COFFEE VARIETIES


/ IDENTIFYING COFFEE VARIETIES
Dakota Graff
Onyx Coffee Lab

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Dakota Graff is going to help you out with identifying coffee varieties and score some serious points ☕

Dakota is the Green Buyer for Onyx Coffee Lab in Northwest Arkansas, USA. He is no stranger to cupping, sometimes cupping hundreds of coffees at a time in search of some tasty micro-lots. He is also no stranger to competition. Dakota has competed in both the United States Barista Competition, as well as placing sixth in the United States Coffee in Good Spirits Championship 🥃🍹

This video covers: Castillo, Catuaí, Bourbon, Pink Bourbon, Pacamara, Ethiopian Landraces, SL28, Gesha

/ IDENTIFYING COFFEE VARIETIES
Ben Put
Monogram Coffee

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Ben is a world renowned coffee legend and co-founder of Monogram Coffee in Calgary, Canada. He is a three time World Barista Championship finalist and has been competing since the beginning of time itself.

/ IDENTIFYING COFFEE VARIETIES
Kay Pest
JAVA Coffee Roasters

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Kay is the co-owner and head roaster of JAVA Coffee Roasters in Toronto, Canada. She is the 2016 Polish Cup Tasters Champion and the current Canadian Cup Tasters Champion.

ADDITIONAL RESOURCES

/ VARIETY LIBRARY
via Alexander Mills


Our good friend Alex Mills has made a visual variety library to help you play Leaderboard. There are 100+ references currently uploaded to the library and we suggest using this library in tandem with tasting your coffees.

PRO TIP= Do not rely entirely on visual cues to identify the coffee.

/ WCR VARIETY CATALOG
World Coffee Research


WCR has created an online catalog for you to search for and better understand a good portion of the identified varieties. PRO TIP= pay attention to the patterns relating to where varieties are commonly found.

/ A REFERENCE GUIDE TO ETHIOPIAN COFFEE VARIETIES
Gutu Bekele + Timothy Hill


Written by Gutu Bekele and Timothy Hill, this book is the culmination of two years of hard work to bridge the gap between Ethiopian Varieties and the industry.

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