What kind of coffee beans is more suitable for beginners? How do beginners buy coffee beans online?

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Spend time and energy on making coffee, most of them are coffee lovers. But when you spend a lot of time making coffee and end up drinking coffee with a strange taste and a bad taste, you must be in a terrible mood.

As a rookie who loves coffee but doesn't know much about it, it's not easy to make a good cup of coffee by yourself. A lot of professional terms are easy to confuse people, making "the purchase of coffee beans" the first "hindrance" on the road to homemade coffee.

In fact, it is not difficult to buy coffee beans, the key is to consider several factors:

Machine

According to your existing coffee-making machine, I have collected some information for reference only.

Fresh

Freshness of baking

→√, look at the date of baking.

× shelf life

It is best to store single coffee beans at room temperature for one month.

On the other hand, Italian coffee beans are the best 15 to 3 months after production.

▼ 's tips for identifying fresh coffee beans

Unpack or squeeze the bag through the one-way exhaust valve, smell whether there is a pungent aroma, whether the grease accumulates normally during cooking, rather than dissipating or without grease.

Treatment is an important part of coffee bean flavor.

Traditional coffee bean treatment and its flavor

Sun: low acidity, obvious sweetness, high alcohol thickness, slightly lower cleanliness.

Washing method: obvious acidity, good cleanliness, medium alcohol thickness, high stability.

Honey treatment: the overall flavor highlights the sweetness of pectin and fruit tone, the taste is thick, but the acidity is low and supple.

Baking

Choose according to your favorite flavor, and the roasting degree of coffee beans has a great influence on its flavor formation.

Shallow baking-- dominated by sour taste

Medium roasting-coffee beans have less sour taste and stronger sweetness

Deep baking-typical high concentration and high bitterness.

Everyone will have their own unique preferences. Therefore, the selection and purchase of coffee beans is mainly based on their favorite flavor combined with the above four factors.

No matter what kind of coffee beans, freshness is an important factor affecting the quality!

When choosing and buying, follow the following steps to get good quality coffee:

1. Sense of touch

Take one or two coffee beans in the mouth to chew, if crisp sound (indicating that the coffee beans are not damp), teeth and cheeks stay fen is the top grade. Then squeeze it with your hands to feel whether it is solid or not, and make sure you buy coffee that is not an empty shell.

Second, smell incense

If the coffee bean has lost its fragrance or smells stale, it means that the coffee bean is not fresh and is not suitable for purchase.

Freshly roasted coffee beans are not suitable for immediate consumption and should be stored for a week so that the gas in the beans is completely released. Generally speaking, the best drinking period for coffee is a week after roasting, when the coffee is the freshest, Aroma and taste best.

Third, observe the shape

The purity of coffee beans is also another consideration. The expert candidate for coffee is not necessarily to look at the size of the particles, but to grab a handful of individual coffee beans (Regional Coffee), about dozens of portions, to see whether the color of each single bean is the same, and whether the particles are similar in size and shape, so as to avoid buying shoddy products disguised as mixed beans. However, if it is integrated coffee (Blended Coffee), its size, color is different is a normal phenomenon.

IV. Oil level

Heavy heat and medium-deep roasting can cause coffee beans to produce oil, but light-roasted coffee beans that are greasy indicate that they have gone bad, making them not only less mellow, but also unpleasantly astringent and sour.

In short, when buying added coffee, we should pay attention to its freshness, fragrance and whether it is stale or not? And the ideal purchase quantity is that it can be finished in half a month.

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