It will teach you how to buy high quality coffee beans.

How to buy high quality coffee beans

Smell, naturally smell the taste of coffee, especially in bags of coffee and not allowed to open the conditions, smell to judge the freshness of coffee beans is particularly prominent. Since the production time printed on the coffee bean packaging is generally the packaging time, rather than the time of roasting in the real sense, whether the coffee is really fresh, whether it is properly preserved, or whether it is true!

If it is a one-way vent valve aluminum foil bag packaging, we can put the nose together in the vent valve hole, and then gently squeeze packaging. If there is not any gas squeezed out or the squeezed gas has no taste, it means that there is a problem with the packaging, or the beans are not fresh when packaged, or the coffee has been stored for a long time. In short, it is not worth buying coffee.

If any aroma is squeezed out, we need to identify that aroma carefully. The best aromas should be strong and persistent. If only a little aroma comes out and dissipates without smelling the flavor, that aroma is called insufficient aroma, either the beans are not fresh enough, or the quality of the beans is problematic, generally appearing in the lighter and fresher roasted coffee beans. If there is a heavy oily or smelly smell in the aroma, it generally indicates that the coffee beans are deeply roasted and not fresh.

Smell is more difficult than looking, but it will also better understand the quality of coffee, may initially feel bad for the taste, but as long as more smell, the quality of coffee will definitely not escape your nose.

How to buy high quality coffee beans

Cut is to quickly determine the approximate taste, freshness and roasting uniformity of coffee beans by kneading, cutting, chewing and other methods. Through this step combined with looking and smelling, you can accurately determine whether the coffee beans have just been roasted, and the roasting level of the coffee beans will also be at a glance. Here are a few ways to do it.

Cut open the coffee bean and observe the cut surface

pinch

Squeeze, you grab a few coffee beans and crush them. The purpose is to feel the expansion rate, hardness and crispness of coffee beans. After crushing, you can smell the fragrance again. At this time, the fragrance will be very obvious and rich.

cut

Cut, is to observe the cut surface of coffee beans, you can start directly from the middle of the coffee beans when pinching, one pinch into two, and then carefully observe whether the color of the cut surface is uniform, only the color inside and outside the coffee beans baking is relatively in place, combined with the expansion rate, you can roughly understand the coffee beans Roaster's external baking level, of course, this does not mean that coffee beans must be good to drink.

chewing

Chewing, is to take a coffee bean directly chewing, do not have to swallow, you can chew the coffee grounds spit out. The process of chewing can roughly understand the taste tendency of coffee, of course, this taste is not very accurate, only for rough judgment. The most important thing is to feel whether the coffee beans are crispy. Coffee beans without crispness are generally evidence that they are not fresh unless they are roasted lightly.

Through the process of cutting, you can use the most direct and quick way to understand the quality and freshness of coffee beans.