Maybe you've had fake coffee before? An introductory coffee class shocked me.

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When it comes to coffee, what comes to mind?

If you just flash the word "Starbucks", it will only wander at the "door" of coffee.

Last Saturday afternoon, in the introductory class of fine coffee, my friend Big J brought a book of coffee literacy.

We were shocked by the whole process. "So that's it!" I realized that I had misunderstood coffee before.

At least, you haven't seen it. Coffee beans are such red fruits, right?

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I used to be a coffee boy, and I never even touched instant coffee.

There is a simple reason. I used to equate coffee and Coca-Cola, thinking they were the same junk food, haha.

I remember when I was a child, my father would make a cup of coffee and then put one or two cubes of sugar or coffee partners in order to stay up late writing.

I should have tasted it once or twice, except that it is very sweet-"Isn't this a high-sugar drink like Coca-Cola?" What is not garbage? "

Since then, coffee has fallen off my diet list.

I thought coffee and I had nothing in common. Only in this activity did I know that I had blurred, labeled and demonized coffee before.

Poverty limits imagination, ignorance limits talent.

All I knew before was the kind of fast food in coffee-instant coffee.

In the coffee industry, instant coffee belongs to junk coffee.

That's the smell of chemicals mixed with inferior coffee beans and artificial milk essence, sugar packets, sherbet and cream.

-Let the mouth like it very much, but it will drink a lot of cholesterol and triglycerides, which is easy to cause cardiovascular diseases.

It is "fine coffee" that draws a clear line with junk coffee.

Over the past five years, the fine coffee market in China has gradually moved from "niche" to "mass".

Moreover, there is also the origin of coffee beans in Yunnan, which has exceeded 65438+ 10,000 tons in 2065.438+05.

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The word "fine coffee" was put forward by Ms. Ona Knudsen, the godmother of fine coffee, in Tea and Coffee Monthly. This concept has not been released for a long time, only 1974.

Later, the American Fine Coffee Association defined it as:

"Carefully select the most suitable varieties and plant the altitude, climate and water and soil environment that are most conducive to the development of coffee flavor.

Carefully wash and dry, select the most flawless raw beans, and deliver them to customers with zero mistakes during transportation.

After the superb technology of the baker, the most intense regional flavor is introduced, and then the delicious coffee is brewed by recognized extraction standards. "

In other words, from seed selection, processing, roasting to extraction, every link of fine coffee is excellent. In this way, an ingenious cup of coffee can be delivered to your eyes.

It is not an ordinary drink, but the fruit of the joint efforts of several craftsmen, Qi Xin.

In taste, it is different from the monotonous bitterness of bulk commercial beans. Boutique coffee has obvious regional characteristics and is very strong and sour.

During the activity, everyone has a chance to practice their hands.

I find the charm of good coffee lies in that different people have different tastes. This is not a single result, but it offers many possibilities.

You are in a bad mood today, but you will be in a good mood tomorrow. The coffee you make tastes different.

When the hand shakes, the water injection stays longer, the water temperature changes a little, and the taste is different. You'll be looking forward to it What's the smell today?

Just like the process of doing experiments, assume which link is a variable, write it down and wait for the next adjustment, and finally match your favorite taste.

What tastes best? There are no absolute standards, only relative standards.

After a sip, you can experience multiple levels of mellow fragrance-sour fragrance, floral fragrance, bitter fragrance, caramel fragrance and rising nasal fragrance; After swallowing, the tongue can still feel sweet and slightly sweet.

Choose beans with a bright eye and make incense with a skillful hand.

If the boutique coffee is compared to a beautiful woman, she is not a beautiful woman who fell in love at first sight, but an elegant woman who looks more attractive and understands more and more.

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However, how can boutique coffee fascinate so many people just because of its special taste?

Because the slow food movement of fine coffee is the way to health.

Many friends feel good when they hear fine coffee. It's really painstaking to grind the beans into powder by yourself.

It takes so long to make a cup of coffee, why not buy it directly in the store?

Because if you go to an ordinary coffee shop, you may drink fast-food coffee, which may not be healthy.

And the fine coffee, pay attention to grinding and soaking, the production process is a kind of enjoyment, first smell the dry flavor of beans, then smell the wet flavor after brewing, and then taste the mellow taste of the mouth.

All tastes and drinks have nothing to do with the sweetness of sugar, but a lot of antioxidants-chlorogenic acid. Chlorogenic acid does not please taste buds, but it helps the human body to resist oxidation and has anti-cancer effect.

Listening to the word "antioxidant" may feel abstract. You can understand it this way—

When people inhale oxygen, they will also produce free radicals, a by-product of oxidation.

Free radicals will attack healthy cells at will, especially cell membranes, protein and lipids, destroy DNA, lead to many pathological changes and accelerate aging.

More microscopically, the electrons of normal atomic groups are paired. When affected by inappropriate external forces or poisons, one of these paired electrons will be destroyed and become a single-electron unstable free radical.

The structure of free radicals is unstable, which will rob the electrons of cell molecules and then attack the normal atomic groups to produce more free radicals. A vicious circle breeds all diseases.

Therefore, if you want to drink healthy, you should first refuse chemical coffee or fast-food coffee, go back to the original and look for freshly brewed coffee, and drink one or two cups a day.

Do it yourself at home, besides enjoying it, the price is also very affordable! (See the picture below for details)

Think about it, I admire those who find that coffee beans can be ground and brewed for drinking. They must be very interesting guys.

Just like the first person who soaked water in tea, his spirit of exploration was very strong, which created a huge market behind him and brought an elegant lifestyle to future generations.

If it weren't for this activity, I wouldn't have any fate with fine coffee in my life.

After coming, I found that the original cognition is like a frog in the well, and the wellhead is still very small.

After jumping out, I realized that the world of coffee is so profound and beyond imagination.

In plant taxonomy, coffee belongs to Rubiaceae, and there are at least 100 coffee species. Arabica is the main force of fine coffee.

Interestingly, there are 2000 to 3000 varieties under Arabica beans! At present, less than 5% people have been deeply studied and their shapes and habits have been confirmed.

If you smell the same every day, you will take away one third of your life.

In addition, there are many coffee extraction technologies, such as hand washing, French press filtration, siphon, italian coffee machine and so on. Some tools look like works of art. ..

The whole activity is subverting my previous cognition.

We are always limited by what we know and often "don't know what we don't know".

Jumping out of this strange circle requires the confidence of "early adopters".

Thinking of five years ago, I always felt that I was not good at sharing. I didn't realize how much I enjoyed it until I got up the courage to stand on the podium.

Don't set limits for yourself. In order to break through the boundary between cognition and ability, we will constantly unlock new skills and discover that "I can do it".

The introductory course of fine coffee opens a window to the bigger world.

There were many cups that day.

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