Where coffee is grown affects its flavor. Home Grounds looked into the flavor profiles of coffee from 10 different regions, drawing on coffee experts, news reports, and other sources.

During our video call, I noticed that behind Hendon’s desk hangs a poster of The Coffee Taster’s Flavor Wheel, a tool used by serious coffee enthusiasts to pick out delicate tasting notes.

In 2018, coffee researcher Fabiana Carvalho found that coffee in a pink mug makes it taste sweeter, Sprudge reported. The rounder the cup, the sweeter the taste as well, she also found.