The technique of drinking coffee "smell fragrance and watch color" to taste coffee

You can add a little sugar and milk to black coffee

You can also add European spices like cinnamon to coffee, as in Africa and Arabia.

If you're not used to the bitter taste of coffee, you can also add a little juice to your coffee.

However, drinking a cup of original black coffee, able to taste the rich flavor of coffee itself, will be regarded as a coffee tasting expert.

No matter how you drink it, there are still some details and knowledge about coffee tasting.

Steps:

A cup of coffee is served in front of you. Don't drink it in a hurry. It should be like tea or wine tasting. There should be a gradual process to achieve the purpose of relaxation, refreshing and enjoyment.

the first step

Smell and taste the aroma of coffee

the second step

For color, coffee is best dark brown rather than dark and bottomless

the third step

Taste, first drink a mouthful of black coffee, feel the taste of the original coffee, coffee should be some sweet, slightly bitter, slightly sour not astringent. Then sip to taste, do not rush to swallow coffee, should be temporarily contained in the mouth, let coffee and saliva and air a little mixed, and then swallow.

Temperature:

The best temperature for coffee is 85-88 degrees Celsius. Because regular coffee is less stable in texture, it's best to taste it hot. In order not to reduce the taste of coffee, the coffee cup should be soaked in boiling water in advance. The appropriate temperature of coffee is 83 degrees Celsius at the moment of brewing, 80 degrees Celsius when poured into the cup, and 61-62 degrees when it reaches the mouth, which is ideal.

Generally speaking, tasting the coffee served by the host while it is hot is also a basic courtesy of drinking coffee. If a cup of good quality coffee, cool after the aroma will be reduced, taste performance and hot is consistent, or even better.

Taste:

Coffee beans contain about 5-8% sugar, most of which is converted to caramel after roasting, which is the source of flavor and bitterness, and the unconverted sugar leaves a little sweetness; tannins are released during roasting, which combine with caramel to produce a slightly bitter sweetness. Therefore, people's taste of coffee will generally be bitter, sour, sweet, fragrant, astringent several kinds.

Appropriate amount:

Drinking coffee is not like drinking wine or juice. A full cup of coffee loses interest after watching it. Ordinary only to seven or eight full for the right amount, moderate amount of coffee will not only stimulate the taste, after drinking there will be no greasy feeling, but endless aftertaste.

At the same time, the right amount of coffee can moderately promote the body to recover fatigue, and the mind is refreshed. Coffee taste has a thick and thin points, so, can not like tea or cola, drink several cups in succession, ordinary drink coffee to 80-100cc for the right amount, sometimes if you want to drink three or four cups in succession, it is necessary to dilute the concentration of coffee, or add a lot of milk, do not cause nausea feeling, and in the sugar allocation may also wish to change more, make coffee more delicious