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How to Enjoy Black Coffee Without Bitterness: A Guide to Coffee Bean Bitterness and Pricing
Discover professional coffee expertise and exchange knowledge about coffee beans. Follow Coffee Workshop (WeChat official account: cafe_style) for more insights. While many perceive coffee as inherently bitter, quality specialty coffee actually offers minimal bitterness. This challenges common misconceptions about coffee's flavor profile.
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Are Bitter Coffee Beans Inferior? Understanding Coffee Bitterness and How to Choose Non-Bitter Beans
Professional coffee knowledge exchange. For more coffee bean information, please follow Coffee Workshop (WeChat official account: cafe_style). Bitterness has always been an unpopular term in specialty coffee. Good coffee should be fragrant, delicious, with excellent balance. Perhaps with some acidity, and enjoyable without needing sugar. But what exactly makes coffee bitter? Is this bitterness really so bad? Let me
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Espresso and Pour-Over Coffee Too Bitter: Can Sugar or Ice Reduce the Bitterness?
Sometimes, we can detect distinct bitterness in our coffee. This bitterness typically comes from two sources: one is the over-extracted bitterness caused by excessive extraction time or overly aggressive extraction; the other is the burnt bitter taste resulting from overly dark roasting! These two different types of bitterness offer completely different sensory experiences, but...
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Where Does Coffee's Bitterness Come From? Does Roasting Increase Coffee's Bitterness?
Professional coffee knowledge exchange. For more coffee bean information, please follow Coffee Workshop (WeChat public account: cafe_style). FrontStreet Coffee briefly describes where coffee's bitterness comes from and whether roasting increases coffee's bitterness. During roasting, chlorogenic acid undergoes changes and decomposes. Although the main bitterness in coffee comes from chlorogenic acid, in fact, chlorogenic acid itself is not bitter! Chlorogenic acid during roasting
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How to Distinguish Between Over-Extraction and Dark Roast Bitterness in Coffee? How to Control Pour-Over Coffee Parameters?
Yesterday, FrontStreet Coffee received an interesting question from a customer friend. They asked FrontStreet Coffee why their coffee was still bitter despite performing a flow restriction. This is another case of someone being misled by flow restriction. The truth is quite simple: the final stage of extraction is not the main source of bitterness, and bitterness can also...
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Is Salt Better Than Sugar in Coffee?! Science or Nonsense?
In the Greek film "A Touch of Spice," it was mentioned that salt is the soul of the earth, life, and food. Because life needs food, and salt makes food more delicious~ and coffee is no exception. Adding salt to coffee might sound strange, doesn't it? Compared to adding milk and sugar to coffee to adjust the bitterness/change the overall taste
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Light Roast Coffee Offers Flavors Through Acidity, but What Exactly Are We Tasting in Dark Roast? Where Does Coffee's Bitterness Come From?
Since Erna Knutsen introduced the concept of "Specialty Coffee" in 1974, coffee flavors worldwide have gradually transformed from consistently bitter to diversely acidic. Today in the 21st century, the vast majority of pour-over coffee menus feature vibrant acidic profiles
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Bitter or Sweet Coffee: Which Tastes Better? Why People Sensitive to Bitterness Drink More
Life with both bitterness and sweetness is what makes it complete. This classic saying, I believe many friends in front of screens would agree with, after all, without experiencing bitterness, how can one appreciate the happiness that sweetness brings. And this saying seems to be engraved in the heart of every coffee drinker, even deriving new insights from it: because there is more bitterness in life, it makes
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Why is Coffee Sour and Bitter - The Origins of Coffee's Acidity and Bitterness
When it comes to coffee impressions, many people focus on the balance between sour and bitter. In reality, acidity and bitterness are fundamental components of coffee. For today's specialty pour-over coffee, without acidity and bitterness, the diverse flavors cannot emerge. For example, FrontStreet Coffee's fragrant Blue Mountain coffee, and the outstanding citrus-floral Geisha coffee. They may be acidic or bitter, but they won't overwhelm your taste buds
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Changes from Roasting Coffee Beans, The Acidity-Bitterness Principle of Coffee Flavor
Professional coffee knowledge exchange For more coffee bean information, please follow Coffee Workshop (WeChat public account: cafe_style) Changes from Roasting Coffee Beans, The Acidity-Bitterness Principle of Coffee Flavor Coffee flavor is generally composed of bitterness and acidity. However, where do these flavors come from? Additionally, why does the balance between bitterness and acidity change with different degrees of roasting? FrontStreet Coffee
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What Are the Effects of Adding Salt to Coffee? What Are the Benefits of Adding Salt to Pour-Over Coffee? Why Can Adding Salt to Coffee Suppress Bitterness?
