Tips for ordering brewed coffee at a coffee shop, novices can also enjoy the satisfying flavor

More and more friends are becoming obsessed with coffee without milk or sugar. American coffee and even hand-brewed coffee have become the preferred choice for many people.

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In fact, it is also very good to make a cup of hand-brewed coffee at home. The water flows evenly in circles, and the mist is filled with coffee aroma, floating in the whole room, which will give you an expansive sense of happiness. For those who like hand-brewed coffee, there is an innate sense of ritual, but for those who are not interested in coffee, it will be a bit cumbersome. After all, the tools for hand-brewed coffee are relatively fragmented, but they are indispensable. A complete set of tools costs at least hundreds of dollars, and at most thousands of dollars. Hobbies, to some extent, are also a waste of time and money...

If you don’t want to prepare your own tools but want to try hand-brewed coffee, going to a cafe for a cup is a good choice. If you like it, you can continue to learn more about it. If you don’t like it, just give up.

But when people go to a coffee shop to drink hand-brewed coffee, most of them will have a bad experience the first time. Why? Many people conclude that hand-brewed coffee without milk or sugar tastes bad, but I think the main reason is that they didn’t order the right thing.

Some guides say that when you go to a coffee shop and order a brewed cup, you should first check whether there are two coffee grinders, and also ask about the roasting date of the beans... You probably won't be able to order a good cup of coffee this way, why?

First of all, it is not reliable to say that you can just look at the coffee grinder. How many people who are not in the coffee industry or are not coffee enthusiasts can tell what the big and small tools in a coffee shop are used for? Not to mention seeing clearly whether there are two coffee grinders, it is even difficult to find where the coffee grinder is.

Secondly, when asking about the roasting date of the beans, coffee beans do have a best tasting period. The roasting date can only determine whether the coffee beans are fresh, and it has little reference value for the quality of the coffee. In fact, the quality of the coffee beans themselves and the level of the roaster have a decisive influence on the flavor of the coffee. This is like a piece of cake. If the raw materials are top-notch and the pastry chef is also top-notch, the cake will not taste too bad as long as it is within the shelf life. It doesn't make much sense to worry about the day the cake was made.

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So how can we order the right order? I think two points are enough.

First, choose the right store

What I personally recommend the most are some independent coffee shops, which are relatively niche small restaurants where the owner is also the shop assistant and has been open for a long time. Most of the owners of these coffee shops are experts in coffee and have strict control over quality. They basically have their own understanding and experience in selecting beans, roasting beans, and brewing coffee. The brewed coffee generally has a stable flavor different from that of chain stores.

If you don't care about choosing a store and just want to go to a chain coffee shop, that's not impossible. The purpose of chain coffee shops is standardization. The taste of the coffee based on standardization will not be amazing, but it won't be too bad. Well-known domestic chains are all OK, but there will be some differences in taste, which is probably due to the different levels of baristas.

Second, choose beans

Whenever a coffee novice asks others what coffee beans to buy, the first question most people ask is whether they prefer sour or bitter. No matter which answer the novice gives, he or she is most likely not able to tell what he or she really likes, because the sourness and bitterness of hand-brewed coffee are far from what he or she imagines or has experienced. So when he or she actually drinks it, the first reaction caused by the contrast is that it tastes bad.

Coffee Beans

Every coffee shop will prepare Yirgacheffe and Mandheling, one is the representative of sourness and the other is the representative of bitterness. If you are a coffee novice, it is not recommended to choose these two. It is recommended to choose other than these two, because those other than the two extremes of sourness and bitterness are more inclined to the balance of flavors. In the balance of sourness and bitterness, you have the opportunity and possibility to experience more other flavors.

PS:

1. The charm of coffee lies in its ever-changing flavors. The best coffee you have ever tasted is really like a hundred flowers in bloom.

2. For those who like fancy coffee but are concerned about the quality of coffee beans, it is recommended that you try a cup of Americano from this cafe first. If the Americano tastes OK, you can drink other fancy coffees without worry.

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