Product Testing

Expert coffee grading and testing services.

 

Monitoring product performance and consistency is essential for successful modern coffee companies. Our coffee quality assurance services support the full value chain, covering all elements from green coffee pre-purchase, through roasting to finished coffee products.

 

Grading Services

Do you need to know if your coffee is specialty or commercial quality?  With our on-site certified Q Arabica and Q Robusta grader, we offer expert coffee grading services using globally recognised standards to define quality. You might be looking for third party grading of coffee for a number of reasons, including:

  • Understanding the quality produced on your farm

  • Selecting the highest quality for competition or auction submission

  • Confirming pre-shipment sample quality 

  • Checking the quality of landed samples

  • Pre-arbitration quality review

Testing Services

Our analytical coffee testing services enable businesses of all sizes access affordable tests to support decision making and manage quality assurance.  Our services include:

  • Oxygen testing of finished packs

  • Green coffee moisture testing

  • Water activity measurement

  • Destructive moisture analysis of roasted coffee

  • Roast colour analysis

  • pH analysis 

  • Single serve extraction analysis

Sensory analysis

The final taste and flavour of any coffee can be the ultimate defining factor in its success or failure, and for this reason sensory quality control of coffee is a crucial method of testing. Coffee Nexus team are trusted partner of many businesses for independently verifying coffee quality to product standards. We work for producers, exporters and importers, roasters and brands offering cost effective and confidential testing solutions:

  • Sensory profiling of green coffee components

  • Taste and flavour monitoring of finished products

  • Independent product monitoring of coffee to sensory standards

  • Assessment of inventory to company standards