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What The He — Is Jasmine?
So, what is the taste and smell of jasmine? Yirgacheffes often have the most clear-cut jasmine notes of any coffee, but...
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Bright Coffee
Here's a few coffees with exciting, snappy, zingy, citrusy, tart, vibrant notes
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Chocolate, Chocolate, Chocolate, Chocolate...
A few coffees where chocolate notes take the spotlight.
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Sugar Cupping Part 2 -- Rough outline
This is a very educational exercise you can easily try at home.
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Sugar Cupping
Sometimes tasting something that isn't coffee can help you learn more about what your coffee tastes like.
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Taste and Price: When Values Shift
I recently caught glimpse of this and found it very thought-provoking.
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Podcast:More About Coffee Lexicons
Cupping and talking about the taste lexicon of coffee with Tom and Chris Schooley
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Tasting: Cupping vs. Filtered Brewing
tasting differences in two roasts, and then tasting the differences in the same coffees via different methods
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There's No Accounting for Taste
This has been a very challenging week for cupping. Why? I can't taste.
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Origin of Potato Defect in Rwanda Coffee
Last year Aleco and I were traveling in Rwanda, and made a shocking discovery in the Western district of Nyamasheke.
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Cupping Green, Unroasted Coffee.....Yum
In this funny little experiment, Tom ground and brewed coffee at various stages from green to a City+ roast. Check out the video below and click here for the photo gallery. We all had a chance to taste these and it is funny how one sample before first crack tasted a lot like a light roast commercial coffee. Awful, but familiar. The straight green coffee is just headache producing. And unless you want to seriously compromise your grinder, I would not recommend grinding green coffee at home.