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Calibrating a Global Cupping Team: Labtime with Joel

  Published 02/21/2023 At Red Fox, our coffee program relies from start to finish on a team of globally-distributed cuppers working simultaneously on shared standards. From the initial purchasing process,…

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Red Fox’s Fabian Viveros León Talks QC, Mexico, & Covid-19

  Published 10/28/2020 A third generation coffee worker, Red Fox’s Fabian Viveros León learned about coffee cultivation, quality control, and trading from his father in Huila, Colombia, starting at a…

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Logistics Are Quality

  Published 03/05/2020 Logistics are not just as important as quality: they are key to the actual delivered cup quality your customers see. Once harvested and processed, every coffee has…

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Scaling Quality: Sample Roasting

  Published 02/06/2020 Tasting coffee is the foundation of any high-quality coffee sourcing company, and you can’t taste coffee unless you roast it. Different companies take different approaches to sample…

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Sample Roasting

Published 02/04/2020 This piece was originally published here in 2016 and shares some general principles, specifics, and best practices. To learn more about our current sample roasting program, click here. …

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Age in Coffee: A Primer

  Published 08/15/2019 Coffee is a seed, and like any other produce, it is perishable—meaning that even the very best, most shelf-stable coffees on the planet will eventually show their…

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Scaling Quality: Signal Detection Cupping

  Published 06/13/2019 At Red Fox, our very small team cups a veritable ton of coffee. Whereas another importer might cup a single representative sample to purchase multiple containers from…

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