Champion Creative Coffee-how to choose the required Materials

Fruits

Taiwan has always been known as the kingdom of fruit, and there are many sweet fruits to eat all the year round, so fruit is the easiest ingredient to use as creative coffee, and when fruit ingredients are used, there is usually a problem of sour fruit, because the sour taste of the fruit often makes the flavor of the coffee worse, so try to use sweeter fruits when matching, it will be easier to match. However, if you can use some other ingredients or different techniques to deal with fruits that are strongly sour, you can use the characteristics of acid in turn to show an unexpected effect.

Of course, when choosing coffee beans, we can also give priority to the flavor with strong acid flavor, and it is most appropriate to use seasonal fruit when using fruit ingredients, because the flavor of seasonal fruit must be the best. only in this way can we show the characteristics of the selected fruit.

Tea and tea crops

Taiwan's spring-like climate all year round makes the growth of crops very exuberant, so they are rich in agricultural products, so crops are very convenient and creative coffee ingredients, and what we should pay attention to is that they are more likely to have a sense of satiety. How to deal with it must take a little ingenuity, and it is also a major point to present it in the form of ice or hot drinks.

Tea ingredients, because the aroma and taste of tea are usually soft, so it is not suitable for too strong coffee, so as not to cover up the flavor of tea, so you should pay special attention to the ratio of coffee to tea, and the ratio of coffee to tea is the most important skill. can be matched with some moderate ingredients can be added to reduce the sense of conflict between the two, in order to show the most appropriate creative coffee.

Liquor and alcoholic beverages

The key point of the use of alcohol is that the taste of alcohol can easily overwhelm the taste of coffee, so the adjustment of proportion is its key point. In addition, alcohol will destroy the organization of milk bubbles, so the way of combining with milk bubbles should be reduced as much as possible. the greatest advantage of the use of alcohol is that it will not be affected by the season, unlike fruits and crops. So you can brew creative coffee at any time.

Extracted from "Champion Creative Coffee" by Lim Dong-Won, the champion of the first barista contest in Taiwan.