Rating and Grading: Does it matter for specialty coffee consumers?
Posted by TheShot on 26 Sep 2007 | Filed under: Beans, Consumer Trends, Quality Issues
This month’s issue of the trade rag CoffeeTalk posed the question of standardized specialty coffee ratings and grades as an aid to consumers: Toward standardized specialty coffee ratings and grading [PDF, page 8, 7.6Mb]. The article opens with mention of $130 a pound Hacienda Esmeralda Geisha. It then questions how retailers and consumers can inject [...]
