Sample entry. Written to exercise the Coffee Pulse templates — the association has not published this.

The association runs cupping services and the quality training behind them. Both exist for one purpose: so that the assessment of a lot travels with the lot instead of staying in the room where it was made.

Graded at the gate

Grading at intake is what makes the record belong to the person who produced the coffee rather than to the pile it went into. It is also the only point at which the link between a delivery and a plot is still obvious to everyone standing there.

Your processing is what a buyer is actually paying for, and until now it disappeared the moment the lot left your yard.

What the record carries

Origin, variety, process and flavour, described to the depth a buyer can act on — so a lot arrives already described, not waiting to be explained.