Coffee For Everyone: How To Taste Coffee

Want to learn how to really taste your coffee? In this fun guide we break down how to approach tasting, how to brew coffee for tasting, and what exactly is tastable in coffee.
Check out our post on How to Taste Coffee here:
crema-coffee.com/blog/a-simpl...
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0:00 Intro
1:18 Tasting Guidelines
5:22 Brewing Methods
7:02 Very Basic Cupping Tutorial
12:00 5 Characteristics of Coffee and Guided Tasting

[@CremaCoffeeRoasters]

0:00 Intro
1:18 Tasting Guidelines

5:22 Brewing Methods
7:02 Very Basic Cupping Tutorial
12:00 5 Characteristics of Coffee and Guided Tasting

[@mikeandjoyduellman340]

Excellent presentation and it is packed with informative skill sets to learn for tasting coffee! Kudos to the Crema team! Thank you, Joy

[@CremaCoffeeRoasters]

Thanks so much, Joy! Glad you enjoyed it.

[@ggivensjr]

Maggie, very, very good and honest. Easy to follow and even entertaining. I'd take you over James Hoffman any day.

[@CremaCoffeeRoasters]

That is a high compliment! Thanks, George.

[@richterstitcher7936]

Good video. This explains a lot on how to approach coffee. I’m new to this about six months and never heard how to go about tasting coffee. I’d hear so many describe what they tasting but not how to actually approach it. Thank you.

[@CremaCoffeeRoasters]

Thanks, Lynda! So glad it was helpful to you.

[@ggivensjr]

Hi @lyndarichter I enjoyed this very much too.

[@sciencescience9102]

This is GREAT 👍

[@ggivensjr]

My question is why do coffee professionals describe taste attributes that most, especially novice or non professional coffee drinkers, won't be able to taste? Why not keep it simple?

[@CremaCoffeeRoasters]

That's a really great question. We provide taste notes as a reference point more than anything. While not everyone will be able to taste those specific things immediately, they are flavors that we have come across in a particular coffee over and over. So, they are there as kind of guides to one -- help us direct folks to coffees they'll like, and two -- point folks in a flavor direction when they start tasting the coffee.
Some specialty coffee roasters have started changing the way they talk about coffees by using sliding scale descriptors for acidity, sweetness, and body instead of distinct notes. There are a lot of ways to talk about coffee and our goal is always to present our coffees in a way that most honors the labor that went into them from the producers and farmers, to our roasters and the folks brewing it. Which, to us (at this point), means giving a flavor point of reference to help point out the particular experience of nuance and complexity in each coffee.