咖啡馆Bustelo评论：低廉的丰富风味

If you’re looking to bring the flavours of Latin America into your home, an easy and affordable way to do it is with Cafe Bustelo coffee. Founded to cater to New York’s Latino community, the longstanding brand is known for robust, espresso-style coffee in the Latin tradition.

If you’re looking for a wallop of Cuban coffee flavour and don’t want to shell out for a flight to Havana, give Cafe Bustelo a try – after reading this review, of course.

The Full Café Bustelo Review

From humble beginnings in New York’s East Harlem neighbourhood nearly a hundred years ago, Café Bustelo has expanded to become one of the world’s most recognizable brands specializing in Cuban-style coffee (1).

Want to know how this rich, dark brew became so popular? Are you wondering if it might be the perfect coffee for you? Then read on. This Café Bustelo review has the details.

Coffee Quality and Flavor – 3.5/5

Café Bustelo is famous for being the first brand to bring the unique flavour of Latin coffee to the American market. The company was founded in Harlem, New York, nearly a hundred years ago.

有趣的是，即使它与古巴和其他加勒比海国家的咖啡风格有关，但Cafe Bustelo还是由西班牙移民创立的。Gregorio Menendez Bustelo出生于西班牙，但在拉丁美洲广泛旅行，在那里他迷上了他在那里享受的丰富而大胆的咖啡。当他定居哈林时，他创立了Cafe Bustelo，这首先向附近的剧院观众出售手动咖啡。从这些不起眼的开始出现了一项数百万美元的业务，现在由J.M. Smucker拥有。

Bustelo是最早迎合拉丁裔社区的人之一，Cafe Bustelo Real Coffee在这个人群中仍然很受欢迎，其中许多人在其中长大。但是近年来，美国普通公众也发现了这种大胆调味的啤酒的吸引力（2).

在第三波特色咖啡的意义上，Cafe Bustelo出售的古巴风格的咖啡不是高质量的咖啡（3), and you won’t find it on our list oftop coffee beans。这些不是高种植的阿拉比卡豆，带有水果和花朵的微妙品味。您将无法将咖啡豆追溯到种植它们的农民，也不了解它们的生长方式。取而代之的是，Cafe Bustelo的吸引力在于它对拉丁传统是真实的，这使它成为了一个非常忠实的追随者。

哥伦比亚咖啡作家Paola Murillo解释说，在拉丁美洲，咖啡体验远远超出了咖啡豆的质量和风味。咖啡是关于人际关系的（4).

Most Cafe Bustelo coffee is made from a blend of Arabica and Robusta beans, which is also common in Italian-style espresso beans. While we tend to think of Robusta coffee beans as lower quality, they are in fact an important component of coffee blends, especially for espresso. Robusta produces a dense coffee with a heavy body, creamy mouthfeel, earthy flavours, and a richer crema.

Cafe Bustelo主要提供深色烤咖啡，还有一些选择更接近中等烤肉的选择 - 适当的烤制与固有的Rubusta Bean配对。结果，Cafe Bustelo咖啡具有黑巧克力，泥土和烤坚果的风味，酸度非常低。它们可以趋向于苦味，尤其是黑暗的烤肉，因为许多常见的拉丁准备工作 - 例如making Cuban Coffee aka Cafe Cubano– have added sugar and/or milk for balance.

选择和品种 - 3.5/5

Most of Cafe Bustelo’s coffee is available pre-ground rather than whole bean, another indication that this isn’t the brand for third wave coffee geeks. While Home Grounds always prefers buying whole bean coffee and grinding it fresh, in this case, the powerful flavour of the dark roasted Robusta-Arabica blends holds up for a long time after grinding, so they make forsome of the best ground coffees。This coffee is an excellent option for those who don’t have access to a good burr grinder.

研磨咖啡

They offer three coffees traceable to a specific origin, though they are still blends from many farms and regions. There’s a darker roast from Brazil, a medium roast Colombian coffee, and a dark blend from Nicaragua and other Latin American growing regions.

There is also Café Bustelo Classic Espresso style coffee, a finely ground dark roast blend, and a decaf version of the Classic Espresso. Finally, there is the Supreme, another finely ground espresso blend that is the brand’s only 100% Arabica coffee.

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Whole Bean Coffee

Café Bustelo offers only one whole bean option, the 100% Arabica Supreme espresso blend.

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速溶咖啡

Café Bustelo offers an extensive collection of instant coffees. They aren’t quite as tasty as brewing using the pre-ground beans, but they’re a nice step up from cheaper options like Nescafe. Like other emerginggood instant coffee brands, they are great for hurried mornings and make an excellent addition to a camping or business trip.

The Classic Espresso, Decaf Espresso, Supreme, and a Decaf Supreme are all available in a freeze-dried instant format. But my vote for the best instant coffees, especially when camping, are the two from the “sweet and creamy” collection. These are the Cafe con Leche, which adds powdered milk for a creamier brew, and Cafe con Dulce de Leche, which adds milk and sweeteners to produce a caramel-flavoured bold cup. Freeze-dried instant coffee can have a bitter flavour, and these sweet and creamy additions counteract that perfectly.

