The Spring Festival should have the flavor of the New year, how can there be no "coffee flavor" in drinking coffee?

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Good luck at the beginning of the New year! May you come into a good fortune!

Today is the second day of the Lunar New year. After posting Spring Festival couplets, eating New year's Eve dinner, watching the Spring Festival Gala and collecting lucky money, do you feel that the older you grow up, the less the flavor of the New year? What is the flavor of New year? Du Niang told us, "the flavor of the New year is the custom of the New year, such as posting Spring Festival couplets, setting off firecrackers, eating New year's Eve dinner, collecting lucky money, paying homage to the New year, and so on." "so there is the opening period of New year's greetings!

However, in the editor's mind, the flavor of New year seems to be just such a feeling, a feeling that people can feel excited and look forward to (receiving red envelopes), but unfortunately, it seems to be less and less in recent years!

Just like what we call coffee flavor, biscuits have coffee flavor, dessert has coffee flavor, foreign wine has coffee flavor, but coffee beans seldom say coffee flavor. What kind of feeling is the smell of coffee in our impression? Nuts? Chocolate? Caramel? The scent of flowers? Sour fruit? One hundred coffee lovers, there are a hundred kinds of coffee taste! The more coffee people drink, the less likely they are to define or describe "coffee taste".

Coffee is a kind of taste.

There are dozens of flavors of coffee. In order to taste the coffee correctly, we need a good baking process, a suitable brewing scheme and, of course, water suitable for brewing. Finally, coffee flavor wheels may be needed to explain and describe the flavor of coffee.

What exactly does the smell of coffee mean?

We often talk about the taste of coffee, but it mostly refers to the flavor. However, in fact, the flavor is felt in the following different ways.

Taste: for example, if sour, fruity-pink area

Palate: such as alcohol thickness, Body or other taste experience-orange area

Bouquet: such as floral, fruity

The sense of smell before the nose (when inhaled through the nose)-blue line

The sense of smell behind the nose (circulates in the mouth by chewing and swallowing)-green line

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Factors affecting the flavor of coffee

To find out which factors play a role in the performance of coffee, we need to study the impact of many aspects.

The first is the variety. Variety, of course, has a great influence on flavor. Arabica coffee tends to have a pleasant acidity and complex and delicate taste, and has more lipids than Robusta coffee. On Robusta coffee, we can often hear some less popular adjectives, such as tobacco, wood and earthy taste. On the other hand, Robusta has twice as much caffeine as Arabica, and its plants are stronger and more resistant to disease. In addition, different varieties and subspecies will also bring different performance to the flavor of coffee.

The planting environment also has a great influence on the flavor of coffee. Altitude, climate, temperature, rainfall, soil fertility, fertilization and so on will affect the growth of coffee and finally get the regional flavor. For example, people often drink the blackcurrant flavor of Kenyan coffee and the citrus flavor of washed Yega Chevy coffee.

The treatment of coffee also has a great influence on the trend of coffee flavor. For example, washed coffee beans usually have bright and clean acidity, while sun-treated coffee beans, we can usually feel all the sweetness, fruit, berries and even chocolates swinging back and forth in our mouths. sun-dried beans tend to have the most complete and rich flavor complexity and mellow thickness. And between the sun and water washing, is honey-treated coffee. Honey-treated coffee can be as sweet and fruity as the sun, and it is as clean and fresh as washed beans with soft acidity.

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Something that affects the flavor of raw beans after treatment.

The raw beans are baked after they are processed. Generally speaking, we tend to think that coffee roasting is a process of releasing all the flavors and aromas hidden in the raw beans of coffee. All the flavors already exist objectively, but it still needs to be uncovered and expressed by the baker through a series of chemical reactions. When the degree of roasting is lighter, the acidity of the coffee is pleasant, and the fruit and sweetness are better. Coffee with a deeper baking degree has more roasting flavor and more obvious bitterness.

After baking, it's time for our barista's performance. Usually to make a good cup of coffee, we have a few details to pay attention to:

1. Remember to clean utensils regularly.

2. Store coffee beans correctly.

3. Use suitable water for cooking and control the temperature.

4. Find the right powder-to-water ratio.

5. Match with suitable cooking utensils.

6. Skillful cooking techniques.

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Apart from taste, what other factors affect our experience of coffee taste?

In addition to the flavor of the coffee itself, there are other things that can affect our experience. For example, different coffee mugs, mugs and glasses will make your coffee taste different. Other smells in the room can also interfere with the smell of coffee. Even, the surrounding environment, weather and even our mood at that time will directly affect our experience of the taste of coffee. As you can imagine, the same coffee must taste different in different situations.

How do you describe the smell of coffee?

General professional coffee industry, will use SCA coffee flavor wheel. This is a good and professional tool for all baristas, roasters, raw bean merchants, judges and even farmers to use a unified standard to measure and describe the taste of coffee.

However, for the general coffee lovers, the coffee flavor wheel is a bit too professional, and the threshold is higher. Or can you try some concise versions?

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So, the next time you drink coffee, you can take some time to think about the origin of this cup of coffee, from the taste and aroma of this cup of coffee, maybe you can find more stories!

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