Coffee lovers, how much do you know about coffee? A few minutes to teach you how to taste coffee

Many people may go to cafes for two purposes: to keep their brains awake and to get free WIFI. However, there is no denying that this brown-black liquid has another function, which is to make people feel the pleasure of smell and taste. But even if you buy a nice bag of coffee beans or enter the Happy Love Bakery, you still need some simple but appropriate ways to fully enjoy the flavor of the coffee.

Like wine and tea, coffee has always been an eager object for people to learn and taste. The tree species, origin, treatment technology, baking, blending, brewing of coffee beans. Every link fascinates enthusiasts. But like tea, the biggest difference between coffee and wine is that it usually goes into circulation as semi-finished products, especially those of the best quality-it should still be coffee beans a few minutes before you plan to enjoy a good cup of coffee. In the process of converting coffee beans into coffee, the maker (barista) has a great influence on the flavor. To eliminate this artificial difference, professional coffee tasters use a cup test called "coffee cupping", which involves scooping up coffee to breathe in the mouth, a tasting process that is absolutely unenjoyable in the eyes of laymen.

But the consolation is that even without such a professional preparation process, you can still have a lot of fun as long as you treat a good cup of coffee with a serious attitude. So, the core of this article is how to make the most of a cup of coffee in the most appropriate way if you buy a nice bag of coffee beans or plan to spend the afternoon in a coffee shop with good reviews.

1. A good start.

Like tea or wine, coffee beans should be preserved; once roasted, coffee beans become extremely fragile. Extreme temperature, humidity, oxygen, odor and light are all enemies of preserving coffee beans, and any neglect will cause coffee beans to lose their flavor, acidification and oil in a few days. Once the vacuum-packed coffee beans are opened, no matter how careful they are, they can only last for 2-3 weeks, and the coffee powder is even more short-lived. So whether you want to go to a cafe or buy your own coffee, be sure to pay attention to the preservation of the other person's coffee. If you buy it yourself, don't buy too much at once. If you smell volatile sour taste, a strong sense of bitterness or can not drink any of the aroma mentioned below, your coffee has gone bad. In addition to coffee beans, the cup should also pay attention to, if you are sitting in a coffee shop to drink, then take-out paper cups are not only not environmentally friendly, but also affect the taste of coffee.

two。 The beginning of tasting good coffee: don't rush to add milk and sugar

No matter how many kinds of fancy coffee you can name, black coffee is still the best reflection of the quality and characteristics of coffee beans. If you don't want to drink black coffee from the beginning to the end, at least make sure you taste it before you put in milk and sugar. In fact, there has been a big misunderstanding for a long time. People who like black coffee do not mean that they like bitter taste, and bitterness is not the main flavor of normal black coffee. If the coffee berries are fully ripe, roasted and maintained with good freshness, the coffee itself will have a certain sweet taste, especially the aroma of caramel, honey and even sucrose. At the same time, many kinds of coffee itself have a good round texture. These exquisite features worth appreciating can be obliterated by a small spoonful of sugar and milk. Of course, if it's just mediocre quality, or coffee that has been stored for too long, you will simply have a problem with yourself without milk and sugar.

3. Start by smelling the aroma

Some common aromas of coffee

Before the entrance, use your nose to appreciate the aroma of the coffee. Here you can borrow wine tasting words without hesitation, first smell your coffee to see if it is clean, whether there is abnormal rotten soil, mildew, volatile sour or spicy taste, these are the taste produced by poor quality or improper preservation of coffee beans. If it is a healthy coffee, then in the aroma can give you a lot of enjoyment. You can not hesitate to use the wine tasting system to evaluate a coffee, looking for fruity, floral, botanical, roasted and spicy aromas. As the heat of coffee helps spread the aroma, you can easily capture the rich and complex aroma of coffee.

4. Gargle like a wine tasting

Tasting black coffee is like tasting life-the more zuo, the more bitter. If you want to appreciate the true flavor of coffee, it's not enough to sip a few drops at a time like a lady. The amount of each mouthful you drink is best to allow coffee to flow all the way from the tip of your tongue to the base of your tongue. Just like tasting wine, in addition to the aroma, you can pay extra attention to whether the "body" or "coffee body" of coffee is full, heavy, light, light as water, or as thick as syrup. The acidity of coffee is dull, lively, or strong. Finally, you can consider the aftertaste of the coffee and the overall complexity.