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Why Does Pour-Over Coffee Have a Bitter Taste? Coffee Bean Roast Level and Brewing Techniques Causing Coffee's Astringency
Professional coffee knowledge exchange For more coffee bean information Please follow Coffee Workshop (WeChat official account cafe_style) Introduction Teacher Huanai Han once said: "Coffee oils and colloids create a smooth mouthfeel in the mouth, while coffee's polyphenol compounds produce a rough astringency, like having a devil's tail, running wild in the mouth, creating discomfort." If in wine
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Causes and Solutions for Green and Bitter Tastes in Pour-Over Coffee Brewing - Recommended Coffee Beans That Aren't Astringent
While coffee richness may not be immediately apparent, unpleasant sensations like sandy, rough astringency are easily detectable. Therefore, we need to understand and prevent such occurrences. As FrontStreet Coffee has mentioned in previous articles, astringency is not a taste but rather a mouthfeel
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Is it Normal for Coffee to Taste Astringent/Bitter? How to Solve Over-Extraction in Pour-Over Coffee?
For most people, while we may rarely agree on the flavor profile of a coffee, when it comes to noticeable astringency or bitterness, we can all detect it immediately from the first sip. At FrontStreet Coffee, we frequently receive messages from our readers, many of whom inquire about these unwelcome flavors in their brews.
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How to Fix Astringency in Pour-Over Coffee | Tutorial for Adjusting Coffee-to-Water Ratio, Temperature, and Time
Introduction Sour and astringent tastes are unpleasant sensations that most people dislike. When a cup of coffee has a sour and astringent quality, it creates discomfort. This barista training guide will explore the possible reasons why pour-over coffee develops astringency. Where does the astringent sensation come from? Strictly speaking, astringency is not a taste but a mouthfeel that manifests as
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How to Eliminate Bitter Astringency in Coffee | Is There Astringency-Free Coffee? Why Your Home-Brewed Coffee Tastes Astringent
Professional coffee knowledge exchange. For more coffee bean information, please follow Coffee Workshop (WeChat public account: cafe_style). Coffee oils and colloids create a smooth texture in the mouth, but coffee's polyphenol compounds produce a rough astringent sensation. While astringency is an important mouthfeel in wine, when coffee has astringency, it's like having an ugly devil's tail that wreaks havoc in your mouth, creating unpleasant
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The Purpose of Coffee Bloom, The Role of Coffee Bloom, How to Adjust If Coffee Has Astringency?
Professional coffee knowledge exchange. For more coffee bean information, please follow Coffee Workshop (WeChat public account cafe_style). There is a very important but easily overlooked step in the brewing process, and that is the bloom! Generally, astringency mostly comes from the later stages of brewing, and too long extraction time causes astringency to occur, but blooming can still be a source of astringency, and this kind of astringency starts from the very beginning...
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How Should You Brew Pour-Over Coffee? What Factors Affect Pour-Over Coffee?
Professional coffee knowledge exchange. For more coffee bean information, please follow Coffee Workshop (WeChat public account: cafe_style). When brewing coffee at home, even if you encounter unpleasant flavors, you may not understand why they occur or how to make adjustments. Therefore, FrontStreet Coffee recommends recording your brewing parameters and personal observations each time you brew.
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[Image] What to Do When Pour-Over Coffee is Too Bitter? Why Do Coffee Beans Have a Bitter and Astringent Taste?
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Recently, some friends asked FrontStreet Coffee: "I often make pour-over coffee too bitter at home, how can I fix this?" Today, FrontStreet Coffee will explain the reasons why coffee turns out bitter and how to avoid it! Reason One: The flavor profile of the coffee beans themselves tends toward bitterness. Coffee beans have many types of flavor profiles, including fruity acidic coffees, honey-like sweetness
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What Gases Are Released During Coffee Bloom - Coffee Bloom Function - How Much Water for Coffee Bloom
Professional coffee knowledge exchange For more coffee bean information Please follow Coffee Workshop (WeChat public account cafe_style ) Pour-over coffee basically requires: pour-over kettle, filter paper, dripper, thermometer, timer, electronic scale, and grinder. And not only the taste of the coffee beans themselves, but also the water temperature, flow rate, direction, filter paper selection, particle size of the grounds and many other factors will
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What is Coffee Acidity? Why Does Coffee Taste Sour? Is it Caused by Coffee Acidity?
