Qgrader examination professional coffee cup tester certification how to take Q

After successfully passing the Q GRADER exam, some friends who are interested in the Q GRADER exam have asked me about the exam. It is true that there is less data in this area. Therefore, I would like to make a general summary here to give some reference to friends who want to take the Q GRADER.

First, about the examination subjects

Q GRADER is an exam jointly certified by SCAA and CQI. At present, the examination will take five days, with a total of 22 subjects. If you pass all the subjects, you can get Q GRADER certification. If you have failed subjects, you can pass the make-up exam within 18 months. Specific subjects include:

① 1 Coffee General knowledge written test, answer 100 multiple choice questions within 1 hour, answer more than 75 correctly can pass.

② 3 taste threshold test refers to the identification of sour, sweet and salty taste. One of them is to find out which of the nine cups of water are sweet, sour and salty, and the other is to distinguish the three concentration levels in each of the three cups of sour, sweet and salty. One door is three flavors, three grades, that is, nine solutions, which are mixed with each other, and then there are eight cups of mixed solution. let you point out what flavors and concentration levels are in these 8 cups of solution (it may be a mixture of two flavors, or it may be a mixture of three flavors).

The ③ 4 door smell bottle smell test refers to the 36 flavor bottle of coffee nose. Among them, it is divided into 4 groups according to the cause of taste, so there are 4 separate tests. The way of the test is to take a lianliankan look at 9 bottles on one side and 6 bottles on the other side, asking you to point out which of the 6 bottles in the other group is the other group of 9 bottles. Then write down the specific taste of the specified 3 bottles. During the exam, the lights will be turned off, only the red light will be turned on, and the bottles will be wrapped in order to prevent candidates from judging by color.

④ 5-door triangular cup test is 5 rounds, each round 6 groups. There are 3 cups in each group, of which 2 cups are the same and 1 cup is different. Find out which cup is different. There can be at most one wrong group in each round of 6 groups. During the exam, the lights will be turned off, only the red light will be turned on, and candidates will not be allowed to observe the coffee powder through color.

⑤ 1 organic acid test, that is, there are 8 groups of coffee, each group of 4 cups, of which 2 cups are added with acid (citric acid, malic acid, phosphoric acid, acetic acid). Find these two cups. Then write down what kind of acid is added.

⑥ 1 sample baking identification, (through Agtron and students' sensory ability to observe coffee beans to test whether students understand the baking degree of SCAA standard samples) is based on the color of coffee beans and coffee powder to determine whether it conforms to the SCAA cup test standard for baking color.

The ⑦ 1 raw bean grading test is a 20-minute group with a total of three groups to select raw beans, pick out various defective beans specified by SCAA, and explain what kind of defects they are, calculate the number of defects, and judge whether they are fine coffee or non-boutique coffee according to the defects.

⑧ 1 cooked beans identification, according to the SCAA standard, in the cooked beans to select whether there are QUAKER beans, and indicate whether it is a high-quality coffee.

The ⑨ 5-door coffee cup test is based on the SCAA cup test for 5 rounds (Brazil, Colombia, East Africa, Indonesia, Central America). There are six sets of coffee in each round. Six kinds of coffee in each producing area were scored on the basis of SCAA cup meter. Check to see if your score matches the score of the coffee.