What is the best temperature for coffee?

You can add a little sugar and milk to pure black coffee, or you can add spices such as cinnamon to your coffee in European style, as in Africa and Arabia; if you are not used to the bitter taste of coffee, you can also add some juice you like to your coffee. However, drinking a cup of authentic black coffee can better taste the rich flavor of the coffee itself. However, no matter how you drink it, there are still some tricks in tasting coffee.

When a cup of coffee is brought to you, don't rush to drink it. There should be a gradual process like tea or wine tasting, so as to achieve the goal of relaxation, refreshing and enjoyment.

The first step is to smell the fragrance and smell the strong aroma of coffee.

The second step is to look at the color. The coffee had better be dark brown, not dark and bottomless.

The third step, taste, first drink a sip of black coffee, feel the taste of the original coffee, coffee entrance should be some sweet, slightly bitter, slightly sour not astringent. Then taste it in small mouthfuls, do not rush to swallow the coffee, should be temporarily contained in the mouth, let the coffee and saliva, air mix, and then swallow.

Temperature: the best temperature for drinking coffee is 85-88 ℃. Because the texture of ordinary coffee is not stable, it is best to taste it while it is hot. In order not to reduce the taste of the coffee, soak the coffee cup in boiling water beforehand. The temperature of coffee is 83 ℃ at the moment of brewing, 80 ℃ when it is poured into the cup, and 61 ℃ at the mouth, which is the most ideal.

Taste: coffee beans contain about 50.8% sugar, most of which are converted to caramel after baking, which is the source of aroma and bitterness, leaving a little sweetness in the unconverted sugar; tannin is released during baking and combines with caramel to produce a slightly bitter sweetness. Therefore, people's taste of coffee is generally bitter, sour, sweet, fragrant and astringent.