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In the morning, a cup of hand-brewed coffee with bright aroma and light taste is suitable. The fruity aroma can quickly open up the taste, and the sweetness will make the taste more comfortable on an empty stomach or after breakfast. When picking beans, you can give priority to the direction of light roasting or medium-light roasting. Floral, citrus, berry and tropical fruits are usually easier to perceive. If you don’t like the obvious sour taste, you can
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Recommending coffee beans to novices is actually a meaningless thing. Coffee is a multi-flavored drink. Everyone has a different experience of flavor. Some people like floral aromas while others hate floral aromas. Although the Specialty Coffee Association has introduced a flavor wheel for many years, for many coffee lovers, the flavor wheel
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The coffee made with a Moka pot has a higher concentration and a more concentrated aroma than brewing by hand. If you want to drink it smoothly, you don’t need to pursue obvious acidity in beans. You can give priority to nuts, cocoa, caramel or roasted sweet aroma. This kind of flavor is more likely to form a full mouthfeel after pressure extraction in the Moka pot. It can be drank directly, added with water or milk.
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SOE Americano does not mean sour coffee. SOE refers to single-origin concentrate. After water is added to the coffee liquid, the aroma brought by the production area and processing method will be more directly presented. It can be bright and fruity, or it can be soft and sweet. Whether it suits you or not often depends on when and in what state you are going to drink it.
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In the field of moka pots, there is a brand that can be called "god-level", and it is Bialetti. Why do you say it is a god? Because the world's first Moka pot was invented by Alfonso Bialetti, the founder of Bialetti, in 1933.
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When you get an espresso machine or a moka pot at home, what’s the first thing you think about? ——What coffee beans to buy. The machine is a good machine, but if the beans are not selected correctly, no matter how good the machine is, it will be of no use: either the extraction will have no oil and be as light as water; or it will be bitter and astringent, and you will be put off after one sip. Today I will give you a "family coffee" directly
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SOE is the abbreviation of Single Origin Espresso, which refers to using coffee beans from a single origin to make espresso instead of mixing beans from different origins. It can be used to make espresso, American style and latte, and can also be hand brewed to present the flavor of the place of origin. For ordinary consumers, SO
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Floral flavored coffee beans are suitable to be judged by the time of drinking, rather than just looking at the word floral on the package. In the morning, you need a cup of clear, light hot coffee. In the afternoon, you may want to drink a sour, sweet and bright ice drink. When you are reading quietly, a cup with delicate aroma and slow change is suitable. First imagine when and how you will be
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Different from the bitter coffee in the past, today's coffee not only has a variety of flavors, including sour, sweet, bitter, and strong, but also has different names corresponding to different production methods. Generally speaking, hand brewing will choose coffee beans from a single origin, because this can give you a unique flavor; for Italian coffee, traditionally
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Black coffee and milk coffee have different requirements for beans. Black coffee requires the aroma and sweetness to be independent, while milk coffee requires the coffee liquid to have sufficient concentration and body, and to still retain a clear flavor after adding milk. It will be easier to choose the right one by first determining whether milk is added to the cup, and then deciding on the style of beans. Mount
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The Moka pot is a common coffee appliance in many people's homes. It is easy to operate and produces a rich cup. But many people are not sure what beans to use in a Moka pot. In fact, according to the flavor direction, the beans used in Moka pots are mainly divided into two categories: classic and mellow and fruity and fresh, each with its own suitable scene. The classic and mellow direction is mainly blended beans, especially mamba.
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Authentic Blue Mountain usually refers to Jamaican Blue Mountain coffee, not any beans that say "Blue Mountain flavor." Its charm lies not in a certain strong aroma, but in the harmony between sweet and sour, mellow and clean. If you want to buy a drink that is delicious and not expensive, start with how you drink it every day, and then decide whether you need to pursue complete dental health.
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As the atmosphere of domestic specialty coffee becomes more and more intense, high-quality single-origin beans from various origins around the world are frequently on the menus of many cafes. Not only does each coffee come with detailed traceability information, but many single-origin batches leave a deep impression on people with their unique aroma. For example, the bean menu at the Front Street store has a whole section
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Front Street often receives many questions like this: "What beans are suitable for Moka pots", "What beans are suitable for coffee machines", or "What beans are suitable for cold brew"... Many friends who are just getting started will always mistakenly think that a certain extraction method will have the most suitable coffee beans, but in fact, no matter the moka,
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The golden foam on the surface of espresso coffee is often called fat. It comes from the emulsified layer formed by carbon dioxide, aromatic substances and water inside the coffee beans under high pressure, making the entrance thicker and the aroma more concentrated. If you care about the richness of fat, you should not just look at the color when picking beans, but also consider the way you drink them and how they are roasted.
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You need a quick and refreshing cup of concentrate in the morning. The beans should have a clear sweetness and sufficient thickness, and the entrance should not be too sharp. If paired with toast, croissant or eggs, flavors such as nuts, cocoa, and caramel can be more easily integrated into breakfast. Such Italian beans are relatively tolerant to small fluctuations in grinding and extraction, and are suitable for
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When you need a cup of coffee in the morning that is smooth and won’t take away the taste of breakfast, Brazilian beans are often suitable. It often has nutty, cocoa, caramel or ripe fruit sweetness, relatively mild acidity, and tastes round and weighty. When choosing beans, you can first imagine the scene that you most often see: drinking slowly on an empty stomach, with bread, or adding milk and taking it with you
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Many friends who are new to coffee will struggle with a question: Which one should I buy, French Press or Moka Pot? Both are recognized as novice-friendly coffee appliances, but their extraction principles, taste, flavor, and operation methods are completely different. Today’s article will help you figure it out at once. After reading it, you can place an order directly without any entanglement.
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For more knowledge about specialty coffee, please pay attention to: Frontsteet Coffee. Some time ago, Frontsteet shared an article on how to make cold brew coffee. Backstage, many friends began to ask how to choose beans for cold brew. So today I will analyze and answer this question with you. do
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The value of Italian blended beans lies not only in whether the unit price is friendly, but also in whether a pack of beans can cover several drinking methods in life. You need a quick pick-me-up in the morning. A large cup of black coffee is suitable for commuting. You want to drink iced drinks in the afternoon, and your family prefers milk coffee. When choosing beans, you should pay attention to the concentration, sweetness and aroma in different drinks.
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