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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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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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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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Why Does Coffee Become Astringent and Develop Off-Flavors When It Cools? What Is the Ideal Temperature for Drinking Coffee?
FrontStreet Coffee's store rarely makes pour-over coffee for takeout. Even when customers insist, FrontStreet Coffee's barista will gently remind them, "Coffee is best enjoyed hot. It won't taste as good once it cools." Have you ever experienced this? When taking that first sip of freshly brewed pour-over coffee, you're greeted with wonderful aromas and smooth flavors
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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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Unveiling Coffee Astringency: Distinguishing Astringency from Tea-Like Notes! What Do Tea-Like Notes Mean in Pour-Over Coffee?
Whenever friends hesitate before FrontStreet Coffee's bean menu, FrontStreet Coffee always recommends suitable beans by asking about customers' preferences, directly breaking the "dilemma" of choice difficulty. Then FrontStreet Coffee discovered that besides popular preferences like floral notes, fruit acidity, and nutty chocolate, many friends also appreciate "tea resonance" - a relatively
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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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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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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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What Water to Use for Pour-Over Santa Elena Natural Pacamara Coffee_Why Pour-Over Coffee Tastes Astringent
Professional coffee knowledge exchange For more coffee bean information Please follow Coffee Workshop (WeChat official account cafe_style) Santa Elena Estate story information introduction: FINCA SANTA ELENA Santa Elena Estate is located in the Santa Ana volcanic region in western El Salvador, with an average altitude of approximately 1850 meters, making it one of the highest altitude estates in the area, currently
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Why Does Water Taste Sweet After Drinking Coffee? What's the Connection with Coffee Water, Olfaction, and Retronasal Smell?
Whenever guests visit our shop and sit down to enjoy a cup of coffee, FrontStreet Coffee always serves a glass of plain water for them to sip while waiting for their coffee to be prepared. Interestingly, some customers have asked FrontStreet Coffee after finishing their coffee: "Why does your water taste sweet?" In fact, FrontStreet Coffee only provides ordinary plain water to guests, so why
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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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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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Why is Pour-Over El Salvador Pirineos Pacamara Coffee Astringent_Key Points for Brewing Pacamara
Professional coffee knowledge exchange For more coffee bean information Please follow Coffee Workshop (WeChat public account cafe_style ) Los Pirineos Pirineos Manor Story Information Introduction: Los Pirineos Pirineos Farm Since the 1890s, Los Pirineos Pirineos Farm has been owned by the Gilberto Baraona family. Los Pirineos is located in the Tecapa volcano of Usulutn
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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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Why Does American Coffee Have a Sour Taste? | Is It Okay to Drink Sour Coffee? | Understanding Coffee's Acidity
Professional coffee knowledge exchange For more coffee bean information Please follow Coffee Workshop (WeChat public account cafe_style ) Isn't coffee supposed to be bitter? Why does American coffee have a sour taste? Is it okay to drink sour coffee? People who don't drink coffee often suddenly encounter some specialty coffees and their minds are filled with questions, why! Isn't this thing supposed to be bitter? Why is it also sour!
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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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Guide to Judging Yellow Point and First Crack in Coffee Bean Roasting: What Causes Underdeveloped and Astringent Flavors in Coffee?
As the title suggests, this article by FrontStreet Coffee is primarily aimed at providing mental preparation for those about to enter the world of coffee roasting. In the first five lessons of "Coffee Roasting from Zero," only very basic roasting theories were explained. The simplicity level is roughly equivalent to the "multiplication table" in mathematics. We must recognize a reality that theory...
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Is Coffee Flavor the Same as the Aroma of Ground Coffee Beans? How to Describe Coffee Taste
Professional coffee knowledge exchange. For more coffee bean information, please follow Coffee Workshop (WeChat public account: cafe_style). Introduction: Recently, FrontStreet Coffee's barista was asked by a customer during a conversation: Is coffee flavor the same as coffee aroma? Why can't I smell the flavors described in the tasting notes? Previously, FrontStreet Coffee's article discussed how to improve your judgment of coffee taste. This article continues from the previous one,
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What Are the Effects of Adding Salt to Coffee? What Are the Benefits of Adding Salt to Pour-Over Coffee? Why Can Adding Salt to Coffee Suppress Bitterness?
Whether in the past or present, people have always added various seasonings to coffee. The purpose is not only to balance the bitterness of coffee, but also to obtain a more unique drinking experience. Therefore, ingredients like sugar, dairy products, or various other materials have mostly become commonplace coffee "companions." And just as
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