How to divide the roasting degree of coffee beans? Is there a big difference in the flavor of coffee beans in light and deep roasting?

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What kind of roasted coffee do you usually drink? Is it light or deep? Even if the same brand of coffee is characterized by roasting to enjoy different tastes. Today I will introduce the difference in the taste of coffee due to the degree of roasting.

About the degree of baking

The roasting degree of coffee has changed, and the roasting degree of coffee performance in the case of coffee has been divided into eight stages.

Generally speaking, light roasted coffee has a strong acidity, while deep roasted coffee has a strong bitter taste. This change in taste is said to be caused by various chemical components in raw beans, which cause chemical changes in the baking process.

Can be divided into light baking, medium baking and deep baking.

Shallow baking

It has strong acidity and you can enjoy the original flavor of beans. Many cases of drinking in the third wave are shallow roasting. The coffee polyphenols contained in raw beans are weak in calories, so they decrease with the growth of coffee polyphenols.

Light roasting

Cinnamon roast

Medium baking

Balanced acidity and bitterness, mellow baking method, easy to drink. It is usually used to drip coffee. As caffeine increases, caffeine will soar, and the deeper the roast, the lower the caffeine content.

Medium roast

High roasting

Urban roasting (medium depth)

Deep baking

It has strong bitterness and richness and is suitable for iced coffee and espresso. When the coffee beans are roasted in more than a certain amount, the oil seeps from the inside of the beans to the surface and glows.

Roasting in the whole city (medium depth)

Baked in France

Italian roast

The roasting degree of coffee in eight stages

This paper introduces the name and characteristics of baking degree which is divided into 8 stages.

Light baking (light baking)

In a light brown state of coffee. The color of beans is yellowish, and the fresh aroma of fresh green is stronger than that of coffee. This seems to be the roasting degree that can be used for cupping and so on to see the characteristics of each coffee bean.

Roast cinnamon (light roast)

It's as cool as cinnamon, and it's shallow. Sometimes, I think the beans are blue rather than fragrant. Coffee craze trend, often seen in the third wave of roasting degree, refreshing taste is unique.

Medium roast (medium roast)

The coffee is brown. This baking degree is also known as "American baking". It has a light flavor and is often used in American coffee and so on. Mount Kilimanjaro, Mount Moka, Blue Mountain, etc. There is also a certain degree of barbecue, which makes it easy for people to master the flavor of high-quality beans.

High roast (medium roast)

It is darker brown than medium color. It has a balanced acidity and bitterness and a round taste, which is often used as the roasting degree of ordinary coffee.

Urban roasting (medium depth)

This is a clear brown state of coffee. It is grilled, although it is the most standard degree of barbecue, but the taste is strong, the taste is rich, and the taste is stronger than sour taste. In addition, it seems to be sometimes used in espresso.

Roasting in the whole city (medium depth)

This is a baked degree that looks like a dark brown shadow, making it more bitter than clear and sour taste. It is sometimes used in iced coffee, roasted coffee, espresso, etc., compared with light roasted coffee, the content of caffeine and chlorogenic acid is lower.

French baking (deep roasting)

This is a dark brown state with a black eye. Because it can enjoy strong bitterness and rich taste and unique smell, this is a barbecue degree used to combine menus with milk. For now, if you are in a state of deep barbecue, the oil will float on the surface and become sticky.

Italian baking (deep baking)

The color is dark brown close to black. From the early espresso and cappuccino, it is a strong bitter taste and rich taste. As if the bitterness of burning black smoke is characteristic, the language of "Rikkori" is very good.

Standard of baking degree

In fact, although the standard of roasting degree of coffee is fixed, the standard of "baked too high because too much" is not clearly defined, but the relative baking and shaving indicators are different from store to store.

Even if you use the same beans, you can feel that the high roast B restaurant roasts deeper than the roasting city of the grill.

About the taste of coffee

The taste of coffee varies according to the area and quality of raw beans, but whether it can be enjoyed as delicious coffee in the end depends on the degree of roasting.

Although the characteristics of roasting also vary with the heat source of the roaster, roasted coffee beans make full use of the characteristics of raw beans to become a delicious cup of coffee.

Let's find your own baking level.

Knowing your favorite baking level, you can know when you bought coffee beans at the first store, or you can know your favorite blending tendency. In order to know the degree of roasting, it is recommended to drink the same brand of coffee and different degrees of roasting.

For those coffee beans that prefer light roasting, if you like deep roasting, it's best to try dark coffee beans. In the case of mixing, because the types of beans are mixed, it is difficult to understand, so choosing a single brand (straight) beans can be more easily found due to the difference in roasting degree.

What is the difference in the taste of coffee due to the degree of roasting? Abstract

The difference in coffee taste caused by roasting degree is caused by chemical changes in coffee composition.

Coffee roasting degree is generally divided into eight stages, light roasted coffee has a strong acidity, deep roasted coffee has a strong bitter taste.

In order to enjoy more delicious coffee, it is important that all the coffee quality, roasting heat source and roasting degree are suitable for the raw bean.

To know your favorite baking degree, it is recommended to try a single brand of coffee, because it is easy to understand the difference. Let's enjoy more coffee time every day.