Coffees for the game’s blind tasting are shipped in 60-gram bags. All images courtesy of Leaderboard.
Putting the “fun” back into “coffee education is fundamental,” a new Canadian-born game called “Leaderboard: The Coffee Game” is encouraging coffee connoisseurship while offering a bevy of prizes.
Leaderboard has been designed as an online tasting game of sorts, with standings and winners every three months. For $79.95 CAD (approximately $63 USD, as of this writing), players receive 10 60-gram (2.11-ounce) bags of mystery coffee with 10 corresponding tasting cards, an instructions card, a quiz card, a sachet of Third Wave Water and electronic submission instructions.
Given access to video tutorials from some coffee industry experts, players are asked identify various characteristics of the coffees such as place of origin, processing method, variety, etc. based on their own home tastings.