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What are the negative flavors in coffee?
For the appreciation of coffee, it is also a very important thing to recognize its negative tastes. Although people's perception of positive flavors has come easily, when drinking a cup of uncomfortable coffee, they can only use the general terms suc [more…]
Coffee Flavor Map | How Can Coffee Beginners Train and Build Their Coffee Sensory System? Are Aroma Kits Helpful for Coffee Flavor Tasting?
As coffee has gradually become more widely recognized, specialty coffee promotion in cafés has emerged in response, and we too have begun tracing things back to their roots—we have come to treat coffee as culture. The rise of specialty pour-over coffee undoubtedly reflects the demands of the market and the needs that cafés have identified. Café counters have also begun to lower their "status," no longer featuring the early design of a bar raised a foot high. [more…]
Coffee Flavor Tasting | How Can Coffee Novices Build Their Coffee Sensory System? How Should Coffee Beginners Train Their Coffee Senses Daily?
Coffee today is no longer just a "functional drink" used to wake you up; it is also a medium that holds a wealth of experiences. Thanks to the spread of the concept of specialty coffee, which has brought about a leap in coffee quality, we can now taste the terroir of different places through a single small cup of coffee. For example, [more…]
Cupping Slurp
Cupping is one of the core tasks of coffee industry professionals, and it is a way to help people evaluate coffee flavors and characteristics in a relatively fair and systematic manner. Cupping takes place throughout the entire coffee supply chain, not only at the consumer end in coffee shops, but also at the production end, including mid- and upstream roasteries and places of origin. So how do you perform a cupping? [more…]
Recommended Varieties of Specialty Coffee Beans for Pour-Over | How Should Coffee Beginners Choose Single-Origin Beans for Pour-Over? What Are the Flavor Characteristics of Washed Gedeb, Golden Mandheling, and Panama Geisha When Made as Pour-Over Coffee?
More and more friends are now joining the ranks of pour-over coffee enthusiasts, and with so many coffee beans to choose from, many are once again struggling with choice paralysis. Generally speaking, the coffee beans used for pour-over coffee are single-origin beans. Single-origin beans refer to beans from a single region (from one estate/cooperative, or from multiple estates/cooperatives within a single origin). [more…]
Coffee Flavor Descriptions | What Defects Can Be Found in Single-Origin Coffee Beans? How Can Coffee Beginners Identify Negative Flavors in Coffee?
When learning coffee tasting, most people focus their energy on describing positive flavors. For example, when describing a cup of coffee, they can rattle off "jasmine, lemon, strawberry, caramel, chocolate," but when they taste something unpleasant, they can only say "burnt bitter, muddy, green and astringent." In fact, to learn coffee tasting, [more…]
Coffee Tasting | Is coffee flavor pseudoscience? How do you describe the taste and mouthfeel of a good single-origin coffee? From what aspects should you taste pour-over coffee?
Many customers have told Front Street Coffee that they actually can't taste the flavors in coffee, and even after watching many coffee tasting tutorials, they only "understand it while watching, but don't know where to start when it comes to actually doing it." If this sounds like you, you might want to take a look at some of Front Street Coffee's insights on coffee tasting. Tasting coffee ≠ describing flavors. Many [more…]
SCA Coffee Flavor Wheel Analysis Tutorial | What Is Coffee Flavor? Which Single-Origin Coffee Beans Best Represent Coffee Flavor? How Can Beginners Distinguish Coffee Flavor Characteristics?
Professional barista exchange, please follow Front Street Coffee (FrontStreet Coffee). Many friends have asked Front Street's baristas: "Can you really taste so many flavors in the beans? How do you taste them?" First, this is about personal sensory perception. As everyone grows up, [more…]
Coffee Sensory Tasting | How Can Coffee Novices Learn to Describe Coffee Flavors from Different Angles? How to Properly Develop Coffee Flavor Tasting Skills?
"This coffee has a rich fruity profile, with notes of citrus, lemon, oolong tea, and jasmine!!!" For someone who has just been introduced to specialty coffee, this might sound unbelievable—how can you taste so many flavors in one cup of coffee! (Are they just making it up?) In this installment of Barista Growth Diary, we'll share a little [more…]
Pour-Over Coffee Beginner's Guide | How Should Coffee Newbies Choose Coffee Filters? How Do You Use Coffee Filters? What Types of Coffee Filters Are There?
