Sweet Maria's Cupping Log V 6.0

Incoming coffee samples at Sweet Maria's, accepted and/or rejected

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This is a log of incoming samples here at Sweet Maria's with only the total score recorded and a Y or N for further evaluation. It doesn't contain my full cupping scores, and really, I don't log every cupping session on the computer, but it gives a good sense of the behind-the-scenes work here. Scroll to the bottom to see the most recent cupping notes. This is a pre-screening process, with my personal cursory comments. I often go back and cup a sample that I give an N to after rethinking it. After I reroast and recup a Y sample, then we try to actually get the coffee which does't always work out ... or the opposite happens: a sample is great and then the coffee arrives and it is not, so we reject it. This can happen alot! A favorable entry in the cupping log does not necessarily that the coffee is about to arrive. It could be months away. After we actually receive a coffee, then I pull another sample, roast it several times, and cup it with a new scoring sheet and write the full review. The idea here is to give an impression of the work we do ... this is not a preview list of things you will see on our actual offering sheet. We keep making new versions, mostly because they hit a size where the file gets corrupted, and we have to re-do it.

Origin Name Roast Score Comments Date
Nicaragua Mama Mina Caturra C+ 87 best on table, balanced, good structure, brightness. 2009-10-08
Haiti Sample from customer ? Offer? C+ 79 really quite terrible toast flavor, baked- dried out sample. looks a little old, but also looks like a nice Typica cultivar. 2009-10-08
Guatemala Ian's Late Harvest Lot C+ 84 sweet, mild acidity, good flavors, a little floral, caramelly, balance, body 2009-10-08
Sumatra Blue Batak Lintong Aged FC+ 83 fair to middling aged coffee. not dirty, not sweet at all 2009-10-08
Sumatra Aged Lake Tawar FC 75 Noooo... terrible bitter root and herb. awful 2009-10-08
Sumatra Aged Blue Batak Peaberry Tarbarita FC 85.5 some sweetness, rooty, earthy, tangy, cooked spices 2009-10-08
Ethiopia FTO Yirga Cheffe Royal C+ 85 20567 not bad, not much to describe though. 2009-10-07
Ethiopia Yirga Cheffe Moplaco FC 87 sweet, darker roast level, nice 2009-10-07
Ethiopia Washed Sidamo conventional C+ 84 fairly flat and conventional 2009-10-07
Ethiopia FTO Yirga Cheffe C+ 83 20568 very flat, good body, oddly flat and watery in flavor 2009-10-07
Ethiopia Organic Sidamo 2 C 86 20476 clean, dry finish, light roast - would it hold up with more roast. Finish doesnt cool that well 2009-10-07
Ethiopia FTO Sidamo Natural Royal C+ 82 20226 toast, some jammy fruit, baked taste, not very clean 2009-10-07
Ethiopia Yirga Cheffe Grade 3 Dry Process C+ 90 cleanly fruited, intense, strawberry, apricot-peach 2009-10-07
Ethiopia Sidamo Grade 3 Dry process blend C+ 85.5 very very thick body, very fruity, toasted apricot kernal flavor 2009-10-07
Nicaragua Dipilto Cafe de mi Abuelo - St Andrews International C+ 83 aromatics seem like there is slight age damage, cardboard, but that it was a nice coffee when fresh. 2009-10-06
Zambia Falcon Commodities (!) AA Plus Estate C+ 85 Has good body, sweet, some woody note, a little catimor-like. Is that possible? Might be nice espresso 2009-10-06
Panama Hartmann Bellota C+ 72 musty - thumbs down defect coffee. 2009-09-28
Brazil fazenda sertaozinho 17/18 sample 733 C+ 78 had some kinda musty or phenolic cups on the lighter roasts I did of this. Had it in around 1/3 of the cups. 2009-09-28
Nicaragua Mama Minita Pacamara Microlot C+ 87 lime acidity, a bit of green sweetness, herb flower 2009-09-24
Nicaragua Pacamara Natural C+ 86 at darker roasts, into 2nd, good fruity sweetness, puly, papaya-mango honey lemonade, hint of tobacco 2009-09-24
Nicaragua Mama Mina Microlot C+ 86.5 good acidity, classic, balanced structured 2009-09-24
Nicaragua San Jose Java Cultivar C+ 85.5 drops off at C++ but still very sweet, mild. lemony at City roast 2009-09-24
