The Coffee Smarter Podcast Tasting and Cupping Coffee with Siri Simran Khalsa, Lofty Coffee Company.
Mar 21, 2023
Siri Simran Khalsa, Director of Coffee at Lofty Coffee and experienced cupping instructor, walks through professional cupping methods. Hear practical steps for setup, slurping technique, and sensory categories. She highlights aroma training tools and how roasting shapes flavor. Tips on focused tasting and using cupping forms round out the conversation.
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Cupping Is Designed To Isolate The Coffee
- Cupping reduces brewing variance so you judge the bean itself rather than differences in brewing technique.
- It lets you evaluate many samples quickly with identical grind, coffee mass, and water to isolate origin and roast traits.
Taste Coffee In Stages For Accurate Comparison
- Do evaluate coffee in stages: dry fragrance, wet aroma after breaking the crust, then tasting as it cools.
- Use consistent grind, brew ratio, and water to minimize brewing variance and compare coffees fairly during cupping.
Let Coffee Cool To Reveal Nuance
- Let brewed samples cool a bit before judging to reveal nuanced flavors and detect off-tastes that hot coffee can mask.
- Taste across cooling stages to ensure the coffee maintains desirable qualities as temperature drops.