coffee taster
Code 7515.1
The coffee taster (coffee taster / Q grader (si aplica)) evaluates coffee sensory quality for buying, roasting or QC. Use this Job Dictionary profile to specialty coffee and exporter niche.
Essential skills
Knowledge
- coffee characteristics
- temperature scales
- food and beverage industry
- types of coffee beans
Skills and competences
- apply HACCP
- apply GMP
- apply requirements concerning manufacturing of food and beverages
- perform coffee tastings
- grade coffee beans
- create coffee flavour profiles
- boil water
- prepare specialised coffee
- perform sensory evaluation of food products
- tolerate strong smells
- check processing parameters
Transversal competences
- evaluate coffee characteristics
- educate customers on coffee varieties
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What to assess for this role
Assess sensory calibration and consistency across cuppings.
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Common questions about this role when you are hiring or writing the job profile.
- What does a coffee taster do?
- Cups samples, spots defects and recommends buy or blend decisions.
- Is Q certification required?
- It helps, but is not always mandatory; check the ad.
- What to assess when hiring?
- A blind cupping session and technical vocabulary.
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This service uses the ESCO classification of the European Commission and the Mapha Taxonomy developed by OTIC SOFOFA (CC BY 4.0), in an adapted version. Group codes come from the ILO's ISCO-08. See sources and licences