Coffee Taster’s Flavor Wheel is a tool to help discover each standard flavor of coffee in the most accurate and simple way, for researchers or anyone who loves coffee. Coffee Taster's Flavor Wheel was first published in 1995, in the SCAA coffee guide, is considered one of the coffee industry's iconic resources and has become an industry standard for more than two decades.
In 2016, Coffee Taster's Flavor Wheel was updated in partnership with World Coffee Research. Today, the Coffee Taster's Flavor Wheel poster is present in most tasting rooms around the world and has become a typical backdrop for professional coffee training courses. - An Thai Group
Why do we need Coffee Taster's Flavor Wheel?
First: Find out the flavor of coffee
For those who are not experts, or drink coffee as a habit, people can completely distinguish coffee from other drinks. Milk tea is different from juices, carbonated soft drinks, wine is not like beer, coffee is not like tea. However, in addition to bitterness, coffee also has other flavors that are difficult for us to recognize. Because each coffee bean is a combination of thousands of flavor structures, through the roasting and grinding process, they also change and create other complex compounds. Coffee Taster's Flavor Wheel will help you receive each flavor penetrating your palate and passing through your throat by starting from the most basic flavor.
Second: Name each flavor correctly
Coffee varieties and types are extremely diverse in nature. They are widely distributed on most continents. And depending on the regional conditions, climate and soil, they create their own identity in the place where they grow and develop: Kenyan coffee will not be the same as Indonesia, Costa Rica will be different from Ethiopia or Tanzania,... or even Even in Vietnam, coffee in Da Lat and coffee in Buon Ma Thuot are also different. These factors create the diversity and complexity of coffee, and defining each flavor is not really simple. Coffee Taster's Flavor Wheel summarizes research and develops it into a tool to help people classify and name what you are feeling. More information: Developing specialty coffee: OPPORTUNITIES AND CHALLENGES More information: An Thai Vietnam – Original taste After more than 25 years, Coffee Taster's Flavor Wheel is much different: we have a flavor wheel and a vocabulary system. All are the result of years of collaborative work, based on a combination of science, research, industry knowledge and design. Reference source:- https://primecoffea.com/cach-su-dung-vong-tron-huong-vi-ca-phe-coffee-tasters-flavor-wheel.html
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