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What Is a Clean Cup in Coffee?
A clean cup has nothing to do with how sanitary the kitchen is. It's what's left after quakers, broken beans, and fermentation faults get caught before the roast.
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Notes from the roastery: what we buy, how we roast it, and what we have learned building coffee programs on the Gulf Coast.
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Does a Higher Cup Score Mean Better Coffee?
We checked our own shelf: a cup score tracks a trained panel's scorecard, not the price we paid for the green coffee. The two don't move together in either direction.
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What Is a Coffee Cupping Score?
A cup score is the arithmetic total of a scorecard, and the SCA replaced its scorecard in 2024. Here is what the number is actually measured against, and what our own ...
