Producer Toolkit: Quality Assurance, Pt 1 - A practical guide to tasting and roasting coffee
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This episode is a practical guide to tasting coffee, sample roasting and judging quality, built for small producers on a tight budget. That makes it just as useful if you’re early in your coffee journey and want to learn the basics without spending thousands on equipment, starting with a frying pan or a $30 popcorn popper.
If you work in coffee, it reveals the obstacles producers face when they try to discuss quality on equal terms with buyers in the global north.
Part of The Coffee Producer Toolkit, a series made in collaboration with Lucia Solis, it will help you understand coffee farming better than most professionals you'll meet at a trade show.
Each episode takes one part of the farming business — agronomy, processing, fermentation, storage, quality, sales — and lays out what the best farms are actually doing.
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- Filter Stories: How Heat Transforms Coffee Beans
- Filter Stories: How to Be a Better Taster
- Filter Stories: Getting Great Water, Step by Step
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People mentioned in the episode:
- Karla Boza — Jacinta Y Su Cafe, San Benito, El Salvador
- Paulino Quintero — Huila, Colombia
- Jesús Antonio Chala — Finca El Silencio, Colombia
- Thompson Owen — Sweet Maria's Coffee, USA
- Lahari Balireddi — ASG Coffee, Kenya
- Manuel Barsallo — Agrícola Geisha, Panama
- Lorenz Haschka — BWT water+more
Resources:
- Video: How to Make Cold Brew
- Physical Coffee Diary
- Digital App: Coffee Brew Log
- Digital App: Tasting Notes
- Sweet Maria's guide to roasting in a pan or popper, with video
- Sweet Maria's roasting on a pan or popper tip sheet
- Sweet Maria's air popper resources and video
- Filter Stories guide: Roasting your own coffee (English)
- Guía de Filter Stories: Cómo tostar tu propio café (en español)
- Guide to getting a good sample roast
- Video: How to Cup Coffee at Home
- SCA Cupping Workshop
- Video: How to use an Alkalinity Dropper Kit
- Buy a water test kit
- SCA Water Control Chart
- Water calculator to adjust alkalinity
- Make your Own Water for Coffee
- Video: Make your own water for coffee
- BWT bestmax PREMIUM (under-sink option)
- BWT bestbarista ROC COFFEE
- PDFs of CVA Form in 7 languages
- The SCA Coffee Value Assessment, Extrinsic Criteria List
- Digital App: Catador
- Digital: CVA in your web browser
Cover art: Nick Hafner
The Coffee Producer Toolkit is made possible by these leading coffee organisations:
The Coffee Quest | BWT water+more | Descamex | InterAmerican | Pinhalense | Novonesis | GrainPro
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