Your taste has a profile. Ready to discover it?

Coffee Lab makes your taste visible — and shows you how to brew your next coffee better.

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How it works

Coffee Lab learns with every cup

1

Your taste, mapped

Coffee Lab builds a 6-dimensional taste profile from your ratings. It learns not just what you like — but why.

2

Your brew, optimized

Your personal brew advisor knows your coffee, your water, and your grinder. It tells you exactly how you should brew.

3

Your community, unfiltered

Compare your ratings with the community and with professional roaster scores. No marketing — real sensory data.

4

Your senses, sharpened

Your Sensory Accuracy Score shows how close you are to the pros — and it grows with every cup.

What awaits you

Your Coffee Lab

Taste Signature

Your personal taste profile across 6 dimensions — built from your tastings and ratings. Like a map that becomes more detailed with every cup.

Coffee Explorer

Discover coffees that match your taste profile. Based on your ratings, Coffee Lab suggests what you should try next.

Taste Twins & Community

Find your taste twin. Compare yourself with the community and discover who tastes coffee just like you. Invite friends to a cupping round — they don't need an account.

Our methodology

Science, not gut feeling

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Blind Tasting Protocol

You taste before you know. No anchoring bias, no preconceptions — just your palate.

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6D Sensory Science

Six taste dimensions — aroma, acidity, sweetness, body, aftertaste and flavor — for a complete sensory picture.

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Sensory Accuracy Score

How close are you to the professional profile? Measurable sensory learning — unique to Coffee Lab.

The first community for scientific blind tasting in Germany.

The Science

Taste. Compare. Improve.

Sample Rating

Ethiopia Yirgacheffe · Aricha

1.900m · Washed · Heirloom

✓ 84% match with the roaster profile

Acidity

7

Sweetness

8

Body

5

Aroma

9

Aftertaste

7

Flavors

Floral Jasmine Rose
Fruity Berry Citrus

Sensory Accuracy Score

Compare your ratings with professional roaster evaluations. Your score shows how close you are to the pros — and it grows with every cup.

Real-Time Community Comparison

See how the community perceives the same coffee. Anonymous averages show where your palate aligns with the crowd.

Pro Benchmark from Specialty Roasters

Professional sensory data from specialty roasters serves as the benchmark for your ratings.

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This could be your profile.

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Your Intelligence

Coffee Lab thinks ahead.

Behind every suggestion is a system that understands your taste — and learns with every cup.

The right parameters for every coffee.

Temperature, grind size, ratio — tuned to your equipment and your taste. The system combines your tastings with roaster data and the community's brewing experience. Your next espresso: Coffee Lab remembers your last setup and suggests the next step.

Coffees that match your palate.

Not 'customers also bought' — but recommendations based on your sensory profile. Your taste leads, not an algorithm.

Find your taste twin.

Coffee Lab compares taste profiles and connects you with people who taste coffee just like you. Their favorite coffees could be your next discovery.

No marketing algorithm. Coffee Lab learns from sensory evaluations — blind, honest, unbiased.

Ethiopia You 92 % Match
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Grind Analysis by Photo

Snap a photo of your ground coffee. Coffee Lab analyzes the particle distribution and shows you whether your grind size matches your brew recipe.

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Secure Your Spot

Coffee Lab is currently invite-only. Join the waitlist and we'll notify you as soon as it launches. When a spot opens up, you'll get a personal invitation from me — no spam, no newsletter. — Max

Wir nutzen deine E-Mail-Adresse nur, um dich vor dem Launch zu informieren – unregelmäßig und nur vereinzelt bis zum Start. Der Versand erfolgt über unseren Dienstleister Brevo (Sendinblue GmbH). Du kannst dich jederzeit über den Abmeldelink in jeder E-Mail wieder austragen.

Max, founder of Coffee Lab

Who's behind it

Coffee Lab started as a private coffee logbook.

I'm Max — a data scientist who set out to understand his own coffee with data.

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