What coffee beans are suitable for beginners? how to choose coffee beans for beginners?

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For the choice of coffee, whether you have just entered or have not yet entered the door of coffee, will you always be attracted by the dazzling variety of coffee beans on the market?

If you haven't developed a systematic understanding of coffee, coupled with choice difficulties. You might as well follow Xiao Le to start with the following questions to understand your needs.

Black coffee OR milk coffee

Many friends are used to drinking coffee with milk, and the fashion trend of drinking boutique black coffee is booming, so here you have to stand up.

If you add milk to drink, it is more suitable to use Italian machine or mocha pot to brew stronger coffee, suitable for Italian coffee beans.

While drinking black coffee, it is more suitable to use hand drip filter, siphon pot and other tools to make, suitable for the choice of individual coffee beans. Of course, a small number of friends will choose Italian style without milk and drink espresso directly.

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.

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