What coffee beans do Starbucks use? how to choose coffee beans and roast coffee?

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Now, with the increase of new coffee brands, it is becoming more and more difficult for ordinary coffee drinkers to make a choice of coffee. Buying coffee has become a thorny matter, and the question of what kind of raw coffee beans to make comes with it.

The first factor in whether coffee taste is popular is the quality of coffee beans. Only high-quality coffee has the opportunity to brew a cup of delicious coffee. Now there are two types of coffee on the market, one is commercial beans, the quality is low, and the defect rate is high. The other is high-quality beans, which are several times more expensive than commercial beans. So, how to choose coffee beans that suit you? The front street coffee can give you some advice.

Know your own tastes.

Arabica Coffee and Robusta Coffee are easily recognizable in appearance. In addition, Arabica Coffee grows at high altitudes and is famous for its smooth, slightly sour taste. Robusta Coffee grows at lower altitudes and is famous for its stronger and bitter taste.

Determine which type of coffee you like.

Arabica coffee and robusta coffee are very different in price. Arabica coffee is a higher grade coffee bean, but depending on how it is grown and roasted, it does not necessarily guarantee that Arabica coffee is a high-quality coffee bean. Robusta beans are often found in affordable mixed coffee.

The amount of caffeine consumed

Contrary to common sense, dark roasted coffee actually contains less caffeine than medium or light roasted coffee, lightly roasted coffee contains the most caffeine, and espresso beans tend to be medium roasted with medium caffeine content.

Coffee powder and coffee beans

The only advantage of coffee powder is its convenience, especially if you always oversleep in the morning and don't have time to grind your coffee slowly, or if you haven't bought tools to grind beans, coffee powder can help you enjoy a nice cup of coffee quickly. If you decide to buy coffee powder, then we have the following two suggestions: (1) buy about two weeks at a time, retain the flavor as much as possible, and (2) keep the coffee powder in a good sealed jar. But there is no doubt that the freshest coffee beans are raw coffee beans, which are ground before use, so it is highly recommended to buy coffee beans. It is troublesome to grind them yourself. In fact, it's fun and can maintain the flavor!

Coffee beans are the most complete form to preserve the flavor of coffee and ensure that the coffee is fresh and original. Although grinding beans is also a great knowledge, believe us, once you start grinding your own beans, you will never go back to the days of coffee powder. It is definitely one of the pleasures of homemade coffee to try the different flavors brought about by brewing various powders.

Effect of roasting degree of coffee on flavor

The roasting degree of coffee also has a great influence on the coffee flavor, but it is generally divided into three categories:

Shallow roasting: coffee has high acidity, smooth taste, high tree species and regional flavor, and tastes more like fruit tea.

Medium baking: sweet and sour balance, with aromas of caramel, nuts and cocoa while retaining the fruity flavor of coffee, which is a favorite taste for most people.

Deep baking: like a glass of mellow whisky, rich in layers, suitable for drinking alone and with milk. If someone tells you that only light roasting is the third wave of boutique coffee, deep roasting is out of date.

Then you can shake a big eye and tell her / him: this concept is completely wrong, there is no difference between the depth of baking, flavor determines everything, the flavor you like is the best for you.

Finally, Qianjie recommends the taste classification table of coffee beans, and you can choose coffee from different producing areas according to your taste preferences.

Sour taste: mocha, Hawaiian sour coffee, Mexico, Guatemala, Costa Rica high real estate, Gillimanjaro, Colombia, Zimbabwe, El Salvador, Western Hemisphere washable high-grade new beans

Bitter: all kinds of old beans from Java, Mantenin, Bogota, Angola, Congo, Uganda

Sweetness: Colombian metenin, Venezuelan old beans, Blue Mountains, Gillemazaro, Mocha, Guatemala, Mexico, Kenya, Santos, Haiti

Neutral: Brazil, El Salvador, lowland Costa Rica, Venezuela, Honduras, Cuba

Mellow: Colombia, Mantenin, Mocha, Blue Mountains, Guatemala, Costa Rica

Generally speaking, the sour coffee beans, especially the high-quality new beans, are best roasted shallower, while the bitter ones are less roasted, and then the sweet ones are mostly selected beans produced in the highland. Baking often constitutes the key to whether it can be tasted after it can be integrated into the soft bitterness. Neutral flavor, even if not highland coffee beans, but also need to have a stable quality of stable treatment.

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