Specialty coffee is a grade: green coffee is evaluated for defects and cup quality. Beans with few minor defects and no major defects can earn specialty status—often described as roughly the top few percent of coffee produced.
Specialty vs commodity (basics)
- Specialty: careful picking, processing, and cupping; bought for distinct flavor.
- Commodity: higher defect tolerance; built for volume and price.
Why Edge also insists on organic + testing
Coffee can be grown with heavy pesticide use in conventional systems. We choose organic for farm and cup values. We also lab-test for mold and mycotoxins because purity is part of our brand promise.