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Who sets the standards for growing, brewing and roasting specialty coffee?

April 26, 2017Brewing coffee growing Roasting specialty Standards

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Who sets the standards for growing, brewing and roasting specialty coffee?

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Ultimately the consumer sets the standards. If coffee isn’t good enough it won’t sell. There are associations who help set the standards broken up into different areas. For Europe where I am based there is the SCAE (Specialty Coffee Association of Europe) of which I am a member. There goal is to raise awareness of specialty coffee and improve education. There are many other associations like this for different areas of the world.