Tag Archives: cupping
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
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 [...]
