Process of the BoP competition
Main Objective: Organoleptic Evaluation of Specialty Coffee Lots grown in Panamá
Procedure: Blind Tasting by coffee categories
- Preliminary Judges: at least seven Panamanian Coffee Cuppers who have participated – and have evaluated appropriately – all rounds in previous BoP Competition.
- International Judges: at least seven green specialty coffee buyers
- Procedure Assurance: carried out by a third-party auditing group.
BoP Competition:
- Coffee lot delivered to the controlled area under the supervision of a third-party auditor firm
- The coffee lot sample is taken from the delivered quantity
- The coffee lot and sample are randomly identified
- Sample for roasting delivered with random number id
- Tasting coffees by id number and by category
- Minimum a table per judge with five cups per sample, maximum nine samples per table
- Evaluation pages processed by the auditing group
- Top group mean-score used for passing coffees by category to the International BoP Cupping
- Generation of new code for the international competition
- Tasting coffees by new id number and by category
- Top mean-score coffees awarded as Best of Panama Coffees
- Top mean-score coffees selected for E-Auction