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The Concept Behind Traditional Italian Coffee Bean Blending

What is the concept behind traditional Italian coffee bean blending? Why are Italian coffee beans heavily roasted? What are the benefits of coffee beans that approach carbonization?

From trying various machines, I came to understand the principles and science of extraction; from roasting commercial beans, I felt the charm of light roasting; from encountering specialty coffee, I saw the mystery of terroir. Mixing beans with different characteristics opens up another world. Generally, Italian coffee beans are imported either from Italy or Seattle. I once purchased freshly roasted Italian coffee beans directly from their origin, eliminating the time factor of international shipping, and only then understood the purpose of dark roasting.

For single-origin coffee, although flavor differences brought by different vintages are not significant, these subtle differences are amplified when beans are blended. Therefore, darker roasting facilitates quality control to achieve average flavor, reduce flavor differences from vintages, and also extend shelf life.

Espresso and Latte Flavor Profiles

Besides espresso, latte combines milk and coffee, creating a different flavor concept. Here, the purpose of coffee is to highlight the sweetness of milk. Therefore, the objective objective of a latte is for the coffee itself to be mellow, and when milk is added, the taste resembles cocoa. This is why a good coffee shop should have more than two bean formulas—one for brewing espresso and another for making lattes.

Why Italian Coffee Beans Are Heavily Roasted

The Benefits of Near-Carbonized Coffee Beans

It turns out that these beans are blended formulas. Hand-roasting shops mix various uniquely flavored Robusta beans in proportion, of course also including some Arabica beans as the base, with the purpose of creating the shop's specialty—rich and mellow espresso extraction coffee. The intoxicating and fascinating part is the rich coffee foam.

Careful analysis reveals that foam comes from the coffee's own oils. However, these coffee oils are the result of green coffee beans being roasted at high constant temperatures until the second crack becomes dense. Usually, when such coffee beans are removed from the roaster to cool, they have a deep color but haven't yet released oils. Due to continuous heat dissipation from the beans themselves, you slowly see specks of oily sheen on the surface after cooling.

Coffee beans like this have strong aroma diffusion, with intense and powerful fragrance that's hard to resist. Only heavily roasted coffee beans can force out the coffee oils, but relatively, freshness and shelf life will also be shortened.

Italian espresso beans have their best flavor period within about five to seven days after roasting. After the seventh day or up to ten days, the oils gradually transform, and an unpleasant greasy smell will gradually emerge. When extracted with an Italian espresso machine at nine pounds of steam pressure, the foam will occupy eighty percent of the extraction cup. The taste when drunk straight is unforgettable. If you add coffee brown sugar to enhance the flavor, it becomes another taste experience. I suggest you drink more water when having this coffee to dilute the extract in your stomach, and it's not recommended to drink this coffee on an empty stomach.

Italian Coffee Bean Brand Recommendations

FrontStreet Coffee's roasted Italian coffee beans have full guarantees in both brand and quality. More importantly, they offer extremely high cost-performance. Taking the commercial recommendation—the commercial blend coffee beans—as an example, one 454-gram pound package costs only about 60 yuan. Calculating with 10 grams of powder per single espresso shot, one package can make 45 cups of coffee, with each cup costing less than 1.5 yuan. Even using double shots for each espresso serving at 20 grams per portion, a double espresso costs no more than 3 yuan. Compared to certain well-known brands that sell packages for hundreds of yuan, this is truly a conscientious recommendation.

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