Ethiopia Org WP Moredocofe G2 80b VSC C+ 85 grainly at light roasts, bright and jasminey, rootbeer at C++, goes very flat. 2009-09-24
Colombia Mingas Huila Naranjos M-1309/PIT-0785 roast2 C+ 83 too fruity, too flat 2009-09-24
Colombia Mingas Huila Naranjos M-1309/PIT-0785 158kg parchment C+ 83 too fruity, too flat 2009-09-24
Ethiopia Rejected Guji from last year C+ 78 dirty fruit, fermenty a bit, but also hidey earthy, hints of mold. 2009-09-24
Ethiopia Sidamo 3 natural 19495 recup C+ 84 2009-09-24
China Yunan little beans from Elvin Lan C+ 84.5 flat acidity, but sweeter than yunan i have tried before. good body. flavor is a little cloying 2009-09-22
Papua New Gunea Organic A/X S182 C+ 85 not standing out to me as it did in previous cupping. no. 2009-09-22
Flores Ngada Blue Dragon Organic FC 82 ditto 2009-09-22
Flores Ngada Blue Dragon Organic FC 82 ditto 2009-09-22
Sulawesi Ke'pe C+ 86 brighter, a little more fruit, fairly clean 2009-09-22
Sulawesi Toraja G1 Lion Lestari 20584 C+ 84.5 decent cup, good body 2009-09-22
Peru Lucio Huaman Lote A - Las Delicias C+ 87.5 acidic, bright, lively 2009-09-21
Peru Tomas Ovalle Lote A C+ 86 mild, deep, sweet. 2009-09-21
Peru Luis Soto Barrias 6b Huertapata C+ 85 clean, brighter, nice 2009-09-21
Peru Alejandro Luza - Canelon C+ 85 very sweet, kinda flat though 2009-09-21
Peru Ferliciano Borda Suldiver - Canelon C+ 81 quakery, dirty, some sweetness. 2009-09-21
Ethiopia Yirga Cheffe Gr3 Natural dry process C+ 85 NOTE_ it is a sidamo not a Yirg -tastes like fairly average sidamo DP but good prep. Will recup later. 2009-09-21
Sulawesi Enrekang Mount Alla C+ 85 Moderately agressive, earthy, not sweet 2009-09-10
Sulawesi Ke'pe regional lot C+ 86 green smells a littls like a rubber glove, but coffee cups out very well. 2009-09-10
Sulawesi Ke'pe Preship C+ 85.5 same mild fruited sweetness here, but i think arrival is a little better. 2009-09-10
Colombia Mingas Recup M-1276 PIT 0755 Los Naranjos San Augustin Huila C+ 86.5 still the same cupping results - don't trush something in this otherwise nice flavor profile. 2009-09-06
Ecuador M-1238 EGU-007 C+ 88.5 a little tight in the finish, but tea and fruit, interesting YES ML 2009-09-06
Ecuador M-1237 EBA -015 C+ 86 milder acids, nice NO 2009-09-06
Ecuador M-1236 EBA -005 C+ 87.5 sweet and balanced, rindy acids YES ML 2009-09-06
Ecuador M-1235 EBA -003 C+ 88.5 some black tea, a little tighter and drying YES ML 2009-09-06
Ecuador M-1234 EBA -001 C+ 87.5 very nice sweet acidity, sweetest cup, fruit, orange, berry YES ML 2009-09-06
Ecuador M-1233 Con-008 C+ 87 apple, sweet, mild balanced YES BLEND 2009-09-06
Ecuador M-1232 Con-007 C+ 87.5 more acidic, fruits, nice YES BLEND 2009-09-06
Ecuador M-1231 Con-005 C+ 86 good body, sweet, mild, tiny bit of odd nut flavor NO 2009-09-06
Kenya 20191 298 Karatina C+ 85 seems to be fading, off acids 2009-09-04
Kenya 20151 251Karatina C+ 86 bright, but seems slightly oldish. 2009-09-04
Kenya 20153 247 Kenya PB C+ 86.5 caramel, bright, solid kenya, maybe 87-87.5 2009-09-04
Kenya 20067 256 Ndia-ini Nyeri 36 bags C+ 87.5 nice sweetness and acids The best on the table 2009-09-04
Kenya 20147 279 AA Thunguri Kirinyaga C+ 86 good acids, milder than kiagundo, slight papery 2009-09-04
Kenya 20033 268 Kiagundo AA 63b C+ 87 brighter and clean, malty roast, citrus the second best on the table 2009-09-04
Kenya 20384 Gatina AA Nyeri C+ 86 clean-ish, tea note, similar to previous, astringent as it cools 2009-09-04
Kenya 20383 271Gatina AA Nyeri C+ 86 sorta clean, tea note, jasmine, raisin, a little sweaty 2009-09-04
Ethiopia Moredocofe Wet process organic recup C+ 87 improving, thin, lots of tea notes, some floral, nice aromas. 2009-09-04
Ethiopia FTO Sidama Union dry process SAS replacement for Moredocofe C+ 85 nice fruit and banana in light roast, but thin, astringent, falls apart in dark roast. Royal 2009-09-04
Java Sunda Coffee (from West) Type Sample C+ 84.5 Scores better than west Java coffee, no catimor flavor, dutch cocoa, body, slight cedar 2009-09-04
Guatemala Organic Finca Santa Elena C+ 85 Sweet, decent body, fairly plain otherwise 2009-09-02
