Basic: How to taste coffee

Coffee Tasting def - Coffee cupping, or coffee tasting, is the practice of observing the tastes and aromas of brewed coffee.

Coffee tasting is a professional practice done by Master Tasters, but of course can also be done informally by anyone as a hobby or simply a home interest. Coffee tasting is widely practiced over the entire world and it involves observing the tastes and aromas of coffee, which can be done in many different ways and different places by different people. Very much like wine tasting, coffee tasting has a very simple procedure:

• Inhale the coffee aroma
• Slurp the coffee
• Take it to the back of the tongue

 Coffee is then often spit out and discarded.