Why Every Coffee-Lover Should Participate in a "Cupping"

In our case, the coffee in each pot was then poured into the two cups. It's important to taste more than one cup per batch for quality-control reasons. The FNC professionals actually taste four cups per pot to really ensure each cup is consistent. Even crazier, they have two cuppings a day with 40 samples per cupping, four cups per sample. That's 320 cups a day, compared to the 12 cups we tasted. But don't worry, no one is going to die of a coffee overdose. As I'm about to explain, the cupping is similar to a wine tasting where you don't actually swallow the coffee, just sip and spit.