Don't regard the SCAA standard as the only biblical coffee flavor wheel.

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SCAA coffee flavor wheel

What is SCAA?

The full name of SCAA is Specialty Coffee Association ofAmerica, which is translated as "American Special Coffee Association" or "American Fine Coffee Association" in Chinese. SCAA is the largest coffee trade association in the world and a trade organization focusing on high-quality coffee. SCAA is committed to providing a common platform for pursuing the excellent quality of coffee "from seed to cup" and the sustainable development of high-quality coffee, establishing coffee quality standards and standardizing the certification standards for the skills of coffee professionals. The barista evaluation standard determined by SCAA and the barista certificate issued are currently one of the most authoritative barista certifications in the world.

The so-called flavor wheel is to list "the flavor you can taste in the coffee", decomposing and summarizing the rich flavor of the coffee, so that when you taste the coffee, you will have a more intuitive and keen understanding of the various flavors contained in the coffee.

But you must remember that the flavor wheel is just a tool for easy understanding of coffee.

The makers of flavor wheel, as Westerners, mostly choose the flavor that Westerners can easily come into contact with to interpret coffee. Especially like "nutmeg", "vanilla", which is not common in daily life, and even "isovaleric acid", "butyric acid" and "oil". Don't ask me, I don't know what it tastes like.

Therefore, I still hope that you will not regard the SCAA standard as the only Bible, you might as well use something you are familiar with to understand coffee.

For example, some of my friends are happy to describe the taste of sweet potato, Beijing roast duck, roast chicken wings and northeast sauerkraut in some coffee, which can make people have synaesthesia in taste more intuitively.

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