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Cupping & Quality Control

The cup kept with the roast that produced it.

Available in RoastConsole Cloud on Web. The shared record. Roasts, profiles, green lots, and production orders kept in sync, with roasted output becoming inventory you can work with.

Scored against a reference, not an opinion

Every attribute recorded separately against a named sheet, with the session total beside the house reference.

Cupping profile against reference

Eight attributes, SCA points

Aroma: 8.50Flavor: 8.25Aftertaste: 8.00Acidity: 8.75Body: 7.75Balance: 8.25Sweetness: 8.50Overall: 8.25AromaFlavorAftertasteAcidityBodyBalanceSweetnessOverall
  • Ethiopia Guji · Lot 4482
  • House reference
Table view
Cupping attribute scores against the house reference
AttributeLot 4482Reference
Aroma8.507.50
Flavor8.257.75
Aftertaste8.007.50
Acidity8.757.25
Body7.757.75
Balance8.257.50
Sweetness8.507.25
Overall8.257.50

A score read against its spread

Mean, minimum, maximum, and standard deviation sit with the samples, so one number is never read on its own.

Cupping score spread by origin

Minimum, quartiles, median and maximum · SCA points

EthiopiaEthiopia: median 87.25, quartiles 86–88.5, range 84.5–89.75, n=2487.25KenyaKenya: median 86.75, quartiles 85.5–88, range 84–89.5, n=1686.75ColombiaColombia: median 85.5, quartiles 84.5–86.5, range 83–87.5, n=2185.50BrazilBrazil: median 83.5, quartiles 82.75–84.5, range 81.5–85.75, n=1983.50808284868890SCA score
Table view
Cupping score distribution by origin
OriginMinQ1MedianQ3Maxn
Ethiopia84.58687.2588.589.7524
Kenya8485.586.758889.516
Colombia8384.585.586.587.521
Brazil81.582.7583.584.585.7519

Evaluators compared on the same cups

Calibration analysis shows how the table scores relative to one another, with guests admitted by access code.

Every cup, by origin

One dot per scored sample · the data behind the box plot

EthiopiaEthiopia: 84.50Ethiopia: 85.50Ethiopia: 86.00Ethiopia: 86.25Ethiopia: 86.75Ethiopia: 87.00Ethiopia: 87.25Ethiopia: 87.50Ethiopia: 87.75Ethiopia: 88.00Ethiopia: 88.50Ethiopia: 89.00Ethiopia: 89.75KenyaKenya: 84.00Kenya: 85.00Kenya: 85.50Kenya: 86.00Kenya: 86.50Kenya: 86.75Kenya: 87.00Kenya: 87.50Kenya: 88.00Kenya: 88.50Kenya: 89.50ColombiaColombia: 83.00Colombia: 83.25Colombia: 83.50Colombia: 84.50Colombia: 85.25Colombia: 85.50Colombia: 85.75Colombia: 86.25Colombia: 86.50Colombia: 87.00Colombia: 87.50BrazilBrazil: 81.50Brazil: 82.00Brazil: 82.50Brazil: 82.75Brazil: 83.25Brazil: 83.50Brazil: 83.75Brazil: 84.00Brazil: 84.50Brazil: 85.00Brazil: 85.75808284868890SCA score

Mean

Table view
Cupping scores by origin, count and mean
OriginSamplesMeanRange
Ethiopia1387.2184.5–89.75
Kenya1186.7584–89.5
Colombia1185.2783–87.5
Brazil1183.5081.5–85.75

Scoring in practice

Move through the views that make up cupping & quality control.

Samples, cuppers, and sessions on one header, with mean, min, max, and standard deviation alongside them, so a score is read against its spread rather than on its own. Date, sheet type, blind or not, and location are set once and hold for the table.

Reference

What a session captures

Per event and per evaluator.

Sheet type

SCA, Quick Cup Basic, or Production 3CAT.

Samples

The coffees on the table, held against the event.

Attendees and guests

Team evaluators plus guests admitted by access code.

Per-evaluator scores

Every attribute recorded separately, with a total per session.

Calibration analysis

How evaluators compare against one another across the same cups.

Linked roast

The batch that produced the coffee on the table.

PDF reports

Event and session reports rendered for sharing.

CSV export

Raw scores out for your own analysis.

Questions

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