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Cupping refers to an ancient Chinese practice in which a cup is applied to the skin and the pressure in the cup is reduced (by using change in heat or by suctioning out air), so that the skin and superficial muscle layer is drawn into and held in the cup.
Hiệp hội Cà phê Đặc sản Hoa Kỳ (SCAA: tiền thân của Hiệp hội Cà phê Đặc sản có trụ sở tại Hoa Kỳ) đã phát triển hệ thống tính điểm của họ vào năm 1984. Đây là hệ thống dựa trên 100 điểm đầu tiên cho cà phê. Trong khi bảng điểm có mười hạng mục, mỗi hạng mục được chấm trong số 10 có thể, chỉ có bảy hạng mục được chấm điểm dựa trên chất lượng. Ba danh mục không được tính điểm dựa trên chất lượng, cũng như một hệ thống trừ điểm bổ sung, được sử dụng để giúp người giám tuyển xác định các lô bị lỗi.
I'll leave you with something Alejandro told the farmers of Los Rosales: "Los cafes especiales no existen. Lo que existe es productores especiales." This roughly translates to "Special coffees don't exist. What exists is special producers."
For coffees that have everything going for them in terms of environmental potential, like these in Nariño, I couldn't agree more with this sentiment. Having met many of these special producers, I'm thrilled for what's to come.
Fred had just spent a view weeks in Durham + Chapel Hill spending time with Virmax East Coast US, Badi Bradley and the Grant Tenille.
Prepping for another Cupping Session at the office!
Testing our new Harvest Blend which will be available on our online store starting this week through November.
Harvest Blend is just what we need to fully enjoy and appreciate Autumn!
Get EXCITED!
Here Luciano, the head cupper at the farm, wanted to prove the point that:
1. Coffees from the same micro-region of the farm could taste different, depending on whether they were grown closer to the top of the slope or the bottom (100-200ft away), and that people could taste the difference when properly guided.
2. The "same" coffee dried on different mechanical dryers or on different batches on the same dryer could taste different and people could also pick up those differences. We cupped 7 different batches from one hillside.
And he was right on both instances.
It is impressive how the workers at the farm track where exactly each coffee is coming from, how that information goes to the cupping table at each stage, how the farm managers and agronomists grab that feedback and actually use it to improve how coffee is grown, fertilized and harvested in each slope on the farm. And it is even more impressive how all of that is coordinated with the "tratoristas" (the tractor drivers, each of whom manage a specific section of the farm) and a huge team (including hundreds of seasonal workers) to implement the improvements.
Dallis Bros. Coffee staff trip to the Fazenda Nossa Senhora Aparecida in Alta Mogiana, a coffee farm in the countryside of the state of São Paulo, Brazil, between May/June of 2010.
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Cupping refers to an ancient Chinese practice in which a cup is applied to the skin and the pressure in the cup is reduced, usually by a flame, so that the skin and superficial muscle layer is drawn into and held in the cup.
Cupping is believed to stimulate flow of blood, lymph and Qi to the affected area. Its uses include relieving pain in the muscles, especially back pain from stiffness or injury, and clearing congestion in the chest, which can occur with colds and flu. It can even benefit menstrual problems and digestive problems, too.
A certain amount of bruising is expected both from fixed position cupping (especially at the site of the cup rim) and with movement of the cups.