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Home cupping fun

Posted by Trza on March 22, 2008 at 8:17am
Last night Wiggles hosted a home cupping with Ryan, Jess the mess, Chrissy, Me, Pat (who didn't participate) and Goth Moofin. We cupped 4 colombians from 4 different roasters, 2 samples of each. It wasn't perfect...the water was too hot (I forgot to calibrate my thermometer), we didn't have a scale so we used coffee scoops, and I'm pretty sure the mugs were different sizes so they had different ratios of coffee to water. None the less, we cupped, took notes, and revealed the 4 coffees after tasting.Ironically, the least palatable one to most of us was.....our own Rainforest Alliance!! Wiggles is sure of a production error on our parts as he has cupped it before and says it cups very well. We've all had the coffee served as french press, espresso, manual drip, moka pot, and vacuum pot and we serve it regularly in our stores as an auto drip with no negative flavor profile to be found (well, I wasn't a big fan of the moka personally). So we need to get better at this cupping thing for sure.Also, most of us didn't enjoy the intelly tres santos. I think this too might have been a production error. We know these coffees are good, but we botched up the cupping one way or another. Sigh, better luck next time! It was still a good time, and coffee geekery was still had. As were a lot of beers. And some pizza. Yeah!
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