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Coffee Cupping Score Sheet

This document provides instructions for hosting a coffee cupping event at home to expand knowledge of coffee tasting. It explains that a coffee cupping involves brewing and comparing multiple coffees based on aroma, acidity, sweetness, body, finish and flavor. A scoring sheet is included to rate three coffee samples on each characteristic and overall. Alternatively, a casual monthly tasting of one new coffee product scored out of five could be done as part of a coffee club. The document encourages donations to a charity with each new coffee sampled.

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Coffee Cupping Score Sheet

This document provides instructions for hosting a coffee cupping event at home to expand knowledge of coffee tasting. It explains that a coffee cupping involves brewing and comparing multiple coffees based on aroma, acidity, sweetness, body, finish and flavor. A scoring sheet is included to rate three coffee samples on each characteristic and overall. Alternatively, a casual monthly tasting of one new coffee product scored out of five could be done as part of a coffee club. The document encourages donations to a charity with each new coffee sampled.

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Hosting your own ‘coffee cupping’

A coffee cupping is a coffee tasting used commonly in the coffee industry. If you’d like to expand your
knowledge and skills in coffee tasting, we’ve shared a simplified guide and this score sheet to set up a
comparative tasting for your Coffee Club at home. This form of tasting would mean brewing and trying a few
different coffees at one single Coffee Club and this guide is based on James Hoffman’s fantastic and easy to
follow youtube videos on setting up your own industry-style ‘coffee cupping’ at home and Beginner’s
Guide to Coffee Tasting.

Understanding coffee and your palate

Developing your sense of taste is great fun and can also help you to make a more informed choice when
buying coffee in future. There are generally six characteristics to bear in mind when tasting coffee – Aroma,
acidity, sweetness, body, finish and flavour. The scoresheet below compares three samples. As you taste,
score out of ten and take notes on each of the characteristics, then agree an overall score for that sample.
If you’d like to try a more simple and casual approach to tasting and scoring, meet for Coffee Club regularly
and try 1 new coffee product every month. Use our coffee tasting guide to each give the coffee an overall
score out of five. Do remember to keep score to find your individual favourites and Coffee Club winner!

Aroma Acidity Sweetness Body Finish Flavour Overall


Coffee sample 1:
Score
Notes

Coffee sample 2:
Score
Notes

Coffee sample 3:
Score
Notes

Raise more for Farm Africa!

Every time someone at the Coffee Club buys a new coffee to sample, why not encourage them to match what they’ve spent on it to donate to Farm Africa!
Visit www.farmafrica.org/coffeeclubhub where you can access and download the full coffee tasting guide and lots of other resources to help you organise the
perfect Coffee Club!

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