Coffee Tasting Terms

acidity

Acidity is a fairly typical and desirable part of coffee. It is a direct taste sensation under the edge of your tongue and on the palate that plays a different role than taste does with wine. Acidity provides a strong, vibrant texture. Without acidity, coffee tends to be flat and monotonous. Note that this acidity is not to be confused with the sour, unpleasant negative flavor characteristics of fermentation.

Aroma aroma

Aroma is difficult to separate from so-called taste alone! Without our sense of smell, we can only feel the sour, sweet and bitter taste of coffee; the aroma introduced after brewing coffee can be combined with subtle differences such as "flower fragrance" and "wine" through our upper jaw, and form the so-called taste.

Body Strength, Consistency

Intensity is a feeling, a feeling of coffee in your mouth! It is a combination of stickiness, heaviness, or layering that the tongue perceives. The ideal coffee consistency range is like the difference between whole milk and water. The strength of coffee we feel depends on whether it can be fully extracted and its oils dissolved during brewing. In principle, Indonesian coffee has a thicker body than Central and South American coffee. If you can't compare the consistency of different coffees, try adding the same amount of milk products separately. The thicker coffee can still maintain a higher proportion of flavor after being diluted with milk!

Flavor

The overall sensation of coffee in your mouth is called taste. Acidity, aroma and consistency are the conditions that make up the so-called taste. These taste sensations, probably in a balanced time, can create the overall taste and flavor!

The following are typical taste characteristics:

General taste characteristics

rich

It's about consistency and fullness.

complex

A multi-flavor experience

balanced

All the basic taste characteristics, none of them particularly prominent, but complete.

Desirably popular taste, its characteristic specific characteristics (description)

● Bright, refreshing, prominent or lively

[Special Flavor of Central American Coffee]

● Caramel color

Like honey or candy

● Chocolate

The aftertaste resembles unsweetened chocolate or vanilla.

● Light and delicious

A faint taste on the tip of the tongue.

● Earthy taste

Characteristics of the soil [Special flavor of Sumatra coffee]

● Fragrance

Aroma properties range from natural floral to perfumed

● Fruity flavor

An aroma characteristic associated with berries, nuts, or citrus.

● Glycol

Smooth taste around the mouth, basically needs some acid

● Nutty flavor

The finish resembles a roasted stone fruit flavor

● Spices

evocative of spices and aromas

● Sweet taste

Non-astringent ionized taste

● Wild

A game that is not always thought of and accepted is [Ethiopian coffee characteristics]

● Wine smell

The aftertaste is reminiscent of a fine wine.

Undesirable and undesirable taste, characteristic of particular characteristics (description)

● Bitterness

Usually caused by over-baking, can be detected and felt at the root of the tongue

● Light and tasteless

Neutral, fuzzy taste.

● Carbon taste

A general term used to describe burnt charcoal.

●Dead(dead, stuffy)

As described below,"monotonous and tasteless"

● Turbidity

such as eating filth and associating it with something moldy.

● Earthy taste

As described above,"turbid"

● Monotony and tasteless

Less acidity, aroma and aftertaste

● Grass smell

From the aroma and taste, I think it looks like freshly mown lawn.

● Pungent

Bad quality, as of corrosion or smell.

● Turbidity

It's thick and cloudy.

● Musty smell

It has a slightly suffocating and stale smell.

[The above negative words are different from the taste of old coffee beans]

● Water taste

It's kind of like when noodles are cooked, the starch and the water.

● astringent taste

It's like eating salt.

● Rubber smell

Aroma and taste similar to burnt rubber

[Characteristics found only for dried Romstar species]

● Weak

As described above,"tasteless."

● Poor sour taste

Sharp sour taste like unripe fruit

● Weak

Lack of acidity, in principle caused by incomplete fermentation

● Turpentine smell

Smells like turpentine.

:: Poverty

Lack of strength and consistency in the mouth

● Game

characteristic of primitive game