In Sanlitun, there is a coffee machine with less than 20 units in China.

Alex & Bros is a cafe that is so rich and varied that you will get a harvest every time you visit.

Avant-garde and artistic

Alex & Bros has a very advanced coffee machine-SteamPunk steampunk. This coffee machine costs six figures and no more than 20 in the country. As for Beijing, there are only about five.

Steam heat the water in the pot, reach the set temperature, pour the coffee powder at the top, press the filter, steam soak and extract the coffee, siphon the coffee into the lower pot, open the valve at the bottom of the siphon coffee machine and flow out the coffee.

The whole action was done in one fell swoop, handsome to the sky.

Professional and persistent

Lu Yang, the partner of this high-end coffee machine, is a coffee maniac. Not only obtained the senior barista certification issued by the American Fine Coffee Association SCAA, but also won the Q-Grader qualification.

Q-Grader is a coffee quality appraiser certified by CQI (International Coffee quality Research Institute) under SCAA. It is currently the highest gold content coffee license in the world. To become an Q-Grader, you need to pass exams in more than 20 subjects and have many professional skills, such as "distinguishing the sour, salty and sweet taste of coffee", "distinguishing the aroma of coffee" and "distinguishing the origin of coffee by taste only". At present, only a few thousand people around the world have obtained this certification.

As a Q-Grader, you often have to jump out of coffee thinking and judge the grade of coffee beans from a third perspective. Not everyone can do this kind of role exchange that can both fit in and jump out.

Lu Yang always inadvertently expresses his love for coffee. What is the proportion of coffee beans used to make espresso in the store, what kind of taste is it for, how to taste it, or what level of feeling does a single coffee made with that SteamPunk bring to the taste buds? As long as you throw out a coffee-related topic, Lu Yang will be able to talk to you for dozens of minutes.

Open and kind

Alex & Bros is not a coffee shop in the strict sense. It is located in an open space in Tongying Center, with a "greenhouse", a "leather handicraft workshop" and an "oil painting classroom" next to the coffee bar.

Put these patterns together and give you a full weekend afternoon, which is the aesthetics of life that Alex & Bros really wants to express.

Alex & Bros Life Aesthetics

Address: 2-12B, 2 / F, Tongying Center, Sanlitun South Road, Chaoyang District, Beijing

Tel: 010-5780 9042

Opening hours: 10:00-22:00