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How to Brew a Sweet, Low-Acidity Coffee! What Factors Affect Coffee's Sweetness and Body?
In daily service, whenever unfamiliar customers come to order coffee, FrontStreet Coffee always asks, "Would you prefer something acidic or non-acidic?" In the past, most people would answer without hesitation, "I don't want acidity," sometimes even adding that a bit more bitterness wouldn't matter; but with specialty coffee culture becoming increasingly prevalent today, customers who actively seek acidic coffee are becoming more common.
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How to Control Acidity in Pour-Over Geisha Coffee: Best Brewing Methods to Enhance Sweetness
A coffee bean's flavor potential is determined during its green bean stage, while the roasting process defines its flavor profile. These two stages are typically inaccessible to consumers for direct intervention. However, consumers can make informed choices: those who dislike acidity can opt for dark roasts, while those who dislike bitterness can choose light roasts. For those who enjoy both, there are brewing techniques that can balance these elements effectively.
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Which Coffee is Sweeter? How to Describe the Sweetness of Pour-Over Black Coffee?
Life is short, so let's drink sweet coffee! Most people would probably agree that coffee is bitter, whether they're coffee drinkers or not. If we say coffee is acidic, those who love acidity would surely raise both hands in agreement. But if we claim coffee is sweet, that might spark quite a controversy
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How to Identify Acidic Components in Coffee and Which Coffee Beans Are More Acidic
In the past, many people shied away from acidity, believing coffee should be bitter. Today, "acidity" has become a desirable quality, and acidic coffee is no longer unusual. When we cup coffee, we use "acidity" and "acid quality" to describe the acid in coffee. Acidity refers to the strength level of acid, which occurs when coffee liquid passes over the tongue
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How to Properly Evaluate Coffee? Standards for Assessing Coffee Cleanliness, Acidity, Sweetness, Mouthfeel, and Aftertaste
When it comes to tasting coffee, many people often discuss flavors. It seems that the ability to taste coffee is closely related to how many flavors one can detect. However, this is not necessarily the case. Tasting refers to tasting and evaluating, which is different from drinking coffee in an ordinary way, just as we often enjoy tasting single-origin coffee, but rarely
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Why Does Coffee Become Sour When It Cools Down? What Determines the Flavor Changes in Pour-Over Coffee? What to Do When Coffee Is Too Sour?
Have you ever had an experience like FrontStreet Coffee, where coffee tastes perfectly balanced between sweet and acidic when freshly brewed, but becomes increasingly sour as it sits? Eventually, the acidity becomes so sharp that one sip can make you cringe like you've seen a world-famous painting! Many of you might be curious:
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Coffee Bean Varieties: Differences in Characteristics, Types, and Flavor Profiles of Three Major Growing Regions
Coffee Bean Introduction When discussing Indonesian coffee, one cannot overlook the premium Mandheling from Sumatra, with its unique rich aroma and slightly acidic flavor profile, considered to be of world-class quality. Additionally, the Arabica coffee produced in Java is a European favorite, featuring a complex profile where bitterness carries sweetness, sweetness contains acidity, and the lingering aroma persists long after. Premium Grade: Sumatra Mandheling Flavor Characteristics: Bitter yet
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SCAA New Coffee Flavor Wheel High-Definition Chart - Differences Between New and Old Specialty Coffee Flavor Wheels
When evaluating coffee, we focus on its performance in the four basic tastes of sweet, sour, bitter, and salty, which are closely related to the degree of roasting. Therefore, the [Coffee Flavor Wheel] classifies flavors by light-medium roast and dark-heavy roast. Additionally, the flavor wheel serves as a tool for different people to discuss coffee flavors.
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World's Top 10 Premium and Best-Tasting Coffee Bean Varieties: Geisha Coffee vs. Tanzanian Coffee
1. Hawaiian Kona Coffee Beans (Hawaii) - Kona Island is Hawaii's largest island, perfectly suited for growing premium coffee. In fact, America's best coffee, as voted by Forbes. With its exceptional microclimate, the perfect blend of rainy and sunny days, and fertile volcanic soil, the Big Island's coffee beans develop a unique flavor profile that sets them apart from other varieties worldwide.
