How do you describe the flavor and taste of hand-brewed coffee? Where can I learn coffee sensory courses in Guangzhou?

If a $20 cup of American coffee and a $68 cup of hand-brewed coffee were in front of you, would you taste them in the same way?

In many cases, our taste orientation is not the pure taste, but the value behind it. A cup of hand-made coffee may be able to say 3-4 flavors, a cup of American, there may only be good and bad.

Maybe you will ask Qianjie how to taste a cup of coffee? Qianjie can say that you can first feel its dry and wet fragrance, then taste its acidity and sweetness, feel its body with the tip of your tongue, and finally enjoy its aftertaste.

However, after all, this is only a methodology, and it is impossible to understand its meaning, and it is not satisfactory to exercise this method bluntly.

How to taste a cup of coffee, Qianjie is more inclined to understand this question as "how to enjoy a cup of coffee"! Just as most people's sensory "hardware" is not very different, everyone can taste sweet, sour, bitter and salty. The only difference is that different acquired experiences lead to different levels of sensitivity to taste.

For example, people who are high in salt and sugar for a long time will feel slightly less salty and sweet. This is the same kind of food. Some people feel very salty, while others think it is moderate. Long-term tobacco and alcohol habits will also lead to a decline in taste.

Leaving aside these hardware problems, what is left is the question of software, that is, whether there is a deviation in the taste buds' perception of taste transmitted to the brain through the nerve. This kind of problem is easy to solve, such as red wine tasting class, coffee sensory class, in essence is to let students really understand the taste of red wine or coffee, so that sensory awareness to the same channel.

Whether it is "hardware" or "software", Qianjie believes that the most important thing is heart, or attitude. Some people may say that this is a very empty thing. But just imagine, when you just eat, you are simply filling your stomach, or you are still feeling the taste of the food. When eating Sautéed Chicken with Lemon, have you ever thought about citronella or lemon leaves?

This is the attitude towards food, if you are keen to feel the taste of every kind of food, then evaluating a cup of coffee is like a bag for you. If you don't have this habit, you might as well start with your dinner and feel the taste of the food before learning to taste the coffee.