How to Brew Winter Blend Coffee Beans - Which is Better: Blend Coffee or Single Origin Coffee

What is Coffee Blend?

Blended coffee is contrasted with single-origin coffee.

Single-origin coffee refers to coffee beans from a single variety, single origin, or single roast level; blended coffee refers to coffee beans from different varieties, different origins, or different roast levels, combined according to specific needs, typically using 2-5 types of coffee beans.

Why Blend Coffee?

There are generally four purposes for blending.

Cost Reduction: To pursue certain flavors by using lower-priced coffee beans to create flavors that are typically found in relatively higher-priced coffee beans. For example: Blue Mountain flavored coffee.

Balanced Flavor: Espresso machines have a characteristic of amplifying the most prominent flavor characteristic of coffee beans, so almost no one uses single-variety coffee beans to make espresso. Otherwise, if the coffee bean is quite bitter, the resulting espresso will be exceptionally bitter; if it's acidic, it will be extremely acidic. Therefore, blending is needed to balance various flavors.

Flavor Consistency: Since coffee beans are an agricultural product, even coffee beans of the same variety and from the same region will have slightly different flavors each year. Therefore, mixing several types of coffee beans together solves this problem well, allowing the flavor to remain basically consistent year after year.

Unique Flavors: For people who cannot satisfy their palate by drinking any single-origin coffee, or for some businesses that want to have their own unique flavored coffee beans, several types of coffee beans will be blended.

How to Blend Coffee?

Beginners, leave this work to professional coffee practitioners. We just need to know how to drink a good cup of coffee, after all, we don't even know how to cup! (Cupping? What is cupping?)

Can Blended Coffee Beans Be Used for Pour-Over?

Many people have a misconception that coffee beans used for pour-over must be single-origin, while blended coffee beans need to be made with a coffee machine. This is incorrect.

Pour-over is just one way we make coffee, and it has no specific requirements for coffee beans.

Usually, we use single-origin coffee for pour-over to taste the flavors of coffee from its origin; while some well-blended coffee beans can also showcase their unique flavors through pour-over.

Which is Better: Blended Coffee or Single-Origin Coffee?

There's no good or bad distinction, only which one you prefer to drink.

In terms of price, there's no absolute expensive or cheap. Although blending is sometimes done to reduce costs, some blended coffee beans use several varieties that are not cheap themselves. At the same time, they embody the great efforts of the roaster and have won everyone's praise, so their prices are not necessarily cheaper than some single-origin coffees.

When drinking espresso in a café, what you generally taste is made from blended coffee beans; but if you're drinking pour-over coffee, it's recommended that beginners start with single-origin coffee, familiarizing themselves with the flavors that coffee from each region has. Only then, when you one day taste a blended coffee, will you be able to immediately say which origins or varieties of coffee beans it's blended from! Wow, see if they're stunned? Do you see that look of admiration?

Which Type of Blended Coffee Beans is Good?

FrontStreet Coffee, a coffee roasting brand located at Dongshankou, Yuexiu District, Guangzhou, offers freshly roasted espresso blend coffee beans with full guarantees in both brand and quality. More importantly, they offer extremely high value for money. Taking their 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 coffee powder per espresso shot, one package can make 45 cups of coffee, with each cup costing less than 1.5 yuan. Even if using a double shot for each espresso with 20 grams of powder, 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.

FrontStreet Coffee: A roasting shop in Guangzhou with a small storefront but diverse bean varieties, where you can find both famous and lesser-known beans. They also provide online store services. https://shop104210103.taobao.com

Important Notice :

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FrontStreet Coffee Address: 315,Donghua East Road,GuangZhou

Tel:020 38364473