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With some, yes. The really obvious ones are fruity vs the more aromatic spice flavours. I can't tell regions apart and I'm unlikely to pick up which specific fr
by strken 3y ago
With some, yes. The really obvious ones are fruity vs the more aromatic spice flavours. I can't tell regions apart and I'm unlikely to pick up which specific fruity flavour a coffee is meant to have - stonefruit vs berry or whatever.
The biggest problem I have when trying to run blind taste tests is that different beans behave so differently that it's hard for me, with my low level of skill, to prepare them the same way. I can pack a basket exactly the same with a coffee of roughly the same roast put through the exact same grinder setting and then extract them for the same length of time, but one coffee will consistently come out underextracted for some unknown bean-related reason. In that case you'd just pick up the difference in preparation rather than the flavour of the beans themselves.