What is the taste of coffee? why is it bitter? what kind of coffee tastes good?

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Let me tell you the three main signs of extraction so that you can make the changes you need to make a better, more balanced coffee.

1. An overwhelming sour taste

The acid in coffee is easily misunderstood. The best coffee in the world is acidic, which is a good thing.

Sour, when balanced, brings life and vitality to the coffee taste. They emphasize and praise taste to create complex experiences. They can even have their own unique flavors, such as strawberry, orange or green apple.

But it's not the kind of acidity we're talking about.

The coffee we are talking about is sour, too strong, and sometimes tingling. This is an unchecked acidity.

Underextracted coffee usually leaves a pungent taste on the tip of the tongue. And when it's really bad, it even makes you want to pout your lips, just like you eat sour candy.

I once drank a cup of espresso and it really burned when I swallowed it because its extraction was so low. It is so sour and strong that it makes my eyes cry.

two。 A thin taste

The unextracted coffee has not yet extracted all the delicious flavors from the coffee grounds. Most of the sugar, oil and bitterness are left in the coffee grounds rather than in the water.

This leads to an unpleasant sour taste, but also leads to a lack of taste. Unextracted coffee tastes incomplete and unfinished. You want to enjoy all the taste of coffee, but you just can't get it.

Note: do not confuse it with the lifeless quality of over-extracted coffee. This can be said to be dead and boring, but it is less developed.

3. Salty taste

Wait a minute. Salty coffee?

It sounds strange, but it's true.

Coffee that is especially underextracted has a salty taste that emerges from the sour taste. It tastes different from the way you pour salt into the cup, but it's almost there.

When I first drank coffee, I thought my coffee was salty, but I thought it was all my brain. Later, when I became a barista and learned from more experienced coffee lovers, I realized it wasn't just my problem.

Salt is real in unextracted coffee.

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