Do you want coffee beans cooked raw or cooked? What does blending coffee beans mean? Which is better, comprehensive coffee or single coffee?

Whenever Qianjie gets tired of drinking the coffee in the jar, Qianjie will use a more unique way to handle and cook these coffee beans, which can give them a different taste and texture, so as to get a completely new experience.

I believe many friends have already guessed that this so-called unique method is to match. By putting together more than two coffee beans, you can get a coffee with a brand new experience. Although for a long time, the skill of blending was concentrated in the field of espresso coffee, because Italian style was the mainstream at that time, and merchants needed to use blending to ensure that the product remained stable for a long time. But in recent years, it is not difficult to find that more and more merchants and event players are using blended coffee beans to make hand-brewed, cold extracted and other coffee.

The purpose is also simple, because matching can do more than just stability, as mentioned earlier on the street, it can also create a new experience. New experiences include but are not limited to-hexagonal warriors with novel flavors, excellent taste and taste... All in all, by blending, we can easily achieve the effect of 1+1>2 and experience unusual coffee. However, matching is not that simple! Matching is not just about simply combining different coffee beans. We need to consider the selection and proportion of base beans based on the purpose. If you mix it indiscriminately, the final coffee will not only taste as you wish, but may even be inferior to the base beans themselves. (For example,"Made with More than 30 Kinds of Beans" shared by Qianjie some time ago was overturned because of this)

So today, Qianjie will come to share with you how to mix coffee, what we need to pay attention to when making coffee, and some secret recipes for making beans commonly used in Qianjie ~

The purpose of blending coffee and the use of beans Since most of the friends who read this tweet are buyers of cooked coffee beans, we don't need to consider the issue of raw and cooked coffee beans like roasters. When you decide to blend coffee beans, the Front Street Association recommends that you first establish the purpose of blending coffee, such as: What kind of coffee do you want to get. Then select the right coffee beans from your existing coffee beans based on your purpose to blend. This can effectively save costs and quickly make an ideal blended coffee bean.

The purpose of matching hand-brewed beans is nothing more than the two mentioned on the front street: "creating a new flavor" or "creating a hexagonal warrior with excellent taste and taste." If it is the former, then the coffee beans we choose are mainly based on flavor, while if it is the latter, then the coffee beans we choose and their proportions must consider the balance between flavor and taste. Take Qianjie as an example. If you have visited the Taobao Tmall flagship store on Qianjie, you should have noticed that there are not a few mixed beans sold in the store. In addition to blended beans for intentional coffee, there are also blended beans suitable for hand flushing, cold extraction and other methods. Whether it is Italian or hand-punched, there is a coffee bean called strawberry candy. According to different uses, the bean use and baking in Qianjie have been changed accordingly.

Qianjie Strawberry Candy and Rose Summer Mix is a blend of beans produced by Qianjie for coffees with flavors such as hand-brewed and cold extracted. Because you want to drink a cup of coffee with strong fruit aroma and outstanding floral fragrance, Qianjie chose Costa Rica Mirasu Manor honey processed coffee beans with strong strawberry and berry flavors, as well as washed rose summer coffee beans with strong jasmine fragrance from the Panama Poquet region, and finally got a fruity flavor, This strawberry candy and rose summer combination with very rich flowers. When it comes out, we can clearly taste the sweetness of strawberries and berries, as well as the elegant jasmine fragrance and the fresh finish of oolong tea. The overall taste is mainly sweet and sour, with smooth taste and long finish.

The full name of the strawberry candy that is mainly used in Italian style is Front Street strawberry candy·Espresso, and it is a bean that often appears in articles. The purpose of Naqian Street when making it was to want a cup of Italian coffee with a flavor of flowers and fruits, but a weak taste, mainly sweet, and a solid taste! Therefore, Qianjie chose strawberry candy with a strong berry flavor, Colombia Cymbidium coffee beans with chocolate, cookie, caramel flavor and solid taste, and native Ethiopian varieties to mix together!

The final blend can taste the flavors of strawberry, light floral fragrance, chocolate, and caramel from the espresso extracted with it. Then the taste is mainly sweet, the taste is mellow, and the aftertaste is equally long. When making milk coffee, we can also taste a unique flavor similar to strawberry wafer cookies! Very good.

It can be seen that because the purpose of blending is different, Qianjie chose different coffee beans for blending. In addition to different coffee beans, they also vary in degrees of roasting. The coffee beans used in the latter will be roasted deeper than the former. Because Qianjie wants to reduce the proportion of sourness in the coffee, he deepens the roasting to reduce the acidity of the coffee and at the same time improve the mellow degree of the coffee.

Seeing this, Qianjie also believes that everyone should know why it is necessary to set goals first before choosing coffee beans. When selecting coffee beans to be blended, we need to pay attention to the following two points: The first point is that the degree of roasting between coffee beans should be similar! There can be gaps, but not too much difference. It is well known that coffee beans with different degrees of roasting have different dissolution rates. With the same parameters, the flavor substances of deep-roasted coffee beans will dissolve faster than those of lightly roasted coffee beans. Because the structure of deep-roasted coffee beans is looser, flavor substances will be more easily carried out by hot water. Then when we use coffee beans with large differences in roasting degrees to blend them together, uneven extraction will easily occur!

If the extraction efficiency used is high, then deep-roasted coffee beans can easily be over-extracted; the extraction efficiency is low, and lightly roasted coffee beans can easily be under-extracted. This will make it more difficult for us to extract, so it is best to use coffee beans with similar degrees of roasting to blend them, so that the differences caused by extraction can be reduced and we can make a cup of delicious coffee. Other than that, there is almost nothing to pay attention to, so everyone can just play with it. By piecing together coffee beans from different regions, different treatments, or different flavors, you can get a brand new coffee bean. If we want to highlight a certain characteristic, then we will increase the proportion of coffee beans with that characteristic.

Take the strawberry candy and rose summer match on Front Street as an example. If Front Street wanted the fragrance of this bean to be more prominent, then the ratio of rose summer in Costa Rica and Panama would be 4:6; and if Front Street wanted to make the fruit aroma more prominent, then the ratio might be 6:4. The specific ratio is set according to the purpose, and then finally adjusted according to the taste. Then the brewing parameters are determined according to the average roasting degree of the coffee beans you mix! For example, if the two coffee beans you use are lightly roasted, then you can directly apply the brewing parameters of the lightly roasted coffee; and if the coffee beans you use are semi-shallow and semi-medium, then the parameters will be compromised. And so on.

Finally, Qianjie is sharing some unique blending recipes. If you happen to buy these beans, then you might as well try using them to blend, which will bring you unexpected experiences: Colombia·Hizhao️️️

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