It is the best known and most widespread professional certification for coffee tasters in the world. It\u2019s been created by the Coffee Quality Institute (CQI). To become a certified Q-Grader, it is necessary to complete a training course and pass a very demanding exam, in which the tasters\u2019 overall cupping skills (tasting) and analysis of the specialty coffees are assessed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
There are several course options:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
– Q-Arabica, to be credentialed to grade and score arabica coffees and specialty coffees;<\/p>\n\n\n\n
– Q-Robusta, to be credentialed to grade and score robusta coffees and fine robusta coffees.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Today there is also a new certification process called Q-Processing, to certify competencies around coffee production and processing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
It is the best known and most widespread professional certification for coffee tasters in the world. It\u2019s been created by the Coffee Quality Institute (CQI). To become a certified Q-Grader, it is necessary to complete a training course and pass a very demanding exam, in which the tasters\u2019 overall cupping skills (tasting) and analysis ofContinue reading “Q-Grader”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","class_list":["post-12298","glossario","type-glossario","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lepiantagionidelcaffe.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/glossario\/12298","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lepiantagionidelcaffe.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/glossario"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lepiantagionidelcaffe.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/glossario"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lepiantagionidelcaffe.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}