We often see it in coffee shops, such as American coffee, cappuccino, blue mountain coffee, cat excrement coffee, coffee latte, etc. Some coffees have milk bubbles, some coffees can pull flowers, some coffees are sweet, some coffees are so bitter, and some coffees are so expensive. What's the difference? Today, let's talk about single coffee and blended coffee.

What is single product coffee?

Although a single variety of coffee beans with a single origin is often named after a country, the final origin of single-product coffee is only accurate to a certain country, but the manor area where single-product coffee is produced.

What we often hear and see, such as Blue Mountain Coffee, Kenya, Colombia, Yejiaxuefei, etc., belong to single product coffee. There is no milk and no sugar. Usually, we will call them "black coffee" in a unified way, which is actually not a very professional name. Although I often drink single coffee, I can enjoy its bitterness, and the drinkers who don't add milk or sugar are basically a few. In fact, single coffee grows in different regions, and each kind of coffee has its own unique flavor due to the climate difference of its origin, so it is suggested to taste the original flavor of coffee before adding sugar and milk.

What is fine coffee?

Single product coffee will also be divided into fine grade coffee beans and commercial grade single product coffee. The definition of fine coffee is relatively clear: "In the most favorable microclimate and soil and water, fine coffee with unique flavor can be grown, and SCA(Specialty Coffee Association Fine Coffee Association) scores above 80 points to be considered fine coffee, and even below 80 points, it is not considered fine coffee, that is, commercial-grade single coffee."

Single product coffee is generally extracted by siphoning, hand-washing and other brewing methods, and is selected according to personal taste preferences. It can also better preserve the original flavor of coffee.

What is blended coffee?

We often call it comprehensive coffee or mixed coffee. Generally, two or more different kinds of coffee or coffee with different roasting degrees of the same variety are mixed in a certain proportion. Italian coffee basically belongs to blended coffee.

Blended coffee is much cheaper than single product coffee, and it is usually named after flavor or brand. For example, espresso, blue mountain flavor coffee and mamba coffee are all famous blended coffees.

The fancy coffee we often drink is based on espresso, with milk, milk foam, various syrups or cream and other raw materials, such as American coffee, coffee latte, mocha coffee, caramel macchiato and other fancy coffees are also the products of blending coffee beans.

Blending coffee is raw, that is, mixing raw beans in proportion; There is also cooking, that is, mixing in proportion after baking.

The purpose of blending coffee is generally to stabilize the flavor. By mixing a variety of beans to make up for the single flavor of a single coffee bean, colleagues can balance the taste, and on the other hand, they can reduce the cost to some extent.

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