What is the coffee flavor? how to taste the coffee flavor? coffee flavor description

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The taste is divided into three levels: the first is the "sense of taste" that the taste buds feel feedback directly, the second is the "flavor" printed with other things, and finally the "situation" that echoes a scene in life.

Taste (Taste)

The sense of taste comes from the taste buds on the tongue, and you can taste sweet, sour, bitter, and salty taste, and because of the different locations of various taste buds, the acuity of the tongue to all kinds of taste sensations is also different.

Sweet:

Sensory range-mainly the tip of the tongue.

Taste source-part of the sweetness of coffee comes from roasted sugar.

Acid:

Sensory range-both sides of the tongue.

Taste source-mainly from organic acids in raw beans.

Bitter:

Sensory range-root of the tongue.

Taste source-most people may think that "bitterness" is a bad taste in coffee. However, bitterness is one of the necessary tastes in Espresso. It comes from the "Mena reaction" in baking.

Flavor (Flavor)

In the coffee world, when it comes to the "flavor" of Flavor, we must be no stranger.

Indeed, flavor always describes the most profound and moving strokes of a cup of coffee.

In the American Fine Coffee Association (SCAA), it has been systematically organized with the classic flavor wheel (Coffee Taster's Flavor Wheel); even recently, counter-culture coffee (Counter Culture Coffee), one of the three major boutique coffee in the United States, updated a flavor wheel in 2013, and even many coffee people have been able to use it for reference.

There is another implicit system in the SCAA flavor wheel, which comes from the flavor description of red wine and whisky.

Referring to the original "24 flavors" of whisky and the "108flavor" system of red wine, this system is reinterpreted as the "36 flavor" of coffee and applied to the description of coffee flavor. These 36 flavors have also been made into fragrant bottles to provide education, training or collection. Through the smell bottle, in addition to intuitively feeling the tone of various flavors, you can also get in touch with some flavors that are difficult to try in daily life.

In the description of flavor, there are eight basic categories:

Floral, fruity, nutty, sweet, wood, spices, fermentation, miscellaneous flavors.

1. Flower fragrance

two。 Fruity aromas (with citrus and berries as the two main categories)

-Citrus (flavor performance improved ex. Lemons, oranges)

-berries (the flavor is sunken ex. Strawberries, cherries)

3. Nuts

-drupes, chocolate

4. Sweet fragrance

Caramel, toffee, honey, sweet potato

5. Wood quality

6. Spices (especially in dry incense)

7. Fermentation (good: ripe fruit, bad: stinky acid)

8. Mixed smell (smoke, potions, rubber, soil)

Whether it is the description of taste, flavor, or situation, it is closely related to the attempt of all kinds of diet in our daily life. These dietary experiences will increase the database of various tastes in memory! So usually when eating, you can remember that taste, pay attention to some things around you, will help to understand the flavor of coffee.