Standard coffee cup test-feel the charm of coffee and the etiquette of drinking coffee by smelling the fragrance and color

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You can add a little sugar and cream to the pure black coffee, or add spices such as cinnamon to the coffee like the Africans and Arabs; if you are not used to the bitter taste of the coffee, you can also add a little favorite juice to the coffee. However, drink a cup of authentic black coffee in order to taste the rich flavor of the coffee itself, is the expert of tasting coffee. No matter how you drink it, there is some fastidiousness and knowledge in tasting coffee. When a cup of coffee is brought to you, don't rush to drink it. There should be a gradual process like tea or wine tasting, so as to achieve the goal of relaxation, refreshing and enjoyment.

Smell fragrance

Experience the strong aroma of coffee.

Watch the color

Coffee had better be dark brown rather than dark and bottomless.

Taste

First take a sip of black coffee, feel the taste of the original coffee, the entrance of the coffee should be some sweet, slightly bitter, slightly sour not astringent, and then taste it in a small sip, do not rush to swallow the coffee, temporarily contain it in your mouth, let the coffee and saliva mix with the air, and then swallow it.

Temperature

The best temperature of drink coffee is 85-88 degrees Celsius, because the texture of ordinary coffee is not stable, so it is best to taste it while it is hot. In order not to reduce the taste of coffee, soak the coffee cup in boiling water beforehand. The appropriate temperature of coffee is 83 degrees Celsius at the moment of brewing, 80 degrees Celsius when poured into the cup, and 61-62 degrees Celsius in the mouth.

Generally speaking, tasting coffee while it is hot is the basic etiquette of drinking coffee. If a cup of high-quality coffee, after cooling, in addition to the aroma will be reduced, the taste performance should be consistent with the hot, or even better.

Taste

Coffee beans contain about 5-8% sugar, most of which are converted to caramel after baking, which is the source of aroma and bitterness, leaving a little sweetness in the unconverted sugar; when baked, tannins are released and combined with caramel to produce a slightly bitter sweetness. So people's taste of coffee is generally bitter, sour, sweet, fragrant and astringent.

Appropriate amount

Drinking coffee is not like drinking or juice, a full cup of coffee, watching it will lose interest in drinking. Usually only seven or eight minutes full for the right amount, moderate amount of coffee will not only stimulate the taste, after drinking will not have a greasy feeling, but endless aftertaste, at the same time, the right amount of coffee can moderately promote the body to recover from fatigue, refreshing the mind. Coffee has a strong and weak taste, so you can't drink several cups in a row like tea or cola, and the average amount of coffee is 80-100cc. Sometimes if you want to drink three or four cups in a row, you have to dilute the concentration of coffee, or add a lot of milk, so as not to cause nausea, and you might as well change more in the blending of sugar to make the coffee more delicious.