Atlas Education with CQI

As you may have heard, the Specialty Coffee Association (SCA) and Coffee Quality Institute (CQI) announced that SCA would be taking over the Sensory Education and Certification (i.e. the Q) from CQI. While the change offers some benefits to the work of CQI globally and improves equity and access to the certification, the timing and […]

I Took the Q Grader Exam After Just Seven Months (and It Was Great)

Originally posted on the NKG PACE Journal.   One offering of the NKG PACE program is for the Partners to take the Q Arabica Grader Course at no expense (thanks to the generosity of the CQI and the Atlas instructor, Drew Billups), so that we can add this distinguished credential to our resumes, if we’d […]