A cupper is also a person that is going to judge coffee or be a professional taster. The company buyers share the baristas goal of seeking out the beans that will make such a great drink. The barista will be the one that stands in the front line of the last consumer each day and will get the actual feedback on the greatness or the actual loss of the efforts.
Do you want to know what a barista thinks about a bean and the product that it makes? I do.
About seventy different countries now grow coffee from the beans that are taken from Africa to the Middle East, out of South American to the Caribbean and clean over to Hawaii. It is all going to be in a distance of about 25 degrees of the equator south and north.
It is no surprise that the differences in the climate, altitude, equipment and so many other differences are going to make the beans range in variety from different countries. Even those with different places of growth will have different tasting items.
Coffee plants will actually come in two different types of categories. This will be arabica and robusta. Arabica is going to have less caffeine from the robust but it is used for the finer...