Competition BoP

Main Objective: Organoleptic Evaluation of Specialty Coffee Lots grown in Panamá Mean: 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 controlled area under the supervision of third-party auditor firm
• Coffee lot sample taken from delivered quantity
• Coffee lots and samples randomly identified
• Samples for roasting delivered with random number ID
• Tasting coffees by ID number and by category
• Minimum one table per judge with five cups per sample, maximum nine samples per table
• Evaluation pages processed by 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-scored coffees selected for E-Auction