At present, there are three main categories of coffee beans on the market: single product, blending, and SOE, which has become popular in recent years. It is difficult for newcomers to understand the difference between these three categories, so when they want to buy beans, they will always make the wrong target to buy.
So today, Qianjie will share what kind of differences there are between single products, blending, and coffee beans for SOE, and what are the main ways to use them!
Single origin coffee beansYou must think that it must mean a single variety of coffee beans, right? Nonono, shallow, shallow! Single origin coffee beans refer to a single origin variety batch of coffee beans, not just one variety! Because many plots of land are mixed with different coffee varieties, and when they are sold, they are also mixed, so the description of a single variety cannot be summarized.
Single product coffee is the core product of the specialty wave, also known as specialty coffee! After Ms. Ona Nussen proposed the concept of specialty coffee in 1978, coffee farmers changed their planting concept from the original weight over quality to the quality of the beans. 
These beans can be traced back to their origin: variety, planting, processing, altitude, etc. Let people better feel and understand the local flavor of the region, such as Yirgaxue coffee, Blue Mountain flavor is the representative of the flavor of the production area.
The most important thing is that the concept of specialty coffee also improves the cultivation income of coffee farmers, which allows people to better invest in the concept of high quality. Generally speaking, the main use of single origin coffee beans is to use black coffee such as pour-over coffee, siphon pots, and smart cups to better feel the flavor of the coffee itself, followed by espresso, and this is the SOE we will mention next. 
soeSoe, the full name is Single Origin Espresso, Single Origin means a single origin, Espresso is the espresso that everyone is familiar with, combined with the translation is an espresso made from coffee beans from a single origin.
This is actually a single coffee bean, but they are not used for the extraction of filter coffee such as pour-over, but for making espresso. The reason why it is necessary to distinguish the beans used in the single product from the soe is that in the production of espresso, some beans need to be roasted more deeply!
Some beans are not roasted to a single product and Italian style, like a very shallow roasted bean, if you use the original roast level directly to use the extraction of the espresso machine, then the extracted coffee acidity will be much more than that of single product coffee!
When the sourness is too much and too strong, it will produce an unpleasant experience. Therefore, we need to reduce the acidity of the beans to a certain extent, and the best way is to increase the degree of roasting, so that the acidity can be reduced to a certain extent. Therefore, the coffee beans used in SOE will be distinguished from the beans used in single origin coffee, which can not only highlight the characteristic flavor of the origin, but also be suitable for making espresso, this is SOE!
Blend coffee beansIt's easy to blend coffee! A combination of two or more single beans is often referred to as a comprehensive coffee. The concept of blending is ** in: what you want, what your needs are. 
There are many types of blended coffee beans, and the most commonly understood is to combine the advantages of several beans to make up for the shortcomings of each other.
In addition, the blend can also be a combination of different flavors of multiple beans into a new flavor of beans! For example, if we use a peach with a prominent peach flavor and a green tea flavor with a fruit cube, what will it become? It will turn into a brand new bean with the flavor of white peach oolong! 
Known as the "Coffee Emperor", the Blue Mountains are expensive and well-known! So what should people do if they want to drink the taste of the Blue Mountains and don't want to spend a lot of money?
That's right, it's blending! We can use a few beans that are not Blue Mountains to spell out a texture and taste similar to that of Blue Mountains (the legendary Blue Mountains flavored coffee)! You can also add a little Blue Mountain coffee beans to the blend to form a "Blue Mountain blend".
It can be said that blending is a creative display, your ideas, familiarity with the beans determine what kind of blended coffee you can make, and blended coffee beans are mostly used for espresso, less used in single coffee, so people generally call it Italian blend beans! 
But there is a misunderstanding that everyone needs to pay attention to, SOE or single product beans are not necessarily higher than blended beans, after all, some gorgeous blended beans use more high-quality single product beans. For example, the warm sun blend on Front Street uses 70% Honduran Shirley and 30% Ethiopian red cherry, which is extracted with butter cookies, whiskey aroma, and berry slightly acidic; As well as the Dorothy blend mentioned above, the same applies. The ** they convert will be much more expensive than some single product beans, so some things can't be generalized
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