How sweet is the boutique coffee? How can boutique coffee correct taste? Coffee sour stands out as sweet

First of all, describe a scene: two people who have been drinking coffee for a period of time make a bottle of sun Yega one day, and the coffee gives off a distinct flavor of sun and strawberry cream, so the two begin to talk:

A: this coffee smells good.

B: well, this coffee is very sweet.

A: yes, very strawberry, very creamy, very sweet.

In fact, this coffee is a little sour, a little shallow and astringent with insufficient dehydration, and its sweetness is very low. The question is, why do those two say that coffee is sweet?

As a result of the accumulation of life, we have eaten a lot of food, and our taste memory is often to smell something, it will automatically associate a certain smell, smell this aroma, we will think of the corresponding smell, and attention will be diverted, for example, when we smell strawberry cream, we will think of the sweet strawberry cream. Or produce a series of neurological reactions, in fact, the most typical is to look at plums to quench thirst. Because when I think of the sour plum, I will swallow automatically.

But we should consider the following two situations:

First, as in the above example, coffee with strawberry cream flavor may be very sour and not very sweet. So to objectively taste a cup of coffee, the best way is to separate the flavor from the taste. The intensity of sweetness should be based on what you feel in taste rather than what you smell.

Second, many people will say that it is sour, sweet and sweet, or even that Han Huaizong said that it must be sour to be sweet, so some people will like extremely sour coffee, and the pursuit of acid is very serious. In fact, this is not necessarily, but the sour taste will make the sweet taste more stereoscopic.

In fact, the sweetness of coffee comes from various reactions between fructose and roasting and caramelization, and it can be sweet if it is not too sour. For example, yellow bourbon in El Salvador is not sour, but it can be very sweet, and some of it can be like longan.

Therefore, we should pay attention to the above two misunderstandings about sweetness.

Many beginners say they can't drink sweetness, so let's find some comparison. Generally speaking, there is sweetness, or there is sweetness in coffee. In fact, it's like the faint sweetness emitted after you eat rice and chew it for a long time.

If there is sweetness, it will be easy to feel. You can imagine eating some soup with melons to taste the sweetness without adding salt, such as white melons (of course, don't think of the flavor as white melons).

Obviously / strongly sweet, usually this can be imagined as the sweetness of light sugar water with sugar added.

The article comes from the article "[Taste and Taste Correction] Coffee five flavors (1)-Sweet" written by Baidu Coffee Bar dicky3651