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Coffee Rambler AI: Interactive Flavour Wheel and Sensory Training
Your Palate, Mapped: How Coffee Rambler AI Builds Your Personal Flavour Wheel There's a moment many of us have experienced. You taste something, recognise the flavour and can’t just put your finger on it. That gap between sensation and language is exactly what sensory training is designed to close. And it's the problem that the flavour wheel in Coffee Rambler AI was built to solve. What the Flavour Wheel Actually Is The flavour wheel on the Palate page isn't a static referenc

Keiran Jones
Mar 174 min read


V60 Brew Ratios - A Guide
V60 Brew Ratio Guide: Finding what works for you Coffee is one of the most variable drinks you can make at home. Grind size, water temperature, pour technique - it all matters. But if there's one variable that has the most immediate, predictable impact on what ends up in your cup, it's brew ratio. It is easy to follow a V60 recipe without ever questioning the ratio. Change that, and you unlock a level of control that makes every other adjustment easier to understand. What is

Keiran Jones
Mar 144 min read


Coffee Rambler AI: what the Coffee Enthusiast tier actually does
Most coffee enthusiasts already know what variables matter. Grind size, water temperature, dose, and ratio. The fundamentals are well documented and widely discussed. The harder problem is remembering what you actually did last Tuesday, whether it tasted better than the week before, and what specifically was different. A notebook helps. A spreadsheet helps more. But neither one can look at three months of your brewing history and tell you that your V60 brews consistently scor

Keiran Jones
Mar 118 min read


Coffeeland: A Short Summary and Review
Coffeeland is the story of El Salvador’s century-long development into a coffee plantation.

Keiran Jones
May 2, 20225 min read


Coffee with Covid
I’ve recently suffered Covid-19 and it got me thinking about the sensory side of coffee, given the taste buds and olfactory system have...

Keiran Jones
Dec 10, 20213 min read


Process Knowledge and Brewing Coffee
It’s been argued that technology comes in three components; the ‘stuff’, the accompanying written information (Intellectual Property)

Keiran Jones
Feb 27, 20212 min read


A Guide to How Coffee is Traded
Anyone who drinks coffee knows its price fluctuates over time. Investors and traders can profit from these movements...

Keiran Jones
Dec 30, 20203 min read


A Whole New Water World - A Peak Water Review
Last edited 30 December 2020 I haven’t been this excited about a home brewing tool for a long, long time. The Peak Water jug has arrived...

Keiran Jones
Jun 7, 20204 min read


City Café Guide - Coffee in Bristol
Bristol Coffee Bristol, the tenth largest city in the UK, has a laid back attitude with a lively independent streak. There are plenty of...

Keiran Jones
Jul 29, 20183 min read


Instant Coffee Production – A Summary of BBC’s Inside the Factory
How do they make instant coffee? On the 17th of august the BBC show, Inside the Factory, gave us an insight into the manufacturing of...

Keiran Jones
Jul 19, 20183 min read


The Dry Process - An Introduction to Natural Coffees
Natural processed coffees (also called dry) are capable of beautiful tropical fruit, dried fruit and rum cocktail like flavours. They are...

Keiran Jones
Jun 18, 20184 min read


City Café Guide - Coffee in London
London Coffee Last edited 30 December 2020 London is an incredibly varied city for coffee. There are countless high street commercial...

Keiran Jones
Jun 7, 20185 min read


Making Espresso – The Basics of Good Espresso
The Basics of Making Good Espresso Making espresso is a craft. We may have visited shops where we prefer a particular barista to another...

Keiran Jones
May 30, 20185 min read


The Journey of Coffee – From Seed to Cup
Taking the journey of coffee for granted is understandable. We pay to receive a latte at the local shop or just add water to granules at...

Keiran Jones
May 17, 20184 min read


Yerba Mate – Recipe for a summer refresher
Yerba Mate Not quite coffee, not quite tea, Yerba Mate is a caffeinated drink of its own. Mostly enjoyed in South America and Lebanon...

Keiran Jones
May 4, 20182 min read


Coffee Grind Size Wheel - Introduction to grind sizes
Grind Size Wheel The Coffee Rambler grind size wheel was designed to make it easier to learn about grind sizes. It aims to reduce the...

Keiran Jones
Apr 25, 20183 min read


Coffee Pests, (not-so) Fungi and Diseases
By Fairtrade’s reckoning, 125 million people depend on coffee for their livelihoods. 41% of Ethiopia’s exports are in coffee, with...

Keiran Jones
Apr 16, 20184 min read


Coffee and Strength – What is a Strong Coffee?
"I like a really Strong Coffee!" I hear this sentence and the misuse of the word strong rather frequently. Whereas some people might...

Keiran Jones
Apr 5, 20184 min read


Acrylamide – Beware the Californian coffee cancer
In California, a judge has deemed it necessary for coffee to come with a cancer warning Shock horror! Cancer has found another way to get...

Keiran Jones
Mar 30, 20182 min read


Making Arabic Coffee – An exciting change to your coffee through adding cardamom
Sometimes a change in our daily coffee is appreciated. Although single origins can be varied and very delicious, craving for a different...

Keiran Jones
Mar 23, 20182 min read
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