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Homeroasters - Home Roasting Coffee Community » CUPPING - BREWING » The Challenge of Cupping

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coffee tasting with large group of friends
jedovaty	#1 Posted on 03/11/2012 12:23 PM
1/2 Pounder Posts: 225 Joined: October 31, 2011	Hi: I have tried searching briefly here, considerably on google, but can't find anything very helpful. I am looking for advice on how to taste coffee with about half a dozen friends. I would have two or three coffees from the local roaster, starbucks, and two-three of my own beans roasted to two different levels each. So that's quite a bit of coffee. The biggest issue is how to brew so much coffee at once? - cupping would be right, because: -- you just need to grind the coffee, and have a bunch of boiling pots of water and friends can bring kettles to help out with. but it has issues: --- 6 friends and a dozen coffees makes for 72 cups/bowls... that's a lot of cups holy cow what do I do with it afterwards?! (by the way, I found nice $1.50 8oz bowls at C&B which would be perfect, but spending that much for stuff I won't use at least a year later... seems excessive and wasteful). --- Plastic/Paper cups? --- is sharing bowls "okay" ? Kind of grosses me out, even though we are just sipping and dipping spoons.. err... yuck --- after describing the process to my peeps, they have problems with either the grinds in their mouths or the spitting --- most haven't tasted coffee this way, and I feel it would be better to do in a way they are more familiar with to have a reference French press may be possible as well, but buying 12 french presses at $20 a piece seems waaaay too excessive. Oh - wait - the local sur-la-tab has these plastic #4 pour-over cones frombelguim for $2.50 a piece. My gf uses one of these with a swiss gold, but I could buy a dozen and use paper filters. But if I get past the brewing part, still left with the issue of serving the coffee in such a way they can be tasted together at the same time. hmmm... help? Maybe this is too large a project and I should narrow it down. The idea is to taste them all side-by-side, and I'd want to do it blind to remove all bias. Something for fun on a late saturday morning :)


ginny	#2 Posted on 03/11/2012 2:30 PM
Founder Posts: 3476 Joined: October 24, 2005	http://www.sweetm...ition.html this is reported to be a great book. -g


ginny	#3 Posted on 03/11/2012 2:34 PM
Founder Posts: 3476 Joined: October 24, 2005	http://coffeegeek...nercupping side right, second panel give you the index for reading this paper. -g


jedovaty	#4 Posted on 03/11/2012 5:46 PM
1/2 Pounder Posts: 225 Joined: October 31, 2011	Thank you for your input! Sorry I wasn't clear, cupping is a no go because the friends are very, very averse to grinds and spitting. And personally, I'm against sharing cups, it grosses me out. I think this is too ambitious a project. Well, it's on hold for now, anyway.


jkoll42	#5 Posted on 03/11/2012 7:40 PM
1 1/2 Pounder Posts: 860 Joined: February 14, 2011	Why not simplify? Do one $'s, two very different coffee's of your own roast and one professional roast. That would get you your nasty coffee (to make yours taste amazing :) ), professional and a range of your own. I agree that you should probably brew in a conventional method so there is no sharing of cups (nasty!) or grounds in teeth etc. Could you swing 4 french presses? 6 cups? Pour the water in the presses 1 min apart (or whatever) and cup each brew one after the other. You can just rinse the cup out between brews. I say go for the fun and don't worry about getting super elaborate. If everyone enjoys it, you can do it again with the same presses and this time do 4 of your own coffees since everyone will remember the nasty $'s! Jon -Jon Honey badger 1k, Bunn LPG-2E, Technivorm, Cimbali Max Hybrid, Vibiemme Double Domo V3


JimH	#6 Posted on 03/11/2012 7:47 PM
1/4 Pounder Posts: 98 Joined: February 17, 2011	Check your area for a party rental supplier. They will be happy to rent you as many cups as you could want, you can usually even return them dirty. As far as brewing goes, I think the #4 cones are probably a pretty good idea. You might start to feel like a one-armed paperhanger trying to pour them all at once though, help will almost undoubtedly be necessary. You can probably rent carafes when you get the cups.


jedovaty	#7 Posted on 03/12/2012 9:34 AM
1/2 Pounder Posts: 225 Joined: October 31, 2011	Thanks for the ideas. Reducing the number of beans will help, and if the party supply places are too expensive, I can just ask friends to bring their own mugs. Or look into paper cups -- not ideal, but it'll do the trick. Perfect, thanks again for the input.

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