Tasting Coffee Like a Pro
Stop settling for 'just a cup of joe' and start identifying the hidden notes of fruit, chocolate, and spice in every sip. Learn the professional techniques used by tasters to evaluate quality and find your perfect roast.
Like Duolingo, but for Tasting Coffee Like a Pro. Tomo turns the whole topic into a game you play five minutes a day, until it actually sticks.
A short one: 12 levels across 2 sections, about 24 minutes end to end, roughly 5 days at five minutes a day. It moves through Waking Up Your Palate and Mapping the Flavor. It starts from scratch.
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Key ideas in Tasting Coffee Like a Pro
- Coffee beans are the seeds of a cherry-like fruit
- Bitterness is a flavor sensation caused by over-extraction or dark roasts
- Fruit-like tartness is a natural characteristic of the seed, not a defect
- Strength refers to the concentration of coffee solids in the water, not how bitter it feels
- Dark roasting often hides these natural fruit flavors under a 'burnt' taste
- A light, fruity coffee can have just as much caffeine as a bitter, dark one
- Recognizing coffee's origin as a fruit seed rather than a generic bean
- Distinguishing between bitterness and strength
- Acidity in coffee is felt as a lively, tingling sensation on the tip and sides of the tongue
- Body is the physical weight or texture of the coffee on the tongue
- Positive acidity is often compared to the 'snap' of a fresh apple or citrus
- Light-bodied coffees feel watery or like tea
- Brightness is the term used to describe pleasant, refreshing acidity
- Heavy-bodied coffees feel thick, coating the mouth like syrup or cream
- Identifying positive acidity in a tasting context
- Categorizing coffee by mouthfeel/body
You've tried the other tabs
Thirty open tabs. Four facts you actually kept.
You watched. You nodded. By Sunday it was gone.
One answer, then back to scrolling.
Eight weeks. You meant to finish. You didn't.
Tomo gives Tasting Coffee Like a Pro the Duolingo treatment: levels, streaks, and quick quizzes that test what you just learned. That game loop is what the tabs above never had, so it's the one you actually finish.
Here's what playing it feels like
A real question from this course. Take your best guess.
What is the most likely cause of a harsh, bitter sensation in your cup?
Get it right to open this lesson and 11 more in the app.
Where Tasting Coffee Like a Pro takes you
- 1
Waking Up Your Palate
- Beyond the Bitter Barrier
- The Mechanics of the Slurp
- 2
Mapping the Flavor
- Navigating the Flavor Wheel
- Connecting Taste to the Bean
2 sections · 4 units · 12 levels. Built to play, not to enroll.
Tomo is in ChatGPT
Tomo is also a ChatGPT plugin: the same playable courses, built and played inside your chat.
Add Tomo to ChatGPT- What to ask
- “Make me a Tomo course on black holes.” “Turn this chat into a Tomo course.”
- What you get
- Quick questions with instant feedback, hearts and stars, ready to play in about a minute.
- Where it goes
- No sign-up to start. Connect your Tomo account and your streak carries on in the app.
You pick the voice
Tasting Coffee Like a Pro is taught in the The Professor style: clear, structured, thorough. Want a different feel? In the app you can spin up the same topic in any of Tomo's teaching styles. Same facts, totally different vibe.
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Start Tasting Coffee Like a Pro today.
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