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Cupping Notes: Learn to distinguish between coffee characteristics

Cupping Notes: Fragrances, Acid, Body, Flavor and Finish

As a follow up to our cupping guide, here's a handy guide for distinguishing between coffee characteristics — which, for the novice cupper, can sometimes seem like five ways to say the same thing.

Here are a few more tips for advancing your cupping skills by sorting out dry grounds from wet, and distinguishing aspects of acidity, body, flavor and finish.

Fragrance of dry coffee grounds

Do they smell fresh? Stale? Over roasted? Under roasted? This is a great place to find out, before water is added to the mix.

Examples:

Sweet   Spicy

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