Teach you how to taste coffee in three minutes and enjoy the coffee flavor in some simple and appropriate ways.

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Most modern people go to cafes for two purposes: to keep their brains awake and to get free WIFI. However, there is no denying that this brown-black liquid has another function, which is to make people feel the pleasure of taste. But even if you buy a good bag of coffee beans or enter a well-reviewed cafe, you need some simple but appropriate ways to fully enjoy the flavor of the coffee.

I have always held the superstitious view that an operationally efficient company is bound to choose between free employee coffee or free nap pillows. No one can deny that most modern people go to cafes for only two purposes, to keep their brains awake and to get free WIFI. But as someone lucky enough to walk between the Tea Party and the Coffee Party, I assure you that this glass of brown-and-black liquid has another function, which is to make us feel the pleasure of taste.

Like wine and tea, coffee has always been an eager object for people to learn and taste. The tree species, origin, treatment technology, baking, blending, brewing of coffee beans. Every link fascinates enthusiasts.

But like tea, the biggest difference between coffee and wine is that it usually goes into circulation as semi-finished products, especially those of the best quality-it should still be coffee beans half a minute before you plan to enjoy a good cup of coffee. In the process of transforming coffee beans into coffee, the maker has a great influence on the flavor.

To eliminate this artificial difference, professional coffee tasters use a method called "coffee cupping"-a tasting process that involves scooping up coffee to inhale hard into the mouth, which is absolutely unenjoyable in the eyes of laymen.

The cup test of coffee

But the consolation is that even without such a professional preparation process, you can still have a lot of fun as long as you treat a good cup of coffee with a serious attitude. So, the core of this article is how to make the most of a cup of coffee in the most appropriate way if you buy a nice bag of coffee beans or plan to spend the afternoon in a coffee shop with good reviews.

1. A good start.

Like tea or wine, coffee beans should be preserved; once roasted, coffee beans become extremely fragile. Extreme temperature, humidity, oxygen, odor and light are all enemies of preserving coffee beans, and any neglect will cause coffee beans to lose their flavor, acidification and oil in a few days. Once the vacuum-packed coffee beans are opened, no matter how careful they are, they can only last for 2-3 weeks, and the coffee powder is even more short-lived.

Therefore, whether you are going to a cafe or buying your own coffee, be sure to pay attention to the preservation of the other person's coffee. If you buy it yourself, don't buy too much at one time. If you smell volatile sour taste, strong bitterness or can't drink any of the aroma mentioned below-be aware that your coffee has gone bad.

In addition to coffee beans, the cup should also pay attention to, if you are sitting in a coffee shop to drink, then take-out paper cups are not only not environmentally friendly, but also affect the taste of coffee.

two。 There's no hurry to add milk and sugar.

No matter how many kinds of fancy coffee you can name, black coffee is still the best reflection of the quality and characteristics of coffee beans. If you don't want to drink black coffee from the beginning to the end, at least make sure you taste it before you put in milk and sugar.

In fact, there has been a big misunderstanding for a long time that people who like black coffee like bitter taste-this is not the case, and bitterness is by no means the main flavor of normal black coffee-if the coffee berries are fully ripe, roasted and maintained with good freshness, the coffee itself will have a certain sweetness, especially the sweet aroma of caramel, honey and even sugar. At the same time, many kinds of coffee itself have a good round texture.

These exquisite features worth appreciating can be obliterated by a small spoonful of sugar and milk. Of course, if it's just mediocre quality, or coffee that has been stored for too long, you will simply have a problem with yourself without milk and sugar.

3. Start by smelling the aroma

Some common aroma of coffee.

Before the entrance, use your nose to appreciate the aroma of the coffee. Here you can borrow wine tasting words without hesitation: first smell your coffee to see if it is clean and if there is any abnormal rotten soil, mildew, volatile sour or spicy taste, these are the taste produced by poor quality or improper preservation of coffee beans. If it is a healthy coffee, then in the aroma can give you a lot of enjoyment.

You can use the wine tasting system to evaluate a coffee without hesitation, looking for fruity, floral, botanical, roasted and spicy aromas. As the heat of coffee helps spread the aroma, you can easily capture the rich and complex aroma of coffee.

4. Gargle like a wine tasting

Tasting black coffee is like tasting life-the more zuo, the more bitter. If you want to appreciate the true flavor of coffee, it's not enough to sip a few drops at a time like a lady. The amount of each mouthful you drink is best to allow coffee to flow all the way from the tip of your tongue to the base of your tongue.

Just like tasting wine, in addition to the aroma, you can pay extra attention to whether the "body" or "coffee body" of coffee is full, heavy, light, light as water, or as thick as syrup. The acidity of coffee is dull, lively, or strong. Finally, you can reconsider the aftertaste and overall complexity of the coffee.

5. Have a chocolate.

Chocolate is not a must for tasting coffee, but who can reject the charm of that wonderful combination. Unlike the tightrope-like combination of wine and chocolate, most coffee goes well with most chocolates, so it's a very personal sensory process, but Lindsey Goodwin, a coffee and tea columnist at About, a US consumer guide, offers what she sees as some of the best matches for reference:

Italian chocolate pretzels (Chocolate Biscotti) go well with almost any coffee-these hard pretzels from the coffee kingdom of Italy are made to go with coffee.

Chocolate pretzels (Chocolate Biscotti)

Dark chocolate goes well with Espresso coffee, especially in Indonesia, Brazil, Ethiopia and Guatemala, and other deep-roasted coffees are fine.

Milk chocolate is delicious with many coffees, including Colombia, Kenya, Sumatra, Yemen (Mocha), Ethiopia and Hawaii Kona.

White chocolate doesn't go well with many coffees because its delicate aroma is easily overshadowed by coffee, but Colombian, Costa Rican and Yemeni coffee can still try.

Chocolate brownies need to be paired with very full and round coffee, which is suitable for Indonesia or Guatemala.

Chocolate cake is also a classic match for coffee, while Guatemalan, Arabica and Colombian coffee are all good choices.

Fruit wrapped in chocolate? It goes well with any coffee from Africa.