What do sca Fine Coffee Flavor Wheel think of the New Coffee Flavor Wheel HD Picture download

Many friends asked Qianjie, "Qianjie, Qianjie, can you learn the flavor of coffee by watching the coffee flavor wheel?" For this problem, Qianjie believes that the flavor wheel, as a more authoritative coffee flavor-oriented map, if used properly, can really understand the flavor of coffee quickly and systematically. Then put it into practice (drink more coffee), Qianjie thinks that you can quickly master the flavor of coffee.

However, the premise is to correctly grasp the use of coffee flavor wheel. Therefore, in front of the street, let's talk about how to understand and digest this coffee flavor wheel. At present, the most commonly used is the coffee flavor wheel released by SCAA in 2016, which is used by many coffee training institutions as sensory teaching materials. So we also use this flavor wheel as a blueprint to introduce.

First, do not blindly follow the flavor wheel, although this edition was first published by SCAA in conjunction with the World Coffee Institute (WCR), Kansas State University, German Agro-Industrial University and the coffee industry representatives analyzed and tested the flavors of 105 different samples from 13 coffee-producing countries and compiled the World Coffee Research sensory Dictionary as the basis for the new coffee flavor wheel. The University of California, Davis team used novel adaptations of traditional sensory and statistical methods, and 72 experts ranked the flavor attributes of the dictionary. The data is then compiled and arranged into a wheel. This is quite professional, but the description of some flavors in it is very rare or even not available in China. For example, nutmeg (nutmeg) is a rare food, if you have not tasted this food, it is impossible to know the flavor of this food, let alone in coffee. Therefore, although the flavor description on the flavor wheel will appear in the coffee, do not blindly follow the concrete flavor described on the flavor wheel. The second point, to find the flavor relationship in coffee from the flavor wheel, this version of the flavor wheel is divided into three rings, namely, the inner ring, the middle ring and the outer ring. The inner ring is a kind of subject, which is divided into herbs, acid fermentation, fruits, flowers, sugars, nut cocoa, spices, baking flavor, and other categories. Central is the second-level detailed subject of each category in the inner ring, for example, fruits include citrus, other fruits, preserved fruits and berries. Flowers are relatively special, in addition to a variety of colors of flowers, but also contains black tea, that is, in coffee to black tea rhyme, in fact, also belongs to the category of flowers. The outer ring is three levels of detail, subdivided into individuals, for example, citrus contains limes, lemons, oranges, grapefruit and other fruits rich in citric acid.

Therefore, usually when tasting food, we can use the flavor wheel to cultivate the senses and learn to classify all kinds of food according to the flavor wheel. In this way, you can systematically distinguish the flavor of coffee, for example, if you taste sour coffee, you can tell which kind of acid (inner ring) this acid belongs to, whether it is fruit-like acid, or like carbonated drinks, vinegar, or lactic acid drinks. If the judgment is more fruit-like sweet and sour, then the next step is to judge the detailed subjects in the fruit category (Central). If it is sour and fresh and sour (rich in vitamin C), then it may be citrus. Or sweet fruit in acid can be berries, if it is very sweet fruit, it may be preserved fruit. The final step is to determine which specific flavor. For example, there are limes, lemons, oranges and grapefruit in citrus. If you actually taste these types, there are obvious differences in the degree of acidity and aroma.

If it can not be subdivided into which kind of flavor at the beginning, you can also rely on this three-level relationship table to determine the flavor of the classification (Central). For example, when tasting coffee, you feel the smell of flowers, but you don't know exactly what kind of flowers they are. You can first express them in general terms, and then slowly enrich your own flavor library (hear more, drink more, eat more and remember more)! Third, using colors to associate this version of the flavor wheel is the London creative agency One Darnley Road to carefully match the flavor wheel, each color and tone are carefully selected in order to better match the corresponding flavor. For example, jasmine (white), rose (pink) and citrus (orange) in flowers can also be well associated with aroma with the color of flowers. For example, we can often see some flavors described as white flowers, which actually refer to light and fresh flowers like jasmine. And by looking at the color alone, you can easily tell which is a good flavor and which is a bad flavor. For example, blue, gray, dark green, khaki, etc., do not look like the color of food, it is easy to judge that it is not very good flavor.

Fourth, sparse details. If you look carefully at the gaps in each category, you will know the estrangement of their relationship. For example, also belong to the berry category, blueberries and strawberries are more closely spaced, while blueberries and covered plates are relatively sparse. Similarly, they belong to the same flower category, and the distance between rose and jasmine is relatively close, while that between rose and orange is relatively sparse. From this, we can see that their flavor is similar.

In fact, all I have said is to share how to understand the coffee flavor wheel, which can not help you learn to drink the coffee flavor right away, it just helps you systematically sort out the relationship between the flavors in the coffee. The most important thing is to taste more, and then echo with the flavor on the flavor wheel, so as to enter the door of coffee flavor senses!