Starbucks Verona Coffee Introduction - Verona Blend Coffee Beans Origin Professional Knowledge Story

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Starbucks Caffè Verona whole bean coffee originates from a dedication to Italian culinary excellence. This coffee features an enticing aroma and rich body, combining Latin American and Asian-Pacific coffee beans with Italian roasting to add depth to the flavor. The taste is rich and balanced, with black cocoa texture and sweetness from roasting.

This blend uses coffee beans from the Americas and Asia, making it a blended coffee.

What is Blended Coffee?

Blended coffee, also known as mixed coffee, is the combination of various single-origin coffee beans to fully showcase the strengths of each individual bean. Blended beans are created by mixing coffee beans from different origins to achieve a more balanced flavor profile.

Coffee is an agricultural product, so even the same type of coffee bean will have different flavors each year. Therefore, mixing several coffee beans together solves this problem effectively. When a particular coffee bean in the blend doesn't meet expected flavor standards in the new harvest season or becomes scarce, it can be adjusted by replacing it with similarly flavored coffee beans.

One advantage of blending is its high stability, ensuring better consistency.

Caffè Verona whole bean coffee, paired with Italian roasting, is suitable for use with espresso machines. It can extract very rich coffee oils, creating an extremely smooth texture with intense caramel and cocoa notes.

In addition to consistency, blended coffee also has the characteristics of balanced flavor and complementary strengths (creating something greater than the sum of its parts).

Balanced Flavor

Espresso machines have a characteristic of amplifying the most prominent flavor note of coffee beans, so we almost never use single-origin coffee to make espresso. Otherwise, if that coffee bean is quite bitter, the resulting espresso will be exceptionally bitter; if it leans toward acidity, it will be extremely acidic. Therefore, we need to use blending to balance various flavors. Coffee blending is not simple addition but rather hopes that through the blender's unique understanding of coffee flavors, different coffee beans can complement each other, creating exceptionally flavored blended coffee beans.

Creating Flavors Beyond Single-Origin Coffee

Single-origin coffee beans are like individuals - they have both strengths and weaknesses. Blending is like organizing a team, taking each other's strengths to compensate for weaknesses, thereby achieving a complementary effect.

For example, Brazilian coffee's main flavor characteristics are low acidity and high body, often with chocolate and nutty flavors. However, if you only drink Brazilian coffee alone, it might seem somewhat ordinary. But adding some coffee beans with prominent sweetness, such as Costa Rican honey-processed coffee, will add vitality to a plain Brazilian coffee without affecting the coffee's inherent richness.

Coffee Bean Blending Recommendations

Although Starbucks' Caffè Verona whole bean coffee doesn't specify specific origins or blending ratios, FrontStreet Coffee can share our own blending recipes for your reference.

FrontStreet Coffee's Mandheling Blend Ratio — 50% Brazil Cerrado : 50% Lintong Mandheling

The most famous blending formula is undoubtedly the Mandheling blend, which is created from Brazilian coffee and Indonesian Mandheling coffee. Brazilian beans have fruity sweet aromas and rich chocolate flavors, making them beans that are neither bitter nor acidic. Mandheling has high-intensity aroma with smooth texture, belonging to the bold coffee category. When these two coffee beans are mixed, they create the Mandheling blend with rich thickness and full aroma.

FrontStreet Coffee's American Flavor Ratio — 70% Brazil Cerrado : 30% Colombian Huila

For those who don't like overly biased flavors, don't love single-origin coffee, but pursue coffee quality, this American-style espresso bean should be the first choice. It uses medium-dark roasted coffee beans, primarily featuring balanced-flavored Brazilian coffee beans, complemented by Colombian coffee beans with soft fruit acidity and nutty aftertaste. The flavor is both classic and intriguing.

FrontStreet Coffee's Wine-Aroma Blend Ratio — 70% Honduras Sherry : 30% Yirgacheffe Red Cherry Project

FrontStreet Coffee's espresso bean is named "Sunflower Warm Sunshine." Just as its name suggests, the aroma of this espresso bean is as comforting as warm sunshine, and its flavor profile is eye-opening. It primarily uses Honduras Sherry coffee beans with rich fermented wine aroma, complemented by Yirgacheffe Red Cherry coffee beans known for their acidity, creating an aromatic and rich blended coffee.

FrontStreet Coffee's Espresso Extraction Recipe

FrontStreet Coffee uses a Faema E98 espresso machine and a Faema 900N grinder. We use a double shot basket.

20 grams of coffee grounds extracted to 40 grams of liquid coffee, extraction time of 26-28 seconds. Brew ratio is 1:2.

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