For professional coffee knowledge exchange and more coffee bean information, please follow FrontStreet Coffee. How to choose coffee filter paper? How to use coffee filter paper? What types of coffee filter paper are there? Many enthusiasts buy their own coffee beans, use a grinder, and purchase equipment to brew coffee, all [more…]
Coffee Bean Resting | Why does coffee need to "breathe" after grinding? Do properly rested coffee beans really need to be "awakened" before brewing?
To achieve good flavor, we should choose freshly roasted coffee beans—this is a consensus we reached long ago. Based on experience, when coffee beans are in the "too fresh" stage (0–2 days after roasting), we "rest" them, meaning leaving them untouched until they have degassed slightly before brewing and extracting, so that the coffee's flavor will [more…]
How to quickly enhance the ability to perceive the flavor of coffee? An in-depth explanation of the use of the flavor wheel.
The flavors emitted by coffee are rich and changeable, attracting countless people to be addicted to it and compete to feel the "glimpse" that stays in the mouth! This also leads to those coffees that are naturally endowed with prominent flavors bein [more…]
SCA Coffee Sensory Evaluation Course | Why Does Pour-Over Coffee Taste Sour or Bitter? How Should Beginners Taste Single-Origin Black Coffee?
“How do you taste citrus in coffee?” Quite a few friends say they envy baristas for being able to casually name the specific flavors in coffee. Some friends also say, I can taste that the coffee is acidic, but that’s far from the citrus you’re talking about. Still others say flavors are all just nonsense. Front Street, in its daily online [more…]
Honduras Coffee Beans | What Coffee Regions Are There in Honduras? What Flavor Characteristics Do Honduran Coffees Have?
Honduran coffee beans were not initially favored by the general public. While the coffees of neighboring Guatemala and El Salvador were making a name for themselves, Honduran coffee farmers were still struggling to survive. Honduras is located in northern Central America, bordered by the Caribbean Sea to the north and the Gulf of Fonseca on the Pacific Ocean to the south, and shares its eastern and southern borders with Nicaragua and [more…]
Espresso Brewing Guide | How to Make Espresso Black Coffee Without an Espresso Machine? Medium-Dark Roast Single-Origin Bean Recommendations for Beginners Using a Moka Pot
Technically speaking, due to functional limitations, a moka pot cannot produce espresso like an espresso machine. However, a moka pot can easily make a freshly ground strong coffee base at home at a lower cost, which can then be turned into a flavorful Americano or latte. And if you want to make rich, aromatic coffee with a moka pot, you need to start with a pack of [more…]
Introduction to the Coffee Cupping Procedure: How to Perform Coffee Cupping and What It Is For
There are many coffee extraction methods, and each one produces coffee with the character of that method. Therefore, an objective method with as little human intervention as possible is also needed to evaluate coffee's flavor or quality, and that method is cupping. Cupping is an immersion-style extraction, with no manual technique intervening during the process to extract [more…]
Yunnan Coffee Drip Bags | Is Yunnan Coffee Acidic? Can Yunnan Small-Bean Coffee Be Used for Drip Bag Pour-Over? Beginner-Friendly, High-Value Single-Origin Yunnan Drip Coffee Bags
No matter which type of drip bag coffee you choose, the prerequisite for good flavor is that the coffee you buy must be fresh, ideally within its optimal flavor period; otherwise, no matter how delicious it may be, you won't truly taste a delicious cup of coffee. Generally, experienced baristas or even enthusiasts can judge how long coffee has been sitting by its smell, but like [more…]
What is a Q-Grader? Is it worth taking the test?
There always is such a group of people who have obtained a code for self-reference due to the particularity of their profession. Even in the seemingly not vast field of coffee, there is also such a profession. After the concept of specialty coffee wa [more…]
Drip Bag Brewing Guide | Is Drip Bag Coffee Instant Coffee? How to Brew Black Coffee with a Drip Bag? What's the Trick to Making a Great Pour-Over Drip Bag?
For friends who love drinking coffee, it can be a real downer when you can't find a good cup of coffee on short notice, so carrying drip coffee bags with you wherever you go, ready to drink anytime, is absolutely the smartest decision. But did you know? Although drip coffee bags are small, the taste can vary hugely depending on quality—from the grade of the beans, their freshness, and the cleanliness of the grinder [more…]
How to Drink SOE Coffee Correctly | Pros and Cons of SOE Espresso Beans and How to Choose Them? How to Use SOE Beans to Make a Delicious Americano?
Recently, SOE espresso has become very popular, and many coffee shops have made SOE coffee a main selling point. Many people also ask Front Street Coffee (FrontStreet Coffee) what the difference is between SOE coffee and blended coffee, and whether SOE coffee is necessarily better tasting than blended espresso. [more…]