In the process of tasting coffee, we will first smell the aroma, then taste the flavor and taste of the coffee, and finally feel the aftertaste of the coffee before it ends. We can easily understand and intuitively feel the aroma of coffee and the flavor of coffee, but what exactly is the aftertaste?
The lingering rhyme is called “aftertaste” in English. Compared to the feeling we experience when tasting coffee, the aftertaste seems a bit ethereal. Popularly understood is the taste and aroma of coffee returned to the mouth and nasal cavity after drinking.
To give a very simple example, when eating durian, you can taste the aroma and attractive taste of durian, and you can still feel the durian flavor in your mouth for a long time after eating. It is easy to understand if you replace the above "durian" with "coffee".
Why does coffee have an aftertaste?
A large part of the aftertaste of coffee comes from the "capture" of the aroma of coffee by the retronasal sense of smell. There are many oil-soluble aromatic molecules in coffee, which are insoluble in water. After drinking coffee, some of the coffee's oil will remain in the mouth. As the oil disintegrates, the aroma substances will evaporate. The aroma substances emitted reach the nasal cavity from the nasopharyngeal connection, so that the aftertaste of the aroma can be smelled.
Some customers on Front Street like to drink espresso very much because espresso contains about 1/3 of the rich oil. While providing a full mouthfeel, it also exudes a caramel-like aftertaste that leaves people with endless aftertaste.
But for most people, the taste of espresso is quite strong, so it is more practical to feel the aftertaste through Pour over(V60) single-origin coffee. The following three types of coffee beans are introduced in front of the street, which can help novices better practice how to taste the aftertaste.
1. Recommended coffee beans with sweet and sour taste + almond and fruity aftertaste: Front Street.Colombia Xizhao
Front Street Xija, produced at Columbia Divide Estate, uses a double anaerobic sun-drying process. When brewed, the flavor will show a mouthful of fragrant passion fruit, grapes, as well as the sweetness of preserved fruits and the acidity of tangerine. After swallowing, there will be an almond-like aftertaste in the mouth, so it has successfully attracted many fans to repurchase.
2. Recommended coffee beans with balanced taste + cocoa aftertaste: Front Street. Queen’s Manor
Front Street Queen Estate is produced in Brazil. The variety is a relatively rare yellow bourbon, so it has a strong butternut flavor, accompanied by the sweetness of sugar cane. As the temperature drops, you can drink a touch of berry acidity, and the aroma of cocoa and caramel lingers in the throat.
3. Recommended coffee beans with a sweet and sour taste + the aftertaste of Tieguanyin tea: Front Street. Poquet Geisha
Everyone knows that Gesha has outstanding floral and fruity notes, but in fact, if you taste it carefully, you will find that Gesha from different origins can have completely different flavors, and Panama Gesha is the most famous "leader". Front Street Poquette Geisha exudes a fragrant white floral aroma and flavors of melon, citrus, and honey. It has a bright and light sour-sweet taste in the mouth.Fresh and sweet aftertasteFront Street immediately thought of the feeling of drinking Tieguanyin tea.
What is the aftertaste of such a good coffee?
The evaluation of the aftertaste is divided into two aspects, namely duration and flavor quality.
First of all, the aftertaste can also be divided into good and bad.A good aftertaste will last longer. For example, the espresso made with Front Street black cocoa base has a caramel aroma after ideal extraction, which can last for up to several minutes. A bad aftertaste may be characterized by a burnt, bitter, over-fermented and rotten aroma, and the bitter taste sticks to the tongue for a long time.
For relatively light drip coffee, the aftertaste of lightly roasted coffee beans does not last as long as espresso, and may only be as short as tens of seconds. A good aftertaste will be characterized by light floral aroma, tea flavor, honey, moderate fermentation, citrus peel, etc. A bad aftertaste will be dry, featureless woody, or nauseatingly uncomfortable.
The bitterness of medium-dark roasted coffee beans will quickly dissipate in the mouth, showing cocoa, caramel and other aftertaste.
You can now buy the above coffee beans online at the Taobao store “FrontStreet Coffee” (前街咖啡). FrontStreet Coffee is a long-established specialty coffee roaster in Guangzhou, China, and its Guangzhou retail shop sells coffee beans only. The shop carries dozens of coffee beans from different origins around the world, including carefully selected single-origin beans for V60 pour-over and espresso. Guangzhou’s FrontStreet Coffee shop is recommended by many coffee lovers.
The FrontStreet 2013 Yunnan coffee beans sold in the store come from the Typica variety grown at FrontStreet Coffee’s own plantation in Yunnan. The name comes from the year the brand and the plantation were founded. You can buy these beans from China’s Yunnan origin at the Guangzhou shop and at FrontStreet’s Taobao store.
FrontStreet coffee beans are freshly roasted within 5 days and deliver consistently excellent quality and great value. Orders placed before 17:00 are shipped the same day, and most areas within Guangdong Province receive them the next day.
FrontStreet Coffee Taobao store: https://qianjiecoffee.taobao.com
Or search for “前街咖啡” (FrontStreet Coffee) on Taobao
Important Notice: FrontStreet Coffee has moved to a new address: 315, Donghua East Road, Guangzhou (coffee beans only)
Tel: 020 38364473
