After a long week of lectures and practical exams related to coffee. The students’ final act is the General Knowledge Exam comprised of 100 question related to growing, processing, contracts, roasting, grinding, cupping and grading.

An often overlooked essential to proper coffee cupping, is in preparation of the cups. Here you see students pouring the water over the ground coffee. Seems simple, but every step (selection, dosing, grinding, water temp, pouring, etc.) up to this point must be well mapped in order for proper extraction to occur.