Coffee defects kit
FlavorActiv references for recognising the defects of coffee.
125 USD
Six FlavorActiv reference standards for coffee defects, individually blister-packed, with a lexicon card.
What is in it. O-cresol, for phenolic. Acetaldehyde, for peapod. Acetic acid. Geosmin, for musty. Trans-2-nonenal, for papery. And 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine, for potato skin.
What it is for. Recognising a defect is the step before correcting it. If nobody on the panel knows what it smells like, the process gets fixed blind.
They are used in the sensory workshops, and also sold on their own.
125 USD.
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ProjectCoffee Research & Processing
Working alongside coffee producers to understand what happens between the farm and the cup — designing and documenting processing trials, fermentation, drying, sensory evaluation and the systems needed to make the results reproducible.
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