Category Archives: cupping
ACE course in Honduras part 2: roasting & Esteban’s
……From Erwin’s farm we drove to Esteban Madrid Chavez’ farm El Sauce, located in the community of the same name in Santa Barbara. The farm borders the Santa Barbara National Park which is home to many different animals. We heard monkeys & were told to be on the lookout for a Quetzal, a bird with [...]
ACE course in Honduras part 1: cupping & Erwin’s
Sometime in April during a roasting meeting, it was decided that someone needed to go to the ACE {Alliance for Coffee Excellence} coffee cupping & roasting course, in San Pedro Sula & Le Fe, Honduras, so off I went.
Along with another New Zealander {who roasts coffee in Melbourne} & three Australians, we spent two [...]
cupping extravaganza
I was thrilled to be invited to Hacienda El Robles’ 3rd anual Cupping Extravaganza.
Hacienda El Roble is a 300 hectare organic coffee farm in Bucaramunga, Colombia, they have over one million coffee shrubs under a canopy of shade trees & the reason I went there, they have a varietal garden with a collection of 72 [...]
cupping fun
burundi cup of excellence 2012 lots 1 -17
roasted: 9 october 2012
cupped: 10 october 2012
participants: malcy, celeste, gx2, the great bardooski
aroma comments: clove on nose, gilly’s b’n’e pie flaky pastry
flavor comments: savoury, tomato soup, sweet red capsicum like you’d find in a savoury muffin, red and green apples as opposed to last years crazy citrus notes
favourites: [...]
santa guadalupe pacamara
last Wednesday I roasted the 26 samples from the Nicaragua cup of excellence, then spent 3 hours on Thursday cupping them all.
there were some stand out, sweet, juicy, ripe coffees in the line up. it was the cup of excellence with the most presidential awards (coffee scoring 90+ points out of 100).
the auction was thursday [...]
cupping
On Friday we had 4 blokes from Atomic come down for some coffee cupping, Ewan brought down:
Burundi
Ethiopia Harrar
Brasil
Laos natural robusta
Laos washed robusta
Sulawesi
and we put up:
Uganda Gumuntindo
Tanzania
Kenya
Kenya peaberry
Burundi
Sulawesi
Both Sulawesi coffees were super sweet and juicy like pineapple, all the Africans were great, standouts were the Harrar and the Kenya peaberry.
The robusta’s were interesting, we don’t really [...]
NZ cup tasting champs
On friday 21st May we went up to the inaugural NZ cup tasting champs at Atomic in Kingsland, there were 27 entrants,the prize is a trip to the world cup tasting champs in London, June 23rd-25th 2010
How to play? each table has 8 sets of 3 cups of coffee, 2 cups are the same [...]
