About this edition
Understand coffee from seed to sip, choose your next drink and learn how to make a better cup. Beginner explanations and Professional detail support different reading needs.
First educational edition. Editorial review completed 8 October 2026. The bounded editorial review is complete: 114 requirements assessed, 111 closed for this source-qualified educational presentation and three explicit specification exceptions accepted by David for this edition. This is not independent scientific certification.
A recorded source is not a guarantee that every linked page is currently accessible or that every statement has received independent specialist review.
The Council of 12 covers growing, processing, green coffee, trade, roasting, chemistry, sensory assessment, water, extraction, machinery, café preparation and cultural history. These are AI-assisted review perspectives, not twelve independently qualified people.
Each content unit has primary and second-review ownership. Ownership alone is not factual acceptance. Claim checks distinguish original research, official guidance, named preparation methods, calculations and editorial advice. Checks record what was actually read, the applicable conditions and any unresolved limitations. Health and regulatory claims also require appropriate clinical or official sources.
A Q Grader is a professional licence earned through the SCA programme; this reference does not claim that licence or independent professional certification. No “Validated by” credential badges are used. Structural and browser checks cannot establish the truth of every scientific claim.
Recipes draw on the named sources and explain variations. No local physical brewing trials have been performed for this edition. Equipment, beans, water, milk and serving traditions can change the result. Record your dose and yield, follow equipment instructions and adjust from an observed result.
Calculators explain their equations and assumptions. An illustrative result does not predict flavour, certify a roast or establish a safe commercial process. Business worksheets require your own current quotations and operating figures.
The Atlas is curated, not an inventory of every coffee drink. Four previously missing drink images are now labelled AI facsimiles. Source limitations remain explicit; these two preparations still lack calibrated protocols:
Finished US batch-brew, suspended drip-bag and an imagined Australian specialty-menu drink are illustrated by labelled facsimiles. No actual café serving or physical recipe trial is claimed.
The three exact specification exceptions are photographs resolving every fruit/seed layer in actual specimens; calibrated preparation information for every Atlas entry; and burner thermal matching and installation sizing. Follow each topic's qualifications and sources. Wider specialist research is not an automatic expanding task list. This edition is not an operating approval, a medical recommendation or proof that a method has been physically validated.
92 real photographs and 7 labelled AI-generated facsimiles are displayed. Public-domain and CC0 photographs are preferred; other photographs carry their Creative Commons credits and licence links. A photograph illustrates its named subject, not a measured ingredient ratio or guaranteed serving size.
Credits and reuse terms are available under each photograph and in Image credits. Source licence links for the real photographs were checked on 8 October 2026. Generated facsimiles do not carry fabricated public-domain or Creative Commons source-photo licences. Attribution and documented source edits are retained. These checks do not authorise deployment.
David authorised these illustrations for missing photographs. Each is labelled at display, in its alternative text and in credits. They illustrate an expected appearance, with variable serving vessels, colours and styling. They are not documentary photographs, measured recipes or evidence of a named venue’s actual presentation.
The purple taro cold-brew example is imagined from Industry Beans Newstead’s published menu description; it is not the operator’s photograph, exact recipe or endorsement. Recipe-source qualifications remain separate from image appearance.
Dibek coffee, plain mortar-ground version
Mırra, illustrative small handleless serving
Mastic-flavoured Turkish coffee
Vietnamese yoghurt coffee
Finished American-style batch-brew filter coffee
Suspended drip-bag coffee preparation
Imagined purple taro cold-brew float based on a published menu description
Local route, calculation and small-screen browser checks have been recorded. An actual-phone review and complete screen-reader acceptance are still outstanding; browser resizing is not a physical-device test.
Have your say contains a proposed public comments board and a separate private contribution form. Submissions are not open in this edition. Local previews do not send your information. Public comments would be reviewed before publication, subject to confirmation of the moderation arrangements.
9 October 2026
Corrected the Atlas image summary during live publication checks.
9 October 2026
First educational edition: eleven topics, 62 drink profiles, seven brewing-guide offerings, Australian consumer paths and five country menus.
Corrections increase the last number: 1.0.1. Added coverage increases the middle number: 1.1.0. Major redesigns increase the first number: 2.0.0. This edition date is separate from individual source-check dates.