Caramel notes are cooked-sugar sweetness — toffee, brown sugar, molasses, maple. They speak to ripe, well-developed coffee and a roast taken just far enough to caramelise the bean's own sugars without scorching them. The friendly middle of the flavour wheel.
Coffeeswith caramel & brown sugar
61
If you spot this in your cup, it tastes like
ToffeeBrown sugarMaple
Want this in your cup?
Use the decision helper to combine this note with how you brew and get a ranked shortlist of origins to buy.
Open the decision helper →