Coffee and healthy coffee trilogy

No matter how you drink it, there are still some exquisite and knowledgeable people who taste coffee. You can add a little sugar and milk to pure black coffee, or you can add spices such as cinnamon to your coffee in European style, as in Africa and Arabia; if you are not used to the bitter taste of coffee, you can also add some juice you like to your coffee. However, drinking a cup of authentic black coffee can taste the rich flavor of the coffee itself and will be regarded as an expert in tasting coffee.

The best temperature for drink coffee is 85-88 degrees Celsius. Because the texture of ordinary coffee is not stable, it is best to taste it while it is hot. In order not to reduce the taste of the coffee, soak the coffee cup in boiling water beforehand. The appropriate temperature for coffee is 83 degrees Celsius at the moment of brewing, 80 degrees Celsius when pouring into the cup, and 61-62 degrees into the mouth, which is the most ideal.

Generally speaking, tasting the coffee served by your host while it is hot is also the basic etiquette of drinking coffee. If a cup of high-quality coffee, after cooling, in addition to the aroma will be reduced, the taste performance is consistent with the hot, or even better.

When a cup of coffee is brought to you, don't rush to drink it. There should be a gradual process like tea or wine tasting, so as to achieve the goal of relaxation, refreshing and enjoyment.

The first step is to smell the fragrance and taste the strong aroma of coffee.

The second step is to look at the color. The coffee had better be dark brown, not dark and bottomless.

The third step, taste, first drink a sip of black coffee, feel the taste of the original coffee, coffee entrance should be some sweet, slightly bitter, slightly sour not astringent. Then taste it in small mouthfuls, do not rush to swallow the coffee, but temporarily contain it in your mouth, let the coffee and saliva mix with the air, and then swallow it.

Coffee beans contain about 5-8% sugar, most of which are converted to caramel after baking, which is the source of aroma and bitterness, leaving a little sweetness in the unconverted sugar; when baked, tannins are released and combined with caramel to produce a slightly bitter sweetness. Therefore, people's taste of coffee is generally bitter, sour, sweet, fragrant and astringent.

Drinking coffee is not like drinking or juice, a full cup of coffee, watching it will lose interest in drinking. Generally, it is only seven or eight minutes full for the right amount, moderate amount of coffee will not only stimulate the taste, after drinking it will not have a greasy feeling, but endless aftertaste. The average amount of coffee to drink is 80-100cc. Sometimes if you want to drink three or four cups in a row, you have to dilute the concentration of the coffee, or add a lot of milk, so as not to cause nausea, and there might as well be more changes in the mix of sugar to make the coffee more delicious.