How do you get the flower and fruit aroma of coffee? Description of aroma characteristics of coffee flowers

News flash! News flash! A year later, the coffee trees in the front street coffee shop finally blossomed again!

The blooming flowers are white in color, with 5-6 petals, and the blooming shape is a bit like a windmill. Inflorescences are arranged in strings. The fragrance not only attracted bees, but also attracted baristas who came to smell it. The aroma of coffee flowers, some people say like jasmine, others say like gardenia, others think like thyme. These flowers are all white, is it the fragrance of white flowers in the flavor description?

In retrospect, I had never seen a real coffee flower in those days, and the front street knew the smell of coffee flowers through the 12th fragrance bottle-Coffee Blossom. Qianjie felt the sweetness of peach flesh, elegant and round, just like biting off a freshly ripe peach.

Freshly blooming coffee flowers, the aroma will not gather together somewhere after entering the nasal cavity, but begin to spread, so the duration is very short. The smell is light and lively, mixed with honey-like rhyme, coupled with a small and exquisite flower pattern, it is indeed reminiscent of jasmine flowers of the same color.

In the early 17th century, when botanists named small grains of coffee, they noticed that the flowers of coffee trees "have the scent of Arabian jasmine and the leaf shape of laurel." So the first botanical name of small-grained coffee was called "Arab jasmine" (Jasminum arabicanum). It seems that coffee flowers and jasmine flowers are indeed very similar.

From a botanical point of view, the coffee tree belongs to the Rubiaceae, the same family as the gardenia, but not a genus, so the plants look a little similar. But in taste, compared with the rich and dense gardenia, the aroma of coffee flowers is much lighter.

When it comes to tasting the flavor of coffee, it is not easy to catch it in time and identify which specific flower it belongs to. The smell of mixing together is unique and indescribable. Smelling incense or tasting experience reminds people of the pleasant smell of white flowers, but at the moment can not find an accurate description of its specific, so it is called white flower fragrance. In addition to coffee and jasmine, there are white roses, white camellias, magnolia, pear blossoms, lemon blossoms, plum flowers and so on.

The classic water washing Yega Chuefei flavor is famous for its citrus acid with the sweet aroma of white flowers. Than if Tintin cooperative coffee beans often show a light and elegant white flower fragrance, very similar to jasmine.

The fragrance of flowers in coffee is mainly divided into three types: muggy fragrance, faint fragrance and fragrance.

Among them, the white flower fragrance is the typical representative of the fragrance type, and it is also the fragrance type with the highest frequency; the delicate fragrance type is the most classic with roses, and the emerald red standard rose summer in the sun has such a flower fragrance, which smells soothing; and the muggy fragrance type will be slightly choking, and it will be a little pungent at first, with chamomile and sweet-scented osmanthus as typical representatives, such as a cherry blossom in Qianjie Columbia.

As a rare flavor in boutique coffee, the fragrance of flowers has always been the element pursued by coffee fans. The formation of flower aroma depends in part on the variety, planting and post-treatment fermentation of coffee, while baking is a key link to grasp the intensity of flower fragrance.

With the deepening of the roasting degree, the substances in the coffee are gradually transformed, and the fragrance of the flowers is easily worn away. Therefore, from the point of view of baking alone, light-to-medium baking is usually more likely to retain the fragrance of flowers. Medium-shallow roasted coffee has a softer flavor and lighter texture, making it easier to feel the smell of flowers when tasting. Generally speaking, the flower fragrance is easy to appear in the stage of grinding coffee powder and steaming, especially in the range of medium temperature to low temperature of coffee liquid. When you taste it, you might as well compare it with the flowers you have come into contact with, which tonality you will feel.

It is a bit of a pity that the flowering period of coffee flowers is very short, usually only 3 to 5 days. Qianjie observed that the petals that had bloomed the day before had begun to grow old and wither one by one. So, if friends want to enjoy the flowers, remember to do so as soon as possible.

-END-