The coffee reference, measured.
Every machine, origin and drink in one place, with the number, the unit and the manufacturer's own page behind it. Nothing guessed; what is not verified says so.
Equipment, to scale
From a 116 mm brewer to a 5.1 m roasting machine.
Drawn from the height and width each maker publishes, all on one ground line.
- Hario Cafe Press U 116 mm tall · 139 mm wide
- Eureka Peppe 243 mm tall · 124 mm wide
- Breville Barista Express BES860 343 mm tall · 323 mm wide
- La Marzocco Linea PB 2 Group 533 mm tall · 710 mm wide
- La Marzocco Swift 655 mm tall · 350 mm wide
- Bunn-O-Matic ICB Twin SH Soft Heat 836 mm tall · 556 mm wide
- Coffee-Tech Engineering Ghibli R30 2.1 m tall · 1.6 m wide
- Loring Smart Roast S70 Peregrine 3.4 m tall · 2.4 m wide
- Toper TKM-SX 360 5.1 m tall · 10.0 m wide
- On one ground line 44 times as tall Browse every model
Person drawn at 1.7 m for scale.
The coffee harvest
In November, 18 countries are harvesting.
Of 27 countries with a harvest calendar on record.
- Harvesting
- Some regions
- Other origins
Coffee, from the inside
One seed, from cherry to roast.
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On the branch
Coffee starts as a white flower on a shrub. The fruit sets small and green, and ripens slowly, usually to a deep red.
6 species -
The harvest
Ripe cherries come off by hand or by machine, and each origin has its own season.
The harvest calendar -
Inside the fruit
Split one open: coffee is the seed of a cherry, usually two to a fruit. Which plant it grew on shapes a good deal of what follows.
108 varieties -
Out of the cherry
Skin, pulp and parchment have to come off, and there is more than one way to do it.
17 processing methods -
Green
Dried, sorted and graded, the seed is now what the trade buys and ships.
14 grading systems, 18 certifications -
Into the drum
Heat turns it from green to brown. It swells, cracks once, darkens and cracks again, and past that the roast starts to replace the origin.
The roast, stage by stage
- Green
- Yellowing
- Cinnamon
- City
- Full City
- Vienna
- French
- Italian
Drinks, in millilitres
Same coffee, different millilitres.
7 of the 182 drinks on record, each in its own glass, poured in order from the record's own recipe.
- Ristretto 20 ml 20 ml espresso
- Espresso 30 ml 30 ml espresso
- Lungo 60 ml 60 ml espresso
- Cortado 60 ml 30 ml espresso · 30 ml milk
- Flat White 165 ml 60 ml espresso · 100 ml milk · 5 ml foam
- Cappuccino 150 ml 25 ml espresso · 100 ml milk · 25 ml foam
- Caffè Latte 240 ml 30 ml espresso · 200 ml milk · 10 ml foam
The rest of the atlas
Keep going.
- 800 comparisons Line them up Any two machines or grinders, side by side, with the winner of each figure marked.
- 29 brew methods Brew it Every method as a working cross-section, with its ratio, grind and clock.
- 168 brands Who makes it Every maker on record, with its models and its history.
- 526 businesses Who sells it 84 green importers and 442 US roasters, from the open registers.
- 60 US chains Who pours it Shops, fees and menus for coffee-led chains, ranked by what they publish.
- 26 years of finals Who won The World Barista Championship, year by year, with the coffee and the kit.
The index
Look something up.
Every machine, origin, drink, maker and method, in one box.