COE Coffee Excellence Cup Competition introduces the auction time of Cup of Excellence excellent Cup coffee beans.

CoE is Cup of Excellence, which stands for "the perfect cup of coffee", also known as "excellent cup". It is the most important boutique coffee bean competition in the world. First held in Brazil in 1999 by the Coffee Excellence Organization (ACE), it is currently the most well-known and authoritative boutique coffee competition in the world and the most credible competition to judge top coffee.

The competition is usually held once a year, when the growers of boutique coffee submit their best beans to the national or international censors. The coffee must accept the strict rules of the competition, and the winning manor must go through six hurdles, usually 500 estates are screened to end up with less than 30.

Why is there a CoE?

The traditional coffee industry mainly pursues a large number of marketing and commercial transactions, but driven by huge profits and commercialization, more and more attention has been paid to the quality and production source of coffee.

Before the advent of the Zhuoyue Cup, most coffee beans were mixed, the wonderful flavor of different coffee beans could not be highlighted, the flavor characteristics were submerged in the national or regional names, and the really good beans were often buried.

In order to give producers an incentive to grow high-quality coffee, it is not just "I want to grow delicious coffee!" In order to make coffee growers change their lives and extricate themselves from poverty, it is necessary to make high profits. Therefore, there is a high-quality coffee evaluation meeting, using the COE system, according to the score evaluation ranking.

Affected by the attractive price, coffee growers who used to focus on production have also begun to work on quality, trying to create the most flavored coffee "beauty" to run.

The "beauty" of top coffee depends not only on the variety and genes of coffee, but also on a series of climatic and human factors: for example, the high-altitude lava of South America precipitates into the soil that gives birth to it, and the grower calculates the best mature period to harvest coffee beans, and then choose the right methods, such as washing, drying, peeling, polishing, picking. Finally, there is the art-like baking process, which is what the judges gathered at COE are good at.

According to convention, there are 10 identical white coffee cups in front of everyone, each containing 11.5 grams of fresh coffee beans, distinguished only by numbers. In order to ensure the fairness of the results of the competition, no one knows their origin, washing and baking methods. These are the coffee "beauties" who made it to the semi-finals of COE. Through the eight scoring items (cleanliness, sweetness, acidity, oral touch, sipping flavor, aftertaste, balance and overall evaluation), the winner of the coffee Oscar is selected.

The role of CoE:

Coffee with the title of CoE can be sold at high prices at international online auctions dominated by boutique coffee.

This system can not only enhance the production desire of the coffee farm, but also enhance the evaluation and local popularity of the coffee farm and its surrounding area, and then increase the coffee trading volume, which has multiple effects.

The standard discrimination of CoE:

The total score is 69 or less, which is a slightly worse commercial bean or industrial bean.

The total score is between 70 and 74, which belongs to general commercial beans.

The total score is between 75 and 79, and the better commercial beans are generally called high-grade commercial beans.

The total score is between 80 and 84, which belongs to fine coffee.

The total score is 85 or more, belonging to the CoE competition level, is also the excellent cup of winning coffee, is currently recognized as the highest standard in the international coffee industry.

You can refer to the ranking of the 2015 CoE competition in northern Colombia, which just ended, and you can see that the top two scores are more than 89 points. You know, under the stringent CoE scoring system, this means that it is equivalent to the existence of the best Panama bidding geisha. Are you impressed?