What does fine coffee learn? Fine coffee. What's the game? Experience and pursuit of flavor!

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With the prevalence of the third wave of coffee in recent years, it seems that as long as a coffee lover can say a few words about "boutique coffee". The definition of "fine coffee" has its own expression, but what is the meaning and purpose of drinking fine coffee? What are the pursuers of "boutique coffee" playing?

Enjoy a feast of senses

In fact, you can think of boutique coffee as a feast for the senses. A good cup of coffee has a variety of surprising possibilities in terms of taste and smell. From the origin to our eyes, coffee beans have undergone many changes in the process, so coffee is so charming and interesting.

Usually in the coffee shop, we will see a stack of flavor descriptions of food and fruit under the name of the item. In fact, the shopkeeper provides a description of the style of this cup based on his own taste experience. For example, Yega Xuefei often appears lemon, black tea, flowers; classic rose summer flavor: jasmine, bergamot, honey, citrus and so on.

Just like traveling or enjoying good food, the feeling of drinking individual coffee is personal, subjective, and can be constantly developed and accumulated experience. There is no absolute, or right or wrong, there is no standard answer, it can be said to be very free, therefore, it can be said to be a wonderful world of items.

From everyday life, to find, to describe

When you first try a single product, don't be afraid to "drink it". Coffee can only dissolve so much. You must have had some, but you're not used to describing it.

For example, drink a fragrant sweet, do not know how to say the taste is wonderful, this time, you can start from recalling their daily taste memories. The closer the flavor description is to the understanding of the surroundings, the more it can help to experience the flavor of coffee. There are several ways to help us "catch" these smells more easily:

1. From the taste experienced in daily life, to the flavor analogy of coffee, and then produce a connection;

2. Refer to the Coffee Flavor Wheel published by the American Coffee Association (SCAA). The flavor above can sometimes bring you directions for reference descriptions;

3 Share with friends and family, or talk to the barista and discuss with each other.

Sometimes what the teacher said and what was written in the book is not necessarily the really good coffee, the really good coffee, only the cup you drank in your hand. Therefore, the most important thing is to open your senses and feel the coffee in front of you.

Usually we will divide the performance of single-serve coffee into several categories, as a reference for communication with each other, generally divided into aroma, flavor, acidity, body, rhyme and balance.

Category and Description of Coffee Flavor

Coffee beans are like fruit, in fact. The wonderful thing about it is that good coffee can show many fruits and even all kinds of good food flavors at the same time. In order to describe the complex flavor of coffee, we usually use analogies, such as drinking "sweet and sour like pineapple" and "lemon-like fragrance"; at the same time, we will divide it into several categories:

Fragrance and Aroma

The aroma brought by coffee can be divided into two types: freshly ground coffee powder before brewing, which is called "dry aroma". After brewing, coffee is served in a cup and smells like "Aroma."

wet aroma

When drinking single-item coffee in a coffee shop, whether it is directly filled in a cup or shared in a pot, you don't have to be afraid of anything. Just put your nose in and smell it. Feel the wet aroma of this cup of coffee. It is said that different shapes of cups can deliver different levels and sequences of aroma ~

dry aroma

Some stores will put the ground coffee powder in a cup before brewing and serve it to the customer. The intention is also to invite you to smell the dry aroma of this glass. At this time, do not panic (anyway, you are paying), please try to shake the glass gently, as the glass shakes, it is easy to experience the dry aroma, with subtle, different levels.

Acidity

Coffee on the tree, is red, yellow, orange and green, looks like a cherry fruit, so also known as "Coffee Cherries", the taste of the pulp, tastes sour and sweet, we take to drink coffee beans every day, is the coffee fruit inside the seeds. During post-processing, natural fruit flavors are locked inside the beans.

Usually, coffee fruits don't all ripen together, so delicious coffee actually comes from careful and time-consuming manual picking and screening.

Acid analogy

Acidity is one of the most important flavors of coffee beans, and the distinguishing direction of acidity strength is usually analogous to fruit acid. from weak to strong are probably malic acid, gluconic acid, peach acid, citrus acid, plum acid, strawberry, black plum, BlackBerry, raspberry, fruit vinegar, rice acetic acid.

The word is translated as "acid" because it not only contains the strength of acidity, but also contains the properties and texture of the above acids.

When it comes to the aroma and acidity of individual coffee, you can't miss Ethiopian beans. The nose is often floral and fruity, reminiscent of a whole basket of berries and citrus fruits. The color is bright and easy to distinguish. Everyone will like it. You must have a try when you have a chance.

Alcohol thickness Body

Generally used when tasting red wine, it is used to describe the thick and thin body of the wine, and here it is used to describe the mellow thickness of coffee. You can shake the coffee cup, watch the coffee attached to the cup wall, slide down the speed, to judge the mellow thickness of the coffee. Of course, the most direct and objective feeling is to use one's own mouth and tongue to taste. The description analogy of mellow thickness can be described by water, milk and rice syrup. The more mellow the coffee liquid, the higher the dissolved matter, the more coffee oil, and the higher the sense of presence in the mouth.

The flavor of coffee, sometimes like a viewfinder, takes us to stare at the beautiful memories evoked by it.

Flavor Flavor

If flavor is not used as a general term, it refers to the sense of taste that is different from other categories. In other words, it is not aroma, not acid, not alcohol thickness, and so on. It can contain many kinds, such as chocolate, honey, milk, nuts, drupes, herbs, smoked products, even leather, freshly harvested grass, etc., with special flavors.

Local characteristics and regional flavor

Now that we have mentioned the flavor of coffee, what we have to mention is "Terroir". This term comes from wine, which is usually translated into "local characteristics, regional flavor" and so on, referring to "the positive flavor that the growing environment brings to agricultural products, which is difficult to copy in other places."

The composition of climate, altitude, sunshine, hydrology, soil, microorganisms and surrounding plants varies from place to place, so there are differences in each producing area, and even within the producing area, and the regional flavor is unique to the region. For example, Mantenin's herbal, herbal and earthy flavor is a unique symbol derived from Sumatra.

Yu Yun Aftertaste

After passing through the throat, the taste of coffee remains in the teeth, cheeks and mouth. In this world, there are some interesting single-taste beans, which are as healthy as tea, and even have a tea-like tail rhyme. Therefore, you can try to drink a sip of coffee, with a mouthful of boiled water, you may get an extra surprise.

Balanced Balance

The "balance" here refers to the distribution of coffee flavor, whether the aroma of the front, the taste of the middle, and the aftertaste of the latter are evenly distributed. If there are certain traits that are too prominent, even if they taste good, they may not be considered a proper balance. To put it simply, a balanced cup of coffee should have rich front aroma, thick and smooth taste, and a long finish, and the overall drinking experience must be comfortable in order to have a balanced performance.

What you like is the most important.

Right. We still have to emphasize that coffee as a drink, "the performance of the flavor, often depends on the subjective feelings of the individual." Because everyone's growth experience is different, the feeling of drinking will be more or less different. The performance of each cup of coffee is different, and it is most important to feel good. When buying coffee beans, there are some ways to make yourself feel at ease and happy:

① tries to choose local fresh baking shops.

② tells the store what flavor he likes, or what flavor he wants to drink.

③, order a drink on the spot and feel it.

I believe that professional stores can definitely give you very appropriate advice. Let's sail to the wonderful world of boutique coffee.

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