Coffee common sense: single coffee and mixed coffee

Tasting coffee

Individual coffee is a pure coffee made from a single coffee bean and usually without milk or sugar. Have strong characteristics, special taste: or fresh and soft, or mellow smooth; the cost is higher, so the price is more expensive.

Such as the famous Blue Mountain Coffee, Brazilian Coffee, Italian Coffee, Colombian Coffee. They are all individual products named after the origin of coffee beans. Mocha coffee and charcoal coffee are also individual products, but their names are quite special. Mocha is a port in Yemen. the coffee produced in this port is called mocha, but the coffee may come from different places, so each batch of mocha beans tastes different.

1. Types of individual coffee

(1) Blue Mountain Coffee: from Jamaica. Pure Jamaican Blue Mountain Coffee perfectly combines the unique sour, bitter, sweet, mellow, mellow and mellow flavors of coffee with a long-lasting fruit flavor, forming a strong and attractive elegance, which is unmatched by other coffees. it's the best of coffee.

(2) Colombian coffee: produced in Colombia, roasted coffee beans release a sweet fragrance, with sweet in acid and medium in bitterness, moderate concentration and long-lasting fruit aroma. It is very nutritious, highly balanced and sometimes nutty. Because of the appropriate concentration, it is also used in high-grade mixed coffee.

(3) Brazilian coffee: there are many kinds of coffee, most of which are moderately acidic, its sweet, bitter and mellow tastes are neutral, moderate concentration, smooth and special taste, known as the backbone of coffee, but also a very good blending bean.

(4) Manning Coffee: produced in Indonesia's Sumatra Islands, full of grains, with a very strong fragrance, spicy bitterness, people who especially like it will indulge in its bitterness. At the same time, it also has the taste of syrup and chocolate, while the sour taste is not prominent, but it has a strong mellowness, which is a favorite variety in Germany, and coffee lovers mostly drink it on their own. It is also an indispensable breed of mixed coffee.

(5) Java coffee: produced in Java, Indonesia, full-grained, spicy, relatively low acidity, delicate taste, good balance, is a delicate aromatic coffee.

(6) Costa Rican coffee: excellent flavor, smooth, strong acidity, high grade, with attractive flavor.

(7) Kenyan coffee: aromatic, full-bodied, well-balanced and delicious acidity, excellent fruit flavor, rich and perfect taste. It is one of the most popular varieties in the industry.

(8) mocha coffee: produced in Ethiopia, the beans are small and fragrant, its sour and mellow taste is strong, slightly alcoholic, spicy, moderate sweet taste, special flavor. It is a well-known high-quality coffee, usually drunk as a single product.

(9) Guatemalan coffee: produced in Antigua, which has fertile volcanic soil, is one of the most famous coffee varieties in the coffee industry. The fertile volcanic soil creates a world-famous soft, mellow taste with a hint of tropical fruit. Rich taste, perfect coordination, plus a trace of smoke, more emphasis on its antiquity and mystery. Many coffee experts have commented that Guatemalan coffee is the best kind of coffee in Central and South America.

(10) Kilimanjaro Coffee: Kilimanjaro from Tanzania. A variety of coffee without acid, with a strong taste and is famous for its duet taste. Exquisite coffee elegant guest, want to feel exotic flavor, boil your taste. Tasting Kilimanjaro coffee is the best choice, the aroma and taste are enough to make the first-time coffee drinkers feel the eloquent multiplex taste.

(11) Kona Coffee: from the Kona region of Hawaii, it is a rare species that can only be grown on volcanic slopes. Taste strong, mellow, and slightly with a kind of wine aroma, the flavor is very special. The selected Kona coffee has a moderate sour taste and a gentle and full-bodied taste, as well as a unique mellow flavor. As the output is decreasing, the price is catching up with Blue Mountain Coffee.

Representative proportion of individual coffee beans

(1) Acid: 30% in Colombia, 30% in Brazil, 20% in Guatemala, 20% in Mocha

(2) bitter: 30% in Colombia, 30% in Brazil, 20% in Kilimanjaro

(3) thick: Colombia 40%, Guatemala 20%, Mantenin 20%, Brazil 20%

(4) soft: 40% in Colombia, 30% in Brazil, 20% in Mocha

Mixed coffee

Comprehensive coffee, also known as mixed coffee, is generally composed of three or more different varieties of coffee, which is blended into another coffee with unique flavor according to its sour, bitter, sweet, fragrant and alcohol. the good comprehensive coffee is fragrant, smooth and refreshing, and the color is golden, which is the top grade of the coffee. Mixed coffee drinks are very arbitrary and pursue individual colors.

1. Comprehensive types of coffee

According to the type of coffee, the mixed coffee will have different characteristics in taste. There are mainly the following:

(1) mixed coffee with balanced taste

Recipes: Guatemala SHB (40%), Mexico AL (30%), Brazil NO.2 19 (20%), Kilimanjaro AA (10%).

