How to open the flavor wheel correctly

Flavor wheel, a picture that everyone is very familiar with. No matter it is the old watch of SACC or the new watch of counter-culture, it looks tall and elegant, with all kinds of awesome likes. However, many people do not know the role of the flavor wheel, so they fall into a misunderstanding that the flavor wheel is just a table to distinguish the flavor of coffee.

Yes, but it's not all right. Although recently some people say that I am too young too simple. But if you don't mind, please listen to my opinion.

As a player, you may "waste" more time than a barista on the opposite side. The way of thinking will be different, or will my understanding be helpful to you?

For me, the flavor wheel is:

1. A banner that symbolizes coffee culture

As we all know, every country has its own national flag. The flavor wheel chart is the banner of boutique coffee.

From the shepherd's story to the medicinal use of coffee beans, religious coffee allusions, foot wash coffee in World War II, a coffee shop in Palestine, to the first moderate roasting, a wave of Starbucks and the Big three, to the name of boutique coffee.

Coffee has experienced a magnificent epic of human civilization and culture. for hundreds of years, coffee has been the most silent and gentle, but the most defenseless way, changing history and making history. In this big world, coffee continues to prove the value of its existence, and this flavor wheel, which is piled up by history, represents the spirit of pursuit and progress, and the banner raised by fine coffee, and we are the subjects under this flag.

2. a collection table with meticulous flavor.

It can be said that this is a form licked by the subjects bit by bit. Can think of when the emergence of boutique coffee, a variety of amazing aroma scattered, why don't we integrate it?

In a cup of flower and fruit aroma, what we need is a standard, a standard enough for us to summarize various flavors, which is the reason for the birth of the flavor wheel. From the taste, aroma, detailed classification of a variety of pleasant sensory enjoyment; from defects, pollution, reminding the importance of coffee quality. We need to know how much progress we have made.

3. The picture guide of cup tester and baker.

There is no doubt that the flavor wheel can be said to be a treasure book for cup testers and bakers.

The cup tester achieves the wheel of taste. Baker, show the flavor wheel. Perhaps the flavor wheel serves for them, and it is the flavor wheel that makes cup testers and bakers particularly important. The cup test, under the guidance of the flavor wheel, becomes simple and clear. Baking, under the guidance of the flavor wheel, the performance is clearer. The flavor wheel, the cup tester and the baker form a solid iron triangle at the stage of planting into the cup.

4. a mentor who clarifies the feelings of the appraiser.

Is there any time when I think this feeling is familiar, but I can't remember it?

Well, you might want to take a look at the flavor wheel at this time. Most of the time, our sense of taste and aroma memory, when used, is too little. This cup of coffee awakens the touch of that taste, but you can't remember it. At this time, the flavor spectrum included in the flavor round may help you. Guide you like a mentor and bring you back to that memory.