The CAPS Coffee Research Project Team is pleased to host Trish Rothgeb, Director of Q and Educational Services at the Coffee Quality Institute and Founder of Wrecking Ball Coffee Roasters on Thursday, September 10, 2015. The talk will explore the evolution of the coffee industry's describing words for what is in your cup. As technology and market influences change the way the consumer enjoys coffee, the industry devoted to quality must adjust as well as maintain established standards. Get a glimpse into the scoring tools and protocols professionals use to describe coffee, and learn how the industry hopes to improve accuracy and repeatability with its coffee lexicon in the future.
· Date: Thursday, September 10, 2015
· Location: Rightmire Hall, 102 with a video-link to Selby Hall, 203 (Wooster)
· Time: 10:30am-11:30am
· Title: "The Descriptive Coffee Lexicon: an Industry Tool"
This is a public lecture, open to the OSU community and local coffee roasters, brewers and distributors.
