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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…]
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…]
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…]
The Basic Process of Coffee Tasting | How do you properly taste coffee? What are the steps in coffee tasting? How do you describe the flavor of pour-over black coffee?
For more specialty coffee knowledge, please follow our WeChat official account: FrontStreet Coffee. Tasting coffee is like tasting wine—when we savor a cup of specialty coffee, we naturally aspire to discern its flavors and express them. Since many of our readers have given feedback about coffee tasting-related [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…]
如何评判一杯咖啡的优劣？从研磨萃取到风味口感的全方位品鉴指南
一杯好咖啡的诞生，离不开恰当的研磨与萃取，更离不开品鉴者敏锐的感官。本文从研磨粗细与萃取方式的对应关系入手，梳理好咖啡的核心标准——新鲜、干净、口感舒服，并系统解析嗅觉、味觉与口感三个维度的专业描述词汇。无论你是刚入门的爱好者，还是寻求进阶的品鉴者，都能从中找到实用的参考。前街咖啡始终致力于推广专业的咖啡品鉴知识，希望这篇文章能帮助你更懂杯中风味。 [more…]
Flavor Characteristics of Pour-Over Coffee | How Can Coffee Beginners Taste a Cup of Pour-Over Black Coffee? From Which Aspects Should You Describe the Flavor of Single-Origin Coffee?
Introduction: Tasting coffee is like tasting wine. When we savor a cup of specialty coffee, we naturally have the desire to discern its flavors and express them. How should one taste a cup of coffee? This question can be broken down into two aspects: one is about the process of tasting coffee, and the other is about the perspective from which to approach [more…]