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This current CEO of Starbucks recently visited the TRO.
Who is Brian Niccol?
What is Costa Rica?
They are sweet, sour, bitter, salty, and umami.
What are The Five Basic Tastes?
Coffee, Grinder, Machine, and Barista are also known as this.
What are The Four Ms of Espresso?
This machine is a manual coffee brewing device consisting of a cylindrical carafe, a plunger, and a mesh filter.
What is a French Press?
These professional coffee tasters use a quick, efficient slurp to aspirate coffee across the palate.
What are Coffee Cuppers?
Starbucks opened it's first store location in this coastal city.
What is Seattle?
This can transform the experience of a coffee, completing it or even making it greater than the sum of its parts
What is A Food Pairing?
This item received a patent in Turin, Italy, in 1884 as “new steam machinery for the economic and instantaneous confection of coffee beverages.”
What is The First Steam Espresso Machine?
This action, when regularly scheduled, helps ensure a long service life for the machine and protect the quality of the drinks.
What is Preventative Maintenance?
These partners make great use of their sensory skills to ensure coffee quality and flavor development during roasting
Who are Master Roasters?
The first Starbucks in Canada was opened in this rainy metropolis.
What is Vancouver?
Starbucks recommends using coffee within this amount of time from opening its FlavorLock™ bag.
What is One Week?
Starbucks only sold whole bean coffee until the 6th store was opened in this year.
What is 1984?
One of our favourite tools, helps partners engage in sensory excursions into the coffee world.
What is a Coffee Passport?
This team uses their palates to find new and interesting flavors in coffee as at the Starbucks Coffee Trading Company (SCTC) in Lausanne, Switzerland
Who are Coffee Buyers?
Starbucks opened its third roastery here in 2018.
What is Milan, Italy?
A well extracted coffee tastes sweet and balanced but an over-extracted coffee will have characteristics such as these.
What are Astringent and Drying?
This variable refers to the different sizes in ground coffee.
This item we find extremely valuable as a reference to aid baristas as they explore coffee flavour profiles.
What is The Coffee Tasters Flavour Wheel?
This Senior Vice President of Global Coffee and Tea for Starbucks, this person is responsible for leading all things coffee and tea.
Who is Michelle Burns?
Starbucks largest roasting plant, which roasts over 3 million pounds of coffee per week, is located here.
What is York, Pennsylvania?
When the coffee and food enhance the qualities of each other and neither dominates, we call it this.
These three variables are sometimes called the Three Ts of Coffee Brewing and they all affect extraction and flavor.
What is Temperature, Time, and Turbulence?
This is a tool used to pull a sample of an ongoing toast to get a glimpse of what is going on inside the roaster, and the namesake for the Starbucks innovation hub in Seattle.
What is A Coffee Tryer?