Why bake at home and use single-product beans

First of all, premium-grade coffee beans are usually sold in two forms:

Mixed bean formula (Blends): the following different harvest seasons or more than two different producing areas of coffee beans mixed with each other.

two。 Single producing area, unmixed single bean: single source coffee beans limited to a single harvest season, the English name is Single-origin Coffee or Varietal Coffee.

For those who bake coffee beans at home, single beans are the most popular because:

Knowledge accumulation: you can know where the coffee beans you are baking come from

Taste exploration: individual coffee beans from different producing areas have different flavors.

High autonomy: when you are proficient in roasting coffee, you have a certain understanding of the flavor characteristics of various single beans, and you can mix the formula beans with personal style according to your preferences.

-- excerpt from the complete Book of self-Baking of Coffee by Kenneth Davis Kenneth Davids

Introduction to the author

Mr. Kenneth Davis is widely respected in the coffee industry in the United States and is one of the most authoritative pioneers in the industry. He has written three books on the subject of Coffee, including coffee:A Guide to Buying,Brewing & Enioying (five revisions with a total sales of more than 270000 copies) and Espresso:Ultimate coffee (currently the second revised edition, which was nominated by James Bild). The author actively participates in helping coffee farmers find coffee bean wholesale markets, training professional cup testers, and preparing a variety of unused comprehensive formula beans for customers. He will also hold seminars and workshops on coffee bean purchase and evaluation from time to time in the United States, Canada, South America, Europe and Japan. And has participated in the co-production and hosting of [The Passionate Harves] videos to introduce the coffee bean production process. The film has won several awards, including the Platinum Award at the famous Houston International Film Festival. Kenneth Davids' coffee reviews have been frequently published in various publishers, including the award-winning website Coffee Review, the well-known monthly magazine "Tea & Coffee Trade Joumal" and "Fresh Cup". The author's work can even be heard in the Los Angeles Times, the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times and the CNN headlines. In 1996, Kenneth Davids was awarded the Special Achievement Award by the American Fine Coffee Association (SCAA) in the Coffee Literature Outstanding contribution Category.