You need a little tipsy for coffee?! With wine in the coffee, the young man makes his soul tremble with every bite!

"Wine and coffee. I just need one cup."

As a classic song published in the 1970s, not only Miss Teresa Teng's singing is particularly intoxicating, but the combination of wine and coffee has now become the younger generation's pursuit of excitement.

People try their best to pursue the stimulation of nerves and the excitement of physiology. Alcohol is relaxing, caffeine is refreshing, and even in the 1940s, it was popular in bars to add spirits and hot coffee to burned candies, and finally added a layer of cream to make the world-famous Irish coffee.

But in this combination, the taste of coffee will also be masked by the taste of spirits, so some bartenders began to use espresso with vodka and liqueur to make espresso martinis. In order to extend the complex flavor to the whole mouth, the strength of vodka and the sweetness of liqueur are intertwined, bringing a lasting aftertaste to the mouth.

At a later stage, coffee and wine are no longer just for drug-like efficacy, nor are they exclusive to bars. The combination of the two has also brought the coffee industry into a new era, which originally only belongs to drinks in the morning and night, but also under the "adjustment" of baristas, there has been a different change!

Like special coffee, blended coffee aims to add complex and rich sensory experience to coffee without depriving coffee of its subjectivity. But the difference is that adding wine to coffee is much more complicated than adding fruit juice. The flavor of fine coffee is already delicate and difficult to detect, and the taste of the wine is often stronger than the main body of the coffee itself, so the proportion of base liquor of alcohol-blended coffee is usually not too much.

Coffee and wine have one thing in common, that is, the main taste can not be separated from sour, sweet and bitter. The flavor emergence stage of each ingredient is different, so there are three different stages of flavor performance before, during and after the flavor.

The winner of the 2020 Peruvian Creative Coffee Competition makes blended coffee

In order to combine the two, it is necessary to let the front, middle and back perform their respective duties, not only to show their respective characteristics in stages, but also to take the flavor of the combination of the two as a transition in the stage-by-stage process. let the level and flavor of the whole cup of drink have a fuller performance.

Wu Zelin, the world barista champion, said that if you want coffee to show its own unique flavor after the addition of wine, it may need to be deliberately extracted too much or not enough.

Because the taste of wine must be more obvious than that of coffee, when making blended coffee, you need to specially increase the acidity / richness of the coffee, and then match it with suitable spirits and other seasonings to make the drink balance between sweet and sour. Unlike the usual brewing coffee / wine, coffee and wine are not the only protagonists, they are just a kind of material.

Compared with regular special coffee and special drinks, the difficulty of blending coffee with alcohol is also advanced. If you want to make a good cup of blended coffee, you need to taste and confirm the flavor of each ingredient itself, and then make good use of all aspects of expertise to make a reasonable mix. In the creation, we must stick to the core main flavor, and finally examine each cup of finished product through aroma, taste and aftertaste.

Nowadays, compared with non-alcoholic fruit special coffee and high alcohol special coffee, in the era when the younger generation is looking for slightly tipsy happiness, alcoholic coffee hovering between drunkenness and sobriety has gradually become the signature of cafes.

A little tipsy is a state between sobriety and drunkenness, which is not too much burden after being sober than being completely drunk. on the contrary, a happy mood after tipsy can make people better start a new day.

More and more people are pursuing "slightly tipsy". One is to find ways to relax themselves; one is to weaken their ability to restrain their emotions and make them more real; and one is that the mild effects of alcohol can relieve anxiety. inspire more ideas to help get things done. So not only at night, more and more consumers have begun to have a demand for tipsy during the day.

I don't know if you remember that a round of "convenience store bartending" became popular not long ago. In order to reduce the concentration of alcohol while retaining the effect of alcohol and improving palatability, many friends will buy a small bottle of wine at the convenience store and drink it with milk coffee / milk tea.

Recently, Luckin Coffee's beverage research and development department understood everyone very well, so on the occasion of Qixi Festival's arrival, it launched a strawberry latte with Baileys, which combines the young generation's favorite fruit coffee and tipsy into one.

Alcoholic drinks provide coffee shops with a sense of ritual consumption, through the concept of tipsy, can enhance more consumers' acceptance of coffee and wine. Nowadays, consumers have more pursuit of beverage innovation and stimulation, and the combination of coffee and wine will also form a new wave.

But! After all, tipsy products contain alcohol, so be sure to drink the right amount according to your own condition! And then there is:

"No drunk driving" & "minors are not allowed to drink alcohol"

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