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SCA Specialty Coffee Association Announces New Reforms for Coffee Flavor Wheel and Cupping Form!
For more professional coffee knowledge 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 SCA Cupping Form, widely used throughout the global coffee industry to measure coffee value,
2022-08-28 SCA Specialty Coffee Association Coffee Flavor Wheel Cupping Form Coffee Industry Reforms -
What is the Coffee Flavor Wheel System: Essential Steps for Using the Coffee Flavor Wheel
Professional coffee knowledge exchange For more coffee bean information please follow Coffee Workshop (WeChat official account cafe_style) FrontStreet Coffee Flavor Wheel Usage In the early 1940s European and American regions took the lead in clarifying food sensory concepts and established a complete theoretical system and application methods through a series of studies. While our country's sensory evaluation started relatively late with academic research only beginning in 1975
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Interpreting the Latest 2023 SCA Cupping Form with Bilingual Version Diagrams | How to Conduct Coffee Quality Assessment: Coffee Cupping?
For more professional coffee knowledge exchange and coffee bean information, please follow Coffee Workshop (WeChat official account: cafe_style). Coffee tasters, also known as cuppers, refer to cupping abroad, which means presenting the original flavor of coffee beans without any brewing techniques. Coffee farmers abroad generally conduct cupping
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Coffee Sensory Evaluation | How Beginners Can Learn to Describe Coffee Flavors and Develop Their Palate
"This coffee has rich fruity notes with citrus, lemon, oolong tea, and jasmine floral flavors!!!" For those new to specialty coffee, this might seem incredible - how can one cup of coffee have so many distinct flavors! (Are they just making it up?) In this barista training series, we'll share some tips and techniques to help you develop your coffee tasting skills.
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SCA & Q Grader Coffee Certifications: Complete Guide to International Barista Exams and Professional Coffee Credentials
Connect with professional barista communities through Coffee Workshop (WeChat: cafe_style). The coffee industry's diverse certification landscape can overwhelm aspiring professionals seeking structured learning paths. To navigate coffee credentials effectively, begin by understanding the certifying bodies that establish these professional standards.
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How to Judge if Latte Tastes Good? Japan Launches Milk Coffee Flavor Wheel!
For more professional coffee knowledge exchange and coffee bean information, please follow Coffee Workshop (WeChat official account: cafe_style). For more specialty coffee beans, please add private WeChat: FrontStreet Coffee, WeChat ID: qjcoffeex. The Specialty Coffee Association (SCA) coffee flavor wheel can be described as the most iconic in the coffee industry
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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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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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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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Taiwan Alishan Coffee Beans Fetch Astonishing Price of NT$520,000!
According to Taiwanese media reports, on May 12th, the largest-scale Alishan Estate Coffee Elite Exchange Competition and Green Bean Matching Meeting (auction) in Taiwan's history was held at the Leye Cultural Gathering Place in Alishan Township, Chiayi County, attracting connoisseurs from across the island to compete for purchases. Among them, the special prize winner in the natural processing category - a 5kg package from Zouzu Garden
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How to Judge Coffee Extraction Through Tasting: An Introduction to Hand-Pour Coffee Brewing Flavor Sensory Description
If you want to learn how to brew coffee, you must first learn how to taste coffee. Of course, "learning to taste coffee" here doesn't just mean being able to describe exquisite flavors, but rather being able to judge whether a cup of coffee is good or bad—that is, tasty or not. Whether coffee tastes good or not involves both subjective and objective factors, with personal preference being a significant influence.
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Why Does Coffee Have Sour Taste? How to Judge Whether Acidity in Coffee Beans is Good or Bad?
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. Some people believe that the sour taste in coffee is a negative flavor, indicating that the coffee is poor quality or not fresh.
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How to Describe the Flavor and Mouthfeel of Pour-Over Coffee? Where to Learn Coffee Sensory Courses in Guangzhou
If a $3 Americano and a $10 pour-over coffee were placed before you, would you taste them in the same way? Often, our tasting preferences are influenced not merely by flavor, but by the perceived value behind each cup. With a pour-over coffee, you might discern 3-4 distinct flavor notes, but with an Americano, can you say the same?
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What is Coffee Balance? Optimal Water Temperature for Balanced Pour-Over Coffee
What is coffee balance - The right water temperature for brewing coffee is crucial because it reduces major fluctuations. But you also need to consider the coffee grounds' temperature to manage overall changes. If you can measure coffee before and after grinding with an infrared thermometer, you'll discover surprising differences. However, remember
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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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How to Taste a Pour-Over Coffee? How to Generally Drink Pour-Over Coffee_Coffee Beans Recommended for Pour-Over
Professional coffee knowledge exchange For more coffee bean information Please follow Coffee Workshop (WeChat public account cafe_style) Is drinking pour-over coffee more advanced? The author often hears in the store that customers who drink milk-based coffee jokingly say that they are always looked down upon by friends because their friends have already experienced the process from drinking caramel macchiato to drinking latte, then from milk-based coffee to Americano, and now starting to drink
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A Coffee Taster's Explanation of the Flavor Wheel: Is the Flavor Wheel a Standardized Coffee Tasting Database?
When we enjoy various delicious foods from childhood, our faces show expressions of surprise or satisfaction—this is the experience that tasting food brings us. Detecting subtle flavors in food is not something we learned as children. Corn-filled dumplings taste like creamed corn, steak tastes like steak—this is how many of us are taught to understand flavors. Based on our
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A Comparative Study of Conical Drippers on Coffee Brewing Effects
(Top left: KONO, top right: UN caf, bottom left: harioV60-01, bottom right: Keycoffee diamond pattern dripper) I've always wanted to carefully compare the differences between various drippers. Originally, we planned to compare all drippers, but considering the significant differences, placing them under the same brewing conditions would be somewhat forced. Therefore, we finally decided to compare drippers with the same conical shape. The operation procedure for this experiment
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How to Properly Describe Coffee Aroma - Describing Coffee Flavor Doesn't Have to Be Complicated
Professional coffee knowledge exchange For more coffee bean information Please follow Coffee Workshop (WeChat public account: cafe_style) FrontStreet Coffee - Coffee Aroma Description Introduction 1. Olfaction: Each type of coffee has a unique aroma, which allows coffee from different regions or varieties to be distinguished. A. Dry aroma/fragrance - The aroma of coffee grounds after grinding
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How to Taste Coffee Flavors: A Guide to Sensory Perception and Flavor Description
"How can an ordinary black coffee possibly have flavors like strawberry, tomato, and mango?" "The coffee flavor wheel is the most successful marketing campaign since diamonds!" "I've followed your advice to eat more fruits, and the more I eat, the more I realize coffee doesn't taste like the fruits I'm eating." We must admit one thing
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