Sunday’s schedule was light. We cupped coffees from the Saturday roasting workshops. Cupping at these roasters group meetings is a lot like having a sit-down meal with your family. It gives us a chance to gather around a table and sample the same coffees, discuss our impressions and learn from each other. The coffee from Laos was presented in three different roast levels and served in standard cupping method, filter drip and French press. It was a good opportunity to familiarize ourselves with coffee from an origin country none of us had roasted before and will give us a reference point when we encounter this coffee in the future. We’ll try to get samples we can roast in our shop and play around with some different profiles. Thank you to Michael Hancock for providing the coffee for this workshop and for spending time with the Cult.
After the cupping, Ricardo Pereira of BRASC announced the winner of the Brazil coffee roasting competition and we lingered in the cafe saying goodbyes and making promises to keep in touch until the next gathering. The crew at Leopard Forest (who worked incredibly hard all weekend and were essential to pulling off a great event) prepared box lunches for everybody to take on the road. Thank you, thank you, thank you.
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