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What isSOE coffee?

SOE is the abbreviation of Single Origin Espresso, which means single-origin espresso. Its focus is to highlight the coffee flavor of a certain origin—put simply, it means using single-origin coffee beans to make espresso.

SOE only began to rise in recent years. When single-origin coffee beans are used in pour-over, they can express a wide variety of flavors with regional characteristics. In addition, with the diversity of information media in recent years, information such as the use of single-origin coffee beans by competitors in world barista competitions has spread widely. Applying single-origin coffee beans to espresso is also the trend of the times.

Since its birth, SOE has been labeled as coffee with the good flavors of its origin, which also means that the quality of the selected coffee beans must be guaranteed. How can the advantages of SOE coffee be highlighted? Of course, the flavor must be prominent—the kind that catches your eye. This means that having good beans is not enough; suitable roasting is also needed. Therefore, for delicious SOE coffee, choosing single-origin coffee beans with a suitable roast level is especially important.

Single-origin coffee bean recommendation one: Front Street Coffee Colombia Sidra SOE—has obvious flavors of blueberry juice, passion fruit, and ripe grapes, with the sweet-and-sour sensation of apricot;

Single-origin coffee bean recommendation two: Front Street Coffee Costa Rica Blackberry SOE—pink floral aroma, grape, and berry aromas are obvious, with a slight fermented feel on the palate;

Single-origin coffee bean recommendation three: Front Street Coffee Brazil Queen Estate SOE—flavors of roasted nuts, toast, cocoa, and creamy chocolate, with the aroma of butter.

What should be noted when making SOE?

SOE single-origin espresso: in order to highlight the flavor of the origin, the coffee beans selected are generally not roasted too dark. Compared with traditional darker-roasted Italian espresso beans, the flavor is harder to extract.

Therefore, on the one hand, extraction parameters need to be adjusted to increase the extraction yield. For example, lengthen the extraction time, make the grind finer, increase the dose, etc.

On the other hand, when serving espresso drinks based on SOE, the ratio of espresso to milk or water needs to be adjusted. Reduce the milk or water to highlight the taste of the coffee, so that the coffee does not become too weak.

Finally, there are also very strict requirements for choosing the beans used to make SOE. Although SOE performs prominently, because it comes from a single origin, its shortcomings are also relatively easy to magnify. Therefore, factors such as roasting and particle size will all affect the flavor.

If you do not have high-quality coffee beans, then the SOE coffee you make will not taste good, and it may even be impossible to hide. Therefore, in actual operation, SOE coffee has very high technical requirements in all aspects, which is also one of the reasons why SOE coffee is usually more expensive than regular Espresso.

The above content is compiled by CoffeeHunters, a coffee news website.