What Blend Beans Does Starbucks Use for Espresso Coffee? How to Choose Coffee Beans Suitable for Espresso

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FrontStreet Coffee believes that Starbucks' delicious coffees are essentially these. If you like chocolate and sweeter options, we recommend mocha and caramel macchiato. From a purely coffee texture perspective, drink latte. If you want to experience the lazy Italian afternoon atmosphere, then drink cappuccino.

All the coffees mentioned above are actually espresso coffees, so FrontStreet Coffee must mention espresso coffee.

Espresso coffee is one way of presenting coffee. Espresso is an Italian word that refers to a strong coffee quickly extracted with a coffee machine in a short time. It can be called the foundation of almost all fancy coffees and is essential in cafes worldwide. Espresso is served in very small cups, usually only about 30 milliliters, tastes very bitter, with a thick layer of oil floating on the surface. It is served with a glass of plain water, and you can choose to add sugar. Customers who order Espresso in cafes are either true coffee lovers who want to taste the most authentic flavor of coffee, or purely because they are extremely sleepy and urgently need to refresh themselves. People who want to leisurely spend an afternoon in a cafe are not very suitable for ordering this. Some cafes' Espresso can be chosen as "Single" or "Double" - double doesn't mean two cups, but rather extraction with double the amount of coffee powder, which will be more bitter.

Many cafes' "coffee of the day" is actually Americano coffee, which is usually also the cheapest item on the cafe menu. To put it bluntly, Americano coffee is a small half cup of Espresso mixed with a large half cup of plain water. Some cafes also use drip coffee makers to brew it. Americano coffee has a light taste, light color, slightly sour and slightly bitter. People who don't often drink Americano coffee are recommended to add sugar. The three-in-one instant coffee we often drink is actually sugared Americano coffee with added creamer and other spices. If you really can't accept the sour and bitter taste of Americano coffee, you might as well switch to latte or mocha.

Espresso coffee drinks come in a rich variety of types. A qualified barista can easily make more than a dozen different varieties, but all espresso coffee beans离不开浓缩咖啡, because they are all based on espresso, mixed with different proportions of milk, water or other cream, syrup and other auxiliary ingredients. Therefore, an excellent espresso is the beginning of everything and the soul of a cup of espresso coffee.

Important Bean Selection Factors

1. Strong bean stability (pure varieties are stronger than regular blends);

2. Rich espresso crema (Robusta has advantages over Arabica);

Choose Blended Beans or Single-Origin Pure Variety Beans?

Common espresso beans on the market are mainly divided into: espresso blend beans and single-origin pure variety coffee beans. Excellent espresso blend beans greatly test the roaster's skills. If you buy cheap espresso beans, they are most likely the product of various uneven quality coffee beans through deep roasting, often with more miscellaneous flavors and unstable batch quality. Buy with caution!

In contrast, single-origin coffee beans with stable growing regions and rich oils, such as Robusta beans, currently have Vietnam as the world's largest producer and exporter of Robusta beans, with stable production and stable growing environments.

Choose Robusta or Arabica?

By major variety, coffee can be simply divided into Arabica and Robusta. We often see "100% pure Arabica beans" used as a marketing gimmick on the market to indirectly prove the quality of coffee beans, but in fact Arabica does not necessarily represent good coffee, because its varieties are numerous and quality varies greatly.

Robusta coffee taste will be relatively consistent: tending towards roasted aroma, pine aroma, and earthy aroma. When made by pour-over method, it will present obvious characteristics of barley tea, peanut flavor, popcorn, brown rice tea, etc., with weak acidity, high body, and relatively flat flavor. Robusta can significantly increase the body of coffee and produce Espresso with richer oils. After Espresso blends with milk, it presents a thick and full mouthfeel. Therefore, Robusta is more likely to extract rich oils than Arabica, making it more suitable for blending with milk, which can overall improve the quality of espresso products.

FrontStreet Coffee's roasted best-selling Americano coffees: Yirgacheffe coffee, Golden Mandheling coffee, Brazilian coffee, etc., all have full guarantees in terms of brand and quality. More importantly, the cost-performance ratio is extremely high. FrontStreet Coffee generally needs to know what flavors different varieties of coffee from around the world have before blending beans, as beans have different characteristics according to their origin. Different coffee beans have different personalities due to different varieties and origins, with subtle differences in acidity, bitterness, sweetness, aroma, body and other flavor aspects.

Just like FrontStreet Coffee's specialty blend coffee beans, using Colombian coffee beans paired with Brazilian coffee beans, blended in a 3:7 ratio. The unique nutty and chocolate flavor of Colombian coffee is blended with the rich peanut and cream coffee flavor of Brazilian coffee. This espresso blend coffee bean has a very harmonious overall feel, rich oils, extremely smooth entry, fresh fragrance but with a slightly bitter taste characteristic of the Americas, which is very popular among FrontStreet Coffee's customers.

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