Should a novice buy coffee beans or powdered coffee? how many coffee beans should be bought at a time so that they won't be wasted?

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Qianjie-novice coffee choice strategy

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.

Fruit acid OR mellow bitterness

Different kinds of coffee contain different flavors, which can't be summed up in one word. But for beginners, perhaps the most intuitive is the two different taste tendencies of "sour" and "bitter". Many people say, "I don't like acid in coffee"-but acid is one of the important features of high-quality coffee, and people who don't like it are often because they haven't tasted it. Yega Xuefei, Kenya and other high-quality beans have strong acidity. And this kind of beans are often medium-light degree of roasting, can reflect the more delicate coffee levels, distinct and clear flavor characteristics.

If you only like mellow and bitter flavor and firmly reject acid, well, we won't stop it. The mellow low-acid coffee represented by Mantenin has always been popular in the market. Most of this kind of coffee is roasted deeply, and the sweet and bitter taste of the coffee will be more obvious and the texture will be mellow.

Of course, there are some beans with a balanced taste and a good balance between bitterness and sour. Most of these beans are moderately baked and are easily accepted by most people.

Fresh OR is not fresh

No matter what the beans are, there is no need to talk about everything when it is fresh. The shelf life of coffee beans can be a long time, but the best time to taste is about a month, and then with the passage of time, the flavor slowly decays. So be sure to choose coffee beans with a recent roasting date. Ready-made coffee powder is advised not to consider it-for a demanding barista, the aroma begins to lose 40 seconds after it is ground; for the most forgiving barista, the aroma of the coffee powder is seriously lost if it is ground for half an hour. So it is recommended to buy fresh coffee beans and grind your own coffee.

There is an exception-if it is not convenient to grind it in the office or during a trip, you can choose a fresh hanging-ear coffee with two sealed packages, which makes it easy for you to enjoy mellow coffee anytime and anywhere without having to bring a lot of equipment to make coffee.

This place of origin OR that place of origin

Most of the boutique coffee can be traced back to the place of origin or even the manor. Having origin information does not mean that beans must be good, and it is not strict to distinguish beans by the country of origin, but the place of origin can still tell you some empirical information worthy of reference. For example, Kenya in Africa tends to have a distinctive fruity aroma, Guatemala in South America tends to be mellow and slightly wild, Mantenin in Indonesia tends to be sour and mellow, and Yega Chefe in Ethiopia tends to have obvious flavor characteristics.

Match OR single product

A single coffee bean generally lacks the complex flavor necessary to make a delicious cup of coffee. Many blends contain three to seven different types of beans. Roasters understand the characteristics of each kind of coffee beans and mix them artistically to create a desired new flavor. The knowledge of roasters mixing coffee beans can be said to be the highest industry secret. In the United States, 100% Arabica coffee beans are used to mix the best blends. In Italy, some robusta beans are added to mixed coffee to increase the complexity of its fat, caffeine and coffee flavor. Just contact with a single product of coffee can not buy too much, a small amount of purchase, after a long time, the acceptance is high, you can choose to buy more.

Knowledge: Arabica (Arabica) is one of two very important varieties in the commercial coffee industry, and another important variety is Robusta

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