What Does Coffee Taste Like?

Good coffee has a natural sweetness that is complemented by refreshing acidity, that taste fruity. You can also find nutty flavor like chocolate or walnut when caffeine started kicking in. Scientists believe there are over 100 chemical compounds inside a cup of coffee, that’s why the flavor have just a wide range of taste.

The specialty coffee bean in the Taste trio set

In this Trio set, we select 3 coffee that represent 3 major taste profile of speciality coffee – fruity, sweet and nutty. Through tasting them, you can have a basic understanding on how to connect your sensory to the vocabulary that used to describe the flavors.

• Fruity: Kenya Kirinyaga Kainamui Peaberry
• Sweet: Colombia Cauca Inza Vereda Project
• Nutty: Nicaragua Mierisch Family Finca Los Placeres Javanica

3 bags in the box. 100g Each. All freshly roasted while order received.
Price: HK$280/set, including FREE devliery

What kind of coffee tasting experience are you going to have?

Fruity

Fruity taste is naturally found in coffee beans, which contain acid compounds. When we taste citrus fruits such as lemons, orange or tangerine, it’s because of the citric acid found in the bean that makes us correlate the flavor to the fruits. Fruity coffee usually come from higher altitude growing region with volcanic soil, the acidic content will be richer. And it’s usually roast light. We pick a Kenyan coffee to represent fruity, famous for it’s signature berry flavor. Try looking for the black current, tastes like our child favorite drink – Ribena利賓納.

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Sweet

Contrary to most people think, coffee can have a hint of sweetness. We are not talking about adding sugar to the cup, sweetness are naturally found in roasted coffee beans. Together with other compounds, the sweetness side of the coffee will remind you flavor like honey, caramel, maple syrup, brown sugar, vanilla and even chocolate. Looking for sweet notes, American coffee are a prime place to start. We pick a Colombian to speak for sweetness coffee. Try looking for the honey flavor, it’s really sweet, in particular cooling a bit.

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Nutty

Can coffee taste nutty, not just purely bitter? Certainly. Try not to drink too dark roast coffee, you can immediately taste nutty flavors like almonds, hazelnuts, walnut, dark chocolate, etc. It’s a direct result of how plant seeds being roasted, these nutty flavors should be quite easy to identified. We pick a Nicaragua coffee which nutty taste like dark chocolate, walnut are commonly found. Try looking for the hazelnut taste, the nut inside Ferraro Rocher chocolate 金莎朱古力.

Learn more about the NUTTY taste coffee

Details of the coffee beans

Fruity
Key Coffee Taste Note: Blackcurrant
Origin: Kenya
Region: Kirinyaga
Producer: Kainamui station, New Ngariama FCS
Altitude: 1300-1900m
Cultivar: SL-28, SL-34, Ruiru-11
Processing: Washed
Roast Level: Light

Sweet
Key Coffee Taste Note: Honey
Origin: Colombia
Region: Cauca
Producer: Inza Vereda Project, Sweet Maria’s
Altitude: 1750-1900m
Cultivar: Bourbon, Caturra, Catuai, Typica
Processing: Washed
Roast Level: Medium

Nutty
Key Coffee Taste Note: Hazelnut
Origin: Nicaragua
Region: Matagalpa
Producer: Finca Los Placeres, Mierisch family
Altitude: 750-970m
Cultivar: Java, Typica
Processing: Natural
Roast Level: Medium Dark