Taiwan Coffee Man: teach you to drink the coffee that suits you (picture)

Taiwan Strait Network, January 26 (Straits Guide reporter Yang Siping intern Zhang Shiqin Wen / photo) "what is the role of the small details in the design of the siphon pot?" Last weekend, Liu Jiawei, a teacher from Taiwan, gave a wonderful lecture to coffee lovers in Xiamen for two days at FCR Cafe in Xiamen. Liu Jiawei, who won the 2010 Taiwan siphon contest and the runner-up in the World Cup Japan siphon contest on behalf of Taiwan, is one of the few Taiwanese coffee experts who enjoy a high reputation on the international stage in both Italian and handmade coffee. Liu Jiawei's Coffee Bible has recently officially landed. This is a popular coffee reference book. If you want to become a coffee master, you have to learn two tricks from him.

Pure drink is more likely to drink coffee.

"siphon coffee is extracted at a high temperature and full of flavor, and the filtered taste can be accepted by ordinary people." On a winter afternoon, the elegant and exquisite FCR Cafe is filled with coffee lovers from various industries, who enjoy Liu Jiawei's vivid and skilled demonstration with great interest.

Whether in Taiwan or the mainland, coffee used to be imported, but now it has almost entered the lives of ordinary people. People seem to pay more and more attention to the quality of coffee. How can we find the type of coffee that suits us?. While demonstrating, Liu Jiawei said that people who are new to coffee like to drink espresso because it can add cream, powdered sugar, etc., and can make various patterns through milk foam and flower drawing. However, if you have been exposed to coffee for a long time, if you want to drink the quality of coffee, you generally have to try pure drinking. The less additives, the better. It pays attention to the flavor of various coffee producing areas. In addition, drinking coffee should also pay attention to freshness, see coffee beans can not produce oil, smell the aroma of coffee beans, are the way to judge the freshness of coffee.

Taiwanese drink coffee for innovation and change

The sharing meeting was well received by the majority of coffee lovers, and after the event, everyone refused to go away, talked freely with Liu Jiawei about coffee culture, and learned about coffee brewing on the spot, and the small coffee shop was full of joyful laughter.

Liu Jiawei, who has worked in the coffee industry in Taiwan for many years, also shared Taiwan's coffee culture with the leading newspaper reporter. Liu Jiawei observed that compared with Europe and the United States, Taiwanese have a remarkable characteristic of drinking coffee, that is, they want to have a variety of choices, including the type and size of cups, preferably different from what they will drink this week and next week. But in Europe, coffee has been going on for decades. This hobby of Taiwanese requires coffee shop operators to always seek innovation and change, and to be able to accurately grasp the trend. For example, Italian coffee was very popular in Taiwan five years ago, and handmade coffee has become popular in recent years. Even some Starbucks stores are starting to sell handmade coffee.