What's the flavor of hand-brewed coffee? is it bitter? Sca Coffee sensory Taste course content sharing

"How do you taste citrus in coffee?"

Many friends expressed envy that baristas can easily say the specific flavor of coffee. Some friends also said that I can drink coffee with sour taste, but this is far from what you said about citrus. Some friends said that flavor and whatnot were all lies.

Qianjie in the daily Internet surfing, accidentally saw an article called "explore the nutty taste of wine" article,"how can wine have a nutty taste?" This was the first question that Qianjie would think of as a wine white. This is very similar to coffee white's view of how coffee can have citrus flavor.

I won't go into detail here about why wine has a nutty taste. Interested friends go surfing on the Internet by themselves. The taste of coffee comes mostly from smell rather than taste. If you have a cold, you can taste the sour coffee, but you can't taste the citrus sour coffee. Of course, the sense of smell here is not just to put your nose in the past and smell the full flavor of coffee. This sense of smell is divided into pre-nasal smell and post-nasal smell. Before the nose is the aroma directly inhaled by the nose, while after the nose is after drinking coffee, the aroma of coffee is reversed from the connection between the nasal cavity and the oral cavity. Generally, the flavor drunk is the smell after the nose.

After sorting out the media that we can drink flavor, to be able to distinguish specific flavors requires establishing a flavor library, that is, foods such as fruits that we usually eat, and then establishing a memory point associated with them. Oranges, for example, we can recognize that the taste of oranges is not after eating, but the orange fragrance emitted when peeling oranges, and the sweet and sour taste when eating them. The orange smell associated with coffee is the smell of peeled oranges.

So, if you want to taste coffee at will, think about what the memory point is when you eat something. More fruit taste memory can help improve coffee flavor tasting, there is a more interesting way to play, is to buy fruits with similar flavor back, horizontal discrimination of their taste. For example, lime, yellow lime, orange, orange, grapefruit, grapefruit...

Another point is that sometimes the figurative food in the description of flavor is different from what you understand. The more direct one is dark chocolate. For many people, chocolate is sweet, but the dark chocolate described in general coffee refers to chocolate with high purity and cocoa solids content between 70% and 99%. The taste is mainly bitter, with a little acid.

There is also a cherry blossom flavor, watermelon flavor, blackcurrant flavor, I believe we are not unfamiliar with these three flavors, all tasted in chewing gum. In reality, cherry blossom aroma is very light, light to squint eyes will not notice its existence, almost all of us have come into contact with cherry blossom flavor food, the most obvious is not the taste of cherry blossoms themselves; watermelon flavor and blackcurrant flavor is also the same, in the taste of chewing gum with watermelon flavor description, is and watermelon this fruit itself has obvious taste difference. Blackcurrant is also blackcurrant, the same domestic contact is more blackcurrant juice (soda), and the fruit itself also has obvious differences. So we need to understand the difference between watermelon and watermelon gum, blackcurrant and blackcurrant soda...