Editor’s Note: Managing inventory onsite or in a warehouse is a crucial part of operations in a roastery, and the tighter the protocols the better. Weekly meetings, physical bag count, monitoring consumption, and staying connected with your trader are all essential parts of successful green coffee inventory management. When procedures are clear and followed to […]
Editor’s note: This article first appeared in Daily Coffee News on Thursday, March 15, 2018. Despite the fact that coffee comes equipped with a natural insecticide (caffeine), it is still susceptible to sporadic insect infestation. Royal Coffee experienced a pest-related incident that affected thousands of pounds of green coffee over the summer of 2017. The […]
在咖啡干燥处理厂的最后一个步骤就是根据咖啡的目数大小对咖啡生豆进行最后的分类，然后装袋出口。进行咖啡目数分类的机器非常大，分为若干层，每层均略微向下倾斜。当咖啡进入机器时，机器开始震动，通过重力作用不同目数的咖啡生豆就被筛选出来。工人们在机器的底端用麻袋盛接筛选出来的咖啡豆。通过多层的筛选，所筛选出来的咖啡豆目数更加准确，而且这...
Passing the Q Becoming a certified Q grader was a long time goal of mine, a way to prove to myself that I am a coffee sensory professional. Even though I have been cupping coffee five times a week for over a decade, I was still apprehensive to take the test, not to […]
Let’s cut to the chase: I need to issue a few corrections. Lucia Solis, of Scott Labs (not to be confused with the similarly named entity that helped develop the SL-28 variety in Kenya, for example. That Scott Labs no longer exists as such, but is now the National Agricultural Laboratories, a part of the larger […]
Download the printer-friendly PDF In Part I of this series on analyzing green coffee, we focused in a lot of detail on the water – specifically the relationship of a green coffee’s water content and activity to its safety, longevity, and potential for browning reactions in the roaster. This article will focus on another physical quality […]
Working as a tour guide in China, Yunnan was the destination that tourists and staff looked forward to visiting the most. I suppose that Yunnan’s capital being dubbed “The City of Eternal Spring” made it an easier sell. The province is considered one of the most diverse in the country. It contains about half of […]
