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(by Wen / Yangcheng Evening News reporter Liang Xuhua / Terry)

Cafes have been tenaciously rooted in Guangzhou for more than 20 years, from the trial work of returnees in the late 1990s to the blooming of cafes after 2000, and the fine trend of choosing coffee bean producing areas in the past two years. The development of cafes in Guangzhou has experienced a spiral process. After 2013, professional-grade individual coffee and boutique cafes have gradually emerged. With the gradual increase in the number of people playing individual coffee, boutique cafes are becoming more and more popular in Guangzhou and have their own characteristics very different from those in Beijing and Shanghai.

The rise of boutique coffee

After 2010, boutique coffee is springing up around the world, known as the "third coffee wave". This can be said to be a revolution. It is precisely because the market is now filled with a large number of products that fail to restore the quality of coffee, confusing the public's correct understanding of coffee, the emergence of a group of coffee advocates who really love coffee. They insist on providing high-quality coffee and spread authentic coffee culture and its exclusive technology, so they can relatively attract people who really like coffee.

Compared with coffee chains that are just for convenience, it seems that more Guangzhou people tend to pursue more quality and distinctive boutique coffee. Therefore, in the past two years, boutique cafes have expanded wantonly in Guangzhou, and in just one year, nearly a dozen boutique cafes have opened one after another. Without exception, they attach importance to the quality of coffee, such as freshly roasted ground coffee and single roasted coffee extracted from a single variety of coffee beans.

Roast coffee beans at home

The owners of boutique cafes are particular about the flavor of their own coffee, so most people are keen to bake coffee beans instead of directly choosing already baked beans. In their eyes, coffee beans should be fresh, not only grinding coffee beans before brewing coffee, but also not keeping them for a long time after baking. So the baker not only bakes coffee beans every week, but also does not bake much each time. In Coffee Global, for example, the manager bakes coffee beans every day, but only a few jin at a time, depending on the actual consumption of each type of coffee, to ensure that the flavor of the brewed coffee is not lost.

In order to make the best flavor of the coffee, some baristas will record the best curve of the coffee when roasting, so that each brewed coffee can ensure a stable quality and unique personality. The so-called best curve of coffee roasting means that when roasting coffee beans, the changes of data such as baking temperature, baking time and weight loss ratio of coffee beans are drawn into a curve. in this way, we can grasp the accurate data such as the capacity of coffee baking boiler, the exhaust air volume of hot air, the number of throttle and other accurate data, in order to get the best flavor data of different coffee beans.

The emergence of professional coffee classrooms

It is understood that in addition to playing professional baking, Guangzhou boutique cafes also study the various brewing skills of coffee and the blending rules of coffee beans, and even help coffee fans improve their professional abilities.

At Miggy Cafe, the person in charge teaches coffee fans how to brew and how to identify the varieties and aromas of coffee beans (there are nearly 100 aroma bottles tested by professional baristas). It will also tell you the difference and quality of the equipment used to make coffee, so that you can not only know why, but also teach you how to qualify as a barista.

Boutique coffee communalization

Although the boutique cafes in Guangzhou focus on high-end coffee, they do not feel difficult to get close to. Most of them are hidden in the residential community, very close to the earth. Shopkeepers have a sense of being a community coffee shop, being neighbors, baking beans, making coffee, and chatting together. Integrate coffee into the community, and then radiate the whole of Guangzhou through the community.

Baristas will make appropriate adjustments according to the tastes of the people in the community where the cafe is located, rather than indulging in their own style. For example, the taste of individual coffee in Dream House Cafe will be relatively soft, and baristas will choose varieties with slightly sweet fruit and flower flavor to suit local tastes.