What is the difference between single SOE and blended coffee beans? Can Italian blended coffee beans be used for making coffee by hand?

Qianjie found that most of my friends had certain misunderstandings about "blending coffee beans." For example, things like "blended beans are exclusive to Italian" and "blended beans are not as good as single pieces", which roughly means that blended beans are not a good choice. They are not as good as single pieces and can only be used in Italian style. So is this really the case?

Obviously not! So today, Qianjie plans to resolve everyone's "misunderstanding" about blending coffee beans and share what advantages and what is going on!

What is blended coffee beans? What is the difference between it and single-product beans? Let's first introduce what single-product coffee beans are. The so-called single-product coffee beans refer to coffee beans from a single producing area and a single growing place. Because it is not mixed with coffee beans from any other producing area, the flavor of the single bean is very pure. What we drink from it is mainly the flavor of the coffee production place.

What is different from single coffee is blended coffee. Blend coffee, also known as blended coffee, refers to a variety of coffee beans mixed. Different coffee beans can come from different origins, different treatments, different degrees of roasting, or different varieties (here, Arabica and Robusta). In short, as long as we mix different coffee beans together, we can call the mixed product a blended coffee. Although most of the uses of blending coffee beans are in the making of Italian coffee, they are not limited to Italian coffee. Other forms of production such as hand flushing, mocha pot, and siphon pot can also be made using blended beans. Because there are many advantages to blending coffee beans, by blending, we can achieve some effects that single coffee beans cannot achieve. For example, it is more common to reduce costs. We can combine beans to make beans with better flavor, taste and other qualities than coffee beans at the same price.

The second is "higher stability." In the early years, the purpose of blending coffee beans was not only to reduce costs, but also to produce more stable products for merchants. Because coffee beans are agricultural products, their taste will constantly change due to various factors, such as the climate of the planting area, planting management or post-processing methods. If the coffee beans grown in the next year are not as good in taste as this year due to these factors, or for some reason, coffee beans from a certain production area cannot be imported, then the production of coffee shops will be affected. Even facing a "big ratio reshuffle"! But blending coffee beans can solve this problem well.

It's very simple because the blending is made using multiple coffee beans. Although each bean contributes its part to the blending, since they are only one of them, this is equivalent to diluting the importance of each bean. If for some reason a certain bean in the next year cannot be imported or the taste quality has declined, then we can replace it with coffee beans from other producing areas to reduce the impact and change.

In addition, we can also create a "polygon warrior" who performs well in all aspects through matching. What does it mean? For example, although a bean may have outstanding advantages, it will inevitably have certain disadvantages. For example, a certain bean may have excellent flavor, but its taste will be relatively thin (just for example). So at times like this, we can use another bean with mellow taste and this bean with excellent flavor to mix, and use the strengths of the other bean to fill the shortcomings of this bean, thereby making a coffee bean with excellent flavor and taste. For example, the Qianjie classic blend in Qianjie Bean List is a blend of coffee beans with excellent taste, aroma, taste and oil ~

There are also merchants who blend coffee beans to create coffee with more unique flavors and richer layers. For example, the Qianjie Strawberry Candy and Rose Summer Mix in the Qianjie Bean List is the coffee beans concocted by Qianjie for this purpose. The strawberry candy and rose summer blend is a blend of a raisin honey processed coffee from Costa Rica and a panamanian washed rose summer on the front street. The coffee made with it has a very high sweetness, a little acid, and you can drink it. The obvious flavor of strawberry fudge, white floral fragrance, raisins, and cream is suitable for making hand-brewed coffee. It is a very versatile bean. And this is the unique charm brought by matching, which easily achieves the effect of 1+1 greater than 2.

So to sum up, you can know that blending coffee beans is not only used in Italian style, but the purpose of merchants making it is not only to reduce costs, but it is not inferior to single coffee beans. The specific use, performance, and quality all depend on the creator's purpose and the blending plan, so Qian Jie still likes to go to different coffee shops to taste the blended coffee beans ~

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