The top comprehensive coffee is the best combination of sour, bitter and fragrant coffee beans, which are mixed together. For example, Guatemalan coffee beans with strong sour taste, Mexican coffee beans with both sour and sweet taste, and Brazilian beans with mild bitterness. Mix these coffee beans in proportion and mix them with Kilimanjaro coffee beans with strong sour flavor. the coffee beans pointed out have a balanced taste and moderate concentration.

(2) bitterness-based mixed coffee

Formula: Sumatra Mantenin G1 (40%), Colombia SUP (30%), Brazil NO.2 19 (20%), Kilimanjaro AA (10%).

To produce strong-flavored coffee beans, you have to choose strong-flavored coffee beans, such as Sumatra mantenin in Indonesia, bitter and sour Colombian beans, and moderately sour Brazilian beans. And Kilimanjaro beans that are mainly sour. The coffee beans made in this way have a bitter taste and are deeply loved by coffee lovers.

(3) mixed coffee with sour taste

Formula: Kilimanjaro AA (20%), Mocha Highland Hara (20%), Brazil NO.2. 19 (20%), Hawaii Kona NO.1 (20%).

To make sour coffee beans, it is necessary to use Kilimanjaro coffee beans, on this basis, with Ethiopia's soft mocha plateau hara, Brazilian beans and moderately acidic Hawaii Kona. In this way, you can mix a sour mixed coffee.

(4) aroma-based comprehensive coffee

Formula: Guatemala SHB (40%), Kilimanjaro AA (30%), mocha. Plateau Hara (30%).

The aroma-based mixed coffee is a mixture of coffee beans with different characteristics to make it more fragrant. Fragrant SHB of Guatemala, acidity of Kilimanjaro beans and natural fruit of Mocha Plateau Hara can be used to produce aromatic and comprehensive coffee.

(5) American mixed coffee

Formula: Brazil NO.2 19 (50%), Mexico AL (30%), Jamaica washed beans (20%).

For those who do not like the taste too much, do not like individual coffee, and only pursue their own taste, American mixed coffee should be the first choice. It uses moderately roasted coffee beans, mainly Brazilian beans with a balanced sour and bitter taste, with sweet and sour Mexican beans and Jamaican water-washed beans with flavor and bitterness, thus giving birth to a unique American blend of coffee.

(6) full-bodied and heavy mixed coffee

Formula: Colombia SUP (50%), Brazil NO.2?19 (30%), Java Robusta WIBI (20%).

To highlight the strong taste, it is necessary to choose Colombian beans with moderate acidity and balanced Brazilian beans, as well as rich, bitter coffee. If you want to add some sweetness, you can match some coffee beans with mild bitterness.

2. The blending characteristics of comprehensive coffee.

Coffee professionals and coffee lovers usually choose individual coffee with pure taste, while the mixed coffee can cater to the tastes of more people, especially those who do not adapt to the bitter taste of coffee and prefer sweets, as well as coffee lovers who are keen on DIY creativity, who often mix coffee with special style and taste according to their own taste. To enjoy this special process. In addition, some bars and cafes also offer a variety of coffee drinks for guests to choose from. However, to prepare a good cup of mixed coffee is not a simple thing, some will have strict proportion requirements, for baristas, it also takes a certain amount of time to practice and master.

Some people think that espresso is too strong and worry that too much caffeine will affect sleep or health, so they choose French coffee, milk coffee and so on. And the real coffee connoisseurs will mostly use espresso to measure the power of the bar, because espresso can not be covered with water and milk, so it can best show the original taste of coffee.

Below, let's take several kinds of coffee as examples to experience the attractive mellow aroma of comprehensive coffee.

(1) Cappuccino: cappuccino is a very moderate cup of coffee with a strong taste, because cappuccino is added with foam, and some people drink it in order to enjoy the taste, density and compactness of the foam, so the proportion of milk is very important. Cappuccino can be said to be a very picky cup of coffee, with a ratio of coffee, milk and foam at 1:1:1. A cup of espresso uses about 7g to make 45cc coffee, while a cappuccino or latte uses 60cc, so although there is a lot of milk and foam to dilute the rich feeling of coffee, the amount of coffee has not decreased at all, but increased.

(2) latte: it can be said to be a cup of coffee without burden, it can drink the warmth of milk, like a cup of milk coffee, but it has the smell of coffee when drinking milk.

(3) mocha: mocha dilutes coffee with a large amount of milk, which is a deformation of coffee, which can be said to be the most fancy kind of espresso, in which cinnamon and cocoa can be added. Mocha is no longer a simple coffee and has less foam than a latte, replaced by milk, whipped cream and chocolate.