Whether in the past or present, people have always added various seasonings to coffee. The purpose is not only to balance the bitterness of coffee, but also to obtain a more unique drinking experience. Therefore, ingredients like sugar, dairy products, or various other materials have mostly become commonplace coffee "companions." And just as
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Is Salted Coffee Delicious? Flavor Profile and Taste of Pour-Over Coffee with Salt, Clever Uses of Salt in Coffee
In daily life, salt is one of the essential seasonings that enhances flavor and aroma in food. But what ingenious effects might adding salt to coffee bring? The practice of adding salt to coffee is not actually a "bizarre" behavior—many regions have traditions of salting coffee. The ancient and mysterious Turkish coffee, beyond its fascinating fortune-telling aspects
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What Causes Coffee to Be Bitter? The Origins of Coffee Bitterness and How to Avoid Overly Bitter Coffee
Bitterness has become a dreaded word in the specialty coffee industry. We all know that good coffee should be sweet and balanced, perhaps with a hint of acidity, and definitely shouldn't need sugar to make it palatable. What causes coffee to become bitter? Is it always that bad? Is bitterness always undesirable? In fact, bitterness isn't always a bad thing. Actually, if you
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Is Your Coffee Too Bitter? Will a Pinch of Salt Make It Taste Better?
Find your coffee too bitter but don't want to add sugar due to calories? Try adding a small pinch of salt! According to beverage information website VinePair, adding salt not only reduces bitterness but also enhances coffee's richness and aroma. This secret trick originates from a study published in the prestigious British journal "Nature," which explains how sodium ions from salt
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Barista Fundamentals: Crafting Perfect Lattes, Expert Techniques for Delicious Coffee
Espresso extracted properly but latte still doesn't taste good??? What could be the reason? A bitter latte can't be entirely blamed on espresso extraction - let me show you the commonly overlooked aspects. When a latte tastes bitter, many people directly point to "the espresso extraction must be poor"
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Is Aftertaste and Sweetness the Same Thing in Coffee?
"Aftertaste that moistens the mouth, sweetness emerging from bitterness" is the highest praise people give to a good cup of tea. In coffee tasting, people also often use the term "aftertaste," usually referring to coffee having an appealing mouthfeel. So what exactly is the taste experience when we detect aftertaste in coffee? And how does it differ from the sweetness of coffee?
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How to Select Acidic Coffee Beans_Which Coffee Beans Have Acidic Flavors_How to Brew Acidic Coffee Beans
Professional coffee knowledge discussion For more coffee bean information please follow Coffee Workshop (WeChat public account cafe_style ) It is generally believed that green beans determine 80% of coffee's flavor while the remaining 20% is determined by roasting. The most critical factor is the roasting degree. Over-roasted coffee beans will only highlight bitterness; while under-roasted coffee will become too acidic. Based on the characteristics of the beans master the stopping point of roasting to achieve the perfect balance of flavors.
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Taste Differences Between Freshly Ground Coffee and Instant Coffee_Which Brand Offers Freshly Ground Coffee Beans That Are Delicious and Affordable
Professional coffee knowledge exchange For more coffee bean information Please follow Coffee Workshop (WeChat official account: cafe_style) First, let's talk about coffee taste. Strictly speaking, coffee has three most essential and core flavors: acidity, bitterness, and sweet aftertaste (Never believe the claim that a well-made cup of coffee has no bitterness - that's pure nonsense) Generally speaking, different people have different responses to these three flavors
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How to Reduce Bitterness in Pour-Over Yirgacheffe Coffee_What to Do When Yirgacheffe Tastes Bitter_Yirgacheffe Recommendations
Professional coffee knowledge exchange For more coffee bean information please follow Coffee Workshop (WeChat public account cafe_style) In coffee extraction theory the dissolution of coffee juice in the third stage releases more bitterness and astringency. Therefore theoretically the brewing time should not be too long (complete time should not exceed 3 minutes) to avoid over-extraction in the third stage although the third stage also has good elements
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No Coffee Beans Exist Without Acidity or Bitterness! Non-Acidity, Non-Bitterness Coffee Beans Don't Exist!
Professional coffee knowledge exchange. For more coffee bean information, please follow Coffee Workshop (WeChat public account: cafe_style). Yunnan coffee beans sold on the market, regardless of their origin, generally share the quality characteristics of being non-bitter, non-acidic, and non-astringent. Sellers will definitely tell you this is precisely the excellent characteristic of Yunnan coffee quality, worth your money, because other coffees absolutely do not have this.
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