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COE Competition and Coffee Cupping Scoring Standards
Last month, FrontStreet Coffee shared with everyone about the cupping scoring system, in which we briefly mentioned COE. In daily life, the term COE also frequently appears on labels of some coffee beans. This has sparked everyone's curiosity: What is COE? COE, with the full name being C
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What are the Cupping Scoring Standards for Coffee? What Does the SCAA Form Include?
Coffee cupping initially served to ensure that coffee beans entering trade met quality standards. As the concept of specialty coffee emerged over time, a scoring system for beans through cupping developed. Beans scoring below 80 are classified as commercial coffee, while those scoring above 80 are classified as specialty coffee.
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What is Coffee Cupping? What are the Processes and Steps? What are the Standards? How to Score
Professional Coffee Knowledge Exchange For more coffee bean information please follow Coffee Workshop (WeChat official account: cafe_style) What is coffee cupping? What are the processes and steps of coffee cupping? What are the standards? Coffee cupping is the method professional baristas use to evaluate coffee beans, just like wine tasting, where baristas need to assess aroma, acidity, and other qualities.
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CoE Cupping Form Has Eight Scoring Categories | Clean Cup, Sweetness, Acidity, Mouthfeel, Aftertaste, Balance, and More
Professional coffee knowledge exchange. For more coffee bean information, please follow Coffee Workshop (WeChat public account: cafe_style). CoE Cupping Form has eight scoring categories | How are Clean Cup, Sweetness, Acidity, Mouthfeel, Aftertaste, and Balance scored? You often hear specialty coffee honored with the COE distinction. COE is proof of specialty coffee quality, but what about the history and origins of COE?
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Ethiopian Coffee Grading | ECX Classification and Scoring Standards? Yirgacheffe Region ECX Special Selection
For more professional coffee knowledge and coffee bean information, please follow Coffee Workshop (WeChat public account: cafe_style). Ethiopian Coffee Grading | ECX Classification and Scoring Standards? Yirgacheffe Region ECX Special Selection Washed G1 Flavor? Ethiopia Washed Coffee Yirgacheffe G1G2, Sidamo (Yi
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2023 New Coffee Flavor Wheel HD Wallpaper - SCAA Cupping Form & SCA/COE Coffee Cupping Evaluation Criteria Explained
For professional coffee knowledge exchange and more coffee bean information, please follow Coffee Workshop (official account: cafe_style). For a quality-focused home-roasting coffee shop, cupping is the first thing to do after roasting coffee. But do you know what cupping is? What can cupping tell you?
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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.
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What Does G1 Coffee Bean Mean - Classification Standards for Ethiopian Coffee Grades
Professional coffee knowledge exchange, for more coffee bean information, please follow Coffee Workshop (WeChat public account: cafe_style). FrontStreet Coffee - Introduction to Ethiopian Grading System. Ethiopia, known as the birthplace of coffee, as a popular coffee exporting country, has established a unified grading system to categorize its numerous production regions based on specific factors, ensuring consistent standards for import and export. E
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Introduction to Nicaragua COE Coffee Beans_How to Brew Nicaraguan Coffee_How Much Does Nicaraguan Coffee Cost
Professional Coffee Knowledge Exchange For more coffee bean information, please follow Coffee Workshop (WeChat public account: cafe_style) What is COE? What's special about Nicaragua COE coffee beans? Cup of Excellence, abbreviated as COE, is a specialty coffee rating system. Origin of the Cup of Excellence system: To motivate producers to have reasons to grow high-quality coffee, not just because I want to
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Differences Between Yirgacheffe G1 and G2 Coffee Beans - Understanding Ethiopia's Coffee Grading System
Differences between Yirgacheffe G1 and G2 coffee beans: An introduction to the two distinct flavor profile variations. During processing, the fermented beans are placed in pools where they are moved back and forth, utilizing the friction between beans and the power of flowing water to wash the coffee beans until smooth and clean. After washing, the coffee beans remain encased in their parchment with a moisture content of 5%
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Coffee Tasting | How to Identify Single-Origin Bean Flavors Through Aroma Bottles and Cupping
Professional coffee knowledge exchange For more coffee bean information Please follow Coffee Workshop (WeChat public account: cafe_style) Previously, I wrote three issues about beginner coffee tasting steps, and today I'll continue updating Coffee Beginner Level 1 | Ten characteristics of American coffee regions, learning coffee from balanced American beans Coffee Beginner Level 2 | Which beans are more acidic, which are sweeter, recognizing
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FrontStreet Coffee Barista Examination: Understanding FrontStreet Coffee's Random Assessment Tests
Professional coffee knowledge exchange for more coffee bean information please follow Coffee Workshop (WeChat official account: cafe_style) [Preface] Some friends may have noticed that FrontStreet Coffee conducts random assessment tests from time to time. Why do we have these tests? Beyond checking our familiarity with the beans, more importantly, it's to present everyone with a good cup of coffee and enjoy the flavor and story behind each cup.
