What kind of beans are used in Starbucks espresso? How to choose coffee beans suitable for espresso

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Qianjie Coffee thinks that Starbucks' delicious coffee is nothing more than these. If you like chocolate and sweeter, you are advised to drink mocha and caramel macchiato, drink lattes purely from the taste of coffee, and drink cappuccino if you want to feel the lazy Italian afternoon style.

Well, the coffee mentioned above is actually espresso, so Qianjie has to mention espresso.

Espresso is one of the ways to present coffee. Espresso is an Italian word that refers to a strong coffee that is quickly extracted by a coffee machine in a short period of time. It is the basis of almost all fancy coffee and a must-have in cafes all over the world. Espresso is a very small cup, usually only about 30 milliliters, the taste is very bitter, the surface is floating with a thick layer of oil, will be with a cup of water, you can choose to add sugar. Guests who order Espresso in the cafe are either real coffee lovers who want to taste the most authentic taste of coffee, or simply because they are extremely sleepy and in urgent need of refreshing. People who want to spend a leisurely afternoon in a cafe are not suitable for this. The Esprssso of some cafes can choose "Single single" or "Double double". Double does not mean two cups, but means to extract with double coffee powder, which will be more bitter.

The "coffee of the day" in many cafes is actually American coffee, which is usually the cheapest on the cafe menu. To put it bluntly, American coffee is a small cup of Esprssso mixed with more than half a cup of boiled water, and some cafes use drip coffee pots to brew. American coffee is light in taste, light in color, slightly sour and slightly bitter. People who usually don't drink American coffee often are advised to add sugar. The three-in-one instant coffee we often drink is American coffee with sugar, cream and other spices. if you really can't accept the sour taste of American coffee, you might as well switch to a latte or mocha.

There are so many types of espresso drinks that a qualified barista can easily make more than a dozen different patterns, but all espresso beans are inseparable from espresso (espresso), because they are formed on the basis of espresso with different proportions of milk, water or other cream, syrup and other accessories. So a good espresso is the beginning of everything and the soul of an espresso.

Important factors for selecting beans

1. Coffee beans have strong stability (purebred is stronger than common blending)

2. Espresso fat is mellow (Robusta has an advantage over Arabica)

Do you choose mixed beans or single purebred beans?

The common espresso beans on the market are mainly divided into Italian mixed beans and purebred coffee beans from a single product source. Excellent Italian beans test the baker's skills, if you buy cheap Italian beans, it is very likely to be a variety of coffee beans of uneven quality through deep baking products, often more miscellaneous flavor, batch quality is unstable, be careful to buy!

In contrast, purebred coffee beans with stable production areas and rich oil, such as robusta beans, are currently the largest producer and exporter of robusta beans in the world, with stable production and stable planting environment.

Robusta or Arabica?

According to large varieties, coffee can be simply divided into Arabica species and Robusta species. We often see "100% pure Arabica beans" as a marketing gimmick to prove the good quality of coffee beans, but in fact Arabica does not necessarily represent good coffee, because it has a wide variety and great differences in quality.

And Robusta coffee taste will be relatively consistent: prefer roasted incense, pine incense, and soil aroma, hand-made, will show obvious mugi-cha, peanut flavor, popcorn, Xuanmi tea and other characteristics, weak acidity, mellow thickness, flat flavor. Robusta can significantly increase the alcohol thickness of coffee and produce Espresso with richer oil. Espresso blends with milk to show a mellow and full taste. Therefore, Robusta is easier to extract rich oil than Arabica, more suitable for fusion with milk, can improve the overall quality of Italian products.

The best-selling American coffee baked on Qianjie Coffee: Yega Chuefei Coffee, Golden Manning Coffee, Brazilian Coffee and so on are fully guaranteed in terms of brand and quality. And more importantly, the performance-to-price ratio is extremely high. Qianjie generally needs to know the flavor of different varieties of coffee in the world before mixing beans, and beans have different characteristics according to their origin. Different coffee beans have different personalities because of different varieties and producing areas, and there are subtle differences in sour, bitter, sweet, fragrance, mellow thickness and other flavors.

Just like the boutique coffee beans on the front street, Colombian coffee beans are matched with Brazilian coffee beans at the proportion of 3:7. The nuts and chocolate flavor of Colombian coffee are matched with the rich flavor of Brazilian peanut and cream coffee. This Italian coffee match is very peaceful, rich in oil, extremely smooth in the mouth, fragrant but with a slightly American bitterness, and is very popular with Qianjie guests.

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