Tim Ridley: The Coffee Tasting Handbook, Gebunden

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The coffee drinker's essential guide to discovering and appreciating coffee's distinctive flavors - enabling you to buy and enjoy coffee at home and in cafés with confidence every time.

The Coffee Tasting Handbook is the coffee drinker's essential guide to discovering and appreciating coffee's distinctive flavors, to buy better coffee and to enjoy each time.

With 800 possible aromatic compounds, your daily coffee is packed full of unique flavors, but the array of possible flavor combinations can make tasting coffee overwhelming. Beneath the complexity, however, delicious coffees have an orderly structure.

Coffee expert and entrepreneur Tim Ridley introduces his one-of-a-kind 'coffee tasting framework', complete with coffee tasting worksheet, coffee aroma map and coffee flavor wheel, to explain:

• The defining flavor characteristics of each coffee
• Why some coffees are tastier than others
• How coffee drinkers can identify the coffee they will enjoy

With step-by-step guidance, easy to follow diagrams and gorgeous lifestyle photography, The Coffee Tasting Handbook brings together a history of coffee, the science of flavor and the links between taste and terroir.

A celebration of the pleasure of drinking coffee, whatever flavors you favor, this handbook is the essential purchase for any coffee lover.