After being regular to Starbucks at KNK road, Chennai for the past couple of weeks, I was invited by Nisha, one of the service provider for a coffee tasting session at Starbucks.
She was explaining me the coffee tasting process. The process has 4 steps.
1. Smell
2. Slurp
3. Locate
4. Describe
Now each step in detail...
1. Smell: The first and foremost step before smelling and tasting the coffee is to drink a cup of water, so that the taste buds gets cleaned and cleared, thereby making our taste buds to taste the real taste of the coffee.
The coffee mug gotta be hold in a closed position so the aroma doesnt escape away. I could smell an earthly and herbal flavour.
2. Slurp:The starbucks promotes the slurping way of drinking a coffee. Though I am good in slurping a coffee, couldn't do that for quite a long, because of the socio-pyschological reasons that my friends cited . But when Nisha asked me to slurp, I started doing it naturally in an perfect way and she was astonished and also complimented me saying not many people are good at slurping. ;)
Here's the art of slurping. When you slurp, the slurping sound should be heard enough. From the sound one can determine, if they are slurping the best way.
The science part of it. Slurping helps in reducing the temparature of the coffee inside the mouth. It also helps in spreading the aroma all over the mouth.
Dominator: This is the best part. After slurping, she asked me to bite a piece of cookie that was in the tray. She told it was to reduce the bitterness of the coffee I just had tasted, so i can have a refreshing tasting session again.
3. Locate: Now the third step is locating the taste. I could locate the taste of the coffee at the back of the tomgue.
4. Describe. She said that its the service providers duty to describe the coffee after the first 3 steps. Now here goes the description.
The coffee I had is named as "Sumatra". Here is the description of this variety.
Had an awesome coffee tasting session at Starbucks Chennai, the first ever coffee tasting session in my life. And the coffee tasted excellent and I also found an excellent way of tasting a coffee and drinking it.
I thanked Nisha and left the cafe.
She was explaining me the coffee tasting process. The process has 4 steps.
1. Smell
2. Slurp
3. Locate
4. Describe
Now each step in detail...
1. Smell: The first and foremost step before smelling and tasting the coffee is to drink a cup of water, so that the taste buds gets cleaned and cleared, thereby making our taste buds to taste the real taste of the coffee.
The coffee mug gotta be hold in a closed position so the aroma doesnt escape away. I could smell an earthly and herbal flavour.
2. Slurp:The starbucks promotes the slurping way of drinking a coffee. Though I am good in slurping a coffee, couldn't do that for quite a long, because of the socio-pyschological reasons that my friends cited . But when Nisha asked me to slurp, I started doing it naturally in an perfect way and she was astonished and also complimented me saying not many people are good at slurping. ;)
Here's the art of slurping. When you slurp, the slurping sound should be heard enough. From the sound one can determine, if they are slurping the best way.
The science part of it. Slurping helps in reducing the temparature of the coffee inside the mouth. It also helps in spreading the aroma all over the mouth.
Dominator: This is the best part. After slurping, she asked me to bite a piece of cookie that was in the tray. She told it was to reduce the bitterness of the coffee I just had tasted, so i can have a refreshing tasting session again.
3. Locate: Now the third step is locating the taste. I could locate the taste of the coffee at the back of the tomgue.
4. Describe. She said that its the service providers duty to describe the coffee after the first 3 steps. Now here goes the description.
The coffee I had is named as "Sumatra". Here is the description of this variety.
Had an awesome coffee tasting session at Starbucks Chennai, the first ever coffee tasting session in my life. And the coffee tasted excellent and I also found an excellent way of tasting a coffee and drinking it.
I thanked Nisha and left the cafe.
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