Day 1: Intensive Cupping •Overview of cupping language, systems, categories and uses •Basic taste tests and aroma exercises •Triangulation and blind tasting exercises
Day 2: Roasting Training •Overview of roasting styles and roasting physics •Roast profiling and preventing roast defects •Roast profiling practice: optimizing flavor
Day 3: Blending and Discussion of Production-Roast Coffees •Cupping previous day’s roasting batches •Blending theory, exercises and practice •Blind cupping of participant and competitor coffees