Coffee Science — Specialty Coffee Competition
The Art of Coffee Tasting And Judging Coffee Competitions
Specialty Coffee is fresh, being served and consumed within 3 to 14 days from roast date. By contrast, commodity-based coffee will mostly be what we consider as stale. Specialty Coffee bags have ‘birth dates’, whereas commodity-based coffee bags have ‘death dates’. Most specialty roasters are transparent. They openly display the day it was roasted and also reveal the beans used, including the names of the farms.