If you couldn’t see this one coming, you may have missed the oh so subtle hint in the 1st challenge. While the first challenge was to go a whole day with no sugar, feel free to compare and contract black coffee with and without sugar. As your coffee won’t have any of the normal cover-ups, this again might be a little confronting. Your coffee will have nowhere to hide.
Don’t be too surprised if you taste a lot of burnt plastic, bitter, soil-like flavours in your coffee. Cafes that serve what I label as “industrial coffee” generally will have one or all of these characteristics. If you want to make it easier on yourself, find a cafe that has single origin coffee as their black coffee alternative. Generally single origin coffee will be roasted a little lighter to highlight the individual characteristics of the specific coffee.
| Goal: | Go a whole day with no milk in your coffee |
| Key points: | Take the opportunity to step outside your normal regiment. Try an espresso, a long black or even a filter coffee. |
| Challenge level: | Moderate |
| Questions: | Did you notice the difference? Did the coffee tasted burnt/bitter? Was it a single origin coffee? |
| Bonus Points: | Order the same beverage in both a single origin coffee and house blend. Compare and contrast. |
| Cheats: | If going all black is too much at this point, that’s fine, but try to limit yourself to a macchiato. N.B. A mac is not a piccolo latte. It should be an espresso with only a dot of milk (not a dollop). |
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