Is the coffee flavor description a lie? How to drink coffee with hand characteristics

Flavor description is a product of coffee boutique. You will not drink a cup of instant coffee to discuss the coffee flavor, but you will certainly describe the rich flavor for a cup of coffee. Because, this is the "rules of the game" that have been set in 1995, and we are playing a game according to the rules.

Is the flavor of coffee a lie? Many new friends saw the colorful boutique coffee outside the door, so they knocked on the door and described how delicious the boutique coffee was. The flavor! So have a taste, found that it is not as wonderful as described above, just a cup of ordinary coffee. Is the flavor described above a lie? In Ivon Flament's Coffee aroma Chemistry, scientists have isolated more than 800 compounds from coffee beans, many of which are also found in gaseous fruits and cereals, which are supposed to emit the same aroma. For example, the peel of citrus is rich in d-limonene, so you can smell the rich aroma of orange peel, and the same aroma can be found in some coffee, and compounds such as d-limonene can also be found in the test. There are many examples of Qianjie, not one by one. In 1995, SCAA released the first version of Coffee Flavor Wheel, the full name of which is Coffee tasting Flavor Wheel.

Yes, this flavor theory is not for consumers to see, but to unify the coffee tasters' expression of coffee, so that everyone can understand the flavor.

There are two flavor wheels in this edition, one is all good (positive) flavor, the other is all bad (negative) flavor, later, as the quality of coffee beans is getting better and better, and the first version of the flavor wheel is really difficult for people to understand, so in 2016 SCAA released a new version of the flavor wheel, which reduces many negative flavor descriptions, increases and subdivides the positive flavor. So that friends who are new to coffee can easily understand it.

With these foundations, coffee flavor description has become a communication standard for discussing coffee quality. Drinking boutique coffee itself is the pursuit of better coffee quality and culture, flavor description is just to materialize the flavor of coffee, and the formation of a coffee culture. For example, a newcomer who has just come into contact with coffee and drinks a cup of shallow roasted coffee may only feel sour and do not feel much. And when you see raspberries on the description, it reminds you of the fresh raspberries you ate when you went to Yunnan last year. The sour feeling is a bit similar to this cup of coffee. Then, you will find this cup of coffee very interesting. (coffee has coffee flavor as a matter of course, coffee has raspberry flavor because of blowing Sting.) is the flavor description "suggestive"? Many people also think that the flavor description plays a suggestive role, which is also the previous example. When you can't drink the coffee flavor at the beginning, you will drink it after seeing the flavor description. This is not really drinking coffee, but you are "deceiving" yourself.

For this problem, Qianjie has also said that the flavor of coffee does not come immediately, but studies have shown that the aroma compounds in roasted coffee are also found in some fruits and nuts. On the other hand, human senses are not as accurate as electronic noses, and only when the relevant compounds reach a certain concentration (threshold) can they be sensed. Secondly, the skill of distinguishing flavor is not inborn, but acquired. Even if you have tasted it, it is very likely that it will be forgotten unless it is unforgettable.

The main function of the flavor description on the coffee bean label is to let you know the taste of this coffee more quickly. You may not have tasted this coffee and you don't know what it tastes like, but the flavor description contains expressions such as apples, plums and berries, and you probably know where the coffee beans taste. Why is flavor description the art of language? below is the description of two cups of coffee. After reading the description, which cup of coffee do you like to drink? The first cup of "rich fruit wine fermentation aroma, jackfruit sweet, and finally emit the aroma of caramel." The second cup is full of rotten fruit, fermented bean curd and a little charred sweetness at the end. " In fact, both descriptions refer to the flavor of the same cup of coffee. Yes, that's how the tastes are the same. But different expressions will lead to different tasting feelings.