The Coffee Tasting Journal is your essential companion for exploring and documenting the world of coffee. Whether you’re a casual enthusiast or a dedicated coffee lover, this journal helps you record, compare, and refine your tasting experiences with professional-quality tools.
This coffee tasting journal is created in Scotland for people who want to pay closer attention to what they enjoy, without rigid rules or pretentious language.
Inside, you’ll find 85 structured tasting scorecards suitable for a wide range of coffee styles, from single-origin beans to blends shaped by different roast levels, processing methods, and brewing techniques. Each scorecard provides space to record essential details such as name, origin, roaster, varietal, process, roast, brew method, appearance, aroma, flavour impressions, body and acidity, aftertaste, and overall assessment, alongside a single integrated flavour checklist made up of 44 named tick-box flavour prompts. These prompts allow you to quickly mark what stands out while building a clear visual record to sit alongside your written notes.
The journal includes a coffee flavour wheel reference page, designed to reflect the breadth of coffee characteristics. The wheel covers the full spectrum from savoury and fruity to earthy, floral, sweet, chocolate and nuts, spice, and roast notes, with inner rings showing complexity and balance. The wheel is intended as an orientation tool rather than a prescription, helping you identify dominant characteristics without imposing a single “correct” interpretation.
To support confidence and clarity, the journal also includes straightforward explanations of coffee tasting terminology, covering concepts such as aroma, flavour balance, body, acidity, and aftertaste. These explanations are practical and accessible, offering guidance without overwhelming detail or technical jargon.
Additional index and notes pages make it easy to track favourites, build wish lists, note gift ideas, and reflect on how your preferences develop over time. Whether used during café visits, cupping sessions, or quiet mornings at home, the layout supports intentional tasting while remaining flexible and personal.
Created in Scotland and using British spelling throughout, this journal reflects a thoughtful coffee culture while remaining suitable for recording coffees from around the world. It is designed with balance in mind: structured enough to be useful, and open enough to stay personal.
This journal is part of The Tasting Journal Series, a growing collection of thoughtfully designed notebooks for whisky, gin, beer, coffee, and other craft beverages and artisan foods.
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