Field notes
Guides
How the reviews get made: the brewing method behind every score, and what the words on a coffee bag actually promise.
method How I score coffee Scores run from 1 to 5 in half-point steps. One brew method, four sub-scores, and what each number means before you buy. Read brewing A daily V60 recipe that survives the tropics The V60 recipe behind every review on this site, with an iced variant for hot climates, brewed at 25g and adjusted by taste rather than by timer. Read origins An Indonesian coffee atlas, region by region Gayo, West Java, Kintamani, Bajawa and beyond. A field guide to the Indonesian regions that dominate this review log, and what to expect from each. Read processing Processing methods, decoded from the label What washed, natural, honey, anaerobic, wet-hulled and carbonic maceration actually do to the cup, keyed to the process names used across the review log. Read