How many flavors are there in the coffee flavor wheel? can you imagine the reason why the 2014 coffee flavor wheel revised the latest version?

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Qianjie-brief introduction of coffee flavor wheel

As the first reference of coffee industry to "aroma and taste" of coffee, coffee flavor wheel has a far-reaching impact on the whole coffee industry, especially the definition of fine coffee and good coffee is a guide, guiding the development direction of the industry.

In 2014, Counter Culture Coffee, a famous coffee company in the United States, launched this new version of the coffee flavor wheel based on the SCAA flavor wheel.

These 85 flavors are produced by SCAA (American Fine Coffee Association) in cooperation with Kansas State University and Texas A & M University. The original intention is that when tasting coffee, we can describe the flavor of different varieties of coffee through a unified and quantitative language, so as to make the coffee evaluation more scientific and comparable.

Right half:

The content of this part is mainly about the classification and formation of coffee flavor and aroma.

Left half:

This part is the change caused by the external environment (cleanliness, humidity, etc.) during the storage process of raw beans, and whether the temperature is reasonable in the baking process.

Coffee beans are rich in 1200 compounds, which bring rich sense of taste and smell to coffee. Bitter, just one of them.

How rich are the 1200 compounds? Take, for example, chocolates and wines that people love to taste:

Chocolate: rich in more than 300 compounds.

Wine: 150 to more than 500 compounds have made people fall in love with the surprises of different varieties.

There are more than 1200 compounds in coffee, four times as many as chocolate and more than twice as many as wine.

The 85 flavors of coffee do not mean that there are 85 flavors of coffee, but the different flavors produced by the environment, genes, processing methods, storage and transportation, roasting degree and roaster skills in the process of planting, processing and roasting. The flavor of coffee is actually complex and multi-layered.

Knowledge: the famous American Counter Culture Coffee has launched a new coffee taste disc (Coffee Tasters Flavor Wheel), which is based on the traditional version of SCAA, but is more timely and in line with contemporary style.

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