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Coffee Attributes Starter Kit
FlavorActiV’s Coffee Attributes Starter Kit is a sensory training kit for enthusiasts and professionals eager to explore coffee’s diverse flavours. If you’re tired of drinking the same coffee and wondering what other options exist for your taste buds and sense of smell, this kit is perfect.
The flavours included in our starter kits are approved by World Coffee Research (WCR) and based on the flavours listed in the World Coffee Research Sensory Lexicon 2.0 and our relevant coffee flavour standards.
The Coffee Attributes Starter Kit is your entry point into professional-grade coffee flavour recognition and sensory development, trusted by coffee experts worldwide.
We ship globally – shipping costs may apply depending on your region
Minimum Order: £275
What is the Coffee Attributes Starter Kit?
The Coffee Attributes Starter Kit from FlavorActiV is a professional sensory training kit designed to help users identify and understand the most common flavour attributes of coffee. It is ideal for coffee professionals, including Q Graders, roasters, baristas, enthusiasts, and educators, who want to enhance their sensory evaluation skills.
Using the Coffee Attributes Starter Kit for Sensory Training
The coffee attributes starter kit for sensory training is trusted worldwide because it combines pharmaceutical-quality flavour standards with easy-to-follow training instructions.
How it works:
1.Open the kit and use the provided coffee lexicon card as your flavour map.
2.Train with individual flavour capsules—each one represents a key coffee attribute.
3.Compare the capsule reference against brewed coffee to build recognition and recall.
4.Reinforce your learning with continued practice or by joining professional calibration schemes, such as FlavorActiV’s SCA award-winning Coffee Calibration Scheme.
This step-by-step approach helps you train both aroma and taste—critical for anyone who wants to taste coffee like a professional.
What Flavours are Included in Series 1 of the Coffee Attributes Starter Kit?
The Coffee Attributes Starter Kit includes a curated selection of flavours, as approved by World Coffee Research (WCR). These flavours represent some of the most common and essential attributes found in coffee:
Attributes:
– Geraniol / Floral
Geraniol
– Pineapple / Tropical Fruit
Ethyl Butyrate
– Molasses / Brown Sugar
– Vanilla
Vanillin
– Almond / Cherry
Benzaldehyde
– Phenolic / Brown Spice
4-Vinyl Guiacol
Each flavour is encapsulated using our Pharmaceutical Quality Good Manufacturing Practice (GMP) standards, ensuring safety and consistency for both aroma and taste training.
What are the Professional Applications of the Coffee Attributes Starter Kit
FlavorActiV’s Coffee Attributes Starter Kit is perfect for:
– Coffee Professionals: Roasters, Q Graders, and baristas aiming to refine their sensory skills.
– Coffee Enthusiasts: Individuals passionate about exploring the nuanced flavours of coffee.
– Educational Institutions: Coffee schools and training centres seeking reliable sensory training tools.
Why Choose FlavorActiV’s Coffee Attributes Starter Kit?
– Fully aligned with the World Coffee Research
– Trusted by coffee experts worldwide.
– Produced with pharmaceutical-grade GMP encapsulation for accuracy and safety.
– Designed for both self-training and group sensory calibration.
Take the Next Step in Coffee Sensory Excellence with FlavorActiV’s Coffee Attributes Starter Kit!
The Coffee Attributes Starter Kit is more than just a training tool—it’s a gateway to professional-grade coffee flavour recognition. Whether you want to elevate your coffee career or delve deeper into coffee, this kit equips you with the skills and confidence to taste like an expert.
Order your Coffee Attributes Starter Kit today and start your journey toward sensory mastery!
FlavorActiV GMP Flavour Standards
Only Pharmaceutical Quality GMP Flavour Standards provide sufficient quality for professional sensory panels to train and validate with.
We produce encapsulated GMP (Pharmaceutical Good Manufacturing Practice) Flavour Standards that are safe to both smell and drink. The compounds within our capsules impart the aroma, taste and mouthfeel of a specific defect or positive flavour into a beverage for the purposes of taster training, calibration and quality control.
Our individual flavour GMP Flavour Standards are sold by flavour, each flavour pack contains 5 capsules, each separately blister packaged. Our sensory kits contain a mixture of flavours, each separately blister packaged, read the product description for flavour details.
We ship globally, and have over 20 years of experience at it. Our GMP Pharmaceutical Flavour Standards are produced to the highest standards, and as such, their shelf-life is strong and their quality consistent.
FlavorActiV’s flavour centre is the world’s only pharmaceutically run facility dedicated to the production of flavour reference standards. The Flavour Centre is a state-of-the-art facility housed within the campus of world-renowned Quay Pharma near Liverpool in the U.K.
The Flavour Centre was designed by FlavorActiV from the ground up at the direct request of global customers as they looked to move away from inferior food grade ‘certified flavour standards’ to GMP Pharma, a standard that ensures safe, stable, traceable, consistent and long shelf-life products.
All FlavorActiV’s industry-leading encapsulated flavour standards are manufactured following GMP at our Flavour Centre. All aspects of manufacture are overseen by Quay Pharma who are audited by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the U.K. Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory agency (MHRA). We also welcome customer audits.
Only FlavorActiV GMP flavour standard capsules bear our mark of authenticity.
We brand each of our capsules so that our customers know they’re getting the Pharmaceutical GMP Quality that only FlavorActiV provide.
Industry leading packaging and shelf-life
FlavorActiV flavour standards are blister packaged, which extends shelf-life and protects capsules from potential contamination. The average shelf-life of FlavorActiV flavour standards is 18 months to 4 years, depending on the flavour compounds.
We will never ship in pots or plastic packaging, here’s why…
Blister packaging protects capsules from the environment until they are ready for use. Blister packaging greatly reduces the amount of headspace for possible flavour escape. As each capsule individually blister packaged, making use of one capsule still leaves all others protected. FlavorActiV Flavour Standard packaging is 100% recyclable, as opposed to polypropylene which is not widely recycled.
Pots are semi-porous, they allow molecules to pass through and flavour to be lost, their significant headspace also adds to substantial flavour escape as a gas, even when using just one capsule all those remaining in the pot are exposed.
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