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Why can't you taste the coffee beanbag? How to taste the flavor of hand-brewed coffee?

Published: 2026-04-06 Author: World Gafei

Last Updated: 2026/04/06, The various flavor descriptions on the beanbag always attract most of the Xiaobai friends and order a corresponding cup of coffee with joy! However, at the entrance, it seems that this is not the case? Obviously, the flavor description says citrus and pineapple, but how come there is only sour taste in the mouth? Is it true that these flavor descriptions

The various flavor descriptions on the beanbag always attract most of the Xiaobai friends and order a corresponding cup of coffee with joy! However, at the entrance, it seems that this is not the case?

Obviously, the flavor description says citrus and pineapple, but how come there is only sour taste in the mouth? Are these flavor descriptions all deceitful? Actually, no, it's just that you haven't mastered the way to taste these tastes! The easiest way is to drink more! Drink more this is one of the most commonly used responses for friends who face consultation in front of the street: get flavor identification quickly! Only by drinking more can we record the flavor and tonality of coffee. With the increase of times and the accumulation of experience, we will be able to distinguish the flavor.

Even if you sign up for a professional coffee tasting course, you need to taste it repeatedly after class in order to enrich your own flavor library and quickly identify the corresponding flavor. Because the course mainly plays a role in combing knowledge and correcting senses! Eventually, we will return to drinking more! Therefore, it is still necessary to taste many times in order to quickly identify the flavor. But you know, many friends can not recognize the flavor after drinking too much, this is because they have not mastered the core of drinking more! It either clanged down the bottle like drinking water or drank too much! When we talk about drinking more, we need to analyze the taste of each drink and feel it carefully. Only in this way can you know what the structure of this flavor is made of! Then in front of the street, let's share how the beginner should learn how to identify flavor from the behavior of "drinking coffee".

First, identify the properties of taste and master flavor identification is the result of long-term drinking accumulation. If you are a rookie who has just started, you are eager to make yourself feel what flavor there will be in this cup of coffee at the very beginning. On the contrary, it is easy to backfire! After ten drinks, I still can't tell why. Then, we can first put aside the coffee flavor of the final feeling of the result, step by step! First, let yourself determine what kind of characteristic this cup of coffee tastes like.

Taste refers to the sour, sweet, bitter, salty and fresh taste buds we can feel. The characteristic of taste refers to what kind of state the taste is in! It's easy to understand, for example: Ethiopian beans usually have a more obvious sour taste! But the sour taste will change due to different conditions! For example: planting, processing, baking, cooking! The resulting sour taste may be sweet and sour bright fruit acid, or soft slight acid, or acetic acid formed by long-term fermentation, or irritating acidity caused by insufficient extraction, which are different properties of sour taste.

Take Manning as an example! The coffee brewed by Mantenin has an obvious bitter taste, and the properties of bitter taste are also completely different! Exciting, comfortable, uncomfortable, astringent, a little sweet, or it will come back sweet after drinking it! We can try to distinguish the different characteristics of these flavors every time we drink it! When you recognize it, you can move on to the next step and feel the flavor. Second, understand that the reason why flavor should be separated is that what we call flavor is actually a combination of taste and aroma, and aroma is the main source of most flavor. The main reason why people use food to describe the flavor of coffee is that we can taste similar aroma on coffee, and secondly, it can give people who have not tasted this cup of coffee a general understanding of the flavor of this bean. So generally speaking, our description of the flavor of coffee is based on the aroma of the food we can come into contact with every day!

For instance! Almost all the bean bags in Ethiopia have the flavor of citrus. Take it apart and understand that it will have a round sweet and sour taste similar to citrus in taste, and it will have the aroma characteristics of citrus peel in aroma. When they are combined, they form a "citrus flavor"! Like the pineapple flavor mentioned earlier, this bean has a full and thick sweet and sour taste, and then the aroma is a little similar to pineapple, when they are combined to form a pineapple flavor! Comply with this way of thinking, and then drink coffee, you will feel more different drinking experiences!

If you want to learn more about the taste of flavor, you can move to the article "understanding the taste wheel is the first step into the door of the senses"! Flavor wheel can better correct flavor information and identify more different flavors of coffee!

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