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CoffeeCuppers - New independent review site

June 19, 2005

Since I’ve been getting into home roasting so much lately, I was pleased to run across CoffeeCuppers — a site for cupping notes on different coffees that’s not directly associated with a specific green coffee seller.

CoffeeCuppers is the brainchild of Bob Yellin and Jim Schulman — I’m not familiar with Jim, but I’ve been enjoying Bob’s cupping notes on several sites, and it’s nice to find that they’ve got a home of their own.

Here’s what they’re up to, in their own words:

This web site, will cater to home roasters and other customers of green coffee suppliers. Here, they will be able to read reviews of the coffees we cup, but only those that we enjoy. The reviews will be as objective, independent and honest and as we can make them.

We will identify our reviews, so people who prefer one reviewer over another will know who wrote what. Joint reviews by both of us may also appear.

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