Depending on how lightly it is roasted and brew method, it can be much less bitter and more floral and “bright”. Agree that the average coffee is dark roast and invariably bitter, however.
Could just be changing taste buds. I never made a concerted effort to stop wanting sweet things but in my late 20s I pretty much never made an effort to acquire them on my own. I don’t dislike ice cream but I’ve literally never bought it or any sweets for more than a decade now.
With that change came enjoying bitter tastes more as well.
I’m addicted and I like all of them as long as it doesn’t have sugar. Filter, espresso, mocha, americano, instant, pour over, Arabic, golden and they can be anywhere between 0C and 85C in temperature.
My issue with room temp coffee is that I drink it too fast, lol
The taste that coffee adds to things is great, and the smell is amazing. A bad brew tastes like bitter dirt water and has the same effect on your stomach. I’ve never had a good black brew in my life.
I do love me some coffee milk, but at that point we are right back to coffee adding flavor to things, not being good itself.
the caffiene makes it bitter, people seem to like the cafestol, if they using unfiltered coffee, which apparently not good for you. its definitely acquired taste, i did not like it when i was still college, when i drank a stronger for first time.
The crema on top of espressos is also worth mentioning. If you get a big cup of strong coffee from espresso machine and remove the foam from the top it tastes waaaaay less bitter.
Coffee
I get it, it’s an acquired taste. But I sure don’t like it.
“acquired taste” = addictive chemical
It’s also bitter, which humans are evolved to dislike. So it literally is an acquired taste, because some people drink decaf.
Depending on how lightly it is roasted and brew method, it can be much less bitter and more floral and “bright”. Agree that the average coffee is dark roast and invariably bitter, however.
Yeah, café coffee is very often stupid strong and dark roast to serve the addicts that crave bitter (like me)
Could just be changing taste buds. I never made a concerted effort to stop wanting sweet things but in my late 20s I pretty much never made an effort to acquire them on my own. I don’t dislike ice cream but I’ve literally never bought it or any sweets for more than a decade now.
With that change came enjoying bitter tastes more as well.
I mean that’s fair, and there are plenty of foods like bitter squash that some people enjoy a lot with no addictive chemicals (I know of)
But at the same time, I never met a decaf fan who didn’t first like caf
I have no evidence but this has always been my working theory.
It explains why people become so adherent to a specific brand or brewing method.
The same applies to cigarettes.
I’m addicted and I like all of them as long as it doesn’t have sugar. Filter, espresso, mocha, americano, instant, pour over, Arabic, golden and they can be anywhere between 0C and 85C in temperature.
My issue with room temp coffee is that I drink it too fast, lol
This, coffee tastes like arse
The taste that coffee adds to things is great, and the smell is amazing. A bad brew tastes like bitter dirt water and has the same effect on your stomach. I’ve never had a good black brew in my life.
I do love me some coffee milk, but at that point we are right back to coffee adding flavor to things, not being good itself.
the caffiene makes it bitter, people seem to like the cafestol, if they using unfiltered coffee, which apparently not good for you. its definitely acquired taste, i did not like it when i was still college, when i drank a stronger for first time.
The crema on top of espressos is also worth mentioning. If you get a big cup of strong coffee from espresso machine and remove the foam from the top it tastes waaaaay less bitter.