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I find it interesting that you refer to "black tea" as a taste around 9:16. Coming from high end tea and diving into coffee, tasting "black tea" can be as nuanced as coffee (arguably more). However, interestingly when tasting teas I also used "like coffee" without much nuance to describe taste and aroma. Goes to show that we like to aggregate tastes and aromas that we haven't specialized in. I'm sure somewhere there's professional apple tasters chuckling at tea/coffee tasters describing their beverages with wordings like "a hint of apple". Like you said, food is memories. A surprisingly profound insight. I recently tasted fresh mangosteen for the first time when traveling Asia and it reminded me of a tea I drank a long time ago that I had just described as "kind of fruity". I guess the takeaway here is that consciously tasting more food and beverages is a virtuous circle that makes the experience even more fun the more you try.

Probably my favorite video of yours yet! I would love more content like this, it really complements your gear reviews so that us home coffee enthusiasts can really understand what you're saying when you're reviewing grinders. I would be interested in how taste preferences differ between professionals and home enthusiasts. I know that in wine, sommeliers tend to really like super high acidity wines, like dry rieslings,  since they're really refreshing after tasting heavy wines all day, whereas people at home might like something different because they don't need to refresh their palette

I was a sensory judge for brewers cup prelims for the first time last month and this video resonated a lot with everything I learned to express the cup experience. Great video!

when I was a barista and we'd open in the morning I started off by getting other baristas to help me dial in. I eventually got used to the taste of what they wanted and got used to dialling in to that taste but after watching your video, I know my palette wasn't developed enough to really understand why it was good or bad.

The channel really skyrocketed in terms of production. Camera, lighting, audio, everything is perfect.
Props for these intros, so fun and professional looking. Keep it up Lance :D

I have enjoyed coffee since I was a teen, but until recently I had never experienced the true complexity of a great coffee that has been brewed with skill and care. I appreciate your insight as it has helped me learn a lot about making myself and my loved ones a great cup of coffee. The only downside I have experienced is that it has set my expectations much higher when I go out and get a coffee from a local coffee shop.

Great video! I'm "just" a home barista. Luckily nobody in my circle is too versed in coffee😊 They think my coffee is the best coffee😂

When Lance teaches, the world listens 👌

Hi from Malaysia! The term "Fidelity" is definitely a useful one when describing taste, thanks for bringing that up and kudos to Shotwell for coming up with it!

I'm a fairly new coffee nerd so this was super helpful. But the thing I can't seem to wrap my mind around is describing coffee flavor as various food items. I've been assiduously utilizing high-quality beans, purchased from many of the distributors used in these videos, an 1zepresso k-ultra dialed in properly, and a V60 for months now. These upgrades have made my coffee experience 1000% better in recent months. But still, never do I think, "Wow, this coffee tastes like stonefruit, or pineapple, or molasses, etc. To me it just tastes like high-end coffee. I can understand describing different brews with terms like "sour, bitter, strong, sweet, etc" but citing specific foods doesn't make sense to me. What am I missing here?

This cleared things up for me.

Thanks for making the characteristics of coffee much more relatable. I especially enjoy your randomness as you relate ideas and concepts to the audience.

That apple bite made my day.

Another great video!!! Maybe next another brew recipe and explanation? Thx lance

Super helpful.  Never understood the tasting notes as I thought they literally tasted apples or blueberry pie.

Thank you for explaining what people mean when they try coffee and immediately start going on about "I'm getting lemon, apple" etc. I think not understanding that is one of the biggest things that gives this field a pretentious air and drives people away, especially when people literally say "I'm TASTING apples" or something, like the coffee magically transformed into a different drink in their mouth that other people can't taste. That poorly communicated gets people who don't get what they're trying to communicate to get immediately pushed away since it sounds insane.

Ty for clarifying how caffeine amount works in dark and light roast love your videos

Doing the Lords work bridging the gap between home consumers and professionals.  Amazing video Lance! qq, what scale did you use in the very beginning of the video? Thank you!

Thanks for this video.  It was SUPER informative as well as entertaining.  Love the b roll.  Thank you for educating.