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Coffee vs. Wine: The Great Debate:
Coffee seems like a straightforward topic, at least it did when you bought coffee in a can...
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Stretchin' Out the Roast pt. 2:
How adjusting the length of 1st crack will affect sweetness, body, and acidity in the roast.
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Stretchin' Out the Roast: Part 1:
The taste of four roast experiments gives us feedback on what is the ideal roast on a specific coffee.
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Green Coffee Cupping (Video):
Tom from Sweet Maria's cups green coffee. Yes, green, unroasted coffee.
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How We Select Coffees, and "Cupping":
We request many, many samples from the East Coast and West Coast distributors we use, to the point where I am a bit embarassed.
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Tiny Joy:
March/April 2012: Electric Coffee Brewers/ Using Taste to Determine Roast Level
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Our Coffee Cupping Review Archive:
The portal for accessing all of our old cupping reviews - as many as we saved....
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Our Coffee Review Reference Page:
In December 2008, I shifted our cupping scoring system. I know that for those of us living in a "base 10" society...
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Roast Development Cupping Test Image Gallery:
With the current discussion on under-developed roast taste, I had the realization I have never cupped green coffee before. Seriously, green.
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"Tourist in a Taste Lab" article from Discover Magazine:
The brain is the mastermind of flavor but tongues are where it starts - and some are far more sensitive than others.
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Coffee Processing Experiment: El Manzano (Video):
Tasting 3 coffees from El Manzano El Salvador that were processed three ways.
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Costa Rica La Minita Cupping '01-'04 crops:
Okay, here are the results of Mike McGuiness' samples of 2001, 2002, 2003, and 2004 Costa Rica La Minita samples.
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Cup of Excellence Roundup 2009:
Of course, we think the Cup of Excellence program is fantastic on quite a few levels.
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Cuptoberfest 2010 Image Gallery:
In October of 2010, Sweet Maria's hosted local Bay Area coffee cuppers at our warehouse for an afternoon of what else? coffee tasting.
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First Ever Cupping Class at Sweet Maria's (July 2008):
This past July held our first ever class here at Sweet Maria's. Classes were small...
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Home Barista Coffee Roast Challenge: Part 1 - Blends (Video):
Cupping the entries in the blend competition
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Home Barista Roasting Challenge Part 1 - Blended Coffees (Video):
Cupping the entries in the Home Barista Roasting Challenge Blended Coffees .
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Home Barista Roasting Challenge Part 2: Single Origin Brewed Coffees (Video):
Cupping the entries in the Home Barista Roasting Challenge Single Origin Brewed Coffees .
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Preface to "Coffee Quality" by Michael Sivitz:
This is not your ordinary "run of the mill" coffee booklet extolling romantic places and recipes.
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Robusta Characteristics by Nestle:
Following info is from Nestle (about their Espresso system advertizing on the web)
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Sensory Evaluation of Coffee by Ellen Jordan Reidy, from her SCAA presentation :
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Silverskin on Green Coffee: Indicator of Cherry Ripeness? (Video):
Does the amount of silverskin present on green coffee indicate something about the ripeness of the fruit?
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Cupping Indian Coffees at Mr. Espresso's Roasting Plant:
A (Bay Area) cupping in early April that was interesting in two aspects.
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First Ever Cupping Class at Sweet Maria's :
I did a short page on the First Ever Cupping Class at Sweet Maria's that happened July 2008.
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Here's the Coffee Taster's Flavor Wheel!:
...you can get these items printed on a poster or cup from me or the SCAA too!
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Ken Davids Reviewed Sweet Maria's Coffees:
Sweet Maria's coffees were reviewed by Ken Davids in Sept. 99 CoffeeReview
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Roast Busters:
We had a periodic cupping club years ago called RoastBusters. Here's the results of the last one.
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Taste Terminology and Roast Names:
I hate to promote Epicureanism, but sometimes you need to communicate something to others.
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Teaching to Taste:
How to be a better taster. Identifying, qualifying, and then quantifying what you taste as well as what you sense.
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Ethiopia Yirgacheffe Cupping: Cupping Different Bean Sizes Separately:
Today I am motivated by the most un-scientific curiousity to screen a roasted Ethiopia Yirgacheffe and cup the different bean sizes
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Fruit or Ferment:
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Tom's Constantly Updated Cupping Log:
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.
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What The He — Is Jasmine?:
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