As an authoritative coffee flavor orientation map, as long as it is used properly, the new recruits can quickly classify the flavor presented by the coffee, and then cooperate with the practice after learning it, and mastering the coffee flavor is simply a certainty. 
Of course, it's important to understand the coffee flavor wheel in the right way. So, today's small class on Front Street has started! Let's briefly take you to understand how to enjoy this colorful **! 1. Flavor wheel**
The following ** is from SCAA's new (brand-new) version of the flavor wheel using two ancient versions to synthesize a ship, and it can detail 85 analogue flavors, which is 5 flavors less than the old flavor wheel (the old version identified 90 flavors), condensing the negative flavors, and distinguishing more positive flavors.
There are three rings in the flavor wheel, which are divided into the inner ring, the middle ring, and the outer ring. Their relationship is like a table of contents in a book, first finding the types from the inner ring, then finding the difference between the types in the middle ring, and finally subdividing it into each individual with a specific flavor.
As an outline of the kind, the inner ring has nine categories. They are herbaceous plants, acid fermentation, fruits, flowers, sugars, nuts and cocoa, spices, baking flavors, and other categories.
For example, the fruits in the inner ring will be divided into berries, preserved fruits, other fruit genera, and citrus plants. 
Finally, there is the outer ring that is subdivided into individuals, for example, citrus plants in the middle ring will be divided into grapefruit, oranges, lemons, limes and other distinctive individuals in the outer ring. Flowers are special, in addition to various colors of flowers, it also contains black tea, that is, the black tea rhyme in coffee, in fact, it also belongs to the category of flowers. 
When we know the relationship of each ring, we can try to use it to cultivate our senses when tasting food, classify the taste of food according to the flavor wheel, and be able to distinguish the flavor more systematically when drinking coffee.
For example, if you have a sour taste in a cup of coffee, then we will start with the sour taste (inner ring), is it the sour taste of fruit or the sour taste of lactic acid drinks or vinegar?
If it is an acid that points to a fruit, then look for it in the middle ring of the fruit, such as a high acidity and a fresh sour aroma, then it may be citrus. Or if it is sweet and a little sour, then it is likely to be a berry. When you have made a good choice, you can make the final distinction, this acid, which specific flavor it belongs to, such as citrus, orange, grapefruit, in fact, is a relatively obvious difference. Second, color can also become the object of association
Each colour of this flavour wheel has been carefully blended by London-based creative agency One Dernley Road so that people can immediately associate the corresponding figurative flavours when they see the colour. For example, white jasmine, orange orange, pink grapefruit. It is very well associated with color and aroma. For example, we are often able to see some flavor descriptions: white floral. In fact, it refers to an elegant, fresh floral fragrance similar to jasmine.
Then in other categories, the flavors tend to be mostly negative. Therefore, blue, gray, and other colors that don't look like food are used. 
3. Two hidden details of the flavor wheel
The first is the gap from the gap in the outer ring, and we can tell if they are similar by the gap between the two figurative flavors. For example, roses and jasmine, which belong to the same flower category, will be relatively closely spaced and not highly recognizable; Roses and chamomile are far apart because the two flavors are easy to distinguish. From here we can see the similarity of their flavors.
The second is the degree of roasting, in addition to other categories that appear in various degrees of roasting, the flavor arrangement from flowers to sugars is a cycle of roasting degree from light to dark, such as flowers, fruits, acids, these categories are more in the categories of light roasting and medium light roasting; Spices, nuts, baking products, etc., are more likely to appear in the flavor categories of medium, medium, and dark roasts that have undergone caramelization reactions, and sugars have a significant proportion of both. 
Understanding the flavor wheel does not mean that you can learn to drink the flavor of coffee immediately, it can only help you sort out the general connection between the flavors in the coffee. Moreover, we can drink much more flavors, because the flavors of the flavor wheel mostly depend on European and American countries, cultural differences will lead to cognitive barriers in some flavors. For example, the flavor of longan, which we can often feel, is difficult for foreigners to taste.
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