Archive for the 'Cupping' Category

Are you making coffe on autopilot?
Saturday, October 13, 2007

Let’s face it. There is no shortage on opinions on the internet about how to make the best coffee. And quite a few has, in their own mind, come up with the perfect routine.
In this post I’m not after finding my own perfect way, nor am I particularly experimental, but what sparked me to write [...]

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 [...]