Introduction to roasting skills and blending proportion of coffee beans

First, plan a recipe process, which requires thinking about some basic questions, such as: What kind of customer is your recipe for? Home consumers, coffee shops, or a multi-purpose formula? These questions determine what flavor to have in the recipe and how deep to bake. The baker must know what flavor he wants to bake. All this has to be decided beforehand.

Second, all kinds of coffee beans used in the formula must have its own characteristics, and they can be made into single coffee alone, and they can also perform well. Some coffee roasters will use inferior beans in their recipes and try to disguise their bad taste with roasting, which is personally a waste of time and customers will not be satisfied.

Third, determine the roasting level of each bean, let the coffee beans express their own characteristics, and use their different characteristics to combine into your recipe. Roasting and mixing is recommended. You must try every roast of each coffee. This process is very critical. Try it more! It is not uncommon to see roasters neglect this step and decide too early on the roasting strength of each coffee. Remember that the optimum roast is different for each coffee bean, and each coffee often has more than one optimum roast. As a result, the myriad varieties of coffee combined with so many degrees of roasting make the recipe an endless nightmare.

In general, mediumlight, medium, and well-done are recommended. Many coffee roasters copy well-known recipes, but in order to achieve so-called complete caramelization, they will not hesitate to roast until they lose their original flavor. And the result was, a whole bunch of black, burnt products. With lighter roasting, you get the original flavor, complexity, refreshing character, and sweetness of the coffee itself. Encourage trying lighter roasts to express your recipe. Here, if use lighter roast must pay attention to the roast skill of roaster, automatic roast machine is unable to bake good in light roast coffee!

Fourth, you have to choose the type of coffee beans you want, and their respective roasting degrees. Remember that you must keep detailed records of the raw beans, baking techniques, and recipe proportions you use. If you make a good recipe, you can refer to the information on the record to continue to improve it.

There will be some variation in the coffee beans harvested each season, and it is recommended that you re-evaluate your recipe each season. The key to preparing a recipe is to make sure that each bean in the recipe has been baked to perfection. Even if you think you have the best recipe, the final judgment is in the hands of the customer