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Is mixed coffee a boutique coffee? Why mix the coffee? How do you mix the coffee? Can you make coffee by hand? With regard to the blending of coffee, these four questions are often asked by many friends to Qianjie baristas. In this article, Qianjie will answer these four frequently asked topics in detail.

Q1: is blended coffee a fine coffee?

First of all, let's look at the definition of a boutique coffee. In 1978, Ms. Erna Knutsen proposed it at the International Conference on Coffee in France. Since then, boutique coffee has been widely used in the coffee industry. At that time, she said, boutique coffee is "in the region's unique micro-climate and geographical conditions, the cultivation of coffee beans with regional flavor." Qianjie believes that in addition to this major principle, several conditions need to be screened: raw bean water content, coffee bean size uniformity, defective bean / defective bean identification, basic grade sorting cup, coffee flavor test, strictly tested by layers of standards, in order to screen out the "fine products".

There is no doubt that the earliest blending must be to reduce costs, such as using 70% cheap coffee beans and adding some good-flavored beans. However, in the era of boutique coffee, reducing costs is no longer the only goal. Guests will care more about flavor and can pay higher prices for the taste they like.

Just like the warm sun blend coffee beans that Qianjie Cafe has always used as Italian products, it is made up of 40% Yega Xuefei sun red cherries and 60% Honduran whisky barrel fermented sherry coffee beans. these two coffee beans can be traced back to the origin of the producing area, the altitude of the producing area, and the variety of coffee, all of which are carefully selected. So is this mixed coffee bean a boutique coffee bean? Yes, it's a boutique coffee bean. But if a coffee bean, mixed with Robusta coffee beans, this blend of coffee beans is more mellow, Robusta does not belong to the category of boutique coffee beans, so this kind of mixed beans is not fine coffee.

Q2: why mix coffee?

Blended coffee, also known as mixed coffee, Italian coffee beans. Qianjie believes that blending coffee is to mix a variety of individual coffee beans together, so as to give full play to the strengths of various individual coffee beans, blended beans from different producing areas of coffee beans mixed to make a more balanced taste. For example, if one kind of coffee bean is slippery but lacks aroma, another kind of coffee with rich aroma can be added to make the advantages of individual coffee beans complement each other, complement or strengthen each other in taste, thus creating a richer new taste of coffee. Sometimes the beans are mixed first and then baked, which is called roasting; sometimes they are roasted and then mixed with coffee beans, which is called cooked.

Mixing different coffee beans is mainly for the following purposes:

1. Stable flavor

Because coffee beans are a kind of crop, the flavor of even the same kind of coffee beans will be different from year to year, so mixing several kinds of coffee beans can solve this problem and keep the taste basically the same every year.

2. Balance the taste

Because one of the features of the Italian coffee machine is that it magnifies the most prominent flavor feature of coffee beans, we almost never use a single variety of coffee to make Espresso, otherwise if that coffee bean is bitter, the Espresso will be very bitter and sour. So we need to balance the flavors by matching them.

Q3: how do you mix coffee?

It is mentioned above that there are two ways to mix coffee, so what are the advantages and disadvantages of the two ways of blending coffee beans?

Qianjie believes that the advantage of Shengpin is that it can use the same baking degree to make the coffee stable and uniform, and the second is that it can reduce the number of baking times and improve the efficiency. The same baking degree can also greatly reduce the difficulty of quality control (the same roasting, that is, you can focus on only one bean cultivation date, while Shengpin is prone to different roasting dates of several blended beans, resulting in different tastes). At the same time, the disadvantage of raw baking is also very obvious, and the limitation of raw spelling is very great. Generally speaking, it is recommended that several beans with similar density of coffee beans are recommended. For example, if you mix a coffee bean suitable for shallow roasting and a coffee bean suitable for deep roasting to the same roasting degree, it will be easy to produce 1: 1.