Sourcing Green Coffee Beans From Around the World
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Leading Sustainable
Coffee Sourcing
ICT’s HACOFCO CONNECT sustainability standard holds Global Coffee Platform recognition as equivalent to the Coffee SR Code. This milestone strengthens our commitment to providing roasters with verified sustainable green coffee beans while supporting farmers worldwide through transparent, responsible supply chains.
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EXPLORE GREEN COFFEE
Developing Consistent Profiles Across Batches
Batch-to-batch roasting consistency requires meticulous documentation, origin-specific profiles, and strategic use of roasting software. Key practices include tracking rate of rise curves, recording critical milestones like turnaround time and first crack, maintaining precise batch weights, and adjusting profiles as coffee ages. Modern tools like Cropster, Artisan, and RoastPath provide data visualization and profile comparison capabilities, while regular cupping validates consistency efforts and identifies when adjustments are needed.
Decaffeinated Coffee Sourcing: Quality and Processing Considerations
High-quality decaffeinated coffee requires careful sourcing and process selection. Modern decaffeination methods—including Swiss Water, Methylene Chloride, Mountain Water, Sugarcane, and CO2 processes—each offer unique flavor profiles and marketing advantages. The key to exceptional decaf starts with selecting high-quality green coffee before processing, understanding how each method affects flavor characteristics, and adjusting roasting profiles to account for structural changes in decaffeinated beans.
Q Grading vs. CVA: What’s Changing in Coffee Evaluation and Why It Matters for Your Business
The Specialty Coffee Association’s new Coffee Value Assessment (CVA) system works alongside traditional Q grading to provide comprehensive coffee evaluation. While Q grading scores coffees on a 100-point scale for quality benchmarking, CVA adds three critical dimensions: descriptive assessment of taste characteristics, affective assessment of market preferences, and extrinsic assessment of sustainability and story elements. Together, these systems give roasters better purchasing information and strategic sourcing capabilities beyond simple quality scores.
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ICT Coffee is known to import the best coffee beans around the world and that is why we are considered one of the top wholesale green coffee bean suppliers in North America.
