Using Bloom

Bloom helps you find a bag of coffee you'll like. You can answer two quick questions, or go straight to the flavor wheel and pick a taste you already have in mind.

The two questions

The first question — fruity and bright, or rich and chocolatey — is a filter. Answering it sets aside roughly half the catalog.

The second question is not a filter. It sorts. Coffees matching your answer rise to the top, and the rest stay on the list below them. That is deliberate: with a catalog this size, a second filter would often leave you with almost nothing, and the coffee you'd have loved might be the one just outside the cut.

Picking a flavor instead

If you already know what you want, skip the questions and click the wheel. Every ring is clickable. Click a broad category like Berry and you'll see coffees tasting of anything underneath it — blueberry, strawberry, raspberry. Click Blueberry itself and the match gets tighter.

Some of the wheel describes flavors nobody is hoping for. The SCA taxonomy includes faults and oddities, so when you click one and nothing in the catalog matches, you'll get a short remark instead of an empty list.

Reading a result

Each row is one coffee: who roasted it, what it's called, its price, and what the roaster says it tastes of. Selecting a row opens the rest — origin, process, variety, producer and the roaster's own description — and the wheel beside it lights up that coffee's particular notes.

The controls above the list let you narrow the results by roaster or by roaster tags. The tag buttons combine, so each tag you add narrows the list further. A tag that would leave no coffees is disabled, and choosing a tag keeps incompatible roasters unavailable in the roaster menu.

Buying it

You buy from the roaster, not from us. The shop link opens their own product page in a new tab, and that page is the authority on price and availability. Bloom never takes an order, never handles payment, and earns nothing from the click.