The Art of Coffee Tasting and Taste

Roasted coffee beans have about 800 different flavors, while human senses can only perceive a few flavors. In red wine, this number is double, worthy of being the drink that holds the record for flavor. Most coffee connoisseurs prefer the “midium” roast because then the number of flavors in coffee is the most.

Coffee tasting is considered an art, just like wine tasting and sometimes even more. To detect and find most of the flavors in coffee, the tasting and tasting must be done correctly in many sequences to find a perfect balance, expressing the aroma and taste of coffee.

Coffee tasting and tasting method

To taste and taste the taste of coffee, the first thing to do is to have cups of coffee made in the same way, very similar so that the taste between cups of coffee is not too different.

The process of tasting and testing coffee is carried out in the following steps!

– Choose the type of coffee beans you want to try.

– Grind some coffee to the appropriate fineness for the coffee maker.

– Measure an appropriate amount and apply enough pressure to the coffee handle.

– Make a cup of Espresso or Regular coffee.

– Take a spoon, stir it a few times in the cup and bring your nose close to the cup to smell.

– Scoop about half a teaspoon of coffee and put it in your mouth.

– Squeeze your lips to make a sound several times to mix the coffee with air, saliva… at this time the tongue will be able to taste the coffee more easily.

– Finally, spit the mixture out of your mouth

When using this method of tasting and testing coffee, our tongue can distinguish many subtle scents in coffee because different parts of the tongue will detect different flavors.

– The top and innermost part of the tongue will taste the most bitter.

– The side of the tongue will feel bad taste (rotten, moldy, etc.).

– The tip of the tongue will feel the most specific taste.

Learning and knowing how to test and taste coffee according to the above steps is not enough because the most important thing is to know how to describe the taste of coffee. The words below will help us feel and describe coffee more clearly.

– Aroma: The aroma of coffee

– Fragrance: The aroma of ground coffee.

– Body: The taste of coffee in the mouth. This feels the richness, purity, or mildness of coffee.

– Rich: This word describes when the smell of coffee is very fragrant, when the coffee is very mild, pure, and stronger than usual.

– Mellow: The sweetness of coffee, not astringent or bitter.

– Acidity: The sourness of coffee. Arabica coffee beans are a very typical type of bean for this and are very delicious

Sourness is one of the characteristics of coffee, just like the astringent taste of wine. The higher the acidity, the better the coffee and vice versa. Therefore, the water source used in making coffee is very important and has a great influence on it. If alkaline water is used to make coffee, it will greatly affect the sour taste of the coffee. Using purified water or a water filtration system is always a good way to get the best flavors from coffee.

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