Which is better to blend coffee or single-piece coffee? Should the more coffee beans you use in blended coffee, the better?

Yesterday afternoon, a guest friend asked Qianjie: "If you use more than 30 kinds of beans on your blackboard to mix them together, will the coffee be super delicious? "

This is actually not the first time Qianjie has received such a problem. Since many merchants have begun to promote four or more combinations, there are often friends who have just started thinking that the more types of coffee beans used in combinations, the better. But in fact, this is not the case. The quality of the blended coffee cannot be equated with the number of coffee types used in the blended coffee. The main reason why many friends have such misunderstandings is not only influenced by the promotion of merchants, but also because they do not fully understand the concept of matching. So today, Qianjie will come to share what brewed coffee is, and then use more than 30 kinds of coffee beans to share with you why the number of brewed coffee beans is not the better!

What is blended coffee? Blending coffee, also known as blended coffee, is a type of coffee made by mixing two or more different beans. Although we only need to mix different coffee beans together to make a blend, things are often not as simple as imagined! Because matching can be a technical activity ~

It is very difficult to realize the possibility of matching very many single beans at the same price! By blending this way, we can create beans that have the desired effect. Including but not limited to: making a hexagonal warrior with excellent performance in all aspects, both flavor and taste are outstanding; or making a cost-effective coffee with very low cost but good flavor through blending; or making the coffee produced with higher stability... As we all know, coffee is an agricultural product, and its taste is affected by many factors. So even if it is the same kind of coffee beans from the same piece of land, the quality and taste of each batch will be different from the previous batch. If we choose a single coffee bean to make coffee, then every time the batch is changed, the stability of the product will be affected by the change in taste. And matching can solve the problem of unstable taste!

By putting together several different coffee beans, the flavor of coffee is no longer a single source, because its flavor is composed of several coffee beans. And this is equivalent to diluting the importance of each bean. When the quality of a certain bean in the blending fails to meet expectations in the new production season, or the goods cannot be obtained, it can be replaced with other similar beans to keep the flavor stable. (There will be changes, but not much)

In addition, we can also create a cost-effective coffee bean by blending it. The so-called cost-effective means that the performance of this bean will far exceed that of single beans at the same price. Because blending can complement each other's strengths, we can use the advantages of one bean to fill in the shortcomings of another coffee bean, and the other coffee bean happens to have advantages that this coffee bean does not have. Combined with each other, they become a "hexagonal warrior" who is excellent in all aspects but is not costly (for example, the Qianjie Warm Sun Match in the Qianjie Bean List is like this!). Or create a new flavor through the fusion of flavors...

To sum up, we can know that blending is a way to avoid the defects of a single bean species by combining the characteristics of different beans, rather than simply stacking the number of varieties. So what would happen if we just piled up the number of varieties? Let's experiment from Qianjie!

Brewing Experiment Front Street took 3 cups from each of the more than 30 different coffees sold in the store and combined them into a 15-g blended coffee, and then "cooked" it by hand. The extraction parameters are the formula used to brew lightly roasted coffee, but because the purpose of this experiment is not to brew, the parameters and process are skipped directly.

You can still smell some berries and spices when this special blend of coffee beans is ground into powder, but you can hardly taste any flavor after making coffee. Although it tastes good and has a long aftertaste, it does not have any outstanding flavor. It is very mixed and vague, and the taste is the same.

The reason why this happens is that there are too many coffee beans used, and the same number of coffee beans, and no single coffee bean can serve as the core to support the taste of the entire cup of coffee. Therefore, the various flavors cancel each other out and the flavor is blurred. If it is difficult to understand, then you can substitute the plasticine you have played with before! Everyone has played with plasticine! When we mix various colors of plasticine together, there is no imagined colored plasticine, but a single taupe brown color. Although the principles are different, the principles are the same, and the same is true for coffee blending.

The more coffee beans we use in blending, the more we need to pay attention to the proportion and characteristics of the beans. Otherwise, it will weaken the characteristics of beans and have the opposite effect. And this will very test the maker's understanding of each coffee bean! Then, the more beans you use, the more complex the blending process becomes. This is not only because of the characteristics and quantity of each bean to be blended, but also because beans vary in size and density, so they require different baking curves.

Simply put, if you want to get the ultimate experience, then beans should not be baked at the same level, but at least they should be similar. To this end, we need to adopt a familiar approach. Coiled refers to blending after each bean is baked separately. When the more types of beans are used in blending, the more heats we need to bake. Although the blending process is more complicated, the actual effect obtained when there are too many types of beans is not proportional to the effort. Therefore, blending coffee does not mean using as many types of coffee beans as possible! Nowadays, most of the bean merchants we can see using blending are controlled between 2 and 5 kinds. This is the result of weighing the pros and cons.

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