About Coffee Body How to Increase the Body of Hand Brewed Coffee by Brewing

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What is mellow?

Let's start with the basics: Body is the structure and texture of coffee, and Scott Rao defines body in The Professional Barista's Handbook as "the weight or fullness of the beverage felt in the mouth."

Since body is an element of taste, you know there will be a difference, and in The Coffee Dictionary Maxwell writes that "it would be interesting to imagine when you could feel coffee that was light but had a sticky taste, or coffee that was full of body but had a juicy taste." Fullness is not something we taste, but something we feel. However, this can affect the overall flavor of coffee, as flavor is made up of a combination of many elements-taste, aroma, texture, and even sound and vision.

a body that is difficult to explain scientifically.

If we want to emphasize the body of coffee through brewing, we need to know how to do it, and this comes to extraction. Extraction is the extraction of flavor and aroma components from coffee powder in the process of contact with water, and then brewed into a good coffee.

During extraction, substances are divided into soluble and insoluble substances. Soluble substances are diluted in water, while insoluble substances are solids and oils floating on the surface of the liquid. These are probably protein molecules and fibers, and these insoluble substances, especially oils, are things that increase body.

Green beans with good body

Some coffee varieties have more body than others, Maracaturra coffee from El Socorro, Guatemala, which has peach flavor, slight whiskey flavor when cooled, caramel texture and round and full taste. Then the author fell madly in love with this type of coffee bean.

Pacamara, on the other hand, is very tasty, with rich fruit flavors, mostly stone fruit, and a good chocolate flavor. However, it usually has only a moderate body.

There is also Rosedale, the most respected coffee in the coffee industry, known for its delicate, tea-like body, which creates a coffee experience very different from Mara Caturra.