“How do you taste citrus in coffee?”
Many friends express envy that baristas can easily tell the specific flavor in coffee. Some friends also said that I can taste the sour taste in coffee, but this is far from the citrus you mentioned. Some friends even said that the flavor and other aspects are all lies.
During his daily surfing on the Internet, Front Street accidentally came across an article titled "Exploring the Nut Flavor in Wine." "Why does wine have a nutty flavor?" This is the first question that Qian Jie, a wine novice, would think of. This is very similar to how coffee novices think about how there is a citrus flavor in coffee.
I won’t go into details here about why wine has a nutty taste. Friends who are interested can go surfing on the Internet by themselves. Most of the flavor of coffee comes from the sense of smell rather than taste. If you have a cold and taste coffee, you can feel the sourness of the coffee, but not the sourness of citrus.
Of course, the sense of smell mentioned here does not mean that you can taste the full flavor of coffee by just putting your nose over it. This sense of smell is divided into prenasal sense of smell and retronasal sense of smell. The front nose is the aroma smelled by directly inhaling through the nose, while the postnasal smell is after drinking coffee. The aroma of coffee rises from the connection between the nasal cavity and the mouth. Generally, the flavor of the drink is due to the postnasal sense of smell.
After sorting out the medium through which we can taste flavors, being able to distinguish specific flavors requires building a flavor library, that is, fruits and other foods that we usually eat, and then establishing a memory point associated with them. For example, with oranges, we can recognize that the taste of oranges is not after eating them, but the aroma of oranges that comes out when peeling the oranges. When eaten, it has a delicious sweet and sour taste. The smell of oranges that can be associated with coffee is the aroma of peeled oranges.
Therefore, if you want to be able to taste the flavor of coffee casually, you might as well think about the memory point of this food when you eat. Especially if you try more fruits, the associated taste memory can help improve your coffee flavor appreciation. A more interesting way to play is to buy fruits with similar flavors and distinguish their tastes horizontally. For example, lime, yellow lemon, orange, orange, pomelo, grapefruit...
Another point is that sometimes the specific food described in the flavor is different from what you understand. The more straightforward one is dark chocolate. For many people, chocolate is sweet, but the dark chocolate described in general coffee refers to chocolate with a cocoa solids content between 70% and 99% and a high purity. The taste is mainly bitter and slightly sour.
There is also a cherry blossom flavor, watermelon flavor, and black currant flavor. I believe everyone is familiar with these three flavors and have tasted them all in chewing gum. The aroma of cherry blossoms in reality is very light, so light that if you squint your eyes, you won’t notice its existence. The most obvious thing about almost all the cherry blossom-flavored foods we come into contact with is not the smell of cherry blossoms themselves;
The same is true for watermelon flavor and blackcurrant flavor. When tasting chewing gum with the description of watermelon flavor, it is obviously different from the watermelon fruit itself. Black currants are black currants. Similarly, black currant juice (soda) is the most commonly encountered in China, which is quite different from the fruit itself. Therefore, we need to clearly understand the difference between watermelon and watermelon-flavored gum, the difference between black currants and black currant soda... Finally, there will be no confusion in the description of coffee flavor.
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
