What's the difference between mixed coffee and single coffee? is mixed coffee worse than single coffee?

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It is believed that many beginners have heard of mixed coffee and single coffee when they are getting started with coffee, but few people know what mixed coffee means. Why is the opposite of mixed coffee a single cup of coffee? Coffee shops often use more blended coffee, why do some people think that blended coffee is worse than individual coffee? Qianjie Coffee will explain to you today. Mixed coffee and single coffee have to tell a story.

[mixed coffee]

Mixed coffee refers to coffee beans that are relatively balanced by several types of coffee according to their own characteristics and taste, such as a coffee concerto. For example, cafetown brand: Mamba matching, Blue Mountain matching, diamond matching and so on. You may see it written on the floor-to-ceiling window of a coffee shop: we use so-and-so-brand coffee beans and brand light boxes, so this brand mainly reflects its value with classic blending formula and baking technology. Mixed coffee is essential because all fancy coffee is made from blended beans, while European coffee brands with a history of more than a century actually sell blended recipes.

Mixed coffee is made by roasters or baristas who mix beans from different places to produce a more balanced taste. For example, if one kind of coffee bean is slippery but lacks aroma, another kind of rich aroma bean can be added to combine the advantages of individual coffee beans. Sometimes the beans are mixed and then baked, and sometimes the coffee beans are mixed after baking.

Matching is both a technology and an art, with the style of a baker or barista. Blended coffee is often used in espresso such as Espresso, Americano, Latte or Cappuccino. After blending, the taste of coffee is more balanced, more palatable and more stable, so it can be said that the taste is more popular.

[individual coffee]

Generally refers to a single style of coffee beans produced in a single country or producing area. It can be likened to a coffee solo. Such as the manor series of cafetown brand: Colombia, Medellin, Ethiopia, Yega Sheffield, Costa Rica, Fica, etc. This is a kind of pure coffee made from individual coffee beans, because each country or region has its own climate, soil and natural environment, so the coffee grown has its own characteristics.

By tasting "individual coffee", you can understand the characteristics and flavor of coffee in a country or region. Generally speaking, the capacity of a single cup of coffee is about 120ml-250ml, and it will be served with a bag of sugar and a milk ball or a small cup of whole milk.

It is important to note that if you see the name of an European country on the coffee list, such as Italy, Vienna, Ireland, etc., it is not individual coffee. Because coffee is not produced in continental Europe. These are the category of fancy coffee.

Drink a single cup of coffee in order to get the true taste of the coffee, so there is no sugar or milk. Some roasters point out that if you use an Italian coffee machine to brew individual coffee beans into a single product concentrate (Single Origin Espresso), under high pressure, various characteristics of coffee, such as acidity, sweetness, and bitterness, will be magnified, and not everyone can accept it. Therefore, it is not necessarily better to drink coffee alone. If you cook it by hand, AeroPress, etc., the sharpness is much lower than that of a single product, and it is more acceptable. In addition, with light or medium roasting, the coffee taste is more acceptable, of course, you can also try to dilute the high concentration of single coffee with water.

Is mixed coffee worse than single coffee?

Is mixed coffee worse than single coffee? Not necessarily, although the definition of single coffee contains and, the relative noun of single coffee is mixed coffee, which is composed of beans from various producing areas. There is no restriction and definition on the quality of the coffee itself. The relative term of fine coffee is commercial coffee, which is the evaluation and division of quality. It pays attention to the whole industrial chain from seed to cup, which is not limited to the source ingredients of raw beans. Although the concept of fine coffee also has the demand for "traceability", with the development of fine coffee culture, fine coffee beans are not necessarily individual coffee beans, but may also be blended beans. Through a variety of high-quality coffee beans composed of "formula beans", like magic can show a variety of different flavors, but also allows each coffee shop / barista to show their own characteristics, so, if mixed with boutique coffee beans, it is still boutique coffee beans, while using shoddy coffee beans to make coffee, it is still shoddy coffee. Don't confuse your sense of taste by mixing with the concept of a single item, which doesn't represent high quality, nor does it mean low quality. Drink everything before you count.

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