Coffee common sense how to manage your own Italian coffee beans

Coincidentally, two days ago, I was still considering, in the category of boutique coffee, will we witness the disappearance of blending? Today, I saw that Tim Wendelboe announced that it would only provide single concentrate instead of espresso blending in the future. Since James Hoffmann won the WBC championship by virtue of individual beans in 2007, people began to pay attention to SO. In fact, it has been 5 years, and it is time for accumulation to break out.

In the traditional business field, the main purpose of mixing coffee beans from different places is to achieve a balanced taste and uniform taste, and to reduce costs. When the boutique coffee shops represented by the third wave began to notice that the shelf life of raw coffee beans was not as long as previously known (1-2 years), they put forward stricter requirements, which led to the concept of "seasonal blending". Due to the different harvest seasons of coffee in different coffee producing countries around the world, fresh coffee beans from different producing areas can actually be bought all the year round. Select the best mix of coffee beans available in the season and spell out a formula suitable for espresso. As a result, the taste of coffee that guests may drink in different seasons varies slightly. For example, in summer you can drink an espresso with strawberry and pineapple aromas, while in winter you may get rubber muffin cake or taffy. Coffee is a product of nature, and it is impossible to stay the same as industrial products. Being able to drink such colorful coffee should be the charm of coffee.

In recent years, the boutique coffee industry has made great efforts to do experiments and research on the varieties, harvest and treatment of coffee. Tim, for example, has spent a long time working with farmers to experiment with different ways of harvesting and handling coffee. In addition, boutique coffee shops respect coffee farmers and take the initiative to raise the purchase price of good coffee, hoping that farmers can have the enthusiasm to produce better quality coffee beans to achieve sustainable development and win-win situation. There are more and more good coffee, and the taste of fine coffee is getting better and better. And single manor, single tree coffee also has a rich and balanced aroma and taste. It is obviously a pity to continue to use these characteristic coffee beans to make mixed coffee.

To make a coffee mix, even if it is seasonally made (usually in about 3 months, the coffee shop will change the mix), it is hard to avoid that the aroma and taste of the mix will not be as good as when it was first launched. This is because the overall quality of raw coffee beans will decline with preservation, but the rate of decline is different for different coffee beans. For example, if a coffee with three estates is used in a blend, it is very likely that the quality of beans in one estate will decline a lot from the second month, but the other two beans are likely to be able to maintain a high level for 5 months without obvious taste change, but due to the poor quality of one of the coffee beans, this blend can no longer be used. Using single-product beans can avoid this problem very well. if the beans are not easy to preserve and the quality declines rapidly, the coffee shop can buy less, enough for 1-2 months to adjust the taste. On the other hand, those beans that are easy to preserve can be bought more and get a price advantage, which is beneficial to both coffee shops and consumers.

In fact, if I know that a coffee shop can offer several individual products at the same time, if I am a guest, I will be very happy to drink in a different way. I may want to try different varieties, and I will go to the coffee shop more frequently and drink a few more cups. The coffee shop is also very happy.