Year of the Tiger Reading Book 02. Before the story of "Nordic Coffee Wave", let me tell you a story about me and coffee

At the end of February, I visited the bookstore " Yu Companion Bookstore" in Zhuangwei, Yilan. It is a very special independent bookstore. His location is on the second floor. If the barbecue restaurant on the first floor is not open, you need to ring the bell first. The proprietress will Welcome downstairs. There are new and second-hand books in the store. I found a bookcase related to coffee, and I picked a second-hand book on coffee knowledge. The book is called "Nordic Coffee Wave - Learning the next generation of boutique from the new generation of barista Winderber". "Coffee", this is the first time I bought this type of book. Before talking about the content of the book, I want to review how I started to become a coffee poisoning patient, but fortunately, the symptoms are still mild, so I can't drink coffee for two or three days. I can still do it (right?)

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In the past, if you want to trace my encounter with coffee, it should be the three-in-one Blue Mountain coffee in a thermos on my desk in high school. At that time, I only had a cup for a long time, and most of the time I used tea bags instead of coffee. Enter the absolute realm of black coffee.

Later, I entered the university and joined the coffee research club of the school for a short time. Now that I think about it, I should be more brave. At that time, because I didn't know anyone in the club and I was a student, I often went to the club and felt embarrassed. It didn't show up after that, and if there were, I'd probably be a coffee master now , or at least pull a flower on a latte. The short days are still an important point for me to know the mysterious and deep liquid of "coffee". Perhaps since then, I gradually stopped drinking three-in-one coffee and replaced it with American coffee from supermarkets, although I stayed in the club for a short time. I learned about espresso powder filling, extraction and hand brewing, but at that time, I might have felt that supermarket coffee was more cost-effective, and hand brewing or other methods required investment in equipment, and the cost did not match. (After graduating, I bought a basic set of hand-flushing equipment with the salary of the first month, and found that I was thinking too much. It is a very worthwhile investment in the long run! That is all later... ...)

What is "good coffee?"

There was a time when supermarket coffee was the first choice when buying coffee, but American coffee from different supermarkets is very different. In the past, among the four major supermarkets, 711 and OK were more acceptable to me, while the other two were Cough, I won't say more, I can only say that the coffee world really has its own audience. I have almost never had a headache when I drank American style from a certain family, and I still don't know what the problem is to this day. In the same American coffee, four supermarkets have four flavors, and the influencing factors are very diverse. Just like "The Nordic Coffee Wave | Learning the Next Generation of Specialty Coffee from the New Generation of Barista Winderber" mentioned that there are many factors for coffee. , and many of them have already been decided in the production area. Now they are all hand-brewed and do not drink the coffee from the supermarket. The main reason may be the quality of the beans and the concentration of the coffee. I agree with the concepts mentioned in the book. The flavor of coffee is not absolute, finding what you like is the most important.

Delicious coffee exists in...

From the beginning of contact with coffee until now, among the coffee shops of all sizes and the coffee I bought, the most impressive coffee is not only the coffee itself, of course, the flavor of coffee must be good, but such coffee is usually connected to the The deep memory of a certain place or something, like the morning of participating in a work-for-lodging exchange with college friends, the coffee for breakfast was brewed by the seniors of the coffee club at that time, in fact, I can’t remember the taste of that cup of coffee now. , but I still remember that it was one of the best coffees in my life; another experience was when I went to Keelung with my high school friends on the eve of college graduation. Before returning the next day, I accidentally walked into a coffee shop in an alley near Keelung Railway Station. It was a black coffee pie and I ordered a latte with light or dark roasted beans, and it was by far my favorite latte, although it tasted different when I revisited.

The interesting place to drink coffee may be such a rare opportunity and chance, leaving behind the people and scenes affected by the taste of coffee.