Coffee Tasting and Cupping at Ritual Coffee Roasters

Sun 1 Jul. 3200 California Street, San Francisco, 94118. Michael McKenzie, 415-292-1233. Jewish Community Center of San Franciso - [email][events]

Ever wanted to learn about how coffee gets from the seed to the cup? Join The Hub and head out to Ritual Coffee Roasters (located in the new Flora Grub Gardens) for a lesson on ‘Coffee Cupping’.

Cupping is the coffee industry's way of tasting several coffees at once. Through meditation on the fragrance, aroma, and taste of several coffees in juxtaposition, each is understood in a way far transcending the bliss of your morning cup of joe. Cupping is also the culmination of dozens of incremental steps used to strip each coffee down and reveal its most essential characteristics. First you admire the roasted beans, then you inhale the complex dry fragrance, woo them with water, and smell the sweet aroma of the brew, breaking the insulating crust that a fresh roasted coffee forms. Finally, the juicy liquor of the coffee is enjoyed, discussed, and completely understood, enhanced by its context in relation to the other samples being cupped.

Ryan Brown, head roaster at Ritual, will lead participants through the steps of cupping, describe the nuances of the coffees and explain pretty much anything you've ever wanted to know about coffee. Participants will taste and compare single-origin coffees from all three major growing regions as well as different processing methods.

RITUAL COFFEE ROASTERS is San Francisco's premier artisan roaster and coffee bar. We are obsessed with roasting and serving the best coffee possible. We are continually questioning our methods in order to constantly improve quality. Our loyal customers insist that our coffee is the best coffee they have ever had. We thrive on that kind of feedback and it feeds our obsession. We spend hours each week tasting the highest quality beans from all over the world in order to find the ones that you'll think are truly outstanding. We fork over the big bucks for the best beans we can find and build relationships with the farmers who are doing it right. That's our idea of sustainability. In order to bring you the clean, sweet taste that the farmers have cultivated, our roasters painstakingly dial-in the roast for each coffee. It's all roasted in tiny batches. Making great coffee takes dozens of incremental steps that need to be executed in ways that bigger places just can't do.

Sun, Jul 1
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Ritual Coffee Roasters
Inside the new Flora Grub Gardens
1634 Jerrold Ave
San Francisco, CA

Free Member
Free Public
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