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Blended Coffee

Blended coffee is also known as mixed coffee.

Master roasters understand the unique characteristics of each coffee bean and artistically combine them to create entirely new, desired flavors. The knowledge master roasters possess about blending coffee beans is considered the highest industry secret.

Today's popular espresso beans almost all fall into the category of blended coffee. We generally define blended coffee as coffee made by combining two or more different varieties of coffee, or the same variety of coffee roasted to different degrees. Blended coffee is never about simple addition—instead, it hopes that through the blender's unique understanding of coffee flavors, different coffee beans can complement each other's strengths and weaknesses, creating a perfectly flavored blended coffee bean.

What is the Purpose of Blending Coffee Beans?

Blended coffee is generally made from three or more different varieties of coffee, blended according to their acidity, bitterness, sweetness, aroma, and body to create another coffee with unique flavor. Good comprehensive coffee, after blending completion, has a refreshing fragrance, smooth and refreshing taste, and golden color—it is the premium grade among coffees. Coffee beverages created through blending are highly flexible, pursuing individual character.

People primarily blend coffee beans for the following purposes:

Stable Flavor

Because coffee beans are an agricultural product, even the same variety of coffee bean will have different flavors each year. Therefore, blending several coffee beans together effectively solves this problem, allowing the taste to remain basically consistent year after year.

Balanced Taste

Since espresso machines have a characteristic of amplifying the most prominent flavor characteristic of coffee beans, 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 sour. Therefore, we need to use blending to balance various flavors.

Cost Reduction

In reality, cost reduction occurs because coffee-producing regions are often affected by natural and man-made disasters, leading to reduced production. When this happens, because it's a blend, we only need to find a coffee bean with similar taste to replace the corresponding bean in the formula, rather than paying high prices to purchase coffee beans that have increased in price due to reduced production. However, after coming to China, we creatively created coffee blends such as Blue Mountain flavor—meaning since we can't drink real Blue Mountain, we'll drink coffee with Blue Mountain taste, anyway, who knows what Blue Mountain coffee actually tastes like. A good formula can create a coffee legend—for example, the coffee giants familiar to our countrymen like ILLY and LAVAZA are outstanding examples. We hope China will soon emerge with truly Chinese-tasting, Chinese-characteristic blended coffee matches, rather than just pursuing low costs by deeply roasting low-quality coffee beans and mixing them together.

According to different coffee varieties, comprehensive coffees created through blending will also have different taste characteristics.

To practically apply these combinations, one must first understand the flavors of dozens of single-origin coffees. Each coffee shop will also blend coffee beans in different proportions according to their own characteristics.

When blending coffee, you can first understand three extremely preliminary coffee bean blending methods.

1. Base Bean Method

First, decide on the base coffee beans to be used in the blend, using this coffee bean as the center, then further select other varieties rich in personality to harmonize the overall flavor.

2. Opposite Characteristics Method

You can try combining coffee beans with completely opposite characteristics—this can add more special coffee aroma.

3. Similar Characteristics Method

Combine bean varieties with similar characteristics and further integrate them, then select flavorful bean varieties rich in individuality to add special aroma to the overall coffee.

There are two blending methods: roasting first then blending (熟拼) and blending first then roasting (生拼), the latter poses a greater challenge for roasters; blended beans are aged for several days to allow the characteristics between beans to fuse, creating balanced and unified flavor; roasted-first blends generally need to be aged for about a week; raw-blended beans can be used after 3-4 days of aging because during roasting, different beans have already influenced each other.

Representative Blending Ratios

Below are several representative blending proportions—of course, you can also challenge yourself to try proportions you like.

1. Formula: 30% Guatemala SHB + 30% Mexico AL + 30% Brazil NO.2 + 10% Kilimanjaro AA

Result: Aroma level 5, Bitterness level 5, Sweetness level 5, Acidity level 5

2. Formula: 40% Sumatra Mandheling G1 + 30% Colombia SUP + 20% Brazil NO.19 + 10% Kilimanjaro AA

Result: Aroma level 5, Bitterness level 10, Sweetness level 5, Acidity level 3

3. Formula: 20% Mocha + 20% Hawaii Kona no.1 + 20% Brazil NO.2 + 40% Kilimanjaro AA

Result: Aroma level 9, Bitterness level 10, Sweetness level 7, Acidity level 10

4. Formula: 40% Guatemala SHB + 30% Mocha + 30% Kilimanjaro AA

Result: Aroma level 10, Bitterness level 5, Sweetness level 6, Acidity level 7

5. Formula: 50% Brazil NO.2 + 30% Mexico AL + 20% Jamaica Blue Mountain Coffee

Result: Aroma level 5, Bitterness level 3, Sweetness level 5, Acidity level 6

6. Formula: 30% Brazil NO.2 + 50% Colombia SUP + 20% Java Robusta Coffee

Result: Aroma level 3, Bitterness level 8, Sweetness level 8, Acidity level 6

FrontStreet Coffee Espresso Blend Recommendations

FrontStreet Coffee's roasted espresso blend coffee beans have full guarantees in both brand and quality. More importantly, the cost-performance ratio is extremely high. Taking the commercially recommended model—FrontStreet Coffee Commercial Espresso Blend—as an example, one package is one pound (454 grams), with a price of only about 60 yuan. Calculated based on 10 grams of coffee powder per single espresso shot, one package can make 45 cups of coffee, with each cup costing less than 1.5 yuan. Even if using double shots for each espresso production, with 20 grams of powder per portion, the price of one double espresso does not exceed 3 yuan. Compared to certain well-known brands selling packages for over 100 yuan, this is truly a conscientious recommendation that can meet daily shop operation needs.

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