What's the difference between individual coffee and espresso? Is a single cup of coffee made by hand?

What is a single coffee?

Single coffee refers to coffee made from coffee beans from a single origin.

Individual coffee can be traced back to the origin of coffee, not only the country of coffee production, but even the land where coffee is produced, through knowing the owner of the coffee farm, going deep into the origin of coffee, understanding the story of the origin of coffee from the source, and purchasing raw beans.

What is espresso?

Italian coffee (Espresso), which originated in Italy and means "very fast" in Italian, is characterized by the use of steam pressure to extract the coffee liquid in an instant. All Milk Coffee or Fancy Coffee is based on Espresso.

What's the difference between individual coffee and espresso? Hand-brewed coffee refers to hand-brewed coffee, the coffee beans commonly used in hand-brewed coffee are individual coffee beans, and Italian coffee is an espresso liquid extracted by high pressure using an Italian coffee machine. Generally speaking, the coffee beans used in espresso are blended beans (there is also espresso made from individual coffee, which is called SOE).

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Individual coffee is synonymous with black coffee.

Black coffee, Black Coffee, just coffee, no milk, sugar, syrup and so on. The Cantonese word for "fasting coffee" and the "black coffee" among the noble women in Shanghai all make this interpretation.

Perhaps it is because the coffee in the old days was difficult to swallow without sugar and milk, so that the definition of individual coffee was extended. It was still a cup of black coffee when it was produced, and the guests were allowed to add it with sugar milk.

At present, the largest range of "single products" is a single manor or cooperative. Some large estates are divided into many plots, which give rise to a single site, or even small batches, and so on. Encouraged by various raw bean competitions and policies, coffee farmers spare no effort to grow and deal with them as if they were groups of independent experiments.

It is enough to interpret a single product as a "single source". As for the area range, altitude range, particle size, harvest time, treatment, etc., it will not affect the "consistency" (the definition of consistency in the cup meter). There is no problem. The scope is so narrow that it seems a bit of a pain in the neck.

Blended coffee is a combination of two or more coffee beans of different varieties, different producing areas and different roasting degrees according to a certain demand. However, this is not a random match, but needs to be carefully calculated by the assembler.

But this does not mean that mixed coffee beans are suitable for Italian coffee, and individual coffee beans are suitable for hand-brewed coffee. In fact, this is also a historical "hidden arrangement". The rise of hand-brewed coffee is when the concept of fine coffee is widely spread. what boutique coffee promotes is to separate coffee beans from commodities and establish the coffee flavor of each independent producing area. it can improve the quality and flavor of coffee. With the help of this opportunity, the brewing way of hand brewing can well and simply show the flavor of coffee producing areas, while high-quality individual coffee beans are endorsed by hand, which complement each other and form today's trend.