What is the taste of coffee? how do you describe several flavors of coffee?

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Sour, sweet, bitter, salty, fat, fresh, color, fragrance, description of taste and feeling is very difficult.

Taste

The pleasant sour taste of the Acidity/ Acidy of ● acid

A typical flavor of organic acids. This sour taste comes from the tannins in the coffee, which is an attractive and distinct pleasant sour taste, which is different from the general excitant sour taste of overfermentation.

The wonderful sour taste is the reason why some coffees are highly valued. In fact, all coffee has a sour taste, but these acids will scorch off at high temperatures, making the deeper the beans are less sour. It's not difficult to tell a good acid from a bad acid, just as you can tell the difference between fruit acid and hydrochloric acid. If the brewing temperature is too low, or excessive extraction, tannins in coffee, etc., will irritate both sides of the tongue and accompanied by a pungent smell, making you feel uncomfortable. This is different from delicious acid, which irritates the edges of the tongue on both sides and inspires adjectives such as "lean" and "s harp". In addition to the two sides of the tongue, the soft acid also feels evenly near the middle part of the root of the tongue, making some soft acid close to the salty taste (such as tomato and plum acid) or soda (sparkling). As the distinctive sour taste often overshadows the texture and becomes the main body of the taste, some people use "clean" and "Bell-like as clear as a bell" to describe coffee with outstanding sour taste.

The sour flavor brings more connotation to the sour taste. Some slightly stimulating fragrances can refresh people and make people notice at once, giving people the feeling of "bright"; on the contrary, some fragrances give people a dark feeling. For example, ginger, soda, lemon, apple, orange, tomato, ripe banana, their brightness is getting lower and lower in order.

The reason why most people don't like the sour taste of coffee is probably that they are not used to sour and bitter together. Fortunately, sour taste can be suppressed by sweetness, such as lemon juice with sugar. If you think coffee is too sour, you can choose to add sugar. Unlike milk, sugar not only does not affect other mellow taste, but also can mention the sweetness of coffee.

The unpleasant sour taste of ●. Sour.

This refers to the overly strong, irritating, and uncomfortable taste of coffee, which is sometimes associated with the fermented smell of coffee. Here, reviewers should pay attention to the difference between acidity and acidity.

If the coffee beans are oversoaked during processing and lead to fermentation or improper operation during extraction, it is easy to produce this bad sour taste.

● bitter taste

Teenagers only know sour and sweet, wind and frost understand bitter incense.

Bitterness is a basic sense of taste, and it is easier to feel bitterness at the base of the tongue. The bitterness of dark baking is deliberately created, but the most common cause of bitterness is too much coffee powder and too little water. A special bitter taste found in quinine, theophylline, caffeine, etc. This bitterness is a suitable bitterness for human consumption and is affected by the degree of baking.

The bitterness of coffee is its basic taste and its charm. If coffee is as sour and sweet as juice or yogurt, it will not cause us so much contemplation and insight. Proper bitterness has a refreshing effect and will bring a richer experience to the taste. And with the growth of age, our ability to accept and understand bitterness becomes stronger and stronger, and we may even be infatuated with this unique taste.

● sweetness

Coffee itself contains sugar, which is typical of sucrose or fructose and is always associated with fruity, chocolate and caramel flavors. It is also often used to describe the sweetness produced not by the addition of flavor but by the coffee itself. The charm of coffee lies not only in its bitterness, but also in the endless sweetness that emerges after it suffers.

● salty taste

It tastes like salt water. The salty taste of coffee is bitter and sour, so it is not obvious and direct. After brewing, if the coffee is overheated, it will produce a salty taste. The coffee in some coffee shops has this flavor.