Recently switched to black coffee for a few weeks. I’ve had sour, bitter notes from the office coffee machine and a chain cafe.
I’ve also had salty aftertastes from Starbucks and a small one person run shop.
Basically I have no idea what good black coffee taste like.
Just trying to do intermittent fasting and have no calories in the morning, any tips?
It varies a whoooole lot depending on preparation and beans but I’ve certainly had somehow sorta salty tasting coffee. One bagel place I used to go to every morning had especially bad, salty tasting coffee from the bitterness. I was tired one morning and accidentally used salt instead of sugar, forgot I had added anything except creamer, and didn’t think about how salty the coffee was until 3/4 of the way through it because of the aftertaste.
Usually pour over is far less bitter, the French press coffee I make isn’t salty at all but is bitter, moka pot coffee I make is neither bitter nor salty.
Coffee usually has no sodium in it so it isn’t literally salty, probably just the bitterness, or it’s just from the water source.
Some people put salt because it’s supposed to get rid of the bitterness of some coffee so maybe those shops were doing that if they didn’t have good beans or something