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SA Coffee Roasters Association – posts
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CT Indo cupping feedback
The cupping event tasting the coffees from Indonesia sourced directly. Two farms and one collect were tasted (see details below). One had some Kopi Luwak (the real stuff that is hand collected from the plantations, not the stuff that has flooded the market that is from caged animals). There was fully washed, semi washed and…
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Specialty V Commodity Summary of results
Four meetings with close to 50 roasters from around South Africa where held, to taste differences between two commodity and specialty grade coffees. The coffee were marked hnA, hnB and etA, etB. Those that wanted to answered a questionnaire either online or printed. The summary of the results is below. It was a blind tasting,…
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Specialty Coffee what is it?
What is Specialty Coffee? Grading According to SCA – “To be considered specialty grade, green coffee shall have zero category one (1) defects and five or less category two (2) defects. See the SCA green grading handbook for more information on these defects.” sca coffee-standards. Tasting Specialty coffee is “coffee which scores 80 points or…
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List of coffees cupped at Cape Town June 2017 event
Here is a list of some of the coffees that were cupped at the event: Coffee Roaster Origin Region Bufcoffee The factory Roast lab, Sweden Rwanda Nyamagabe El Tesoro Koppi, Sweden Colombia Palestina, Huila Novo Canaa Five Elephant, Germany Brazil Caconde Ugandan Circel Kaffee, Denmark Uganda not sure Limoncillo Has Bean, UK Nicaragua Yasica Norte…
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LMP Project to visit Oct 2016
Ben and Kristy Carlson from the Long Mile Project in Burundi are coming to South Africa to share their experience and knowledge. The main sponsor behind this event is the Vineyard Hotel with additional time and costs paid by Ben and Kristy themselves, Quaffee, Specialty Coffee Exchange and Urban Grind Roasters. There will be two…
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Sept 2016 update from SA Roasters Association
Hi associate (all roasters on the subscription list are considered associates, so forward to those you believe should be members and unsubscribe if you do not want to be); here is a quick update. Fire Consciousness It has been said that there are two type of roasters “those that have had a fire and those…
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Report back from SA roasters event on roast defects
On the evening of July 20th a group of South African Coffee Roasters met in two different South African cities of Johannesburg and Cape Town. At these meetings the same 5 roasts we cupped and tasted. It was the roasters mission to identify which of the first three were underdeveloped, balanced and overdeveloped coffee roasts.…
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Event: Identifying Roasting Defects
Are you interested in tasting the most common defects introduced during roasting? Well Philip from Run – Rabbit – Run suggested this as a topic (thanks we love suggestions) and we took up the mantle. So on the 20 July we invite you all to an event in Jozi and Cape Town (sorry Durban we…
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Water numbers from Durban Event
The Durban roasters had and found it really interesting. We used a brix, TDS, refractometer and some standard other tests. Water Guatemala Washed Ethiopia Natural TDS ALK PPM PH RO Water High Acidity, Unbalanced, Strange flavour High Acidity, Unbalanced, Strange flavour 0.02 40 6.2 Boiler Water Unanimous vote as best flavour Unanimous vote as…