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What Negative Flavors Can Be Found in Pour-Over Coffee? How to Improve Your Coffee Tasting Skills? What is the Dryness Caused by Roasting?
For coffee tasting, recognizing its negative flavors is also an important aspect. While most people can easily identify positive flavors, when encountering an uncomfortable cup of coffee, they can only describe it with general negative terms such as "mixed," "bitter," or "astringent." Of course, we could simply use these general descriptors
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What Affects Coffee Cleanliness? What Are the COE Cupping Evaluation Items? Why is Brazil the World's Largest Coffee Producer?
"Cleanliness" is the first scoring item in COE (Cup of Excellence) cupping evaluations. If coffee fails to achieve a qualifying score in the initial cleanliness assessment during cupping, subsequent evaluation items will also fail to meet standards. This demonstrates just how crucial cleanliness is for a cup of coffee!
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What are the defect flavors in coffee? How to identify and distinguish negative flavors in coffee tasting?
When learning coffee tasting, many people focus their energy on describing positive flavors. For example, when describing a cup of coffee, they can effortlessly list "jasmine, lemon, strawberry, caramel, chocolate," but when encountering unpleasant flavors, they can only say "bitter, mixed flavors, astringent." In fact, learning to properly taste coffee
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What Does Flow Restriction Mean in Pour-Over Coffee? What's the Purpose of Flow Restriction in Drip Coffee? What's the Difference Between Coffee-to-Water Ratio and Coffee-to-Brewed-Liquid Ratio?
In the coffee brewing process, the practice of removing the filter cup while there's still liquid that hasn't fully permeated through is what we call "flow restriction." Since flow restriction removes the final portion of coffee liquid, and many coffee enthusiasts believe that bitterness comes from this final portion, this technique has become
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What are the Cupping Scoring Standards for Coffee? What Does the SCAA Form Include?
Coffee cupping initially served to ensure that coffee beans entering trade met quality standards. As the concept of specialty coffee emerged over time, a scoring system for beans through cupping developed. Beans scoring below 80 are classified as commercial coffee, while those scoring above 80 are classified as specialty coffee.
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What Does Coffee Cleanliness Really Mean? Understanding Specialty Coffee Evaluation Standards
Recently, FrontStreet Coffee noticed that many friends have developed "misunderstandings" about coffee "cleanliness." Some believe that cleanliness refers to low flavor complexity in coffee, with high identifiability of individual flavors. Because the complexity is low, one can clearly taste certain flavors, which is considered a manifestation of high cleanliness. This raises the question...
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How to Judge Coffee Extraction Through Tasting: An Introduction to Hand-Pour Coffee Brewing Flavor Sensory Description
If you want to learn how to brew coffee, you must first learn how to taste coffee. Of course, "learning to taste coffee" here doesn't just mean being able to describe exquisite flavors, but rather being able to judge whether a cup of coffee is good or bad—that is, tasty or not. Whether coffee tastes good or not involves both subjective and objective factors, with personal preference being a significant influence.
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What Factors Influence Coffee Cleanliness? Understanding Clarity in Pour-Over Coffee
When we're in coffee shops or watching coffee tasting videos online, we often hear descriptions like 'what a clean bean.' This naturally sparks curiosity: What exactly is coffee cleanliness? What does clarity mean when we talk about coffee? In our conventional understanding, the cleanliness of a liquid typically refers to
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How to Describe Coffee Aftertaste: Introduction to the Concept and Characteristics of Pour-Over Coffee's Lingering Sweetness
Regarding how to distinguish coffee flavors and mouthfeel, FrontStreet Coffee has previously shared detailed content on these topics. As these are considered the "primary subjects" of coffee tasting, they are also relatively easy to find methods and techniques for. Next, FrontStreet Coffee will share with you the "elusive" aftertaste, which, compared to coffee's flavor,
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Why Does Pour-Over Coffee Have Foam? Is Foam in Pour-Over Coffee Good or Bad?
When brewing pour-over coffee, many find it therapeutic to see rich coffee foam forming. Have you ever wondered what causes coffee foam and how it affects the flavor of your brew? Anyone who has brewed pour-over coffee has likely experienced the abundant foam that emerges during the first pour after blooming. The foam that appears during the initial pour is a fascinating aspect of the brewing process.
