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Coffee is thinking, it was a unique concentration of hard to create a harmonious and mellow intimate atmosphere. Whether at home or with friends chatting reception lovers get-together. The rich aroma of coffee alone make the hearts of the total close to each other.
Featured coffee beans originating in Africa, Ethiopia, is an evergreen plant again cotyledon. Ripe coffee fruit is red stone, with red cherries are very similar. The main coffee taste sour, bitter, fragrant, sweet, fruit fragrance, Jiao Hu, astringent and so on. In addition, the same coffee, roasted to varying degrees, the taste is different. General, the extent of baking more heavy, sour more light, more concentrated bitterness. Therefore, in addition to some quality alone can enjoy coffee Alabike, the Shangyuan caffeine is the most different species in different degrees of roasting coffee, according to a certain proportion of blending and modulation all kinds of flavors of coffee (Blend Coffee).
The traditional blending:
Medium baking degree (City). Mocha 30%, Colombia 30%, Brazil 40%.
Suitable for blending sour preferences:
Ordinary baking degree (Midium) Mocha 30%, Colombia 40%, Brazil 30%.
A strong preference for the flavor of blending:
Medium baking degree (Midium) Mocha 30%, Colombia 20%, Brazil 30%, Guatemala 10%
Bitter taste with a sweetener is suitable for blending in:
A strong degree of baking (Midium) Mocha 30%, Colombia, to 40%, El Salvador, 40%.
You can select several typical coffee beans so as to friends modulation of different flavors of coffee. Buy coffee on the one hand look at the date on the packaging of the baking, taking his hand grasping the first 12 coffee tweak the feel to see if solid, and then in your mouth chew what to crisp sound, teeth are the cheek Liuxiang top grade. And packaging of roasted coffee in any case, its the longest shelf life is only 4-5 weeks.

Smell: The smell of fresh coffee beans are fragrant, and vice versa taste or smell bad.
Seeing: good coffee bean shape, integrity, and heads fruitful. On the contrary the shape of different disabilities.
Hand pressure: pressure of the fresh coffee beans fresh crisp scent wafting from time to time splitting.
Color: deep ribbon black beans, cook coffee with a bitter taste; color than the yellow beans, cooked with a sour coffee.
Fried coffee beans to accompany it is very technical work, Pei heat drying of raw beans cooked, remove the water to make it explosive expansion, after this procedure, can produce the unique aroma and flavor of coffee. In general, fried to accompany a short time, the color of coffee beans will be light brown, sour strong, if the darker color to accompany fried, then the bitterness intensified Yi Cheng dark brown color. Therefore, roasting coffee beans into several different levels: 1. The most light to accompany the fried. 2. Shallow fried to accompany 3. Ordinary fried to accompany. 4. Slightly stronger than the average of the fry to accompany. 5. Middle-fried to accompany 6. Slightly more likely to accompany the fried 7. Strongly to accompany fried. 8. The most concentrated and strongly of the fry to accompany.
How do I distinguish between good and bad coffee beans: smell: the smell of fresh coffee beans are fragrant, and vice versa taste or smell bad to see: a good coffee bean shape, integrity, and heads fruitful. On the contrary the shape of a residual. Pressure: Pressure of fresh coffee beans fresh crisp, split time flavor floating well: Deep ribbon black beans, boiled out of the color of coffee with a bitter taste than the yellow beans, cooked with a taste of coffee. Good coffee: the shape and tidy, bright color, a single fried bakery. Chong Zhu Hou mellow, stamina enough bad beans: different shapes, and the integrity of the individual is incomplete, red Zhuhou light incense, less sweet.
Purchase and the best coffee is prepared and bought a large quantity of raw coffee, personally baking, in preparation prepared and prior to grinding. But most people like to buy already roasted coffee beans, and the amount of purchase is probably better than what we use is even more than a few days.
Water is the enemy of stored coffee. Coffee oil is water-soluble. It makes more coffee flavor, and moist environment will corrupt coffee oil (oil-food). Do not store coffee in the refrigerator a layer of insurance because the refrigerator was opened, moisture will condense in the container indicates.
If you want long-term preservation of coffee, it is best to set them in a sealed bag, then put into a refrigerator cold storage layer. Roasted coffee beans to save more than one week, we should also followed suit. When you do not have to thaw ground – you can put them directly into the grinder.
Another enemy is the oxygen beans, which can be oxidized volatile odor. That is why just before the coffee ground coffee prepared and truth. When the coffee beans are ground, it exposes most of the surface of the air. This means that coffee oil began to evaporate, and tastes will gradually disappear in thin air.
