Why is there salty coffee in my coffee? why is the coffee salty?

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Coffee is not only bitter, but also rich in sour taste to set off the sweetness of coffee, the aroma of coffee is dry after baking or grinding, and the wet aroma of coffee extract can stabilize people's mood and improve sensory sensitivity. The more you learn, the more you realize how shallow your knowledge is. I think the so-called growth is that you understand that life is not simple sweet or bitter, but also salty, sour, astringent and cold and warm self-aware taste.

The salty taste of coffee

There are also many kinds of salty taste, and the aroma reminds people of saltier foods, such as the smell of too much salt in fried food, and the smell at the bottom of the cup after drinking coffee. Think of salty snacks such as shrimp sticks and Wangxianbei, and so on. And the taste summed up is the taste of salt.

Usually do hand flushing and Italian style will occasionally taste and "smell" to [salty] (smell refers to the smell after grinding), and most of the time, the salty taste is more obvious in Espresso.

Due to the distribution of taste, sour and salty taste, it is easy to be confused, inferior acid and salty taste is difficult to distinguish. But it is different from the salty taste of salt after all. Of course, some beans have an unusually salty taste, which is very close to the salty taste of sea salt.

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