Professional coffee knowledge exchange For more coffee bean information Please follow Coffee Workshop (WeChat official account cafe_style) The source of coffee sour taste The difference between pleasant acidity and unpleasant sourness Coffee acid (English: Caffeic acid) is an organic compound belonging to hydroxycinnamic acid, featuring both phenolic hydroxyl and acrylic acid functional group structures. Because caffeic acid is biosynthesized from plant
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Is Your Coffee Bitter and Astringent? How Does Coffee Grind Size Affect Flavor?
Is your coffee too bitter or astringent? Many people new to coffee assume that bitterness equals richness, and richness equals aroma. When encountering such customers, we patiently explain the various flavor profiles, emphasizing that intensity doesn't necessarily mean good aroma, nor does bitterness equate to quality. However, for someone who has never studied coffee deeply, this flavor wheel provides a fairly comprehensive guide! When coffee enters your mouth, you can truly experience its distinctive flavors. In
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What to do if your pour-over coffee is too sour, too bitter, too strong, too weak, too astringent, too complex, too burnt, or tastes terrible?
For more professional coffee knowledge and coffee bean information, please follow Coffee Workshop (WeChat official account: cafe_style). Pour-over coffee is an experimental science. Although results cannot be completely predicted through theory, theoretical knowledge can improve brewing accuracy and summarize all possible situations.
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Pour-Over Coffee Beginner Notes - Sharing Insights on Coffee Beans, Water-to-Coffee Ratio, Grinding, Water Temperature, Equipment, and Pour-Over Steps
Professional coffee knowledge exchange. For more coffee bean information, please follow Coffee Workshop (WeChat official account: cafe_style). Pour-over coffee tutorials, pour-over coffee videos, pour-over coffee techniques and ratios. I started exploring coffee at the beginning of the year after a friend of my mother gave me a bag of coffee beans. Although I always loved the aroma of coffee, I never enjoyed drinking it. It wasn't until I began experimenting with pour-over that I discovered how wonderful coffee can truly be.
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How Can Coffee Beginners Appreciate the Flavors of Pour-Over Coffee? Is the Tea-Like Sensation in Specialty Coffee Actually Astringency?
Isn't the tea-like sensation supposed to be sweet?
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Costa Rican Coffee Bean Roasting Dehydration - Costa Rican Coffee Bean Roasting Easily Becomes Sour and Astringent
Professional coffee knowledge exchange. For more coffee bean information, please follow Coffee Workshop (WeChat official account: cafe_style). FrontStreet Coffee's Costa Rican coffee roasting curve - Medium roast is the most difficult range to control. Of course, I'm not trying to say that my light roast and dark roast are excellent, but because medium roast has too many possibilities for roasted products, too many overlapping fuzzy ranges, accompanied by extremely small margins in roasting.
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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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Is Your Moka Pot Coffee Bitter and Astringent? The Correct Way to Use a Moka Pot
For professional coffee knowledge exchange and more coffee bean information, please follow Coffee Workshop (WeChat official account: cafe_style). Making delicious coffee with a moka pot isn't difficult. Here are 6 methods to avoid burnt bitterness: 1. Coffee bean selection: Medium-dark roast coffee beans work well with moka pots that use higher brewing temperatures, making them relatively...
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What's the Difference Between Drip Coffee and Pour-Over Coffee? Is Drip Coffee Americano?
For professional coffee knowledge and more coffee bean information, please follow Coffee Workshop (WeChat public account: cafe_style). Currently, the most common drip coffee brewing method is pour-over coffee. Of course, besides pour-over coffee, coffee made using an American coffee machine (drip coffee maker) can also be called drip coffee.
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How to Achieve Great Pour-Over Coffee Flavor and Brew Non-Bitter Coffee
Professional Coffee Knowledge Exchange For more coffee bean information, please follow Coffee Workshop (WeChat official account: cafe_style) Is your coffee too bitter? Too astringent? Many people when first encountering coffee assume that bitter equals strong, and strong equals fragrant. When we encounter such customers, we patiently explain what coffee flavors exist, as strong doesn't necessarily mean fragrant, and bitter isn't always the case, but for someone who has never studied coffee
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How to Detect the Three Signs of Over-Extraction in Coffee by Taste? Where Does Astringency Come From and How to Solve Coffee Over-Extraction?
The first point is that coffee has an overwhelming bitterness. Bitterness is a misunderstood flavor dimension. The world's best coffees still carry a hint of bitterness, typically expressed in notes of dark chocolate, spices, or wood. These lower notes make the taste more rounded, balancing sharper acids and are generally pleasant in a full cup. This is not the type of bitterness we're referring to.
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