Adding coffee to the ink used on the cover of the coffee journal

33 Cups of Coffee

$5.00

Pocket-Sized, Yet Powerful

33 Coffees is a coffee journal that provides an easy way to quickly record coffee tasting notes in a small, convenient notebook format.

33 Coffees is perfect for coffee aficionados, geeks, nerds, layabouts and other fans of the roaster's art. It makes an excellent companion gift to my coffee origins map.

Designed for Speed

This coffee journal is designed for ease of use. It’s tough to hold a notepad in one hand, a pencil in the other, and have another hand left for your cup. Taking notes with 33 Coffees is as simple as checking a few boxes and entering a few basic facts.

The flavor wheel included in 33 coffees lets you record a coffee's flavor in a unique, visual format The flavor wheel in 33 Coffees can be used to quickly recall a coffee’s unique flavor long after consumption. For low values of the flavor, fill in dots near the wheel’s center. A shade-grown, organic Guatemalan is used in the example shown at right.

Secret Ingredient

A teeny, tiny amount of real coffee is added to the ink in each new edition, which is cryptically noted on the back.

Eco-Friendly

33 Coffees is made with 100% recycled papers sourced in the Pacific Northwest. Interior pages are 100% post-consumer recycled content and covers are 85% post-consumer recycled content and 15% recycled content. The booklets are printed using US-grown soy-based inks in sunny Portland, Oregon.

Printed with soy ink in Portland, Oregon on recycled paper

It's a great little tool for reminding yourself to keep trying different varieties, producers, and roasts. However, it would be nice if there was an explainer on the different axes of the flavour wheel.

Nice quality!

I bought this as a gift and it's really beautifully printed! Enough space to take down notes but not so big that it's annoying to tote around.

Great tool ... if you know everything about coffee

I thought it was a straight forward and simple book to use for anyone to utilize the complexities of different coffees in the Great NorthWest ... until I realized that I didn't know or understand coffee at all. I have completed 33 interviews with baristas here in Portland and in Seattle and they were perplexed with this little book. Now to their credit they understood it better than I did, but still had questions with the intention of the producer of this book. "Coffee Origin or Name " was the most difficult one, LOL. The producer of the coffee was never really clear by the packaging or by the staff at shops and the "variety" was definitely the touchy question if the beans being sold weren't Arabica then they must be Robusta ... not true ... and then I got asked to leave or to just drink my coffee and let it be ... LOL. The NorthWest is not the connoisseur of coffee that I thought it was. The best information I got up here was from my former neighbor Mark Crawford who is a leading expert of the espresso pull and coffee pours. He understood the book but saw that it would be complex for the none coffee expert. Simple improvement would be a sample page inserted or a Youtube explanation that would go thru each description ... you know for dummies like me! It's a cool tool!

This is such a great idea, Joe - I am definitely going to do it. Thanks for the suggestion!

To answer your question - Arabica and Robusta are species of coffee. There are quite a few varieties of Arabica, from unnamed heirloom varieties found in Ethiopia, to the more common Caturra and Catuai or the mysterious S795.

Origin or Name is meant to be a way to specify where the coffee came from in the case of 'origin,' for example, 'Oaxaca, Mexico.' That works great for single origin coffee, but many roasters offer named blends 'Breakfast Cup,' for example, that might include coffee from multiple origins, so you can use it either way.

Producer could similarly be used a few ways - for a single-origin coffee, let's stick with the Oaxaca example, you might write the name of the farmer, which is sometimes listed on the bags by roasters who value farmers (and we all should!). Or, if it's a mutli-origin, or you just don't know, you could use it to note the roaster or even your barista, I suppose! I often leave some fields blank. Not everyone is as transparent about where their beans come as I'd like.

Love this little treasure!

No of pages

How many pages it has got ?

Wait for it ... 33 pages! This is actually a really common question. It's where the brand name comes from, and it's based on the physics of book-making. In printing terms, a sheet of paper is two 'pages' - front (page 1) and back (page 2). If you fold that piece of paper in half, now it's four pages. Fold it again, eight. Again, 16, and once more makes 32. That bundle (called a 'signature' in printer lingo) is stapled inside a folded cover and trimmed to become a 32-page book. I use the inside back cover as a 33rd review page, and that's where the name comes from. Probably way more info than you wanted but here we are!