What's so particular about how to taste coffee? Four-step flavor description of the correct drinking method of hand-brewed coffee

Smell fragrance

A cup of fragrant coffee is brought to you. Please don't rush to drink it, but smell it first. Cover the coffee cup or test cup with your hand, take a deep breath and let the fragrance naturally pour into your nose. Do you smell the smell that fascinates you? It will directly affect your feeling of tasting coffee.

Watch the color

There are always subtle differences in the color of coffee, and the best coffee is dark brown rather than dark and bottomless.

Suck coffee loudly

After drinking boiled water and cleaning your mouth, you can suck and taste coffee loudly. It is not impolite to make a "strange noise" when sucking, the louder the better, it is the performance of an "expert". But you can't have too much coffee. Do you feel the subtle fragrance and thickness on your tongue when your whole mouth is filled with coffee? At this time, the coffee in your mouth had better be the optimal temperature of 61-62 degrees Celsius.

Smell the fragrance at the bottom of the cup

Drink the coffee as clean as possible, so that you can smell the coffee at the bottom of the cup, and each time there may be a different surprise. Sometimes it is fruity, sometimes it is floral, to name but a few, and it may be a mixed fragrance.

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 appropriate temperature for coffee is 83 ℃ at the moment of brewing, 80 ℃ when pouring into the cup, and 61 ℃-62 ℃ when it is in the mouth.

Generally speaking, tasting the coffee served by your host while it is hot is also the basic etiquette of drinking coffee. If a cup of high-quality coffee, after cooling, in addition to the aroma will be reduced, the taste performance is consistent with the hot, or even better.

Coffee beans contain about 5%, 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; when baked, tannins are released and combined with caramel to produce a slightly bitter sweetness. Therefore, people's taste of coffee is generally bitter, sour, sweet, fragrant and astringent.

Drinking coffee is not like drinking or juice, a full cup of coffee, watching it will lose interest in drinking. Generally, it is only seven or eight minutes full for the right amount, moderate amount of coffee will not only stimulate the taste, after drinking it will not have a greasy feeling, but endless aftertaste. At the same time, the right amount of coffee can moderately promote the body to recover from fatigue and refresh the mind. Coffee has a strong and weak taste, so you can't drink several cups in a row like tea or cola, and the average amount of coffee is 80-100cc. Sometimes if you want to drink three or four cups in a row, you have to dilute the concentration of coffee, or add a lot of milk, so as not to cause nausea, and you might as well change more in the blending of sugar to make the coffee more delicious.