SCAA Coffee Flavor Round HD Share and explain! How to quickly improve the flavor tasting ability of hand-brewed coffee?

If you have some foundation for identifying coffee flavors and know how to perceive coffee flavors but can't identify concrete flavors, then Qianjie will recommend you to learn about coffee flavor rounds. Some friends may question the role of flavor wheels, because it is obviously a bit unrealistic to learn to drink coffee flavor based on just one picture. To be reasonable, we really can't directly drink the flavor of coffee through the flavor wheel. There is also a saying on the front street that we need to have a certain foundation, know the structure of flavor, and know how to perceive flavor, because what the flavor wheel does is not to let us drink the flavor of coffee, but to help us distinguish it.

As a relatively authoritative coffee flavor guide map, the flavor wheel can indeed allow us to master the method of identifying flavors faster when used properly. Therefore, Qianjie still recommends that Xiaobai friends who have just started understand and digest the flavor wheel without being able to quickly identify flavors, so as to quickly improve their ability to identify flavors. Of course, it still requires certain skills to truly "understand" the flavor wheel, so today Qianjie will come to share with you how to "correctly eat" the coffee flavor wheel. Currently, the most commonly used ones are the following new version of the coffee flavor wheel released by SCAA in 2016. Basically, most coffee training institutions will use this version of the flavor wheel as a teaching material, so Qianjie will also use this version of the flavor wheel for today's sharing. Introduction as a blueprint.

Qian Jie will first briefly introduce the background of this version of the flavor wheel: SCAA first joined forces with the World Coffee Institute, German Agricultural University, Kansas State University, and coffee industry representatives to analyze and test the flavors of 105 different samples in 13 coffee-producing countries and compile them into the "World Coffee Research Sensory Dictionary", which is the basis of the new version of the coffee flavor wheel. Then the team at the University of California, Davis, made a novel adaptation. 72 experts sorted the flavor attributes of the dictionary, and finally compiled and arranged the flavors into a round based on the data. Therefore, this flavor wheel is quite authoritative. So to understand this flavor wheel, the first thing we need to understand is: Don't blindly follow the flavor wheel.

1. Don't blindly follow the flavor wheel. Many friends may be confused: Isn't it very authoritative? Why did you say not to blindly follow the flavor wheel? To be reasonable, although it is very authoritative, what we need to know is that there are hundreds of flavors in coffee, and the samples collected by the flavor wheel are very limited. Not all flavors that appear in coffee will be incorporated into the flavor wheel. For example, we can taste the sweet flavor of lychee in Qianjie Eshamathieu, which is sold by Qianjie Coffee Tmall Taobao Store, but there is no lychee flavor in the flavor wheel. The reason is as Qianjie said that the samples included in the flavor wheel are still limited.

So when we drink flavors in coffee that are not in the flavor wheel, don't question it. It's not that there is a problem with our senses, it's just that the flavors included in the flavor wheel will not be so complete.

2. By understanding the flavor wheel, we can see that this version of the flavor wheel has a total of three rings inside, middle and outside, so the next thing we need to understand is to find the flavor relationship in coffee from the flavor wheel.

The inner ring is a category of subjects, which we can understand as a major category; while the middle ring is a further subdivision of each category of the inner ring, which is a further subdivision of the major category. For example, the fruit category in the inner circle can be subdivided into citrus, other fruits, preserved fruits, and berries; the outer circle is a further subdivision in the middle circle category, which will be directly specific to the specific food flavor! For example, citrus is subdivided into fruits rich in citric acid such as lime, lemon, orange, and grapefruit.

After we understand the connection between these three rings, we can then try to use the flavor wheel to cultivate our senses and identify flavors when tasting food and coffee. How to do it specifically? It's simple. If we feel a flavor that cannot be quickly identified while tasting coffee, then we can first distinguish which category in the inner ring the aroma belongs to, whether it is fruit aroma, flower aroma, baking aroma, or something else... If it is biased towards fruit aroma, then we can further examine it and see which category is subdivided in the fruit category.

If the aroma is of a relatively fresh and sour type, then it is likely to be citrus. If it is a type with a strong aroma and a sour and sweet taste, then it may be a berry; when we identify the second category of aroma, the last thing we need to do is to determine which concrete flavor the aroma belongs to under the second category subdivision. For example, lemons under the citrus category? Grapefruit? Or an orange? There are certain differences in the sour aroma of different fruits, which is easy to distinguish. But if you can't tell the difference, Qianjie will recommend that you go and drink coffee first, which can help you distinguish different aroma types more quickly.

For example, the Front Street Yejia Shefei Dingding and the Front Street Poquet Rose Summer in the Front Street Tmall Taobao flagship store both have strong citrus aromas, but the tonality of the two is different.

The citrus aroma of Front Street Yejia Shefi Tintin will be relatively fresh, and then the overall texture will be lighter and the sour taste will be brighter, which is the lemon flavor in citrus; while the citrus aroma of Front Street Poquet Rose Summer will be relatively strong, and the texture throughout the day tends to be heavy, and then the taste is mainly sweet and sour, which is the citrus or sweet orange flavor in citrus. If you don't know the specific difference, then you can compare drinking these two beans and you will understand that the difference between the aroma is really obvious. Of course, if we cannot divide into concrete flavors at the beginning, we can also judge the detailed flavors first through this three-level relationship. For example, if you taste a flower fragrance but don't know what it is, then you can use "flower fragrance" to describe it in a general way. This is also a certain improvement. Then you can slowly enrich yourself by drinking more, hearing more, and remembering more. The flavor library will be fine ~

3. Associations in details The last thing I want to share is some details on the flavor wheel. The color matching of this version of the flavor wheel is handled by London creative agency One Darnley Road. Each color and tone is carefully selected to match the corresponding flavor. For example, Jasmine matches cream white, blueberries are blue, oranges are orange, and lemons are golden yellow... Color is well related to flavor. For example, when we often talk about white flowers, we actually refer to fresh and elegant flowers like jasmine.

So the above is what we need to know to understand the flavor wheel! But as Qianjie shared with you at the beginning, understanding the flavor wheel can only help you better distinguish the detailed flavors and systematically sort out the connections between the flavors in coffee, rather than helping you drink it immediately. Taste coffee. If we want to drink coffee flavor, then we still need to drink more, smell more, and feel it, combined with the assistance of the flavor wheel, so that we can quickly master the ability to distinguish coffee flavor ~

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