An index of real coffee

Most places that write about coffee do one of three things: they grade it, they sell it, or they explain it. This site does something else. It keeps a neutral list of the coffees that specialty roasters around the world are actually selling right now, and ties each one to pages that explain why it tastes the way it does.

Start from what you like in the cup and how you brew, and Decide ranks real coffees for you, showing the reasons for each pick. Start from a coffee, and every fact on its page is a link: its origin, its variety, how it was processed, the flavours the roaster names. Every one of those pages ends in the coffees that share it.

Every coffee here is a real product on sale in a roaster's own online store, with no samples or made-up examples among them. Every two weeks a robot reads each roaster's store again and brings the catalogue up to date: new coffees arrive, sold-out ones are marked, and coffees the roaster has stopped selling leave.

• Prices are the roaster's own, in their home currency, converted to US dollars so they can be compared. The original price is kept, and each coffee's page shows its price history.
• Bag sizes, and the price per 100 g worked out from them, are read from the roaster's listing. Where a listing doesn't say, the site shows “—” rather than guess.
• When a store can't be read, its coffees stay listed but say so: “Not verified since” and the date they were last seen.
• Descriptions are written for this site from the roaster's details, and every coffee links back to the roaster's own page, which is where you buy it.

Two articles a week and a Saturday recap of the coffee market are written with AI assistance, and so are their cover pictures. Nothing publishes on trust: each piece passes automatic checks before it goes out, so every link has to lead somewhere real and every coffee it recommends has to be in the catalogue. A draft that fails doesn't publish.

The encyclopedia pages, on origins, varieties, processes, flavours and brew methods, are part of the same web: each one lists the coffees in the catalogue that bear it out.

The Market page shows what green, unroasted coffee costs as it is traded. A robot reads the International Coffee Organization's indicator prices every day they are published, and the World Bank's monthly arabica and robusta prices, which go back to 1960. Both are credited on the page, with links to the originals.

• It sells nothing. There is no shop, no cart and no checkout. Every coffee links straight to the roaster.
• It takes no commission. No affiliate links, no referral codes.
• It doesn't grade. No scores, no ratings, no “best of”. Coffees are described and connected, and you decide.
• Nobody pays to be here. No sponsored placement, and no roaster can buy a better position in a list or a recommendation.
• No accounts, no paywall, no ads.

World Coffee Index is an independent project, made by a small team that drinks a lot of coffee and wanted one place to see what the world's roasters are selling. [Placeholder: a sentence or two on who we are.]

The whole catalogue is published as one file, /data/catalogue.json, rebuilt every time the site is. You are welcome to use it. If you do, please credit World Coffee Index and link each coffee to its roaster: the roasters' work is the reason the data exists.

Spotted a wrong price, a coffee that has sold out, or a fact that isn't right? The catalogue corrects itself at the next sync when the roaster's own page is right; when it isn't, or for anything else, tell us.

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