Rhino Cupping spoon

The Rhino Cupping Spoon is an essential tool for anyone who tastes or compares coffees, whether in a roastery, a café or at home. Cupping is the standard tasting method in specialty coffee, used to assess beans and describe their flavours in a consistent way.

How to use it in a cupping

• Grind coffee into tasting cups and pour hot water straight over it.
• After a few minutes, break the crust on the surface with the spoon and smell the aroma.
• Skim the foam and grounds off the surface.
• Slurp coffee from the spoon so it spreads across your palate, then compare flavour, acidity and body between samples.

Rinse the spoon in water between samples so the flavours do not mix. Cupping a few of our single-origin coffees side by side is a simple way to learn what you like.