Bitterness and Acidity in Coffee
The purpose of this post is to try and explain the difference between those two terms, as they are often confused. Acidity is perhaps the most often confused term. This is because coffee roasters speaking of acidity actually mean a desirable attribute in a coffee's flavour. To a roaster acidity describes the pleasant brightness a coffee on the taster's tongue. Acidity is similar to the idea of carbonation in a soda. We would not want a flat coffee just as we would not want a flat soda. Similarly, we would not want too much brightness in a coffee; we would...
