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Coffee Quality, Part 3: When the “quality” myth hits the farm

The Science of Coffee by James Harper

Dec 8, 202530:00Science & Medicine

For twenty years, the 2004 cupping form profoundly shaped the specialty coffee world. But on the hillsides of coffee farms, some of the form’s byproducts have been disadvantaging producers. In this episode, we follow two...

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Coffee Quality, Part 3: When the “quality” myth hits the farm is an episode from The Science of Coffee by James Harper. For twenty years, the 2004 cupping form profoundly shaped the specialty coffee world. But on the hillsides of coffee far...

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Published Dec 8, 2025, 30:00 long, audio available.