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100

This current CEO of Starbucks recently visited the TRO. 

Who is Brian Niccol?

100
Starbuck's first coffee farm is located in this country. 

What is Costa Rica?

100

They are sweet, sour, bitter, salty, and umami.

What are The Five Basic Tastes?

100

Coffee, Grinder, Machine, and Barista are also known as this. 

What are The Four Ms of Espresso?

100

This machine is a manual coffee brewing device consisting of a cylindrical carafe, a plunger, and a mesh filter. It's a full immersion brewing method where coffee grounds steep directly in hot water. After steeping, a plunger is used to separate the grounds from the brewed coffee.

What is a French Press?

200

These professional coffee tasters use a quick, efficient slurp to aspirate coffee across the palate, spraying the coffee over taste receptors in all parts of the mouth. Cupping helps these coffee experts qualify specific aspects of a coffee’s texture, flavor, acidity and sweetness. Professional cuppers can not only identify what the flavor or aroma is, but also the intensity. Through practice, cuppers learn how to communicate with each other through the common language of coffee.

What are Coffee Cuppers?

200

Starbucks opened it's first store location in this coastal city. 

What is Seattle?

200

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?

200

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?

200

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?

300

These partners make great use of their sensory skills to ensure coffee quality and flavor development during roasting

Who are Master Roasters?

300

The first Starbucks in Canada was opened in this rainy metropolis. 

What is Vancouver?

300

To brew a great cup of coffee, it’s important to start with fresh-tasting coffee beans. Stale coffee has lost much of its aroma and acidity. Starbucks recommends using coffee within this amount of time from opening its FlavorLock™ bag.

What is One Week?

300

Starbucks only sold whole bean coffee until the 6th store was opened in this year. 

What is 1984?

300

One of our favourite tools, helps partners engage in sensory excursions into the coffee world.

What is a Coffee Passport?

400

This team uses their palates to find new and interesting flavors in coffee as they cup offer and pre-shipment samples in origin countries or at the Starbucks Coffee Trading Company (SCTC) in Lausanne, Switzerland 

Who are Coffee Buyers?

400

Starbucks opened its third roastery here in 2018. 

What is Milan, Italy?

400

A well extracted coffee tastes sweet and balanced but an over-extracted coffee will have characteristics such as these.

What are Astringent and Drying? 

400

This variable refers to the different sizes in ground coffee. 

What is Particle Size Distribution?
400

This item we find extremely valuable as a reference to aid baristas as they explore coffee .  It’s a colorful, vivid way to help open your eyes to the variety of flavors that could be waiting inside your cup. Originally published in 1995 and most recently updated in 2016, the Flavor Wheel is one of the most iconic resources in the coffee industry.

What is The Coffee Tasters Flavour Wheel?

500

This Senior Vice President of Global Coffee and Tea for Starbucks. Michelle is responsible for leading all things coffee and tea—including strategy for growing, sourcing, buying, quality, sustainment, education, Farmer Support Centers, and Starbucks Hacienda Alsacia farm and Visitor Center in Costa Rica.

Who is Michelle Burns?

500

Starbucks largest roasting plant, which roasts over 3 million pounds of coffee per week, is located here. 

What is York, Pennsylvania?

500

When the coffee and food enhance the qualities of each other and neither dominates, we call it this.

What is A Complementary Food Pairing? 
500

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?

500

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?