Blending Coffee

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Blending coffee at home

Blending coffee is done in two ways combining the raw beans and roasting them together or roasting the coffee separately and combining the beans afterwards. To combine beans at home the beans are combined after roasting. All one needs to do is buy a few potential bags and start mixing. So here are some tips to help get you started.

First start with some good quality coffee beans. Then come up with a plan and how you want to mix them. It's best to start with just two coffees and then progress to three. It's probably easiest stay with three or less, but if you want to try more go for it. Make sure to keep a record of what you blend and how much goes into each batch in case you want to repeat it later. Use weight to determine how much you are adding of each coffee as volume.

Here are a few basic blends to experiment with
1. Take a light roast coffee and add it to a dark roast. Start about 50/50 and then work from there to get a cup that you like. I tend to favor a more acidic cup, but if you don't start at 30/70 light to dark.
2. Take two or more different origins, roasted similarly and combine them. Play with the ratios and find a cup you like.
3. Find different roasts of the same origin and combine them together. As with the others play around with the ratios to get that perfect cup.
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So, get out and blend some coffee! Remember to have fun!

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