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How to Evaluate Specialty Coffee? Using Coffee Cupping to Assess the Quality and Flavor of Specialty Coffee
Professional coffee knowledge exchange. For more coffee bean information, please follow Coffee Workshop (WeChat official account: cafe_style). Coffee is one of the most complex beverages we drink, containing more aromatic compounds than wine, with hundreds of aromas and flavors found in coffee. The origin of coffee, the types of coffee beans used, the processing methods of the beans, and the roasting process all contribute to its complexity.
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Professional Barista Training | WBRC Coffee Competition Simulation | FrontStreet Coffee Barista Assessment Process
For professional coffee knowledge exchange and more coffee bean information, please follow Coffee Workshop (WeChat official account: cafe_style). To ensure consistent and stable store production quality, FrontStreet Coffee baristas occasionally conduct internal assessments as a reference for daily production evaluation, primarily examining baristas' communication skills and knowledge of coffee beans through explanations of bean [origin information], brewing methods used, and flavor characteristics.
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Yirgacheffe Coffee Bean Grading Standards, Variety Characteristics, Flavor Description, Growing Regions, and Pour-Over Coffee Taste Profile
For professional barista exchanges, please follow Coffee Workshop (WeChat official account: cafe_style). In recent years, many emerging small growing regions or cooperatives in Ethiopia's Sidamo and Yirgacheffe areas have been marketing their coffees internationally under their own cooperative or farm names, demonstrating confidence in the quality of their coffee production
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Ethiopian Hambela Guji 5.0 Coffee Beans - Sidamo Coffee Beans Flavor Profile and Characteristics Introduction
Professional coffee knowledge exchange For more coffee bean information Please follow Coffee Workshop (WeChat Official Account cafe_style) Several important Ethiopian coffee producing regions, such as Yirgacheffe and Sidamo, along with Guji, which has gained significant attention in recent years as a premium specialty coffee region, is also part of Oromia, located in southwestern Ethiopia, south of the capital Addis Ababa,
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Yirgacheffe Kochere G2 Coffee vs G1: Differences, Flavor Profile, and Taste Overview
Yirgacheffe Kochere G2 Coffee vs G1: Differences, Flavor Profile, and Taste Overview. Before the harvest season, Trabocca invites selected small-scale farming organizations/producers to participate in producing micro-batch coffees (approximately 1500-3000 kg), with carefully hand-picked 100% ripe red coffee cherries collected in multiple stages.
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A Comprehensive Guide to Global Coffee Bean Grading Systems and Coffee Origin Green Bean Classification Standards
For professional barista discussions, please follow Coffee Workshop (WeChat official account: cafe_style). What do coffee naming conventions like G1, G2, G3, G4, AA, PB, SHB, SHG, EP, PLANTATION... actually represent? Within a coffee's name...
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What?! Hua Kui Coffee Beans from Brazil??
Last night while scrolling through my phone, I came across this post: Today I saw an image in my social feed where a coffee novice bought this bag of beans (image below), and I couldn't help but respond. If you're ignorant, you can learn. If you're going to work in this industry, please show some sincerity. This kind of deception is simply insulting. To colleagues who bought this bean,
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What are the Differences Between Cup of Excellence (COE) Cupping Forms and SCAA Coffee Cupping Forms?
In current coffee cupping practices, the most commonly used forms are the SCAA cupping form and the COE cupping form. FrontStreet Coffee is here today to share with you the differences between the SCA cupping scoring form and the COE scoring form. SCAA cupping uses 5 cups per sample. The scoring categories are divided into: Dry/Wet Aroma, Flavor, Aftertaste, Acidity, Body, Uniformity, Balance, Clean Cup, Sweetness, Overall, and Defects.
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