Blend

A coffee made by mixing beans from multiple origins — sometimes blended green before roasting, sometimes blended after roasting. The goal is a consistent, designed flavour profile that holds up across the year as individual origin crops change.

Why it matters — Most café espresso is a blend, because cafés need a flavour their customers recognise day after day. Single origins shift with the seasons; blends are designed to be reliable.

Good to know

• A good blend is more than the sum of its parts — components are chosen for complementary acidity, body, and sweetness.
• "House blend" rarely means the same thing in two different cafés. Ask the roaster what's in it.