Why Your Coffee Tastes like Blueberries: How Region Affects Coffee Flavor Notes
Have you ever walked through the coffee aisle of your local grocery store and stopped to read about the coffee? You might've noticed that the bags had “flavor notes” of various berries, fruits, foods, chocolates, etc… At first glance, you might've been confused and thought the coffees were flavored, so you probably skipped over them and moved to something more… normal. Perhaps a normal coffee-pot-Esque coffee like Folgers or Dunkin’. What if I told you those coffees aren’t flavored, but instead those coffees are high-quality beans from certain regions of the world, and the flavor notes (similar to the subtle flavor notes of wine) are various subtle tastes that come out in the cup of brewed coffee, mostly dependant on how/where the coffee was grown and processed.
Different Region = Different Flavor Notes
Once again making the comparison to wine - you might like a Sauvignon Blanc from New Zealand and dislike its counterpart from California. They are the same type of product, but because of the region and where the grapes were grown and processed, the flavors you get out of them are of stark…