October Sensory Exercise – Apples
Yesterday in the lab we were doing some sensory testing on everyone’s favorite fall food – apples! Vincent had visited Poverty Lane orchards in Lebanon,... Read More
Spencer Turer: The Role of the Roaster’s Guild
Spencer Turer, our vice president, wrote about the Roasters Guild’s role in specialty coffee industry leadership and the founding of the Roasters Guild for the Flamekeeper column in Roast... Read More
Common ‘Grounds’: Screening for Cancer in Coffee Regions
In June 2012, nurse practitioner Ellen Starr arrived at the foothills of the Mount Kilimanjaro region in Tanzania, exhausted after a bumpy, two-hour car ride.... Read More
Grounds for Health Coffee Auction
Coffee Analysts is donating a complete Physical & Sensory Evaluation for 2 coffee products (green & roasted) For complete auction details, please click HERE Value: $375.00 ... Read More
Coffee Industry Leadership in the Age of Superlatives
Today’s DailyCoffeeNews has featured Spencer’s article on Leadership in the Age of Superlatives: In the coffee industry, we have developed a habit of using superlatives and exaggerations... Read More
Calibrating Sensory Standards with FlavorActiV
June/July’s STIR Magazine features a story on our exciting work calibrating sensory standards with the focus on taster training, coffee defect identification and taster calibrating with our... Read More
Coffee Analysts Promotes Gwen Russell to Tea Technologist
Burlington, Vermont USA, June 1, 2016 Coffee Analysts continues to increase tea testing capabilities and product expertise, and has promoted Gwen Russell to Tea Technologist... Read More
Top 5 Takeaways From #NCAcoffee16
Coffee professionals from around the world met in San Diego last month for the NCA 2016 Annual Convention. Here’s what Spencer Turer observed this year: The... Read More
Change Is Brewing….
While at the National Coffee Association (NCA) annual convention in San Diego last week, Spencer was interviewed by Dave Swanson from Reviewed.com to see what’s happening in the... Read More
Discovering Tea! A Tasting
Discovering Tea is a hands-on, introductory-level tasting workshop that will introduce you to the many levels of tea tasting experience. The workshop is hosted by... Read More
The Calibrating Coffee Sensory Plan: A New Approach
FlavorActiV Ltd, Coffee Enterprises and Square Mile Coffee partner to launch innovative sensory calibration program to raise global standards for coffee professionals. (October 15,... Read More
New Tea Testing Services
Burlington, VT, September 29, 2015 Coffee Analysts has created a comprehensive Tea Testing program to address quality and consistency issues for tea products. Even after... Read More
Your Coffee Needs a Regular Quality Tune-up
Coffee’s performance is the true measure of quality. Branding, promotion, and merchandising will give your coffee initial bursts of speed, but only aroma and... Read More
Coffee Analysts Goes to Vietnam
Spencer Turer, Vice President of Coffee Analysts, was recently invited to attend the Tea & Coffee World Cup Expo and Conference in Ho Chi Minh... Read More
Tea People Are a Lot Like Coffee People
Coffee Analysts’ staff members Gwen Toohey and Spencer Turer attended the WorldTeaExpo in May in preparation for increased tea testing capabilities at Coffee Analysts. Here... Read More
CoffeeTalk Magazine: Private Label Success – by Spencer Turer
Things have changed in the world of private label sales. Retailers used to stock private label products as a way to fill shelf space. Today, retailers... Read More
SCAA 2015 Thoughts and Observations
SCAA’s Specialty Coffee Event, held at the Washington State Convention Center, wound up on April 12th and the folks here in the office had some... Read More
RGC Coffee visits Coffee Analysts
Jonathan Gabbay and Ruby Ubando from RGC Coffee in Montreal visited the Coffee Analysts lab last Friday. RGC Coffee is a family-owned and operated importer of... Read More