Coffee what is the cup test identification coffee cupping? The initial experience of scaa Coffee Cup Test process

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Many people start their mornings with a cup of coffee, which is refreshing and savoring the aroma and taste of the coffee running down the throat.

In recent years, the coffee culture in Taiwan has become more and more prosperous. Whether it is a convenience store or a coffee shop, almost everyone has a cup of coffee. More and more people not only like to drink coffee, but also want to know more about coffee. Today, the editor specially came to the Uni Lab COFFEE Coffee classroom to learn the basics of coffee and experience the coffee cupping course of cup testing. learn more about the story behind a delicious cup of coffee and learn to personally experience the differences of coffee beans from different countries.

In order to make coffee lovers, but there is no channel to learn coffee beginners, Uni Lab COFFEE held a series of coffee classrooms, inviting CQI, SCAA, SCAE and other internationally certified professional coffee professionals "Zhu Maoheng" Henry, the teacher himself is cordial and interesting, flexible use of professional knowledge and teaching methods that are easy for beginners to digest, leading beginners to enter the world of coffee step by step. Many girls at the scene rushed to take pictures with the teacher-- it was really handsome and nice!

At the beginning of the course, the teacher said that coffee is mainly produced in Central and South America, Africa, and Asia, and most of the planting land is near the equator, the soil must be organic soil of volcanic rocks, and coffee trees are very afraid of frost. Let's start with some basic ideas.

The origin of coffee beans determines the taste, aroma and characteristics of coffee, such as Blue Mountains, Mantenin, Colombia, Brazil and so on. Most of them belong to Ethiopian coffee beans, with good aroma and sour taste.

Does everyone know? The fragrance of the coffee tree is similar to that of jasmine-it is a white flower like jasmine, which is very dense and beautiful. After flowering, the fruit actually changes from cyan to mature red before the harvest, which has to go through many different bean-making procedures in order to become the raw beans we see.

Different production places and coffee bean varieties and bean processing procedures, the flavor is also completely different, there are flower and fruit, peanut butter, longan, lemon and other aromas! You really have to smell it before you know it-- and then it's the highlight of the cup test! Let's take a look at the characteristics of coffee beans from different producing areas.

"Cup test" is like tasting red wine, through eight steps to determine the sweetness, acidity, bitterness, aftertaste, aroma and quality of coffee, cup test is very important to determine high-quality coffee internationally, ordinary people can also use cup test to find out the most suitable coffee.

Cup test time

Then the editor actually experienced the cup test, coffee beans must be freshly ground into coffee powder, in order to carry out the correct cup test, a kind of coffee beans need three cups of coffee powder! In addition, you can't wear perfume during cup testing-it will affect your sense of smell.

There are 6 kinds of coffee beans on the spot. You can also touch the raw beans of the coffee while testing the cup. The appearance of each kind of coffee beans is a little different. Some coffee beans have gold thread in the middle--

1. First smell the dry aroma of freshly ground coffee beans in the cup, you can cover the mouth of the cup and gently shake the cup, and smell the aroma of coffee close to the cup. There are six kinds of coffee at the scene, each of which needs to smell 3 cups-the teacher taught us that if our nose is dull and can't smell the difference, we can smell our own meat. The sense of smell will come back.

When the editor smelled the washed coffee beans made in Ethiopia, he noticed that one of the coffee smelled sweet like sweet potato fruit, with gold thread in the middle of the beans.

two。 Then pour hot water into the cup and fill it to the rim.

3. The time is four minutes.

4. In the timing time, as close as possible to slowly smell the wet aroma, when smelling wet, the editor smells similar to the grass smell, which is slightly different from the dry smell.

5. Break the dregs, destroy the surface with a spoon and stir from the bottom up, while getting close to smell the aroma.

6. Pick up the slag and pick up the slag and suspended particles on the surface of the cup with two spoons into the paper cup.

7. At this time, the coffee is clean and free of floating particles, then sip a spoonful of coffee liquid with a tablespoon.

8. Sipping, putting the spoon against the mouth and sucking in the coffee and air quickly and forcefully will make a whining sound-it will be contained in the mouth for about 3-5 seconds, and the liquid will be atomized evenly on the tongue. Taste through the taste buds to taste the sweetness, acidity and bitterness of the coffee spread in the mouth. After spitting in a paper cup (called spitting cup), rinse the spoon with clean water after each sample. It does not affect the taste of the next sample. After all the samples have been tasted, even if the whole cup test process is completed, the official cup test will record the information of each kind of coffee in the table for scoring. The editor tastes some coffee with high acidity, while others have a faint fruit flavor!

The matter of making coffee is fully integrated into our daily life. Each kind of coffee has many different characteristics or roasting methods, so it is worth thinking of people who know more about coffee to explore the world of coffee. The editor came to the coffee classroom to learn more about coffee. Usually, the editor is most afraid that he will want to sleep in boring classes, but under the leadership of Mr. Zhu in the Uni lab coffee coffee classroom, the atmosphere is relaxed, and the teacher will answer every question. Very kind, coffee beginners also feel more at ease to ask questions. The actual cup test experience is also an eye-opener for the editor-the smell of dry coffee is different from that of wet coffee.

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