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Floral – Coffee Taster’s Flavor Coffee

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Coffee flavours are depicted on the flavour wheel through colour ranges. This is key to identifying and forming memories about colours and flavours. For example, your brain will automatically think of green and yellow if you think of oranges and lemons. That is right, and it’s the easiest way for you to practice your coffee taste.

This article will focus on exploiting a light, romantic colour palette – Floral – Coffee Taster’s Flavor Wheel. This is a collection of fragrances with fresh flowers’ light, sweet scent.

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Describe the floral aroma in coffee

 

Floral aromas in coffee are highlighted by specific layers of flower groups such as jasmine, rose, chrysanthemum, etc. These are flowers with very distinct aromas.

According to the sensory vocabulary, “Floral” refers to fresh flowers’ sweet, gentle aroma. Not only generally describing the floral aroma, but researchers have also shown that there are many adjectives that properly and specifically describe this aroma property in coffee. You can see officially discovered notes: rose, burnt flower, tea rose, coffee flower, jasmine, chrysanthemum, hibiscus, and lavender.

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Approaching Western cultures, you can easily recognize the scent of elderflower – a white flower with a sweet fragrance, or flowers of the purple flower genus. These are the familiar scents in the daily memory of the natives here.

 

Expression of flower aroma in coffee

 

Floral seems to express the floral aromas of coffee beans and berries directly. They sometimes appear as pure expressions of fragrance, like the jasmine of the coffee flower itself. Those with a new coffee experience can often recognize the floral aroma in a cup of coffee if they focus on the recollection of white flowers, with varying intensities of the aroma.

The intensity of the appearance of the flower flavour also depends on many factors, including the coffee beans’ preliminary processing and roasting level. One of the distinguishing features of a floral fragrance is its persistent intensity. Even when you roast at the French Roast level, the floral flavour will not disappear but turn to a more vital state. For a light roast level, the nature of the flower flavour will be softer, with a slightly sweet, faint direction.

In Single Origin coffees, flowers often appear as an ingredient with honey-like characteristics. In other cases, the sweetness associated with flowers resembles molasses.

 

Sub-variant of the floral group in coffee: Black Tea

 

Each leading flavour group in the flavour circle is divided into a main groups and subgroups. For the frequency of expression and diversity of the group of floral aromas, black tea is also a distinctive flavour factor that is isolated into a single branch.

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Black tea notes are not sexy and reminiscent but noble and delicate. We will quickly find this flavour in coffee lines from African countries, and a typical example is Kenya.

 

The floral aroma of coffee in growing areas

 

Coffees in Ethiopia are most celebrated for their floral aromas. However, the floral aroma is still present in most Arabica varieties or some well-processed Fine Robusta varieties. Even so, the belief in floral notes is more evident in coffee beans from Africa, especially in southwestern Ethiopia.

In particular, when talking about the Gesha variety, it is impossible not to mention the potential flower notes in each cup of coffee. Gesha is the most successful coffee variety for expressing the identity of a forest of fresh flowers with various intensities.

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Coffee taste is a world to experience with multi-sensory. The coffee experience is not only about sips but also how we perceive the unique flavour identities of the coffee-growing region. The floral aromas in coffee are a pink highlight for the flavour picture. With the mission of giving customers pure flavours, 43 Factory Coffee Roaster is looking forward to experiencing more of those beautiful fragrance colours with you.

  • Source: Jay Arr Coffee, The Queen Been, Not Bad Coffee 
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