Gawking at Green Coffee, Part 1

What can you learn by looking at green coffee? Can you tell the variety, the process, where the coffee is from? The answer is complicated ... but before cupping coffee for taste was the way to determine value, experienced traders would study green coffee for clues.
Well, I started gawking at green coffee 27 years ago when I started Sweet Maria's and there a lot more I DON'T know about green coffee than I do. But that won't stop me from trying to share my thoughts looking over the sample trays I have collected over time. This is super long I know, and if you make it to the end of both parts you deserve some sort of award! This is not green coffee grading, it really is gawking. I hope something in here is useful to you though. -T

0:00 Intro
1:32 Demonstrative Table of Coffee Classification
4:08 Overview of Coffee Trays
5:05 History of Evaluating Coffee Appearance
7:19 Guatemala Wet-Process Huehuetenango
8:08 Guatemala Honey-Process Pacamara Variety
10:52 Mexico Chiapas
12:12 Nicaragua Wet-Process Java Variety
15:14 Honduras Parainema Variety
17:46 Colombia Wet-Process Narino Buesaco
18:41 Wet-Process Pacamara Variety
19:35 Brazil Dry-Process
21:12 Brazil (SSFC)
21:58 Kenya SL Varieties
22:58 Kenya Peaberry
24:43 Rwanda Wet-Process Bourbon Type
25:21 Burundi Kayanza Gahahe Station
26:26 Ethiopia Naturals
27:29 Ethiopia Nano Challa Coop Washed
28:09 Ethiopia Hambela Dabaye Natural
30:31 Sumatra Lingtong Peaberry
31:33 Sumatra Wet-Hulled Coffees
34:10 Myanmar CR95 Variety
36:07 Colombia Nariño Ethyl Acetate Decaf
37:30 Honduras Swiss Water Decaf
38:40 Broader Notes on Decaf
39:35 Methylene Chloride Decaf
40:43 Summary
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