Single Serve Options

For fans of Keurig or other single-serve coffee machines, Cafe Bustelo offers six different K-Cup flavours. There’s the dark roast Brazil, medium roast Colombia, and dark roast Nicaragua/Latin America blend, the Classic Espresso, the Cafe con Leche and the Cafe con Dulce de Leche.

At Home Grounds, we don’t love K-Cups because both their environmental footprint and coffee quality are cause for concern. In the case of Cafe Bustelo, the K-Cups are their lowest quality offering. This style of brewed coffee is most delicious when prepared with a method that plays to its strengths – bold flavour, creamy mouthfeel, full body – and we believe a Keurig machine simply can’t do it justice. If you really want to prepare Cafe Bustelo in your Keurig machine, we advise buying a refillable K-Cup and filling it with any pre-ground options.

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如果您正在寻找单次服务选项的便利性，请考虑他们的两个浓缩咖啡胶囊。他们提供经典的浓缩咖啡和胶囊形式的巴西深烤，与Nespresso机器兼容。

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读取浓缩咖啡

Finally, Café Bustelo has recently introduced a line of ready-to-drink canned Cuban espresso drinks of the sort you’ll find in the refrigerators of grocery stores.

有三种可用的口味，所有这些都“甜和奶油”。与即时咖啡一样，还有Cafe Con Leche和Cafe Con Dulce de Leche。但是，还有独特的咖啡馆，它在墨西哥传统中增加了辣肉桂。

可持续性与环境 - 1/5

In an era when sustainability is a topic of increasing importance in the coffee industry, Cafe Bustelo does not appear to be making any inroads in this direction (5). It is a commodity coffee, and you can’t trace your purchase to the farmer who grew it or learn anything about how much they were paid or their working conditions. Café Bustelo doesn’t have any Fair Trade or Organic certified products or publicized initiatives promoting sustainability at the coffee’s origin.

请注意，Cafe Bustelo确实有一个慈善部门，该分支机构应得出的信贷。El Cafe de Futuro奖学金向西班牙裔学院和大学协会的机构提供25美元的奖学金，以帮助他们进一步教育。自2014年成立以来，该奖学金已向美国的拉丁裔学生提供了超过50万美元

酿造方法和多功能性– 4/5

Because Café Bustelo is mostly dark roasted and consists of a blend of Robusta and Arabica coffee beans, it has specific characteristics that make it better suited to some brewing methods. These include its bold flavour, full body, creamy mouthfeel, and rich crema.

Of course, an espresso machine is also a fantastic choice if you can access one. Either will yield a rich cup of coffee with a strong taste. Barring those two, a French press is another good option as its metal filter keeps the coffee oils in the cup, preserving the full body of the brew.

If you prefer a paper filter method for brewing regular coffee, some work better than others. An AeroPress or automatic drip coffee maker produces a tasty morning cup of great coffee, and you can swap out the paper filter in your coffee maker for a metal mesh option for an upgrade. On the other hand, pour-over methods like a Hario V60 or Chemex are less well-suited to these dark roast blends.

请注意，如果您要购买地面咖啡馆Bustelo Real Coffee，则必须确保将酿造方法与研磨尺寸相匹配。例如，如果您要酿造浓缩咖啡，请购买Cafe Bustelo Fine Gruend Option，例如Supreme或Classic Espresso。同样，如果您要购买单次k-杯或浓缩咖啡胶囊，请确保使用合适的酿酒师，例如Keurig或Nespresso Machine。

Don’t Buy Cafe Bustelo Coffee If…

• You prefer to grind your own coffee:如果你喜欢买全豆咖啡和折磨我t yourself, you’ll be disappointed by Café Bustelo’s offering of just a single whole bean coffee. Instead, consider Lavazza coffee beans. Like Cafe Bustelo, Lavazza specializes in dark roast Arabica-Robusta blends for strong coffee, but they offer whole bean options for all their top coffees.

• You prefer lighter roasts:如果深度烘焙的咖啡,一个大胆的味道不是你r thing, Cafe Bustelo isn’t the coffee brand for you. Even their few medium roast coffees are on the dark end of medium. For a large selection of lighter roast Arabica specialty coffee that is still surprisingly affordable, check out Volcanica Coffee.

• 您更喜欢购买本地：If you live in a place with a quality local coffee roaster, think about giving them your business instead of ordering Cafe Bustelo coffee online. You might pay a few dollars more, but you’ll be supporting your local economy, the coffee will be much fresher, and they’ll probably grind it to order.

The Verdict

Cafe Bustelo is a great choice for darker roast coffee fans looking for an affordable way to get a powerful punch of coffee flavour. With roots in Latin American culture, this bittersweet brew makes a delicious espresso or strong coffee, with or without the addition of milk and sugar. Conversely, if light roast third wave specialty coffee brewed in a Chemex is more your thing, you’ll probably prefer an alternative brand.

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