What is Fine Coffee? Start coffee, open a coffee shop, know good coffee

Boutique coffee (specialty coffee) is also called "specialty coffee" or "select coffee". It refers to coffee made from a small number of raw beans with excellent taste grown in an ideal geographical environment. Depending on the special soil and climatic conditions in which they grow, they have outstanding flavor. After strict selection and classification, this kind of coffee can be regarded as a selection of coffee beans because of its hard texture, rich taste and excellent flavor.

The Shanghai exhibition officially came to an end today. However, this brewing contest can not help but want to complain. In the final of this brewing contest, the contestants used all Panamanian coffee, except that the sixth 90 plus ruby was planted by Ethiopian native species in Panama. the rest of the coffee is rosy summer. And there are two kinds of 90 + coffee. Although this is a Chinese coffee brewing contest, I always feel that this competition can also be regarded as a BOP (Best Of Panama) event. It has to be said that such a bizarre event is closely related to the spread of "boutique" coffee.

With the popularity of coffee in recent years, more and more baristas and enthusiasts have come into contact with and learned about fine coffee. In this exhibition, it is a little helpless to talk about "boutique coffee". It is said that fine coffee is only a product of commercialization. Before there was no boutique coffee, didn't coffee always exist well? How can there be so much "boutique" coffee in the world? Even let enthusiasts see the word "boutique" is as excited as taking an aphrodisiac, there is a kind of unconsciously high feeling.

And such coffee according to taste, like heroes based on success or failure, is biased both to people and to things. But now the boutique seems to have become an inevitable trend, just like the cartoon drawn by the great Anne before, "I'm sorry for living 1% of my life." too many people have replaced the protagonist in the story with themselves. it seems that although tens of thousands of people have gone, they must be 1%, and they must be fine. I have nothing to say about such fantasies.

Life is chosen by people, the rules are also set by people, and the competition is nothing more than getting more points in a framework, but do we really start our lives with so many rules and regulations that bind ourselves to them? Must thousands of troops cross the single-log bridge, bind their own life to the standards of others, live in the eyes of others, and lose their own thinking and judgment, and rely on those chicken soup to convince themselves every day in order to have the motivation to live?

Boutique coffee advocates traceability, but as a barista and enthusiast, do you have enough data to compare? Do you know the roasting degree of coffee? you should know the basic taste of coffee, which is more suitable for consumers, which is more the result of business, and what should be the taste of coffee itself? Instead of others advocating "boutique", you begin to kneel and lick, others put forward the flavor, and you forget the thickness of coffee bitterness.

As this brewing competition evolved into a Panamanian coffee show, the domestic Yunnan beans may not be taken separately, but when we collectively choose Rose Summer and Panama, can we find a coffee that is really suitable for consumers and find the nature of the coffee? is it really that difficult to have a comprehensive and specific understanding of coffee? Is it that there are no good beans in other countries, or are there only pitifully few flavors of boutique coffee that you understand?

To be fair, isn't the original "boutique" coffee subdivided by people according to certain characteristic standards? Isn't coffee good or bad because it is comfortable and balanced, and now it only has a flavor and light baking for easy brewing, regardless of baking and other factors? Don't you reflect on your own reasons for such information asymmetry and being led by the nose?

If you know and only know boutique coffee, and firmly believe that you are 1% chosen by fate, then I hope your future will be smooth sailing.