What does the tea feel of hand-brewed coffee mean? how to evaluate the taste and flavor description of coffee?

The flavor description column of many coffee beans will contain adjectives of all kinds of tea, even to the specific name of a certain type of tea. So some friends talked to Qianjie and said, "some coffee tastes like tea, not like coffee at all." maybe this is the tactile feeling that coffee in the cup brings to our tongue.

The so-called sense of tea

When drinking tea, tea polyphenols in tea soup are the main substances that make up the taste of tea. Tea polyphenols are one of the main components of brown aroma, and their changes in brewing affect the taste of tea. Among them, tea tannins, which account for the largest proportion of polyphenols, are the ingredients that make tea taste strong and make the mouth feel "rough", which is what we often describe as tea feeling.

Why is there a sense of tea in coffee?

When tasting a cup of coffee, most of the time we need to combine the taste and aroma of the coffee and describe the various flavors according to the food we have come into contact with, that is, the sense of smell before drinking and the sense of smell after swallowing.

For example, in the green label of the jadeite manor washed in the current street, you can smell the fragrant fragrance and taste mellow, just like drinking Tieguanyin tea. So even if there is no description of tea on the flavor wheel, we can still taste all kinds of tea in the coffee.

When there is a little astringency in the coffee, combined with a certain aroma in the cup, it will also remind us of the feeling of drinking tea. "astringent" generally describes the taste, not the taste, brought by the food. The phenols in the coffee come into contact with the skin on the mouth, resulting in a wrinkled sense of dryness. When you eat a raw persimmon, you will have this feeling in your mouth.

The bitter and exciting astringency will bring us an unpleasant experience when tasting coffee, but there is also a "good" astringency that can enrich the coffee level. For example, the slightly astringent taste of citrus peel, with the sweet and sour taste of coffee, tastes like grapefruit tea.

Back to the point mentioned by the friend, Qianjie believes that the reason why coffee "doesn't taste like coffee" is that shallow roasting brings coffee with higher acidity and weak bitterness, coupled with rich coffee aroma reminiscent of a cup of tea that has been drunk.

What kind of tea is there in the coffee?

Different types of tea have their own basic flavor, such as fresh and pure green tea, black tea with honey flavor, oolong tea with flower and fruit aroma and baking aroma, and so on. When tasting the flavor of coffee, the combination of aroma, aftertaste and the degree of sweetness in the mouth can remind us of a specific "tea flavor".

On Qianjie Street, when we tasted the washed Yega Xuefei fruit Ding Ding coffee, we felt that the coffee had a fresh and elegant floral aroma and thorough sweetness, which reminded us of the smell of white flowers, like unfermented green tea.

Yunnan Tieka coffee, which is sun-treated, absorbs more fermented aroma because it retains the pulp and ferments together in the sun. Qianjie tastes the sweet and mellow aroma from the cup, which is sweet and solid, with a fully fermented black tea taste.

Many flower-and-fruit-flavored coffees are easily reminiscent of the warm texture of oolong tea, such as sun-dried Rose Summer Coffee from Manor Arida, Panama, which is as sweet and elegant as roses and peaches. It shows the rich and delicate aroma of lightly fermented oolong tea.

In addition to traditional tea, the complex flavor of some coffee also reminds us of some memories. For example, in the front street, when tasting Essegujiulaga TOH champion coffee beans, the citrus juice is full of sweet and sour, grapefruit peel fruit mixed with oolong tea, just like drinking a cup of warm honey grapefruit tea.

The flavor of coffee varies in thousands of ways, depending on each person's sensory memory. The tea-drinking culture of our country is deeply rooted in the hearts of the people. When we taste the high-quality aroma and "familiar" taste of coffee, we will subconsciously describe it as tea / tea flavor.

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