What does espresso bean mean? what's the difference between espresso beans and ordinary coffee beans?

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Italian concentration can be a way of extraction, can be the name of a coffee drink. As a way of extraction, Italian concentration is the most frequent contact with the public and the most familiar to ordinary consumers. Perhaps because it is too familiar, it gives rise to the most doubts.

The most common doubts for many young people who are just learning coffee are as follows: "how to buy and preserve espresso beans"; "is it a combination or a single product to make espresso beans?"the baking degree of Italian roasted coffee beans"; "is Italian coffee beans fine coffee?" Is Italian coffee bean acid normal?

How to buy and preserve Italian coffee beans?

Qianjie Coffee has always adhered to the principle of selling freshly roasted coffee beans, because only freshly roasted, freshly ground, freshly extracted espresso will show a mellow and mellow taste. In order to let every partner experience the charm of freshly roasted coffee, all coffee beans ordered online are shipped within 5 days after roasting.

Italian coffee beans can be preserved in the original package (with a single exhaust valve) sealed / in a sealed jar and stored in a dry and cool environment. The aroma molecules of coffee beans will accelerate after they are ground into powder, so Qianjie Coffee recommends that you buy raw beans and use a bean grinder before making coffee.

Is it a combination or a single product to make espresso beans?

Whether it is blended coffee or single coffee can be used in the production of Italian coffee, each has its own advantages and disadvantages.

The advantage of blending coffee beans is to better stabilize the quality and taste performance of each cup of coffee, the cost is low, and the disadvantage is that the taste is single, and most of the coffee extracted from blended coffee beans is only mellow and full-bodied; the advantage of single coffee beans is that they can make espresso show a unique flavor, while the disadvantage is that the extraction is stable and the cost is high.

The daily products of Qianjie Coffee Store will use blended coffee beans to extract espresso, because blended coffee beans can more stabilize the taste and quality of each cup of espresso than individual coffee beans. Qianjie Coffee has also launched four coffee beans that specialize in making espresso according to the taste needs of mass consumers.

"Qianjie Coffee-warm Sun mixed Coffee beans", a kind of wine-based coffee beans. Made from Ethiopian sun red cherry coffee beans (30%) + Honduran sherry barrel coffee beans (70%), it has strong aromas of wine, vanilla cream, sweet and sour berries and roasted nuts.

"Qianjie Coffee-boutique mixed Coffee beans": a nutty Italian coffee bean. Colombian washed coffee beans (30%) + Brazilian half-sun coffee beans (70%), with nutty, dark chocolate and caramel flavors.

"Qianjie Coffee-Commercial blending of Coffee beans", a mellow thickness of Italian coffee beans. Robusta washed coffee beans (10%) + Colombian water washed coffee beans (30%) + Brazilian half-sun coffee (60%), with nutty, cocoa, caramel flavor and high alcohol thickness.

"Qianjie Coffee-basic blending of coffee beans", a slightly sour and mellow Italian coffee beans. Yunnan washed small coffee beans (30%) + Brazilian half-sun coffee beans (70%), with soft fruit acid, caramel and nutty flavor.

Roasting degree of Italian roasted coffee beans

In order to make the coffee liquid extracted from Italian coffee beans show a mellow and full taste, Qianjie coffee is roasted to a medium and deep degree. The longer the roasting time, the more carbon dioxide will be stored after the coffee beans are roasted.

The existence of carbon dioxide has the function of preserving the flavor of coffee, but too much carbon dioxide will also affect the extraction of espresso, so after receiving espresso beans, you can leave the original packaging to 5-6 days after the baking date. Let the coffee beans exhaust carbon dioxide through a single exhaust valve on the package to stabilize the extraction.

Although shallow roasted coffee beans are used by many hand-brewed coffee, the purpose is to let the coffee in the pressure-free drip filtration extraction, so that the right proportion of extraction to extract more rich sweet and sour feeling. But espresso is a pressurized extraction, and many sweet and sour substances that perform well by hand will show unpleasant acidity in the presence of pressurization and extremely high concentrations.

At the same time, shallow roasted coffee beans do not have enough time to produce more caramelization reaction and bring out mellow flavor substances because of the short baking time. Therefore, light roasted coffee beans to make espresso, usually taste relatively thin, lack of mellow feeling.

Is it fine coffee with coffee beans in Italian style?

It must be! As long as the coffee beans used in the blending meet the requirements of the origin and SCA, both individual coffee and blended coffee belong to high-quality coffee beans.

Is Italian coffee bean acid normal?

The taste of normal espresso mainly comes from the coffee bean itself. Espresso can have a sour taste. It may be that the merchant uses sour coffee beans to make espresso, maybe a single coffee bean, or a mix of coffee beans.