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Why Does Coffee Have Sour Notes? How to Understand Acidity in Coffee
When a cup of single-origin coffee with sour notes is placed before you, can you truly discern its quality? What do we taste? What do we perceive? Many coffee beginners only taste the coffee flavor, which is completely normal. I just taste coffee flavor, and I only smell coffee aroma! This is the coffee flavor wheel in the eyes of a coffee novice, perhaps also the most intuitive perception~
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SCA Coffee Flavor Wheel Analysis Tutorial: How to Properly Describe Pour-Over Coffee Flavor Characteristics and Taste Categories
For professional barista exchanges, please follow Coffee Workshop (WeChat official account: cafe_style). The coffee flavor wheel is a collaborative research achievement by the Specialty Coffee Association of America and World Coffee Research.
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How to Brew Sweet Coffee? Reasons and Solutions for Pour-Over Coffee Lacking Sweetness
Why are we so determined to brew sweet coffee? Perhaps it's because sweetness triggers dopamine release, making us feel joyful! If you want to brew sweet coffee, you must first understand coffee's sweetness. The sweet sensation in coffee doesn't exist independently—it emerges through the harmony between acidity and bitterness. For instance, in light roast coffees...
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How is Tea Sensation Assessed in Coffee Flavor Evaluation? Causes of Obvious Astringency in Coffee
For more professional coffee knowledge and 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. In the coffee flavor wheel, we can barely find any descriptions about tea... Even the "black tea" mentioned
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Are There Ways to Make Coffee Sweeter? How to Brew Coffee with a Sweet Aftertaste?
In specialty coffee, the description of sweetness has always been highly valued, as it not only serves as one of the indicators for judging the quality of coffee beans, but is also the delicious flavor that roasters, baristas, and brewing enthusiasts eagerly pursue. If a black coffee possesses both aroma and sweetness, it means that from raw materials to extraction, everything is controlled within ideal parameters.
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The Flavor Differences Between Natural and Washed Coffee: Which Processing Method Produces More Acidity?
When purchasing coffee beans, if we're looking for higher sweetness, we often prioritize natural-processed coffee over washed. Are natural coffees truly sweeter than washed coffees? Where does this sweetness come from? As FrontStreet Coffee has explained in previous articles, the "sweetness" we taste in coffee primarily comes from carbohydrates within the raw coffee beans.
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Why Does Coffee Taste Sour? Is Sour Coffee Good to Drink?
Professional coffee knowledge exchange. For more coffee bean information, please follow Coffee Workshop (WeChat public account: cafe_style). The flavor issues of coffee trouble many students. There are so many flavors on the flavor chart, why can't I taste them~~ Why does coffee have a sour taste? The word flavor is more commonly used in daily life to refer to taste and savor, which is flavor in English. In coffee tasting
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Top 10 Coffee Bean Brands: How Coffee Beginners Can Choose the Right Beans for Their Taste
Don't know how to choose coffee as a beginner? The overwhelming variety of coffee beans makes it difficult for newcomers to select the right ones. FrontStreet Coffee offers over 55 different types of beans, and many customers visiting our stores ask most frequently about which beans are best for coffee beginners. This time, FrontStreet Coffee will explain
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Origin Story of Sun-Dried Yirgacheffe Autumn Cherry Coffee Beans - How Does Sun-Dried Yirgacheffe Autumn Cherry Taste?
Professional coffee knowledge exchange. For more coffee bean information, please follow Coffee Workshop (WeChat public account: cafe_style). Yirgacheffe Coffee - Autumn Cherry. Pour-over. Aroma of mixed Earl Grey tea. The tip of the tongue experiences the sweet and sour texture of cherry and lemon, while the finish seems to have the refreshing sweetness of chamomile. In this cup of Autumn Cherry, a 20-year-old girl captures the passionate joy of berries, while a 40-year-old man can also find...
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Recommended Single-Origin Coffee Beans from Central and South America: Which Tastes Better Among Colombia, Brazil, and Panama?
Central America generally refers to the narrow strip of the American continent south of Mexico and north of the Panama Canal, also known as the Central American Isthmus. It includes seven countries: Guatemala, Belize, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, and Panama, all of which produce coffee. There is also another classification method
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World's Top Six Coffee Bean Growing Regions Ranking: Which Brands Offer the Best Black Coffee Beans
World's Top Six Coffee Bean Growing Regions Ranking: Chicco Dro: Since 1949, the Swiss have combined the latest technology with perfect coffee roasting techniques to deliver the most exquisite and delicate coffee flavors to Europe and the global coffee community. Piazza Doro: With 250 years of history as a prestigious European brand, every cup of coffee fully showcases the rich, aromatic flavors of Australian fine roasting.
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