The Art of Tasting Coffee
Like Duolingo, but for The Art of Tasting Coffee. Tomo turns the whole topic into a game you play five minutes a day, until it actually sticks.
For the part of you with thirty open tabs that never became anything.
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Key ideas in The Art of Tasting Coffee
- Coffee's aromatic complexity compared to other beverages
- The role of the nose in perceiving coffee flavor
- Slurping sprays the coffee into a fine mist to coat the entire tongue
- Extreme heat can hide the subtle nuances of a coffee
- Aerating the coffee helps release more aromatic vapors into the nasal passage
- Acidity and fruit notes become more apparent as coffee reaches a warm temperature
- Sweetness often becomes more pronounced as the liquid cools further
- The finish can be described by its duration (short or long)
- The purpose of slurping during a coffee tasting
- The finish can have a different flavor profile than the initial sip
- How coffee flavor changes as temperature drops
- Texture, such as a dry or silky feeling, is a key part of the finish
- Defining the finish in a coffee tasting context
- Acidity in coffee is felt as a physical 'zing' or brightness
- Coffee sweetness is subtle and rarely tastes like added white sugar
- Coffee acidity is often compared to the tartness of citrus fruits
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 The Art of Tasting Coffee 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.
If you want to taste the specific 'chocolate' notes in your brew, which part of your body is doing the heavy lifting?
Get it right to open this lesson and 17 more in the app.
Where The Art of Tasting Coffee takes you
Stop just drinking coffee and start tasting it. Learn to identify hidden notes of fruit, chocolate, and spice while discovering how to choose the perfect beans for your palate.
- 1
Your First Intentional Sip
- Sipping with Intention
- 2
Developing Your Palate
- The Language of Taste
- Feeling the Coffee
- 3
Decoding the Bean
- How Roasting Changes Flavor
- The World in a Cup
- 4
The Science of the Sip
- The Mechanics of Extraction
4 sections · 6 units · 18 levels. Built to play, not to enroll.
You pick the voice
The Art of Tasting Coffee is taught in the The Bestie style: your friend who just gets it. 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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