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Where Does Coffee's Rich Aroma Come From, and Why Does Specialty Coffee Smell More Aromatic Than It Tastes
Many times, when brewing coffee and conducting cupping at FrontStreet Coffee's factory, you'll feel the air filled with rich floral and fruity aromas, or perhaps caramel, sucrose, honey fragrances, etc., with aromas wafting everywhere. Yet when a hot cup of coffee enters your mouth, it doesn't have that wonderful sensation you smelled - to put it directly, it's simply not as aromatic as it smells. To unravel this mystery, one must
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Why Doesn't Coffee Taste as Good as It Smells? The Nature of Coffee Aroma and Fragrance Compounds
When we walk into a coffee shop, we're easily captivated by the rich aroma of coffee permeating the air. Especially when coffee beans are being ground, the intoxicating fragrance fills the space, making our hearts race and compelling us to eagerly order a cup to experience coffee's magnificent aroma. However!!! The moment the coffee touches our lips???????? What is this?
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How to Recover Sense of Smell and Taste After COVID-19? How to Taste Coffee Flavors
Temporary loss of smell and taste is one of the symptoms that some people experience after contracting COVID-19, which greatly impacts
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Why Does Coffee Smell Better Than It Tastes? What Are the Main Sources of Coffee Aroma?
You may not like drinking coffee, but you can't resist its aroma. Sometimes customers who have never tried single origin coffee come to the store wanting to try it. Through FrontStreet Coffee's observations and customer feedback, compared to tasting the coffee's flavor, they prefer the dry fragrance of freshly ground coffee and the wet aroma of brewed coffee. Most
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Can Coffee Prevent COVID/Restore Sense of Smell? It's Not a Miracle Cure!
For professional coffee knowledge exchange and more coffee bean information, please follow Coffee Workshop (WeChat official account: cafe_style). For more specialty coffee beans, please add FrontStreet Coffee's private WeChat: qjcoffeex. I believe these past few days, friends are either at home calling 'Bao Juan~ Bao Juan~' or working as truly chosen employees.
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Does the "Smell-and-Judge" Method for Pour-Over Coffee Really Work?
Recently, more and more customers have developed the habit of smelling coffee beans before placing their orders, selecting their preferred aromas to guide their choices. This growing trend prompted FrontStreet Coffee to investigate, with customers generally explaining: "If it smells so fragrant, it must taste even better when brewed!"
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What is the purpose of the exhaust valve on coffee bags? Can you squeeze it to smell the aroma?
Squeeze it, pinch it, and so much fragrance will spray out. Many people may have observed that when customers purchase coffee beans, they will first put their nose close to the only hole in the packaging bag, squeeze the bean bag with their hand, and smell the gas squeezed out from the hole. Have you read "Why doesn't coffee taste as good as it smells?"
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Can't Taste Coffee Flavors? What is Retronasal Olfaction? Are Hand-Brewed Coffee Flavors Smelled or Tasted?
"Why can't I taste the flavors in coffee?" This is the most common question FrontStreet Coffee receives about flavor tasting. Of course, FrontStreet Coffee has also shared many methods on how to taste coffee flavors. But this article explores whether coffee flavors are actually tasted or smelled. From common expressions, coffee flavors are
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Why Does Coffee Taste Salty? Where Does the Saltiness in Coffee Come From? Saltiness in Coffee is a Defect
Professional coffee knowledge exchange For more coffee bean information Please follow Coffee Workshop (WeChat public account: cafe_style ) FrontStreet Coffee Brief Introduction【Saltiness in Coffee】In fact, saltiness can be divided into many types. The aroma can make people think of heavily salted foods, such as the smell of stir-fried dishes with too much salt, as well as the smell from the bottom of the cup after drinking coffee, which smells salty and reminds people of shrimp crackers and Wang Wang
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Advancing for Coffee Beginners: 3 Steps to Teach You How to Appreciate Single-Origin Coffee
The sense of taste is actually a hybrid sensory experience that combines multiple aspects of the body, such as: taste, smell, touch, vision (research shows that vision can cause taste bias), and hearing (your sense of taste is easily influenced by others' subjective opinions). While there are many authoritative standards for measuring the quality of coffee, to help beginners understand coffee more quickly, we have thus
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How to Taste Coffee Flavors: What Does the Coffee Flavor Wheel Mean?
