8 Step Coffee Cupping Guide

1. Grind each coffee
   
2. Fill Each Cup with spoonful of coffee
   
3. Add boiling water
   
4. Let coffee steep for 2-3 minutes until crust forms
   
5. Break crust and taste
   
6. Slurp the coffee
   
7. Swish it around and spit out
   
8. Rinse with water before tasting next coffee

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Coffee Tastings can be done at formal events or in at your home while entertaining. When cupping, the cupper will smell the coffee, break the crust to release the aroma and allow the liquid to spread over their entire mouth to ensure they cover their taste buds with coffee.

What you need?

• Whole Bean Coffee to Compare
• Grinder
• Kettle for boiling water
• Cups
• Spoon
• Coffee Cupping Guide
  

What you'll be rating each coffee on?

• Aroma
  When cupping coffee, the intensity of smell once the coffee has been brewed
• Body
  When cupping coffee the intensity of how the coffee feels in the mouth in terms of weight
• Flavor
  When cupping coffee the taste of coffee when it enters the mouth
• Acidity
  Term used in cupping that describes the bright, tartness, vigorous taste of coffee
• Sweetness
  When cupping coffee the intensity of sugariness that is present when swooshing coffee in the mouth
• Aftertaste
  When cupping coffee the characteristic that describes the intensity of the flavor and smell of the coffee once it has been tasted and spit out