I set up my first coffee cupping

I set up my first coffee cupping

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I set up my first coffee cupping

I set up my first coffee cupping

minimum dose size?

Jan 31, 2024 |

I use the Hario switch to brew my coffee and am trying to reduce my caffeine consumption. Hence I would like to brew smaller cups of coffee. I am currently using 10g of coffee with 160g of water. (1:16 Ratio) I am wondering if there is a minimum amount of coffee...

I set up my first coffee cupping

My wife got me the Baratza Encore for Christmas, so I followed James Hoffmann's video on setting up a coffee cupping to try and develop tasting skills. I picked up two bags each from two specialty roasters near me, in addition to a grocery store brand. I'm fairly certain everything here is a medium-light to medium roast. Everything was ground to what I think is a pretty neutral medium (#18 on Baratza Encore.)

My scale only has 1g precision, so I tried to add only 9g of ground beans to each cup. Then brewed with 150ml of boiling water for 4 mins before stirring to stop the brewing.

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The 5 beans I used were (from left to right):

  1. Aldi Simply Nature Organic Honduras

  2. Ethiopian Yirgacheffe

  3. Guatemala Antigua

  4. Costa Rican patio dried

  5. Ethiopian Sidamo natural processed

I'm such an amateur at this that unfortunately I really don't have any great tasting notes to describe. Overall I found it easiest to differentiate between the body and acidity than I did flavor.

The Guatemalan seemed to have a lot less body, which comparatively felt like I was drinking tea. Most of the others were pretty similar.

There were some minor differences in acidity between them, but nothing I could really consistently call out. The Aldi brand coffee did taste slightly less… intense? complex?… which I guess I attribute to it being by far the least freshly roasted. I was satisfied at being as to tell that difference.

I was a little disappointed that I felt like I was getting floral notes in all of them. I was kind of hoping to get a chocolate or nut like flavor in some versus others. Maybe I need to try different roast levels in order to work myself towards being able to tell those differences.

Overall it was a fun experience and I'm glad I tried it. If anything it showed me how easy it was to set up, and hopefully in the future I'll be able to taste more diversity between each cup.

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