How to taste the coffee? Coffee tasting four-step coffee what's so good about coffee?

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How to taste coffee?

The most important thing that affects a cup of coffee is the quality of the raw beans. The roasting method is only the different interpretation of the beans by the roaster.

Common on the market is the difference between light roast, medium roast and heavy roast beans. Generally speaking, light roast beans retain the most natural coffee aroma of flowers or berries, with obvious changes in fruit acid and aroma. Medium roast focuses on the performance of coffee natural aroma (flowers, fruits, herbs) and roast aroma.(Nutty, caramel, chocolate flavor) balance, the taste emphasizes soft and delicate balance, heavy baked beans because of the high degree of baking, the natural fine aroma and acidity of the beans themselves have been removed most, mainly leaving the baking flavor, really good heavy baked beans are not burnt bitter, with a mellow and full taste.

The reason why home roasting cafes can occupy a place in the market is because each roaster has his own special beans and roasting methods, so that coffee shows a different flavor, attractive. Su Yanzhang said: "Many people think coffee only bitter, in fact, a cup of good coffee is not bitter, and has the sour taste of fruit." Using different grinding and roasting methods to show different flavors of coffee beans, every cup of self-baking coffee is like doing a taste exploration. When tasting, you may wish to hold the same mood as tasting red wine, without sugar, creamer, carefully taste the various levels of coffee, so that drinking coffee becomes a kind of life enjoyment.

Coffee in 4 stages

Step 1 » Smell the dry aroma

Even if it is the same type of beans, depending on the roasting method or time of roasting beans, it will create different characteristics of coffee beans. Dainty roast beans, if you get manor coffee beans, usually will take a shallow roast way, so that the aroma contained in the coffee beans, acidity naturally presented. When it comes to coffee, the first step is to smell the "dry aroma" of coffee beans after grinding.

Step 2 » Smell the wet aroma

After coffee brewing, it will produce a different aroma, called "wet aroma". Whether dry or wet aroma, usually divided into fruit, flowers, wood, or spices such as cinnamon, ginger, cocoa aroma, some coffee will also have honey, brown sugar, caramel, cream and other aroma, very diverse. It is recommended that before coffee intake, you can smell it again and compare the changes between dry and wet aromas.

Step 3: Coffee

Reminder to drink water before drinking coffee, so that the taste zero. Drink a sip of coffee first, feel the temperature and change after the entrance, if the coffee is too hot, wait for 1 or 2 minutes and then drink two or three mouthfuls. At this time, you can feel the change of the taste and layering of the coffee itself. Some coffee is bitter at the beginning, but the later taste is warm, and the sour and sweet taste will slowly spread from the end of the tongue.

Step 4 » Gargle and drink the residual fragrance

Good coffee is rich in layers and will not have only a single taste. If you want to taste it more deeply, you can drink a sip of coffee in your mouth and rinse your mouth with coffee before drinking it. This drinking method can make the coffee in your mouth quickly enter the air, produce different taste changes, and feel the aftertaste of coffee residue in your mouth.

Coffee is good when it's hot?

Coffee taste usually changes with temperature, it is recommended that you can taste high, medium and low temperature, try out the taste of different stages, like African Ethiopian coffee is wonderful, cold drink more rich layers.