Archive for September, 2007

Cross contamination! Is your cupping routine up to scratch?
Friday, September 28, 2007

After our previous experiment with unripes we got a comment suggesting that the lack of a clear result might be due to cross contamination of the coffees. Even though we feel we have a good cupping routine, cleaning the spoons between each cup and so forth, we thought it might be interesting to check for [...]

How many defected beans in a cup before you taste it?
Tuesday, September 18, 2007

At the roastery we have a great dry processed coffee from Santa Alina in Brazil. The only drawback is that it comes with it’s fair share of unripes. So each time we roast this bean we spend some time picking unripes and defects from the cooling tray. As you probably know they stand out by [...]

Storage experiment part 4: The last cupping
Wednesday, September 12, 2007

So today it’s been 4 weeks since we started the experiment and it was time for the last cupping. We’ve changed our cupping schedule from 14.00-15.00 (2 pm to 3 pm) to 16.00-17.00 (4pm to 5pm). This meant that we weren’t in the middle of the late lunch-rush when the cupping began. This in turn [...]