It is often said that what is the COE Cup? what is the focus of the cup test?

CoE is currently the most important coffee evaluation competition. ACE, a non-profit organization, individually organizes CoE competitions for single coffee producing countries (Brazil / Colombia / Bolivia / Guatemala / El Salvador / Nicaragua / Honduras / Costa Rica / Luanda and other 9 countries) to select winning coffee farms through cup tests at five levels. Many coffee farmers who do not have the money to market or do not know how to pack use CoE to let coffee buyers around the world know his estate.

To understand CoE, you must know what a "cup test" is.

The cup test is a testing technique for "coffee that has not been brewed", which can clearly analyze the quality of coffee beans. The cup test with a simple certain proportion of shallow roasted coffee with water, because of the lack of baking decoration, each cup of coffee seems to appear without makeup, and the pros and cons of beans will be magnified in an instant.

The key points of cup test ~ include coffee cleanliness / sweetness / acidity / oral touch / sipping flavor / aftertaste / balance and overall evaluation.

In the first pass, the presiding judge and domestic judges will first make a preliminary screening of coffee samples. More than 500 manors may participate in the competition. Those who are qualified will arrange baking and cup-by-cup testing, and those with 84 points can be promoted to the international review stage. The judges of the coffee competition at this stage are all international buyers with pure ripe cup testing technology. if they pass the cup test of these judges, they will have the title of "annual winning manor" with a score of more than 84 points, and can participate in the open bidding on the Internet. At this point, the unknown manor finally stands out in the history of the CoE winning list.

The fifth level is the Top10 finals that coffee farmers yearn for, with the top 10 competing for the annual ranking to determine the honor and future income of coffee farmers.

When tasting the boutique coffee billed as produced by Yusheng Manor, you might as well see which country of CoE chose it in which year. When you get a good cup of coffee, don't forget to thank those serious coffee farmers for their hard work.