Learn how to taste coffee

Tasting coffee is not only to feel with the taste of the tongue, but also to enjoy the aromatic alcohol in the mouth, in addition, it depends on the condition of the body and the surrounding atmosphere when drinking coffee. In a word, tasting coffee is a very delicate thing. When you drink coffee in a coffee shop, you sometimes drink almost half-cold coffee. No matter how good the coffee beans are and how good the brewing skills are, you will lose your appetite for coffee.

Drinking while it is hot is a necessary condition for tasting delicious coffee, even on a hot summer day. When the coffee is cold, the flavor will decrease, so when brewing the coffee, in order not to reduce the taste of the coffee, soak the coffee cup in boiling water in advance. The appropriate temperature for coffee is 83 degrees Celsius at the moment of brewing and 80 degrees Celsius when poured into the cup.

The temperature in the mouth is 61-62 degrees, which is the most ideal.

In addition to tasting delicious coffee, we should not only pay attention to the appropriate temperature, but also have the right amount. Drinking coffee is not like drinking or juice, a full cup of coffee, watching it will lose interest in drinking. Generally speaking, they are only in the right amount when they are full of seven or eight minutes. Moderate amounts of coffee will not only stimulate the taste, but will not feel "greasy" after drinking it. On the contrary, it will have an endless aftertaste.

At the same time, the right amount of coffee can moderately promote the body to recover from fatigue and refresh the mind. There are different flavors of coffee, so you can't drink three or four cups in a row like tea or cola, but the formal coffee cup is the best.

Ordinary coffee to 80-100cc for the right amount, sometimes if you want to drink three or four cups in a row, then it is necessary to dilute the concentration of coffee, or add a lot of milk, but still take into account the degree of physical needs, to add or reduce the concentration of coffee, that is, do not cause greasy or nauseous feeling, and in the mix of sugar might as well be more changes to make the coffee more delicious.

The mixing of coffee and milk

In recent years, the rise of cafes has led to a domestic coffee craze. Even if you don't know anything about coffee, you can enjoy a cup of rich and fragrant coffee as long as you follow the exquisite design of menu. So the leisure afternoon tea, which you can only see in the movies, is no longer a dream. If you can sit for two hours, flip through magazines and listen to the light music selected for guests in the store, you will suddenly feel so happy!

If you like to drink coffee, drink it often, start to get familiar with your favorite taste, and sometimes try other flavors, gradually, you will want to understand the differences between these different names of coffee, why do you like some flavors so much, and why do you drink them for a long time? the taste that you really like to drink seems to be hidden in the bottom of your heart, but why can it not go away?

To discuss Italian coffee, you can start with the ratio of coffee to milk. Some people think that espresso espresso is too strong and worry that too much caffeine will affect sleep or health, so they choose espresso, espresso or caffe latte.

But in fact, a cup of espresso uses about 7g to make 45cc coffee, while a cappuccino or latte uses 60cc, so although there is a lot of milk and foam to dilute the rich feeling of coffee, the amount of coffee has not decreased at all, but increased. Real coffee connoisseurs will mostly use espresso to measure the power of the bar, because espresso can not be covered with water and milk, so it can best show the original taste of coffee.

The ratio of coffee to milk to foam in the latte is 1:8:1, so it can be said to be a burden-free cup of coffee, can drink the warmth of milk, like a cup of milk coffee, but drink milk with coffee flavor.

Mocha is diluted with a lot of milk, is a deformation of coffee, can be said to be the most fancy kind of espresso, which can add cinnamon, cocoa powder, is no longer a simple coffee, less foam than a latte, replaced by milk, whipped cream and chocolate.

Cappuccino is a very moderate cup of coffee, has a very strong taste, because cappuccino is added with milk foam, some people drink it to enjoy the taste of milk foam, enjoy the density and compactness of milk, so the proportion of milk is very important. Cappuccino can be said to be a very picky cup of coffee, coffee, milk and foam ratio is 1:1:1.

With the basic understanding of coffee, the next time you drink coffee, with a superficial understanding, use the feeling to judge the harmony between coffee, milk and milk foam, then drinking coffee will have more fun!

The relationship between coffee and water

There are all kinds of water around us. Some are called Mingshui. There are also rich types of mineral water in countries all over the world. However, the most convenient water is tap water that can be turned to a tap. So, what kind of water can be named coffee is more delicious?

It doesn't seem to taste good to make coffee after boiling mineral water. There must be a lot of people who have had this kind of experience.

Why?

In fact, that is because mineral water is hard water containing sodium, manganese and so on.

Water can be divided into "soft water" and "hard water". Sodium or manganese will be dissolved in water. After conversion, the amount of acidic sodium is less than that of soft water and more is hard water.

Generally speaking, most of the so-called "famous water" or "mineral water" have high hardness in order to make it feel delicious, while coffee is counterproductive. Hard water will cause coffee to form delicious caffeine or good quality rather bitter ingredients to extract and decompose. Ordinary drink water (tap water) can be thought of as soft water. In short, there is no need to prepare special water, but just turn the tap to have very delicious coffee water. However, please pay attention to the following points:

When the stench of chlorine used in ① disinfection is too strong, you should avoid drinking it. Must be colorless and odorless and cannot be used.

When the meaning of ② is too strong, it can be slowly heated to make it boil, thus removing carcinogens.

③ secondary boiling water should not be used to make coffee. Try to avoid the first tap water in the morning and the water taken the day before.

The water just taken by ④ is most suitable for boiling.

⑤ with activated carbon filter and the use of water purifier is also a good method.

However, the freshly ground coffee powder, like activated carbon, has a filtering effect. That is, the effect of absorbing the stench of evil water.

After such consideration, there is usually no need to be too rigid about water quality. As long as you use delicious and fresh coffee beans, you can enjoy delicious and mellow coffee.