In this short episode, we look at news from April about a massive change in the structure of how Specialty Coffee is graded and some criticisms from industry insiders.

Here’s a great introduction to the 9-Point Hedonic Scale.

The @specialtycoffeeassociation Coffee Value Assessment is meant to give professionals a fuller language for describing quality, a language that potentially meets the market at a number of points of contact.

We’ve previously covered the Coffee Value Assessment and Q-Grading on Dialed In.

The Coffee Sensory & Cupping Handbook by @mariofernandezalduenda and @petereodesic is an essential resource for understanding sensory science as it relates to coffee.

A study based on affective testing found that coffee drinkers’ taste preferences can be correlated not only to flavors discovered in descriptive analysis, but also the the object TDS numbers of each brew.

Shoutouts

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