Are there any other benefits of coffee blending besides pursuing different flavors?

Since it is a blending, it naturally refers to the blending of more than two kinds of raw beans, but a special example is that it can also match the same kind of coffee beans with different roasting degrees, or even the new crop and aged coffee or old crop of the same kind of coffee beans, so the type referred to in the blending is no longer a coffee variety in a narrow sense, but extends to the flavor of coffee in a broad sense. Generally use 2 to 6 kinds of coffee beans when blending, too many kinds will not be able to show the unique flavor of coffee.

Blended coffee usually does not take the 1:1 blending ratio, because this may suppress each other's unique flavor, so the blending must be primary and secondary in order to produce a better taste than a single coffee. If you want the coffee to taste complex and changeable, you can reduce the proportion of raw beans, and vice versa.

The blending of coffee depends on constant attempts, so a blending schedule should be drawn up mathematically before blending, and then the best plan should be determined through the process of blending-tasting cups.

Don't think that this is a negative and stupid approach. In fact, a good cup of coffee can only be made by the experience, inspiration and tireless attempt of the blender.

1. A stable flavor

Because coffee beans are a kind of crop, the flavor of even the same kind of coffee beans will be different from year to year, so mixing several kinds of coffee beans can solve this problem and keep the taste basically the same every year.

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two。 Balanced taste

Because one of the features of the Italian coffee machine is that it magnifies the most prominent flavor feature of coffee beans, we hardly use a single variety of coffee to make Espresso, otherwise if that coffee bean is bitter, the Espresso will be very bitter and sour. So we need to balance the flavors by matching them.

3. Reduce the cost

In fact, the cost reduction is due to the fact that coffee production is often reduced due to natural and man-made disasters. At that time, since it is matched, it is only necessary to find a coffee bean with similar taste to replace the corresponding coffee bean in the recipe. There is no need to pay a lot of money to snap up coffee beans that have increased prices as a result of reduced production. But after arriving in China, we creatively appeared coffee blends such as Blue Mountain flavor, which means that we can't drink the real Blue Mountain, so we drink Blue Mountain coffee. Anyway, no one knows what Blue Mountain coffee tastes like.