Coffee book recommendation: real fresh coffee "Real Fresh Coffee"

Title: Real Fresh Coffee: How to Source,Roast,Grind and Brew the Perfect Cup

Author: Jeremy Torz,Steven Macatonia

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This book is suitable for:

1. Coffee lover

two。 Junior barista

Highlights of the book:

Not so much a bright spot as an interesting place. ~

The content is divided into five parts, producing area, baking, extraction, Italian concentrate, coffee culture.

Among them, it is worth noting that:

1. Coffee production calendar

The coffee calendar organized by the author very intuitively shows the process of coffee coming to the cup, "across the ocean to see you", in the world of coffee, this romance can have.

2. Coffee cup test

In the third part, in the extraction, there are several sections that describe the content of coffee evaluation in detail, not only the relatively professional introduction of the author's own company, but also more operational, ordinary consumers can also easily copy home evaluation. If you are interested in coffee, you might as well pay attention to it.

When talking about the cup test, there is also a sample table used by the cup tester. Interested TX can study it on their own.

3. Coffee producing area

The introduction is very concise, but the content is very vivid. After all, the authors are experienced and come from front-line field reports, which is a good way to understand the general situation of mainstream producing areas.

Among them, we also talked about our Great China, but the information given is slightly different. The book says it has great potential, but it has not yet entered the field of boutique coffee. In fact, Yunnan coffee boutique coffee has gone a long way, purely from the cup test score, has entered the ranks of boutique coffee, and this score is also determined to come from the American boutique coffee Mr. Looking at the concept of "auction beans", which is often popular in the market, the book mentions that the selling price of the winning bean auction in a certain year is tens of dollars per pound. The authors use "incredible" to describe this price. I don't know how I would feel if I knew about the cup test competition of Yunnan coffee in a certain year and auctioned for thousands of yuan. ~

In addition, in the origin introduction section, the authors give a relatively complete introduction of the existing popular "coffee labels" on the market, such as fair trade, direct trade, micro-batches, organic coffee, rainforest coffee and so on. It basically covers the existing authentication methods. And combined with their own experience, give their own views, for ordinary consumers, it is of great reference value.

4. Espresso

Espresso is just a way of extraction, with a unique way of flavor balance.

In addition, a more detailed introduction of the evolution of Italian coffee machine, the main technological breakthroughs and representative models are involved, baristas can refer to.

5. Coffee culture

This paper introduces the process of how coffee becomes a universal drink, although it is simple, but the context is clear.

Among them, in addition to the relevant coffee culture history, there is also a section, a brief introduction of several representative famous drinks, plus a section, introduced several famous shops.

There is a famous store that appears in the remarks. You can pay more attention to the "Cafe Wha?" in New York. Reason? This year's Nobel Prize winner, Bob Dylan, also performed in this coffee shop. If you read the introduction article of Bob Dylan, you will have a good chance of meeting this person.

6. About the formula and extraction method of drinks

There are beverage recipes and common drinks, such as American style, latte, Cabo and so on.

There are extraction methods, hand flushing, French pressure kettle, chemex, Philharmonic pressure, siphon, mocha kettle, all mentioned. Of course, there is also a single column of Italian.

However, both drinks and extraction methods are at the entry level. It won't be as deep as a special book.

7. Other

When talking about coffee culture, people are fascinated by the variety of entrepreneurs mentioned. When roasting coffee, talking about roasting fire, saying that roasters will experience this kind of thing sooner or later, this conclusion is also ∩ _ ∩) O

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