Sulawesi Mount Alla Enrekang C+ 86 Very herbal and Lintong-like, fairly bright 2009-09-02
Sumatra "Sidikalang Estate Washed ???" Mercanta C+ 84 2009-09-02
El Salvador Finca Alaska Bourbon C+ 86 some exotic bright notes, pacamara flavors in the mix, floral but celery too, green flavors, coffee looks a bit tired, is this a processing flavor? odd. 2009-09-02
El Salvador Finca El Carmen C+ 84.5 clean, sweet, average body, uh 2009-09-02
Guatemala Finca El Bosque C+ 84.5 Nice aroma but rather plain cup, generic in a way 2009-09-02
Guatemala Finca Santa Clara Antigua C+ 84 Average aroma and cup, watery 2009-09-02
Ethiopia Moredocofe wet Process Sidamo Sample 2 FC 86 loses a lot with a tad more roast. 2009-09-02
Ethiopia Moredocofe wet Process Sidamo C+ 87 thin, nice tea like notes, jasmine, short aftertaste, not a high rank for a wet process sidamo 2009-09-02
Colombia Mingas M-1276 PIT 0755 Los Naranjos San Augustin Huila C+ 85 nice acids, but tasting a little woody to me - end of harvest? -no 2009-09-02
Ecuador M-1238 EGU-007 C+ 88.5 crisp brightness, white wine dryness, some green grape, lemony 2009-09-02
Ecuador M-1237 EBA -015 C+ 86.5 again, typica flavors here, sweet, grain malt 2009-09-02
Ecuador M-1236 EBA -005 C+ 88.5 sweet and bright, rounded acidity, sugar cane 2009-09-02
Ecuador M-1235 EBA -003 C+ 89 very nice citric acids, some apple brightness too, malic in finish 2009-09-02
Ecuador M-1234 EBA -001 C+ 86.5 some tolima-like flavors, typica type form, sweet, nice 2009-09-02
Ecuador M-1233 Con-008 C+ 87 citric acidity, nice cup , more dry and less sweet than the previous. 2009-09-02
Ecuador M-1232 Con-007 C+ 89 Really sweet, berry fruit notes, some blueberry, nice acids 2009-09-02
Ecuador M-1231 Con-005 C+ 86 Very long typica form, fruit, winey, a bit astringent, sweet, something reminds me of peru here - slight rustic quality, or herb 2009-09-02
Rwanda Coopac FTO BOurbon C+ 86 interesting pumpkin bread and spice notes, milder acids than previous samples. 2009-09-01
Ethiopia Moredocofe Shipment 2 Natural Gr 3 C+ 79 quakery and some musty cups - rejection 2009-09-01
Ethiopia Amaro Gayo Natural Sidamo C+ 85 nice fruited cup but soft on acidity - cools poorly. nice body. 2009-09-01
Brazil Fazenda Esperanca PB Zinho C+ 83 Some interesting mineral/salt flavor, brothy. Not sure thats a good coffee thing. 2009-08-24
Brazil Ipanema Rio Verde C+ 82 kinda murky chocolate. Not sure if old sample or new crop. If the later, might improve. 2009-08-24
Flores Organic Bajawa Ngura C+ 82 not sweet at all, chocolate alkaloids, really not sure about this flavor profile. good for starbucks roast, thats about it. 2009-08-24
Bali "Blue Moon" Organic Royal Coffee C+ 79 very astringent, hard unpleasant. 2009-08-24
Papua New Guinea Purosa A Arrival Sample C+ 83 good specialty grade average PNG . a little drying. 2009-08-24
Costa Rica Marvin Robles - Frailes C+ 83 problems with sample - did not roast well. 2009-08-24
Ecuador Loja Gonzanama C+ 88 Floral aromatics, sweet, candy like 2009-08-24
Colombia Mingas M-1122 7/08/2009 PLA-1679 El Desarrollo Gigante Huila 337 kg C+ 89 solid acidity, floral passionflower in aftertaste - ML potential 2009-08-19
Colombia Mingas M-1121 7/08/2009 PRI-0067 Tolima 723 C+ 85.5 flatter than other Tolimas, a little hard 2009-08-19
Colombia Mingas M-1120 7/08/2009 PRI-0060 Tolima 130 kg C+ 87.5 Sweet, fruit, some hazelnut -Tolima blend 2009-08-19
Colombia Mingas M-1119 7/08/2009 PRI-0058 Tolima 447 kg C+ 87 sweet lot, milder fruits, nice for Tolima Blend 2009-08-19
Colombia Mingas M-1118 7/08/2009 PRI-0056 Tolima 127 kg C+ 92 very exotic tropical fruits ML 2009-08-19
El Salvador Amarillo Bourbon Caracol - Peaberry C+ 85 a bit thin, nice, not remarkable 2009-08-10
El Salvador Anaranjado Bourbon Caracol - Peaberry C+ 87 most balanced, body, nice aromatics 2009-08-10
El Salvador Pacamara Caracol - Peaberry C+ 86.5 odd, definitely allacious =but cools more citrus like 2009-08-10
El Salvador Cerro Las Ranas Caracol - Peaberry C+ 86.5 Sweet aroma!, more acidic cup than the santa rita 2009-08-10
El Salvador Santa Rita Caracol - Peaberry C+ 87 rounded, balanced, sweet 2009-08-10