Although the proportion of unblended coffee is less in other countries than in United States, blended coffee predominates throughout the world.
The art of blending coffees was born because coffee men found that by blending various coffees, they could create a single coffee with an aggregate of delightful traits.
Blended coffee is made from different flavors of coffee bean which are mixed according to taste and ground to a fine powder in a coffee grinder. The powder should be in a tightly sealed container preferably airtight and with little airspace if being kept for any period of time.
Nature provides beans, possessing taste, aroma, and body in varying degrees but unblended coffees rarely possess these qualities in the most desirable proportions.
Blending is important for national-brand companies that must p0rduce coffees which are consistent in taste and price even as supply conditions change.
The job of the blender is to combine these qualities in a balanced coffee. Not only that, the blender of commercial coffee must, from month to month, be able to find suitable replacements for coffee that cease to satisfy the requirements of his blend.
Coffee roasters are able to consistently present consumers with relatively standard taste profile in their trademark blends by continually adjusting the various combinations of each origin based on changing cup characteristics. The operator of a specialty coffee stores can provide a ‘house blend’ of excellent quality.
Example of blended coffee, the Mocha Java blend a combination of Mocha and Java coffees has existed for centuries.
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