Buy The Coffee Tasting Handbook

The Coffee Tasting Handbook is a practical guide to appreciating and communicating coffee’s distinctive flavours.

With more than 800 aromatic compounds, coffee is rich in flavour. Yet the sheer number of possible flavour combinations can make tasting coffee feel overwhelming. Beneath this complexity, however, great coffees have an underlying structure.

Guiding baristas and coffee drinkers through the tasting process, The Coffee Tasting Handbook introduces the Coffee Tasting Framework. It helps readers identify each coffee’s defining characteristics, understand why some coffees taste better than others, and choose coffees they are more likely to enjoy.

Combining step-by-step guidance, easy-to-follow diagrams and beautiful photography, the book brings together the history of coffee, the science of flavour, and the relationship between taste and terroir. It includes the:

• Coffee Tasting Worksheet
• Coffee Aroma Map
• Coffee Flavour Wheel

The Coffee Tasting Handbook is written for baristas, coffee professionals and coffee drinkers who want a clearer way to understand, describe and enjoy coffee.