Coffee taste description you should use coffee flavor wheel to identify flavor in this way

When we have a cup of hand-made coffee, the taste in the mouth is indescribable, just know that it is counted, or bitter, when it comes to other coffee beans, words are poor. So how to identify the flavor of coffee, in addition to drinking more coffee, the understanding and use of flavor wheel is the fastest way and shortcut.

Since everyone is quite subjective about flavor, most people who have not undergone sensory training do not know how to taste boutique coffee and how to understand the various flavors introduced by baristas and bean bakers. To understand the coffee flavor wheel, we should use the intuitive auxiliary tool-the coffee flavor wheel, through its obvious classification, to help us identify the flavor trend and carry on the coffee drink and cup test.

Color association

Close your eyes and imagine what color comes to mind when we eat lemons. What kind of color comes to mind when we taste strawberries? Before formally entering the understanding of flavor words, I hope that when you taste coffee, you can close your eyes and capture the colors that come to mind.

If there is a yellow tone, think carefully, this yellow tone, is bright yellow? Or orange? If you are closer to orange, now open your eyes and take a look at the new coffee flavor wheel, subdivided from Fruity to Citrus fruit and then to Orange. In retrospect, the reason why the yellow tone is more orange, is it because in the process of tasting, the bright sour fruit we feel is lighter and sweeter? The new version of coffee flavor wheel not only makes a great revision based on sensory science, but also consciously guides users to associate with the color setting of various flavors. If we think of brown, but we really can't analyze the flavor, we can search for the brown items through the flavor wheel, and think about the similar flavor by taking the flavor words such as Clove, Cinnamon, Nutmeg and Anise as a reference.

From broad sense to precision

Both the old coffee flavor wheel and the new coffee flavor wheel are viewed from the center to the periphery. The broader the description, the closer to the inner circle, and the more accurate the description is, the closer to the outer circle. Layer by layer of stripping, when we see the more peripheral words, it means that our flavor description is becoming more and more specific.

After finding the most accurate flavor words from the most obvious category, we go back to the center of the coffee flavor wheel, start the second obvious category of cocoon extraction game, and discuss with the partners who drink together or test together. Repeat the search cycle over and over again until the flavor of the sample is thoroughly described. This is not only the basic function of the coffee flavor wheel, but also a good way to assist us in training and writing sensory notes.