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On the SCAE Guest Blog, intrepid origin tour leader Colin Smith adds his comments and introduction to the complete Cafe Europa account of our origin trip in Hawaii last year. You may have already read my summary of the tour back in November, but the Cafe Europa article goes into much more detail and includes [...]

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It’s a quiet and rainy Easter Sunday afternoon in Waimea, so I’m a little fidgety and decided to look up a few things online for one of my work projects. Nothing too taxing or requiring a great deal of concentration, but the sort of lazy and easily distracted online reading that is best done on [...]

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I haven’t fully decided whether or not to press release this, but it’s official: I’m the first Q Grader for the Coffee Quality Institute from the State of Hawaii. Building on the SCAA Cupping Judge sensory exams completed earlier this year, there was only one remaining written exam to add “Q” licensing to my list [...]

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The article below appeared in the New Times (Kigali) on Feb. 10, 2008 and very timely, as I urge Hawaii to adopt standards for coffee tasting and grading: Eugene Kwibuka Kigali Over thirty coffee tasters from different corners of the country have completed a three day training course on advanced coffee valuing techniques. The training [...]

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Kamuela, HI (MARKETWIRE) January 28, 2007 – Andrew Hetzel of coffee consultancy Cafemakers has become the first Hawaii resident to be certified as a coffee Cupping Judge by the Specialty Coffee Association of America. In a 5-day series of exams held this January in Waterbury, Vermont, Mr. Hetzel successfully completed 21 sensory skill and coffee [...]

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