flavor produced in different producing areas at different altitudes is not the same, too many ashes coffee lovers like to pursue the ultimate, trace its origin, coffee should pay attention to "three single", that is, a single origin, a single manor, a single variety, as long as one of them is satisfied, it can be called single coffee. Blue Mountain Coffee, Kenya, Colombia, Yega Coffee, etc. all belong to single-item coffee, coffee without milk and sugar, usually we will call them "black coffee", in fact, this is not a professional name. Although single-item coffee is original, not many people can stand this "bitter", and there are basically a few drinkers who do not add milk or sugar. In fact, single-item coffee grows in different regions, each of which is subject to climatic differences in its place of origin to form a unique flavor, so it is recommended to taste the original flavor of coffee before adding sugar and milk.

Features of Single Coffee

Now most people are used to describing the taste of coffee with the region, and this depends on whether the cup of coffee is a single product, because the coffee that is crowned with a specific region also represents the flavor of this region. Single coffee is a "personality", due to regional differences, some bitter, some sour heavy, especially in the baking process, the flavor is the most obvious.

What is fine coffee?

Single-serve coffee will also be divided into boutique grade coffee beans and commercial grade single-serve coffee. Fine coffee was first proposed by Ms. Erna Nussen, known as the "godmother of fine coffee", in the Tea and Coffee Monthly in 1974, highlighting that "only in the most favorable microclimate and soil, can we cultivate a unique flavor of fine coffee", and SCA (Specialty Coffee Association) scores more than 80 points to be fine coffee. Generally speaking, fine coffee must meet the four elements of good raw beans, good roasting, good preservation and good extraction. Each link must achieve high quality, which can be called fine coffee.

Characteristics of fine coffee

The characteristics of fine coffee are clear at a glance, all in the "fine", outstanding raw materials, excellent baking skills, excellent extraction, good taste, from the selection of beans to coffee cups, each step is extremely exquisite, so fine coffee is rare.

The difference between coffee and coffee.

Single coffee focuses on a single, focusing on the flavor of a specific area, not on the quality of coffee requirements; boutique coffee pays more attention to coffee quality and flavor, as long as the beans are good, regardless of single beans or blended beans, through a variety of high-quality blended beans, and then after master roasting, can also present different tastes, it also confirms that different boutique cafes and baristas produced coffee, flavor is not the same. In short, a single coffee is not equal to a fine coffee, and a fine coffee is not necessarily a single coffee. There are three major coffee producing regions in the world: Asia, Latin America and Africa. Each has its own flavor, generally speaking Asian coffee beans mainly rich flavor, African coffee beans mainly multi-layered acid and bright floral, Latin America is a combination of the former two, both rich coffee production areas, but also bright fruit notes coffee production areas.