The characteristics of single coffee and fine coffee and the differences between common fine coffee varieties

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What is individual coffee?

As the name implies, a single item is "single". As we all know, the flavor of coffee produced in different producing areas and different elevations is different. Too many ash-grade coffee lovers like to pursue the extreme and trace back to its origin. Coffee should pay attention to "three orders", that is, single origin, single manor, and single breed. As long as one of them is satisfied, it can be called single coffee.

For example, Blue Mountain Coffee, Kenya, Colombia, Yejia Snow Coffee and so on all belong to individual coffee, coffee with no milk and no sugar, we usually call them "black coffee". In fact, this is not a very professional term. Although the original taste of coffee, but not many people can bear this "suffering", no milk, no sugar drinkers are basically a small number. In fact, individual coffee grows in different regions, each of which is affected by the climate difference of the place of origin to form a unique flavor, so it is recommended to taste the original taste of the coffee before adding sugar and milk. The varieties are mainly Arabica varieties and their derivatives, such as Tieka, Kaddura, Kaduai, SL28/SL34 (experimental variety) and so on.

Characteristics of individual Coffee

Nowadays, most people are used to using producing areas to describe the taste of coffee, and it all depends on whether the cup of coffee is a single product, because it is crowned with coffee from a specific area, which represents the flavor of the region. Individual coffee has "personality", due to different regions, some bitter taste, some sour taste, especially in the baking process, the flavor is most obvious.

What is boutique coffee?

Individual coffee can also be divided into boutique grade coffee beans and commercial grade single coffee.

Boutique coffee was first proposed by Ms. Erna Nusen, known as the "Fine Coffee Godmother" in 1974 in the Tea and Coffee monthly, highlighting that "only in the most favorable microclimate, soil and water, can we cultivate boutique coffee with unique flavor", and the SCA (Specialty Coffee Association Fine Coffee Association) score of more than 80 points is considered fine coffee.

Generally speaking, high-quality coffee must meet the four elements of good raw beans, good roasting, good preservation and good extraction, and each link should achieve high quality, which can be called fine coffee.

The characteristics of boutique coffee

The characteristics of fine coffee are clear at a glance, all in "fine", excellent raw materials, excellent baking skills, excellent extraction, good taste and flavor, from the selection of beans to coffee cups, every step is extremely exquisite, so fine coffee is rare.

The difference between a single product and a fine product

Single coffee focuses on singleness, focusing on reflecting the flavor of a specific region, and does not require coffee quality; boutique coffee pays more attention to coffee quality and flavor, as long as the beans are good, do not care about single beans or blended beans, through a variety of high-quality beans, and then after master baking, it can also show different taste, which proves that the flavor of coffee made by different boutique cafes and baristas is different.

In short, single coffee is not equal to fine coffee, boutique coffee is not necessarily single coffee.

Knowledge: in the world of boutique coffee, we pay special attention to the variety, origin and treatment of coffee, because these will not only greatly affect the flavor of boutique coffee beans, but also affect how we should bake and brew these coffee beans.

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