A brief introduction to Coffee beans Coffee producing areas

Types of coffee beans

1. Blue Mountain:

Is the treasure of coffee, its taste is sweet and smooth, not bitter but slightly sour, generally a single variety to drink, is the best variety of coffee. It is produced in the high mountains of Jamaica in the West Indies. Because the output is very small and the price is expensive, most people seldom drink the real Blue Mountain, and most of them are made by coffee with a very similar taste. Nevertheless, the price is still higher than that of ordinary coffee.

2. Mocha:

(Ethiopia) has a special flavor, its unique sweet, sour, bitter taste is extremely elegant, for the general senior people like the excellent variety, ordinary single variety to drink, drink the lubrication of delicious, mellow taste for a long time, if the blending of comprehensive coffee, is an ideal variety.

3. Santos, Brazil

Is a neutral bean, its flavor is known as the strong coffee, the single taste is also good when drinking, the blending of other coffee has a unique flavor. The beans must be roasted just right in order to taste the slightly sour, slightly sweet, slightly bitter and faint flavor.

4. Colombia:

It is a kind of soft coffee, which has the characteristics of sweet in acid and flat in bitterness, especially exotic fragrance, excellent flavor and peculiar flavor of melon peel.

5. Manning:

Strong variety, with strong aroma, bitter taste, but strong mellow, generally for coffee lovers, all like to drink a single product. When blending mixed coffee, it is an indispensable variety.

6. Guatemala:

One of the more sour varieties, its taste is mellow and slightly wild, and its sweet taste is very similar to Colombian coffee. Can be used as a single variety for drinking and blending to produce neutral beans for Central America.

7. Romsda, Java

As the most ideal bean for the preparation of comprehensive coffee, it has very little acidity, strong bitterness and few pure drinks. It is the representative variety of Nanyang coffee. If the comprehensive coffee is mixed with Romsda coffee, the concentration and sweetness of the coffee can be increased.

8. Comprehensive coffee:

Generally speaking, more than three kinds of coffee beans are mixed into another kind of coffee with unique style, and all kinds of coffee with sour, sweet, bitter and moderate flavor can be selected according to individual taste. If you can match it with fragrance, sweetness and slippery mouth, and the coffee color is golden, it can be said to be top grade.

How to choose coffee beans

No matter what kind of coffee beans, freshness is an important factor affecting the quality. When shopping, grab one or two coffee beans in your mouth and chew them with a crisp sound (indicating that the coffee is not damp) and the fragrance of the teeth and cheeks is the top grade, but it is best to squeeze it with your hands to feel whether it is solid, rather than buying crispy coffee. If the coffee bean has lost its fragrance or smells stale, it means that the coffee bean is no longer fresh and is not suitable for purchase. Freshly fried coffee beans are not suitable for immediate consumption and should be stored for a week to completely release the gas from the beans. Generally speaking, the best drinking period for coffee is a week after stir-frying, when the coffee beans are the freshest and the Aroma taste is the best. In addition, the purity of coffee beans is also another consideration. The expert candidate for coffee is not necessarily to look at the size of the particles, but to grab a handful of individual coffee beans (Regional Coffee), about dozens of portions, to see whether the color of each single bean is the same, and whether the particles are similar in size and shape, so as to avoid buying shoddy products disguised as mixed beans. But if it is a synthetic bean (Blended Coffee), it is a normal phenomenon that the size and color are different. In addition, heavy heat and medium-deep stir-frying will cause coffee beans to produce oil, but if the beans are lightly fried, they have gone bad, not only reducing aroma, but also astringent and sour taste. In short, when buying coffee, we should pay attention to its freshness, aroma and whether it is stale or not, and the ideal quantity should be consumed in one month.