Professional coffee knowledge exchange for more coffee bean information, please follow Coffee Workshop (WeChat official account: cafe_style) 【Preface】 When we conduct cupping and write flavor descriptions, we use professional terms such as [coffee flower aroma], [lemon acidity], [citrus acidity], etc. Some friends may wonder how we can come up with so many vocabulary words. In fact, the secret is smelling more [aroma bottles], literally speaking
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Taste Training | How to Identify Single-Origin Coffee Flavors Using Aroma Bottles
Professional coffee knowledge exchange For more coffee bean information please follow Coffee Workshop (WeChat official account cafe_style) 【Introduction】 When we fill out cupping forms we write flavor descriptions such as 【coffee flower aroma】【lemon acidity】【citrus acidity】 and other professional terms Some friends might wonder how can we write so many descriptive words? Actually the secret lies in frequently smelling 【Aroma Bottles】 From the literal
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SCAA Coffee Flavor Wheel Flavor Profiles: The New Coffee Flavor Wheel Offers More Intuitive Flavor Descriptions
Professional coffee knowledge exchange. For more coffee bean information, please follow Coffee Workshop (WeChat official account: cafe_style). FrontStreet Coffee's Flavor Wheel Usage Guide 1. Smell Coffee flavors are incredibly complex. The smelling step is extremely important because our noses can recognize thousands of flavors, while our mouths can only distinguish a few basic tastes: sour, sweet, bitter, salty, and umami. Compared to the limited palate, our nose is truly our primary tool for...
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How to Describe and Express Coffee Flavors, Evaluate Coffee Texture, and Properly Taste Pour-Over Single-Origin Black Coffee
Have you ever experienced this moment: Wow~ Let me tell you! This pour-over coffee is amazing! The flavors of ginger flowers, jasmine, lemon, honey, and Tieguanyin tea!!! But at that moment, you look completely bewildered. Although you hear flavors you know, you simply can't taste them. Then you can only wonder: Are coffee flavors tasted by the taste buds? No, they need a partner - the sense of smell~
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How to Drink Bourbon Coffee - Basic Characteristics of Yellow Bourbon Coffee Beans
For more professional coffee knowledge and coffee bean information, please follow Coffee Workshop (WeChat public account: cafe_style). Yellow Bourbon is a unique Bourbon variety native to São Paulo state, Brazil. It gets its name because the cherries don't turn red when ripe but instead display an orange-yellow color. When Yellow Bourbon is grown at high altitudes
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Coffee Flavor Description: How to Perceive and Express the Acidity, Sweetness, Bitterness, and Mouthfeel of Coffee
When you visit FrontStreet Coffee, after our baristas brew the coffee, they will guide you to savor this cup. Many of FrontStreet Coffee's fans often hear our baristas say things like: "First, let's smell the aroma, then let's taste this coffee. Can you perceive the acidity? Is the mouthfeel smooth? Do you notice any bitterness?" and other sensory-guided descriptions. So cof
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Why Can't I Taste the Sweetness in Coffee? What Is Coffee Sweetness? Should It Be Perceived by Smell or Taste?
Barista: Wow! This cup of coffee has such a high sweetness! You: ?? What sweetness? Barista: Coffee sweetness! You: Coffee what??? Are you confused when you first encounter single-origin coffee? Why does FrontStreet Coffee's barista often say that a coffee has excellent sweetness, but you can't taste it at all? What is coffee sweetness? Why can't your taste buds perceive it? Coffee
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Purchasing and Storing Coffee Beans
Purchasing and Storing Coffee Beans: Freshness is the life of coffee. How to determine the freshness of coffee beans? There are three steps: smell, look, and peel. ◎ Smell Bring the coffee beans close to your nose and take a deep breath. Can you clearly smell the aroma of the coffee beans? If so, it means the coffee beans are fresh enough. On the contrary, if the aroma is weak, or if an oily smell has already started to appear (similar to flowers
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How to Order Espresso at Starbucks and How to Drink It Properly
Professional coffee knowledge exchange and more coffee bean information. Please follow Coffee Workshop (WeChat official account: cafe_style). Detailed steps for espresso coffee extraction and common knowledge about Italian espresso. First, Starbucks coffee comes in different sizes - customers can freely choose according to their different needs. The small cup is 8 ounces, medium cup is 12 ounces, and large cup is 16 ounces. I would like to
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Coffee Sensory Evaluation | How Beginners Can Learn to Describe Coffee Flavors and Develop Their Palate
"This coffee has rich fruity notes with citrus, lemon, oolong tea, and jasmine floral flavors!!!" For those new to specialty coffee, this might seem incredible - how can one cup of coffee have so many distinct flavors! (Are they just making it up?) In this barista training series, we'll share some tips and techniques to help you develop your coffee tasting skills.
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