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The term for tasting coffee

Coffee tasting is a very professional knowledge, there are many terms, too numerous to list. Here we list some of the simplest and most commonly used, which will come in handy if you have a chance to read professional books on coffee in the future.

● Acidity (acidity): the acidity and strong taste common to all coffee grown in high places. Unlike bitter or sour (sour), it has nothing to do with pH.

● Body: the taste of brewed coffee after drinking. The change of mellowness can be as light as water to light, medium, high, fat, and even some Indonesian coffee is as thick as syrup. Other reference adjectives include Bland-coffee grown in lowlands usually tastes light; coffee powder is insufficient and coffee with too much water can have the same light effect.

● Aroma: the smell and aroma of brewed coffee. The words used to describe Aroma include caramel, charcoal, chocolate, fruit, grass, malt, rich, rich, spicy and so on.

● Spicy: refers to a flavor or smell reminiscent of a particular spice. For example, some Indonesian plateau coffee (especially old coffee) has a cardamom smell, while Guatemala Antigua coffee has a pepper-like spice, which can be described by the word spicy.

● Wild: describe coffee as having extreme taste characteristics that remind you of the vast highlands of Africa.

● Sweet: it is a commonly used adjective to describe coffee without sharp flavor.

● Strong (strong): in terms of popular usage, strong describes the strong flavor of deep-roasted coffee.

● Tangy (Xinlie): similar to the sour taste of fermentation, it is almost like fruit in nature, and it has something to do with the taste of the wine. Coffee grown in Costa Rica usually has a pungent flavor.

● Sour: this taste can only be produced on the back of the tongue, which is characteristic of lightly roasted coffee.

● Briny: after brewing, if the coffee is overheated, it will produce a salty taste.

● Mild (mild): indicates that some kind of coffee has a harmonious and delicate flavor. Latin American premium coffee grown on the plateau is usually described as mild in texture. In addition, it is also a coffee term used to refer to all plateau coffee except those produced in Brazil.

● Earthy: commonly used to describe coffee that is spicy and earthy. Sometimes people say it is a kind of earthy smell. But the word is not derogatory, dried coffee beans usually have this flavor, and it is precisely the special taste that many people pursue.

● Mellow: an adjective for coffee with low to medium acidity and good balance.

● Flavor (flavor) to describe the overall feeling of coffee, it is the overall feeling of coffee aroma, acidity, and mellow, so what kind of Flavor is a girl who only drinks coffee? In this era of popular red teahouses, I know a girl who only drinks coffee. She says that she drinks coffee not only because of its taste, but also because she loves it very much.

● Bland (light) coffee grown in the lowlands is usually quite light and tasteless. Sometimes coffee with a small amount of powder and more water will have the same light effect. A person as light as a chrysanthemum is a girl's expectation of herself. she says that being submerged in a sea of people will be the pursuit of her life. Light and light, will not make their own confusion, because believe that the true taste is only light.

● Bitter is a basic sense of taste, and the sensory area is distributed in the base of the tongue. The bitterness of dark baking is deliberately created, but the most common cause of bitterness is too much coffee powder and too little water. She said, "Qingka is strong and bitter to the bottom of my heart, just like there is still a lot of discord bestowed on people in real life, but the charm of coffee will never be diminished, and it will never be the same as life will never turn back." once, she wholeheartedly chased the white Pegasus and piously thought that as long as he did not look back and move forward bravely, the ideal of life could be achieved. It's just that in reality, there are ups and downs all the way. Every time I stand up from a fall, I always think of the enlightenment of coffee: those dark roasted coffee that are too bitter to drink are actually good coffee. Only when you chew bitterness can you learn to cherish sweetness.

● Exotic describes coffee as having unique aromas and special flavors, such as flowers, fruits and spices. Coffee from East Africa and Indonesia usually has this property. She is not a beautiful girl, but she has a different temperament: when it is brown and drizzling, she will choose to be in the rain or even dance to "Music in the Rain"; if the sun is so bright that people can't open their eyes that day, he will ask for an ice coffee at McDonald's and sit by the French window quietly writing or painting with a wooden pencil.

● Mellow is an adjective for coffee with low to medium acidity and good balance. I remember that some people divided girls into three kinds, such as floating clouds in the air, ice standing in the depths of winter, and the third kind was flowers, fragrant and sweet but not greasy at all. She said that she would like to be a flower, blooming all over everyone's heart, and the fragrance of the flowers drifted by.

● Soft describes low-acidity coffee like Indonesian coffee; it can also be described as mellow or sweet. People who have heard her voice are impressed that it is a kind of soft, leisurely and gentle talk, which will fascinate people to listen to her talk.

● Spicy refers to a flavor or smell reminiscent of a particular spice. Some Indonesian plateau coffee (especially old coffee) contains the sweet smell of cardamom. I have heard of a novel in which the heroine's hair inexplicably smells of chrysanthemums. She seems to be the same. She always smells fragrant, not perfume at all. Every time she passes her by, she always smells gardenia.

● Winy describes a charming flavor reminiscent of wine. Fruit-like acidity and smooth mellowness create a special contrast flavor. Kenyan coffee is the best example of wine flavor. When I watched her paint and mix colors, she told me that she liked a color called Bordeaux wine, which was textured and silky, like coffee dissolving between lips and teeth.