How to Choose Fresh Coffee Beans and Branded Coffee Beans_The Importance of Freshly Roasted Coffee Beans

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The Best Coffee is the One You Think Tastes Good!

If you think fresh coffee beans are good, then they are good. If you think Nestlé tastes good, I support you too. Don't worry about other people's opinions.

You think Biluochun tea tastes good, he thinks Pu'er tea tastes good. There's really no point in arguing. As long as you like it, that's what matters.

Let's Talk About the Differences

Advantages of Brand Coffee Beans

The main advantage of brand coffee beans is their extremely high quality control. From the selection of green beans, they can go directly to production areas to purchase, even provide cultivation plans, and have farmers grow according to their requirements.

The coffee beans grown go through multiple layers of screening. As far as I know, Starbucks beans undergo more than thirty sampling cuppings before reaching stores. If one test fails, they will be rejected.

The processing methods of green beans are also controlled by brand bean manufacturers. When it comes to roasting, they use first-class equipment and first-class experts to do the roasting.

Disadvantages of Brand Coffee Beans

But that's where it ends. There are many disadvantages once they leave the factory.

First, due to mass production, when selecting bean varieties initially, they cannot choose the best ones. They can only choose the best among high-yield varieties, otherwise they cannot keep up with industrial mass production. The quality of bean varieties can only be considered above average.

Second, due to the instability of roasting, at least currently, everyone still chooses dark roasting to handle coffee beans. In the market, beans that are between first crack and second crack are significantly fewer than dark-roasted ones, and their quality is not very stable either.

Third, due to the considerable time required for transportation, basically the commercial beans you buy are more than six months after roasting. Many people don't understand why coffee must be freshly roasted and ground. Let me briefly explain. The coffee bean roasting process is actually carbonizing the coffee beans. Carbonized coffee beans are essentially activated charcoal. If you buy six-month-old activated charcoal to absorb formaldehyde, believe it has long lost its activity. Moreover, during these six months, it continuously absorbs other flavors, making its own taste more complex. Grinding is even simpler. After grinding into powder, the contact area with air increases, and the rate of deactivation multiplies. So when you see someone using coffee powder to make coffee for you, just chuckle. Of course, many large manufacturers have thought of many solutions in this regard. Mainly two types: one is the one-way valve, you can feel a hard thing on the coffee packaging bag. If you squeeze hard, you can squeeze out the air inside. Yes, that's it. Its function is that gas can only escape from inside but cannot enter from outside, effectively preventing flavor mixing during transportation. However, it still cannot solve the problem of flavor loss. The second is nitrogen canisters. As far as I know, only illy's large canisters use nitrogen. Small canisters contain regular air. If you know of other uses, please comment to supplement me. After adding inert gases, the entire process is effectively slowed down, preserving more flavor.

Finally, there's the price. Commercial beans are finished products from abroad. When entering customs, they go through commercial tariffs, which are relatively high tariffs. You just need to know this point. For 100 yuan of beans in your hand, at least 20-30 yuan has been handed over to the country. So actually, the beans you buy are not worth that price. You're just paying taxes.

Fresh Coffee Beans

Fresh roasting starts with directly purchasing coffee green beans. Theoretically, if you store them properly (without sprouting), green beans can be stored for a long time. But in reality, fresh roasters only purchase small amounts of beans each time, following the principle of roasting as much as they buy. However, what the beans have gone through before reaching your hands is completely uncontrollable. So finding good bean sources is the first step. But the advantage is that you can find those very famous estate beans. Look clearly, estate beans, not grown by ordinary farmers. Each bag of beans has an identity card, and some are even competition beans obtained from auctions.

Then comes roasting, which depends on individual skill. Generally, small commercial roasting machines certainly don't have as many functions as factory ones. This is where individual skill comes in. Good roasters are much better than ordinary roasters.

Since there are no transportation issues, basically you can place orders and pay, and they start roasting. It's possible to get coffee roasted just the day before. After simple degassing, you can brew coffee. Those who understand can drink coffee on the day when the beans are at their best condition.

Finally, there's still the price. When green beans enter customs, they are considered agricultural products. Agricultural products, you know? Not only are the tariffs low, but there are also subsidies, okay. So for the same quality, green beans entering customs and roasting yourself save an unknown amount compared to roasted beans entering customs.

Conclusion

I realized after writing that this is quite a lot, but it basically covers the general differences between commercial coffee and self-roasted coffee. But still, as I said at the beginning, what you like is the best tasting. Adding sugar is okay, adding milk is okay, adding cream, condensed milk, Oreo, honey, eggs, butter - as long as you like it, it's all okay.

Fresh Coffee Bean Brand Recommendations

FrontStreet Coffee's freshly roasted single-origin & espresso fresh coffee beans: Yirgacheffe coffee, Brazilian coffee, Mandheling coffee, etc., all have full guarantees in terms of brand and quality, suitable for brewing with various equipment. More importantly, they offer extremely high cost-performance. A half-pound (227g) package costs only about 80-90 yuan. Calculated at 15g of powder per cup of hand-poured coffee, one package can make 15 cups of coffee, with each cup of single-origin coffee costing only about 6 yuan. Compared to the normal selling price of thirty or forty yuan per cup in coffee shops, this is extremely cost-effective.

FrontStreet Coffee: A roastery in Guangzhou with a small storefront but diverse bean varieties, where you can find various famous and unknown beans, and they also provide online store services. https://shop104210103.taobao.com

Important Notice :

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FrontStreet Coffee Address: 315,Donghua East Road,GuangZhou

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