Green, roast, and brew QC checkpoints
How to establish quality control (QC) checkpoints across the coffee supply chain—from green beans, through roasting, to brewing—to ensure consistency and excellence.
Ensures coffee
Blend component alignment
This topic covers how to align individual roast profiles of different coffee components to create a balanced and harmonious blend.
Compliance and food safety
This topic explains the compliance and food safety requirements in green coffee logistics, covering international regulations, contamination risks, and best practices to meet buyer and consumer expectations.
Pre-export QA checks
This topic explains the key quality assurance (QA) checks performed before coffee export, ensuring that lots meet international standards for safety, consistency, and flavor integrity.
Sampling for moisture and a-w
This topic explains how to properly sample coffee for measuring moisture content and water activity (a-w), why representative sampling is critical, and how these tests ensure stability and quality.
Moisture targets (≈10–12%) and water activity
This topic explains the importance of hitting correct moisture content and water activity targets in coffee drying, why they matter for stability and quality, and how farmers measure and manage them.