A field guide to specialty coffee. Backed by live data.

A hand-authored reference to the varieties, origins, and processes behind specialty coffee — bound to Roast Radar, a live record of every coffee 26 tracked roasters are selling right now.

01 — READ

Every night the radar reads the published menus of the tracked roasters.

02 — RESOLVE

Each offering's flavor notes are resolved against the Waveform flavor system.

03 — BIND

The observations are bound into the hand-set reference, each stamped with its provenance.

04 — AUTHOR

Reference articles are written from the collected record and primary sources beyond it.

CURATED RECORD

The Reference

Hand-authored entries on the plants, places, and processes behind the coffee — written slowly, revised as the record deepens.

CURRENTLY UNDER STUDY
WATERCOLOR — PACAMARA
PLATE 14
Pacamara

Deliberate cross of Pacas × Maragogipe — El Salvador, 1958.

ENTRY REVISED 24 JUL 2026
OBSERVED
across 455 offerings from 26 of 26 tracked roasters · ingest 06:47 UTC

Roast Radar

A live search of everything the tracked roasters are selling this morning — refreshed daily, resolved against the flavor system.

OFFERINGS LIVE455
NEW THIS SWEEP5
ORIGINS REPRESENTED21
DISTINCT VARIETIES88
n=455
THE MARKET'S FLAVOR RANGE, TODAY.
SATURATION = MENTION FREQUENCY, RELATIVE TO THE MOST-MENTIONED FAMILY.
NEWEST SIGHTINGS
the three most recent first sightings, all roasters
Open Roast Radar455 OFFERINGS · LIVE455 LIVE