We Offer Three Levels of Cuppings For Our Friends:
Friday Free for all - Free
This is where you can check our cupping calendar and join us on when you are able on Fridays.
Taste the Estates - $10 pp
All of our fine estate coffees will be evaluated for their splendor and differences.
The “Full Cup” - $25 pp
This is a two hour coffee education and cupping experience.
Min 4 people
Why Should Restaurants Cup with Rocky?
You will find out that coffee is as important a consideration as any menu item you have. You will gain an appreciation for the complexity of coffee and that it rivals wine on varieties of flavors.
We know something that our customers have found out… “Brew Our Coffee, Make More Money”. We work hard to organize a complete coffee program. Utilizing our Fresh Profits questionnaire, we are able to help restaurants and coffee houses organize a system to maximize profits by:
Focusing on Coffee Quality as a selling point
Coffee ‘pairing’ with menu items
Staff Training
Custom Blending
Private Labeling
Call to sign up now! There has never been an attendee that went away without receiving a great insight to coffee and their own coffee program
What is Coffee Cupping?
An evaluation of qualities in a cup of coffee.
NOW YOU CAN DO IT TOO!
Why Cup Coffee With Rocky Rhodes?
Rocky is a leader in the coffee industry. His skills are being sought after by his peers and clients alike.
Roasters Guild Executive Council Rocky is enjoying his first year on the RGEC where he is instrumental on the committee to develop course curriculum to teach other roasters. With these classes will follow a certification for roasters as Apprentice, Journeyman, and Master Roasters. Rocky is also assisting with the Coffee Of The Year competition by vetting coffees, roasting samples and judging the finalists at this years SCAA convention.
Q-Grader Rocky Recently passed all of the required tests (21 over three days) to become the nations 14th Q-grader. When you cup with him you will be cupping with a certified master!
Business Owner
Rocky has owned and operated Rocky Roaster since 1997. In the past 11 years he has roasted and delivered nearly 1,000,0000 pounds of coffee.
Speaker Panelist and Instructor
Rocky spends a good deal of time teaching roasting classes, giving coffee presentations and volunteering time on cupping panels like the Rainforest Alliance.
What Happens in a Coffee Cupping?
The actual ‘Cupping’ is an evaluation of both what is spectacular and what is wrong in any given coffee. You engage sight smell and taste to judge the coffee. In the end the coffee is sllluuuuurrrrrped from a spoon and the taste analyzed.
At a Rocky Roaster cupping you will be introduced to several coffees and be given a rich education about this elixir of life.
Rocky with Cupping spoon in El Salvador.
(The coffee needs to be roasted first Rocky!)
