He Yungu Column| Coffee lover. What do you drink coffee for?

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Is living in my city too busy, no matter how to catch up with sleep can not be made up, you must hypnotize yourself with caffeine "my good spirit"? Or in the boring daily life, go to cafe é to order a cup of latte and pretend to be Wenqing to create a sense of romance for life? Needless to say, 90% of the words of female stars are to eliminate edema (laughter).

We all have the most primitive motivation to drink coffee, and the reason for this mushroom's first contact with coffee is to "pretend to be an adult." On the eighteenth of that year, I did not go to college, but it was not far away. The rules of my school were relatively loose, allowing students to bring drinks and light snacks to class. So, in order to appear to be an adult, every morning I would go to the canteen in the middle of the lobby, take out a cup of coffee and a Danish roll, then hold a book in one hand and a paper cup in the other (not the current coffee takeout cup, but the best white orange blossom hot drink cup), and walk to the classroom in style. In fact, the coffee tasted so bad that I hated the taste from the bottom of my heart, especially in my mouth. The horrible aftertaste of shoddy coffee and milk sugar was still there after school.

After many years, I have been avoiding this bitter drink, and the impression remains in the cheap canteen paper cups at that time. Until I was in Taiwan, I met the first cup of coffee in my life.

The dark brown liquid in a delicate white dark flower ceramic cup was placed in front of me with the fragrance of opening pores after the female barista measured the beans, grinded, opened the jar and brewed slowly. The barista patiently explained the characteristics of this variety of coffee and the different flavors it contained, and told me to drink it slowly, because the taste level of the coffee would change with the temperature from boiling hot to cool.

I picked up the coffee cup, followed the instructions, and drank it slowly by sipping. This first bite, through the lips through the teeth into the mouth, and then through the heat to let the aroma into my nasal cavity. Wow! It really smells like cranberries! It's amazing! This is not "coffee" as I know it at all. The childhood shadow of coffee dissipated with the sudden clear smell. I drank patiently, from the hottest drink to the change of temperature, taking a sip at each stage, trying to feel a different taste as a beginner, and there was a significant change. When I took the last sip, I was surprised by the cool but not choking smell of the nose; it was a slightly caramel aftertaste in my mouth. At that moment, I decided that I was going to fall in love with individual coffee.

It turns out that good coffee does not have a bitter taste at all, nor does it have that offensive aftertaste. What you drink in the cafes of chain stores on the street is just a refreshing agent brewed in the most convenient way, which is far from the real coffee. Real high-quality coffee, with a variety of multi-level functional stimulation, with the environment of its origin, fruit processing, baking methods, to the degree of grinding, water temperature, water quality and various techniques used by barists. contains fascinating aroma and imagination.

Ah, I seem to have forgotten to introduce myself. Hello, everyone. I am he Yun Mushroom. I will share my experience of coffee as a coffee lover in this new column. Please give me some advice.