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written by Isabella Vitaliano, Lab & Education Coordinator What have we been up to? The Crown Education 2-year reflection  We’ve been reflecting on the growth of The Crown’s Coffee Lab & Education department over the past two years. Opening in the spring of 2019, we experienced a brief period of growth and community connection that, like […]

The Crown is hosting the Q Arabica Combo. Becoming a Q Arabica Grader is one of the highest honors in the coffee industry. Serious study and practice are required to hone your sensory skills to the level needed to pass the battery of tests in the Q Arabica curriculum. No doubt finishing the course gives […]

It’s been a rough month, amid what feels like a really, really long time since any of us caught a break. On many of our minds most recently is the unspeakable violence, particularly in Buffalo, NY, Uvalde, TX, and even at the time of writing this, the breaking news […]

New panel discussion at The Crown: What’s Brewing? March 27th, 2020 4:00 pm – 6:00 pm What’s Brewing is part of our “Understanding Extraction” series at The Crown, which brings experts together from adjacent industries to relate their experience with issues of sustainability, supply chain dynamics, explorations in flavor profiling, and how it all relates […]

Identifying Defects in Coffee March 5, 2020 09:30 AM (PST) Learn to grade coffee in this class focused on identifying both visual and taste flaws in the green beans. This class will cover both physical defects in green coffee and primary sensory defects. (Yep, we’ll be tasting them!)   Coffee Tasting: Brew Ratios March 6, […]

Tasting the Coffee Flavor Wheel Feb 6, 2020 03:00 PM (PST) An interactive tasting of the Sensory Lexicon of coffee using reference samples from fruits, spices, candies and many others. Go to event site Coffee Tasting: Southern Hemisphere Coffee Feb 7, 2020 01:00 PM (PST) Free, open to the public cupping (coffee industry standard sensory […]

Coffee Tasting: What is Honey Process? Jan 3, 2020 01:00 PM (PST) The first free, open-to-the-public coffee tasting of the new year, we’ll try some Honey process coffees. Go to event site Intro to Coffee Jan 11, 2020 02:00 PM (PST) A beginner-level class for enthusiasts, we’ll demystify the origins of coffee and explore the […]

October starts off with a bang! The first day of the month is International Coffee Day; celebrate all month long with us by attending some of the events below. As always you can check out the whole calendar on The Crown’s Events page — there you can sign up or find extra information about the […]

Back to School – Crown Style! We’ve ramped up our classes and events as we head into Second Summer in the Bay. As always, check out the full schedule on The Crown’s Events page. Public Tasting – Guatemalan Coffees Friday, September 6th from 1:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m. Join us for a free event to […]