{"id":214742,"date":"2023-08-29T08:00:11","date_gmt":"2023-08-29T15:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sprudge.com\/?p=214742"},"modified":"2023-08-28T13:48:53","modified_gmt":"2023-08-28T20:48:53","slug":"third-wave-water-releases-white-paper-on-calibrating-cupping-water","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sprudge.com\/third-wave-water-releases-white-paper-on-calibrating-cupping-water-214742.html","title":{"rendered":"Third Wave Water Releases White Paper On Calibrating Cupping Water","gt_translate_keys":[{"key":"rendered","format":"text"}]},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"row\">\n<div class=\"col-sm-10 col-sm-offset-1\">\n<p><em><span class=\"legendSpanClass\"><span class=\"xn-location\">CEDARVILLE, Ohio<\/span><\/span>,\u00a0<span class=\"legendSpanClass\"><span class=\"xn-chron\">Aug. 24, 2023<\/span><\/span><\/em> &#8211; The Specialty Coffee Association (SCA) water standard helps coffee taste its best, but is not widely used in most countries in the coffee belt due to cost and availability. Instead, they typically use distilled water for cupping for uniformity and availability, but this water is not recommended for cupping by coffee industry professionals.<\/p>\n<div class=\"arconix-box arconix-box-white\">This press release was provided to Sprudge for Sprudge Press Releases. Interested in submitting a press release?\u00a0Get in touch! 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And they demonstrate how to reach coffee labs at origin with a calibrated water profile in three case studies.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"row\">\n<div class=\"col-sm-10 col-sm-offset-1\">\n<aside class=\"pull-quote\">&#8220;We have seen a minimum of 1 point up to 3 points higher cupping scores.&#8221; &#8211; Ben Carlson, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.longmilescoffeeproject.com\/\">Long Miles Coffee<\/a>.<\/aside>\n<p>The first case study compares TWW&#8217;s calibrated water profile, the espresso profile, against distilled water. Cupping scores increased up to 1.37 points validated at origin by\u00a0<span class=\"xn-location\">Honduras<\/span>\u00a0coffee farmer\u00a0<span class=\"xn-person\">Juan Angel Welchez<\/span>, La Sala Raul Moreno and\u00a0<span class=\"xn-person\">Carlos Rene Guerra<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"xn-person\">Juan Welchez<\/span>\u00a0explained, &#8220;Every cent added will contribute towards a stronger coffee industry and a more prosperous future for farmers like us.&#8221; These tests were also validated by three Q-graders, further proving that the easy-to-use calibrate water profile increases cupping scores and will help coffee farmers get better scores at origin.<\/p>\n<p>In the second case study\u00a0<span class=\"xn-person\">Long Miles Coffee<\/span>\u00a0founder\u00a0<span class=\"xn-person\">Ben Carlson<\/span>\u00a0explains, &#8220;We have seen a minimum of 1 point up to 3 points higher cupping scores.&#8221; And Alex Pond, the Director of Education for the <a href=\"https:\/\/cupofexcellence.org\/\">Cup of Excellence<\/a> explains in the third case study the importance of water in an education setting.<\/p>\n<p>Some of the key points of the white paper include:<\/p>\n<ul type=\"disc\">\n<li>Calibrated water solutions for cupping at origin has largely been ignored.<\/li>\n<li>Higher scoring coffees leads to higher prices for coffee farmers.<\/li>\n<li>Third Wave Water calibrated water profiles can increase cupping scores up to 3 points.<\/li>\n<li>Using a specific target within the current SCA water profile ranges further reduce confusion and variability within the coffee supply chain.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Read the white paper here:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/c212.net\/c\/link\/?t=0&amp;l=en&amp;o=3950458-1&amp;h=321046397&amp;u=https%3A%2F%2Fwholesale.thirdwavewater.com%2Fblogs%2Fnews%2Fwhitepaper&amp;a=https%3A%2F%2Fwholesale.thirdwavewater.com%2Fblogs%2Fnews%2Fwhitepaper\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">https:\/\/wholesale.thirdwavewater.com\/blogs\/news\/whitepaper<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>About Third Wave Water<\/strong><br \/>\nThird Wave Water, located in\u00a0<span class=\"xn-location\">Cedarville, Ohio<\/span>\u00a0was born in a conversation between two coffee fanatics trying to solve a long-standing coffee issue: water quality.\u00a0<span class=\"xn-person\">Taylor Minor<\/span>\u00a0and\u00a0<span class=\"xn-person\">Charles Nick<\/span>\u00a0launched the company at the Barista Guild of America&#8217;s event called, &#8220;Bloom,&#8221; in\u00a0<span class=\"xn-location\">Chicago<\/span>,\u00a0<span class=\"xn-chron\">October 26-28, 2016<\/span>. Afterwards they successfully reached a mainstream audience with their appearance on ABC&#8217;s Shark Tank\u00a0<span class=\"xn-chron\">October 8, 2017<\/span>. Since then, the company has grown to reach a worldwide audience helping professionals with their water problems throughout the entire coffee industry. For more information, please visit thirdwavewater.com or visit us on Instagram, Facebook or Twitter at @thirdwavewater.<\/p>\n<p><em>This press release was provided to Sprudge for Sprudge Press Releases. Interested in submitting a press release?\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sprudge.com\/contact\">Get in touch!<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false,"gt_translate_keys":[{"key":"rendered","format":"html"}]},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The white paper shows cupping scores increasing by one to three points when using calibrated water.<\/p>\n","protected":false,"gt_translate_keys":[{"key":"rendered","format":"html"}]},"author":364,"featured_media":214746,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23422],"tags":[108,19113,11730,7321],"gt_translate_keys":[{"key":"link","format":"url"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sprudge.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214742"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sprudge.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sprudge.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sprudge.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/364"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sprudge.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=214742"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sprudge.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214742\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sprudge.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/214746"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sprudge.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sprudge.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sprudge.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}