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Is Barista Certification Necessary? An Article Understanding the Differences Between SCA Certificates and Q-Grader Certification
Is barista certification necessary? This is a question that almost everyone considering or already working in the coffee industry has pondered. With the rapid expansion of the coffee industry in recent years, the demand for coffee enthusiasts and baristas has been increasing, and various types of coffee-related certifications have started appearing on the market.
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What is a Q-Grader in Coffee? Is It Worth Getting Certified? How Much Does It Cost?
There are always groups of people who acquire codenames or professional monikers due to the unique nature of their professions. Even in seemingly specialized fields like coffee, such roles exist. Since the concept of specialty coffee emerged, a dedicated scoring system was specifically developed to distinguish the quality of coffee beans.
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Q-Grader Green Coffee Exam Process and Considerations: How to Identify Defective Coffee Beans
The Q-Grader coffee cupping exam by CQI (Coffee Quality Institute) has long been the most rigorous and prestigious sensory evaluation examination in the global coffee industry. Beyond requiring exceptional sensory capabilities from candidates, this exam also demands fundamental knowledge of coffee basics. Here's an explanation of what to expect.
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"Do you know how valuable baristas are? After all, certification is so expensive!" Are barista certificates really useful?
Recently, we receive many questions about barista certifications daily. As specialty coffee culture gradually becomes part of everyone's life, becoming a barista or opening a coffee shop has become the ideal career/lifestyle for many. But in an era when everyone can make coffee, how do you make your coffee/coffee shop stand out?
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[Yunnan Coffee Origin Program] Why Does FrontStreet Coffee Choose This Most Difficult Path?
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Professional coffee knowledge exchange. For more coffee bean information, please follow Coffee Workshop (WeChat public account: cafe_style). Checking the weather forecast on the phone, it shows that Yunnan will have rainy weather for more than a week starting two days from now. The editor once again embarked on that frequently traveled path from recent years to plant the second batch of Arabica coffee. During these days in Yunnan, I met with several coffee farmers I know, and they...
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Honduras Sherry Coffee Beans Flavor Profile & Highlights Which Honduras Coffee Variety is Best?
For professional coffee knowledge exchange and more coffee bean information, please follow Coffee Workshop (WeChat public account: cafe_style). Devil's water became known to us through its appearance in Q-grader exams (Q-grader: International Coffee Grader, divided into Arabica and Robusta types). The so-called dev
2025-10-03 coffee sensory tools cognition taste devil grader recipe professional -
How Should Coffee Beginners and Enthusiasts Learn Coffee Knowledge and Where to Start
As a coffee beginner wanting to understand coffee, the first step is to explore its flavor variations, which is what coffee enthusiasts focus on. Coffee enthusiasts can follow a point, line, and plane approach to learn coffee knowledge, starting from the points they're most interested in and frequently encounter, such as brewing - how a delicious cup of coffee is made.
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Introduction to Colombia's Coffee Growing Region: Cauca Province Hope Estate
Colombia is a resource-rich country with world-renowned "Four Treasures": coffee, flowers, gold, and emeralds. Coffee stands as one of these treasures, and Colombia is the world's third-largest coffee producer, trailing only Brazil and Vietnam. Colombia's terrain is roughly divided into western regions...
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What is the Future of China's Coffee Industry? How is the Barista Profession Faring in 2023?
For more professional coffee knowledge exchanges and coffee bean information, please follow Coffee Workshop (WeChat official account: cafe_style). For more specialty coffee beans, please add FrontStreet Coffee's private WeChat account: qjcoffeex. The year 2022 passed in the blink of an eye. During this year, many people have witnessed the development of the coffee industry.
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What is SOE Espresso? Must Specialty Coffee Shops Sell Single Origin Espresso?
For professional coffee knowledge exchange and more coffee bean information, please follow Coffee Workshop (WeChat official account: cafe_style). For more specialty coffee beans, please add FrontStreet Coffee's private WeChat account: qjcoffeex (One day in a coffee group chat, someone said, "Some people always feel that coffee shops without SOE")
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Indonesia Bali Premium Coffee Beans_Kintamani Volcano Hidden Coffee_Bali Coffee Price List
Professional coffee knowledge exchange For more coffee bean information Please follow Coffee Workshop (WeChat official account cafe_style ) Indonesia- Bali Coffee Beans Bali is a famous tourist area in Indonesia, an island in the Lesser Sunda Islands east of Java, covering an area of approximately 5,560 square kilometers with a population of about 2.8 million. Bali is located about 1,000 kilometers west of the capital Jakarta, with Jakarta
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How Beginners Can Learn to Appreciate Single-Origin Coffee: How to Describe Pour-Over Coffee's Flavor Characteristics
Specialty coffee has evolved over many years to form a scientific system, from cultivation and processing at the green bean level, to roasting, and then to brewing and tasting, all of which have comprehensive knowledge frameworks. The improvement in green bean quality, roasting, and brewing ultimately aims to provide us with a better experience during coffee tasting.
2025-02-15 single-origin coffee coffee tasting pour-over coffee flavor characteristics specialty coffee beginner guide coffee appreciation -
Shop Yunnan Small Bean Coffee Brands with Caution: 100% Arabica Coffee Beans Are Hard to Find!
Professional coffee knowledge exchange and more coffee bean information, please follow Coffee Workshop (WeChat official account: cafe_style). In an immature market, what's the difference between Arabica and Robusta coffee beans? This has nothing to do with botany, nothing to do with specialty coffee studies, and it's not even related to whether we're drinking a pure Arabica specialty coffee. This is a commercially driven world
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Introduction to Alo Village in Bensa Town, Sidama: What Does Alo Coffee Mean?
FrontStreet Coffee: Ethiopia Sidama AloHatessa Natural Process Coffee Beans Country: Ethiopia Region: Sidama·Bensa AloHatessa Altitude: 2180-2280 meters Variety: 74158 Grade: G1 Processing: Natural Process Flavor: Magnolia, Passion Fruit, Pineapple
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Introduction to Ethiopia's Renowned Coffee Regions | Flavor Profile of Alo Village Coffee with Floral Notes in Sidamo Bensa Area
For coffee enthusiasts, Ethiopia is a sacred destination. This country is the birthplace of coffee and currently Africa's largest producer of Arabica coffee. Ethiopia's terrain is dominated by mountainous plateaus, with most of the country consisting of the Ethiopian Highlands, which cover two-thirds of the nation. The Great Rift Valley runs through the entire country,
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What do SCAA and COE coffee mean? What are the standard differences between COE and SOE coffee?
For more professional coffee knowledge and coffee bean information, please follow Coffee Workshop (WeChat public account: cafe_style). In coffee knowledge, what are SCAA and COE, and what are the differences between them? If you want to drink the best coffee, then you must first understand the most well-known and authoritative coffee organizations in the world.
2023-01-17 coffee knowledge what SCAA COE differences professional