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Latest SCAA Coffee Flavor Wheel Chinese Version: High-Definition Wallpaper Download and Detailed Explanation
The Coffee Flavor Wheel is one of the most valuable resources in the coffee industry. This marks the first update in the 21 years since the SCAA Coffee Flavor Wheel was created. This update was made possible through the collaboration between the World Coffee Research organization and SCAA, bringing together professional sensory panel members, scientists, coffee buyers, and roasters
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How to Describe Coffee Flavors? The Sensory Characteristics of Premium Guji Coffee
For professional coffee knowledge exchange and more coffee bean information, please follow Coffee Workshop (WeChat public account cafe_style). Acidity is a sharp, intense characteristic found in all coffees grown at high altitudes. Acidity in coffee is divided into good acidity and bad acidity. Good acidity brings people pleasure and
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Should the Final 15ml of Pour-Over Coffee Be Removed? Can You Skip the Last Portion?
Once while brewing coffee, a customer nearby asked, "Should the last portion of this coffee be kept?" The last portion After some investigation, the decision to keep or remove the last portion refers to removing the filter cone (cutting off the flow) when there are still 15-20ml of coffee liquid remaining in the filter cone during the final stage of brewing. Those who use this method of removing the last portion believe that the final portion will have bitter, astringent, and miscellaneous flavors, so it should be
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Can You Save Your Pour-Over Coffee with Bypass? A Pour-Over Coffee Bypass Tutorial
Introduction: Bypass literally means to go around, a term often used in network security equipment applications (referring to when a network security device fails, bypass is needed to physically connect networks to keep them communicating). When bypass is applied to pour-over coffee brewing, unexpected results can occur! Bypass involves adding water to the coffee liquid.
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What's the Difference Between Drip Bag Coffee and Instant Coffee? How is Drip Bag Coffee Made? What Are the Key Considerations for Water Temperature and Brewing Methods?
The popularity of drip bag coffee far exceeds our imagination. Due to its convenience, it can be taken anywhere to brew and enjoy coffee! However, while drip bags have become widespread, some people still have misconceptions about how to use them properly. It's not that drip bag coffee can only be prepared using traditional methods.
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How to Make Milk-Extracted Coffee? Can Milk-Extracted Coffee Be Stored at Room Temperature?
Six months ago, in the days following the publication of the article "Coffee Extracted with Ice Milk is So Aromatic!", FrontStreet Coffee received numerous coffee bean recommendations from friends for milk extraction! So today, FrontStreet Coffee has selected some particularly representative coffee beans to brew, to see how these highly acclaimed beans perform.
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Black Coffee: Acidic or Not? Brazil Cerrado Coffee Beans Offer Rich and Balanced Flavor
Professional coffee knowledge exchange. For more coffee bean information, please follow Coffee Workshop (WeChat official account: cafe_style). FrontStreet Coffee - Brazil Santo Antonio Cerrado Introduction: Under the influence of the third wave of coffee aesthetics worldwide, more and more people can appreciate the rich acidity of specialty coffee, come to enjoy it, and fall in love with these captivating acidic aromas. Of course, excessive acidity is a negative flavor in coffee.
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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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Asking for a Free "Coffee Exchange" at a Coffee Shop?! Oh Dear...
For more professional coffee knowledge and coffee bean information, please follow Coffee Workshop (WeChat public account: cafe_style). For more specialty coffee beans, please add FrontStreet Coffee's private WeChat: qjcoffeex. Recently, some coffee shop owners have been complaining that more people have been coming to their shops to exchange
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What Does Balance Mean in Pour-Over Coffee? What Makes Blue Mountain Coffee Special? Why Is It So Expensive? The Advantages of Blue Mountain Typica
'Balance' is a somewhat overlooked description in coffee terminology. The reason is that most people cannot truly understand its meaning. Many friends assume it merely refers to the equilibrium of acidity, sweetness, and bitterness in coffee flavors. However, 'balance' encompasses much more than that.
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