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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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What Causes Coffee's Aftertaste? Where Are Taste Buds Distributed on the Tongue? Why Does Water Taste Sweeter After Drinking Coffee?
"It's not an exaggeration—try it yourself, after drinking coffee, water really becomes very sweet!" This was what a customer friend said when visiting FrontStreet Coffee's store yesterday. FrontStreet Coffee found it very interesting, so today let's discuss this question. Sometimes, when we taste certain coffees (espresso, single-origin)
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Why Can't I Taste Coffee Flavors? How to Enhance Your Sensory Judgment of Coffee Taste
Professional coffee knowledge exchange. For more coffee bean information, please follow Coffee Workshop (WeChat public account: cafe_style). Introduction: Beginners in single-origin coffee often share the same confusion: while tasting the same cup of coffee, baristas can detect strawberry-like acidity and rose fragrance... but you can only taste sourness and bitterness, missing all other flavors! Is your tongue too...
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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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【Coffee Tasting】Developed Senses are the Best Respect for Coffee (Part Two) | Coffee Workshop
Professional barista exchange please follow Coffee Workshop (WeChat official account cafe_style) One of our regular customers, Xiao Pang, started coming to our shop for coffee last year. His sensory abilities are excellent - he always shares the flavors he tastes and the coffee aroma with us, and he also points out our shortcomings. Sometimes he even brings delicious treats for us to try. FrontStreet Coffee's team members all really
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Three-Step Coffee Tasting: Aroma, Flavor, and Aftertaste
Professional coffee knowledge exchange. For more coffee bean information, please follow Coffee Workshop (WeChat official account: cafe_style). Many enthusiasts encounter this situation: I buy a bag of beans with citrus and peach flavors, but I can't taste them. Then I wonder if it's the beans' problem or my own brewing method.
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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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How Beginners Can Learn to Appreciate Single-Origin Coffee: How to Describe Pour-Over Coffee's Flavor Characteristics
Specialty coffee has evolved over many years to form a scientific system, from cultivation and processing at the green bean level, to roasting, and then to brewing and tasting, all of which have comprehensive knowledge frameworks. The improvement in green bean quality, roasting, and brewing ultimately aims to provide us with a better experience during coffee tasting.
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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 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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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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Why Can't You Taste the Flavors on the Coffee Bag? How to Appreciate Pour-Over Coffee Flavors?
The colorful flavor descriptions on coffee bags always attract most beginners, who happily order a corresponding coffee! However, once you take a sip, you might discover it's not quite what you expected? Even though the flavor description clearly says citrus and pineapple, why do you only taste acidity when drinking it? Could it be that these flavor descriptions
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Have You Experienced All Five Basic Tastes of Coffee: Sweet, Sour, Bitter, Salty, and Umami?
Professional coffee knowledge exchange. For more coffee bean information, please follow Coffee Workshop (WeChat public account cafe_style). The basic tastes of coffee are divided into sweet, sour, bitter, salty, and umami. Below, FrontStreet Coffee will introduce these five basic tastes.... [Sweet] Typically, we use [sweet] to describe the taste of sucrose, commonly known as sugar, which is universally recognized as delicious. Although sugar is the purest form of sweetness
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Step-by-Step Guide to Coffee Tasting! The Universal Formula for Coffee Tasting! How to Drink Pour-Over Coffee? What Are the Five Steps of Coffee Tasting?
FrontStreet Coffee believes that many friends, when first encountering specialty coffee, might think that coffee shops are gathering places for literary giants. Because whether it's customers in the coffee shop or friends around them, they can always give endless, lengthy descriptions about a cup of coffee. In contrast, when FrontStreet Coffee first started exploring coffee, regarding a cup of
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What are the High, Medium, and Low Temperatures of Coffee? What are the Three Major Standards of Coffee Tasting?
Previously, FrontStreet Coffee mentioned in the article "Does Coffee Have an Optimal Drinking Temperature?" that a complete coffee tasting process requires experiencing coffee from high temperature to low temperature, because the flavor and aroma of coffee continuously change with time and temperature, so our tasting purposes will change accordingly at each stage.
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Tasting Blue Mountain Coffee - How to Savor a Cup, Methods of Coffee Tasting
Drinking coffee should be like savoring a fine wine - only by tasting it slowly can you appreciate its essence. Using a siphon coffee maker will give Blue Mountain coffee a unique charm. First, smell the original aroma of the coffee, then take a small sip to taste the original flavor, then add an appropriate amount of sugar according to personal preference, and stir with a small spoon, taking advantage of the coffee's swirling motion
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How to Taste Single-Origin Coffee: A Guide to Tasting Mandheling Coffee
For professional coffee knowledge exchange and more coffee bean information, please follow Coffee Workshop (WeChat official account: cafe_style). FrontStreet Coffee - Brief Introduction to Single-Origin Coffee Tasting Steps. Mandheling coffee has very rich flavors, aromatic, bitter, and full-bodied, with a hint of sweetness. Since Mandheling coffee beans naturally lack acidic characteristics, they are generally
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Sour, Sweet, Bitter, Salty, Umami: Does Coffee Contain Umami? Why Can't You Taste Umami in Coffee? How to Experience Coffee Flavors?
When describing food flavors—sour, sweet, bitter, salty, umami—our tongues have different taste receptors to detect and distinguish them. However, when it comes to coffee, people generally focus on aspects like acidity, sweetness, bitterness, and saltiness. These four flavors are also the most easily tasted and detected in coffee. As we explore further...
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How to Enhance Coffee Tasting Skills? Introduction to Professional Flavor Expression for Pour-Over Coffee
Have you ever found yourself in this situation? When enjoying a cup of coffee with friends, your friend can eloquently describe endless details about the coffee, while you're left with... "hmmm... this coffee has a rich coffee flavor!" But that's not your expression...
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Sumatra Coffee Tasting Methods: Mandheling Coffee Characteristics, Flavors and Taste Sharing
Professional coffee knowledge exchange, more coffee bean information, please follow Coffee Workshop (WeChat official account: cafe_style). FrontStreet Coffee - Sumatra Coffee Characteristics and Tasting Introduction. Mandheling coffee is produced around Lake Toba in northern Sumatra, Indonesia, and is therefore also known as Sumatra coffee. In the 17th century, the Dutch introduced Arabica coffee seedlings to Ceylon (which is today's Sri
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