The fragrance of coffee.

The taste of coffee is the most important part of the color, flavor and taste body, and different people may have different feelings about the taste of the same cup of coffee. Personally, I like to divide the taste of coffee into three parts: sour, bitter and flavor, in which sour and bitter are the two main flavors of coffee. The balance between sour and bitter reflects the quality of a cup of coffee. Generally speaking, in a certain stage of the three stages of taste, medium taste and aftertaste, only one taste is dominant. In most cases, it is either bitter or sour, but different stages will be dominated by different tastes. For example, a cup of coffee may taste bitter, but it turns sour. This is normal, but it will not happen when a cup of coffee tastes bitter and sour.

Bitter taste

Bitterness is our most common understanding of coffee. Generally speaking, my personal favorite bitterness is soft and fragrant bitterness, without scorching and irritating, pleasant bitterness will bring out a good taste, while distasteful bitterness will bring out scorched taste. So when we drink coffee, we have to change a point of view: coffee is bitter enough to be strong enough, in fact, these are two completely unrelated concepts, but it is precisely because the vast majority of Chinese people hold this point of view. As a result, the roasting of coffee beans in China is generally very deep, and coffee shop owners also like carbonized coffee beans, so that they can extract as much coffee as possible with as few beans as possible. I don't know. I just got a cup of bitter water.

Sour taste

Elegant sour taste is one of the important features of high-quality coffee, sour taste can bring more rich taste of coffee, so that the taste of coffee becomes rich and layered. Pleasant sour taste brings bright aroma and refreshing taste, while offensive sour taste brings astringent taste and strong irritation. Most Chinese people do not like sour coffee, in fact, the main reason is to reflect the elegant sour taste of coffee, not only need high-quality coffee beans, but also need experienced roasting and perfect extraction, and these three points are very scarce in China. That's why few Chinese people are really lucky to enjoy the sour taste of coffee.

Flavor

Flavor refers to some special taste of coffee, which can be positive or negative. For example, with cocoa flavor, red wine flavor, blueberry flavor, rubber flavor and so on, although the similar flavor does not rule out the congenital formation of beans, but I personally think that it may be more caused by acquired factors, and many times we will consciously add some spices when baking, so as to give coffee beans a special flavor. The taste of coffee requires a lot of drinking experience, and more attempts are needed to distinguish the different tastes.