How Do I Choose the Best Gourmet Coffee Beans?
Choosing the best gourmet coffee beans requires extensive knowledge about coffee. As with wine, coffee bean connoisseurs use specific terms to define what makes a good cup. Determining the best gourmet coffee beans requires tasting different coffees. One way to experience this is to set up a home coffee tasting, or coffee cupping, to sample various beans. When sipping coffee, consider flavor, body, acidity and aroma. A kitchen table is ideal because it is near a sink where you will rinse each taster’s coffee cup and spoon between varieties. At the grinding position of the table, set up a variety of coffee beans, a coffee grinder, tablespoon and water that is near boiling. Each taster needs a coffee mug, a container to spit tasted coffee into and a large spoon.