Do not have a strong smell of coffee close to other objects (such as tea). Because coffee will quickly absorb other odors, so please put coffee on the clean sealed container.
If you want to order coffee, one do not buy too much. Although the bulk purchase of coffee to save money, but when the coffee loses its flavor when will lose its value.
How to judge from the appearance of beans is good or bad then??? Can color — whether its good gloss, color, even without stain; — whether the fragrant smell of its full-bodied flavor; oral brittleness into the mouth of light — bite, whether crisp sound, taste good, last look at the bean-shaped if there is full weight. Because there is no good coffee beans / powder is not prepared and out of coffee. Second, pay attention to packaging coffee beans is intact, if the bags into the air-permeability, then the coffee into the air easily through contact with moisture sucked into Ershi beans, affecting coffee quality.
Shape judgments
Delicious coffee, from its post-roast coffee beans can be aware of the shape, as shown. Of course, can not have bad coffee beans mixed with, but also to note that the normal high-quality coffee beans will be mixed in the causing obstruction, an Diao brewing up delicious roast coffee beans, first of all must be as big as beans plump, and the uniform, followed by the size of the same tan without stain. These are the main points of visual discrimination, if look at them carefully, should not be difficult to differentiate between out.
Fermented bean: soil hair falling before harvest coffee beans. Sour odor, taste of coffee will cause a great impact.
Death beans: also known as immature beans, or affected by climate and other factors, development is not perfect, fried after baking will produce fried grouper, so that there are shares Sentimental coffee flavor.
Black beans: fermented beans, has been corruption, black coffee beans. Because it is black, one can distinguish the normal coffee beans.
Moth bean: coffee beans erosion by insects
Incomplete beans: It may be operating when the card into, or to deal with careless handling, resulting in the deterioration of coffee beans. Will cause roast fried grouper from time to time, and will produce bitterness and astringency.
Other: residual thin-skinned beans, hair blind bad beans, dry beans are not fully produce sour, only the shell of the shell beans and so on.
Grinding to determine when the
Adequate moisture baked out of the coffee can in order to brew a delicious coffee, the coffee beans in the ground that can be determined when. Good quality coffee beans in the ground gently when the sound issued Shalashala , shake hands gently, and the original taste of coffee that is overflowing. inferior coffee beans will have Cameroon Cameroon squeak squeak sound. grinding feeling when a kind of stuck.
Hou’s time to take the soldier to determine
Brewing delicious coffee, the easiest way is to take a sigh filter paper filter soldier. Death, when taken in the brew, but also determine whether the delicious coffee, the way that the Pops in hot water, whether powder leavening to bulge and fully baked out of water after the coffee in the brew, there will be a beautiful and meticulous foam leavening to bulge.
After taking the soldier to determine
While the roast coffee, because of the degree of concentration of Death to take different methods to make a change, but the delicious coffee is characterized by a soldier under the same conditions out of coffee brewing is the clear liquid. The following diagram obtained through the soldier fluid can clearly see the spoon spoon, while the stone map is almost invisible. Just a cup of very difficult to distinguish, but if the comparison of coffee at a glance whether it can be delicious, a cup of delicious coffee, even 30 minutes later, is still the clear color and taste will not change.
From the coffee taste and smell to judge
Delicious coffee, like sour citrus fruit (fruit food) as a refreshing, there is no strong sour. Bitter is a gentle bitterness. Did not like the smell of smoke or a burnt smell like bitter taste.
From birth to judge the quality of beans
Prior to the discussion of the shape, grinding stage, the soldier to take when the soldier to take after, taste, smell at all stages, as the judge focused on coffee, delicious or not, but they are completely roasted coffee beans for the case. Pre-baked green beans, commonly known as [Green], if the beans of the quality is poor, no matter how you make an effort roast out of the United States can not brew coffee. Beans is usually two months after harvest output by origin This year’s crop is called New Crop. After a year as Past Crop. But after longer claimed Old Crop. Coffee beans are crops, freshness will naturally affect their taste. Fresh beans can enjoy its various species of distinctive characteristics and dynamic flavor. Such as rice, for example, if long-term placement, its original flavor will vary and therefore the loss of moisture dimmed. Fresh beans, showing fresh green color, can be simple enough to make out. In addition to freshness beyond. Regardless of species, but also should try to choose large particle size and no stain raw beans.
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