The La Cimbali team enjoy another great London Coffee Festival

Finally, the London Coffee Festival has come to an end. This event is considered the largest celebration of coffee in the world. The next time we will experience the festival again will be on Spring 2016. Rob Ward, La Cimbali’s Coffee Specialist, ran the Mumac inspired Espresso bar and has expressed happiness on the event, especially for the success of the Sensory Science sessions.

The experience started by testing people’s ability to taste primary flavours: salt, sweet, sour and bitter along with Malic (Apple/Pear) – acidity, and Citric (Lemon/Orange) – acidity – was added to the mix of taste test. It was only in one session where the success rate was 100%. Overall, it was less than 40% of the participants who got all the tastes correct.

There was also a demonstration of the effect that aroma has on taste. This is because flavour is actually a combination of mouthfeel and taste. Aroma is the important factor that gives us the characteristics of flavour in coffee.

When the budding tasters moved onto the Coffee Flight Sensory Experience, La Cimbali demonstrated how using technology and different approaches to coffee extraction, they could take one coffee and produce four distinctly different drinks. 

The Ethiopian Limu coffee used changed from a Molasses sweetness with Grapefruit notes in the flat 9 bar espresso, to a more white sugar sweetness soft Grapefruit and Peach pressure profiled espresso. Then they pulled a 300g coffee shot at 8 bar of pressure and chilled it down in an ice bath to create Peach Iced Tea flavour notes. They then finished off with a Syphon Brew with warm Caramel sweetness, which produced a real journey of flavours.

Rob says, “It really was a great four days and on behalf of the La Cimbali team I would like to say thank you to everyone who visited our Espresso bar, and for all of the compliments we received on both our Mumac museum inspired bar design, and of course our great Espresso coffee creations! Plus, a big thank you to the four independent roasters/baristas who were the winners of our recent competition – Dark Woods, Climpson & Sons, Hope & Glory and Celeste Wong #thegirlinthecafe who all did a fantastic job operating our M100 HD coffee machines, both at the main stand and on our Espresso Pit Stop Cart.”

What’s next for La Cimbali?

Caffe Culture is an upcoming event where they will be supporting and sponsoring the Coffee in Good Spirits competition. The M100 coffee machines and Magnum On-Demand grinders will once again make their appearances during the event. This event will showcase the team-up of Bar Tender and Barista so they will be able to create an alcohol-inspired signature drink.

For more details visit: www.caffecultureshow.com