Tom, Josh and Derek are back from the SCAA show. This whole cupperOne who cups, or tastes and evaluates, coffee.: A cupper is a person who performs the somewhat formal analysis of coffee quality, called cupping. See the definition of... ...more vs. barista thing was really on everyone’s minds. Also, our RwandaA Bourbon cultivar variant from Rwanda and Burundi. Bourbon coffees are named for the island in the India Ocean where French colonists grew it. Some history from the... ...more roast did quite well in the Roaster’s Choice competition despite some very, very beautiful coffees we were up against. We were just hoping to make the top 10! Oddly, I had misread it as “Taster’s Choice competition”, and was at Costco looking for 30 Lbs of Taster’s Choice to enter … which wouldn’t have done quite as well as the Rwanda. Note that this is the exact same lot we roasted a couple weeks ago as our Roastmaster selection.
