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Remember how every coffee tasted.

Sip Journal is a coffee tasting journal for Android. Pick what you taste from a flavour wheel, keep the beans and recipes worth repeating, and see where you had each cup on a map.

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The Sip Journal flavour wheel: nine flavour families, from nutty and sweet to fruity and roasted, each divided into the 93 notes beneath it.Dark ChocolateChocolateAlmondHazelnutPeanutsNutty/CocoaBrown SugarHoneyCaramelVanillaVanillinOverall SweetSweet AromaticsMaple SyrupMolassesSweetBlack TeaJasmineRoseChamomileFloralCitrus FruitOther FruitDried FruitBerryPearPeachAppleGrapePineapplePomegranateCherryCoconutPruneRaisinStrawberryBlueberryRaspberryBlackberryFruityCerealBurntTobaccoPipe TobaccoAcridAshySmokyBrown, RoastGrainMaltRoastedBrown SpicePepperPungentCloveCinnamonNutmegAniseSpicesChemicalPapery/MustyStaleCardboardPaperyWoodyMoldy/DampMusty/DustyMusty/EarthyAnimalicMeaty/BrothyPhenolicBitterSaltyMedicinalPetroleumSkunkyRubberOtherBeanyRawOlive OilUnder RipePeapodFreshDark GreenVegetativeHay-LikeHerb-LikeGreen/VegetativeSourAlcohol FermentedOver-ripeFermentedWhiskeyWineyMalic AcidCitric AcidIsovalericButyric AcidAcetic AcidSour AromaticsSour/Fermented

Journal

Name what you taste.

Start with nine flavour families, from nutty to fruity to roasted, then narrow each one down to the notes beneath it: 93 in all. Link the bean and the recipe, add a few words of your own, and the entry is dated for you.

Interrupted? Save it as a draft and finish it later.

New to tasting? How to taste coffee, and every note on the coffee flavour wheel.

Editing a tasting called Kenya Mamuto AA: five stars, a photo, the bean, recipe and café, and a flavour wheel with the notes under Sweet to pick from, Brown Sugar chosen.

Places

Every cup, on the map.

Add where you had a coffee: search for the café, pick one from the cafés nearby, use your current location or drop a pin. Your tastings then gather on a map of your journal.

Maps by Google, places from OpenStreetMap. Your location is read only while you choose a place, with your permission, and never in the background.

The journal home screen: a map of London with pins at the cafés where coffees were tasted, above the latest tastings with their ratings and flavour rings.
A saved tasting called Kenya Mamuto AA: five stars, a photo, its flavours on the wheel with Blackberry, Citrus Fruit, Malic Acid and Brown Sugar, and the bean, the V60 recipe and Prufrock Coffee where it was drunk.

Beans

Beans worth buying again.

Save the coffees you buy with their roaster, origin, variety, process, roast level and tasting notes.

Looking for something new? Search Bean Finder, a catalogue of beans you can filter by country, roast level and process.

  • Ethiopia
  • Colombia
  • Kenya
  • Guatemala
  • Brazil
  • Rwanda

Brewing

Brew it the same way twice.

Save the recipes that worked, with the dose, water, temperature, grind, time and ratio. Trying a new method? Start from a brew guide, and save it as a recipe of your own.

Keep a list of the brewers, grinders and other kit you own, too.

Brew guides for V60, AeroPress, French press and moka pot.

A V60 Pour Over recipe: 15 g of coffee, 250 ml of water at 94 degrees, 3 minutes, a medium-fine grind and a 1:16.7 ratio, with its bloom, TDS and yield, and five steps.

Privacy

Your journal is yours.

Your journal is kept in Google Firebase, in a database in Europe, and is private to your account.

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  • No adsNo advertising, and no advertising SDKs in the app.
  • No analyticsNo analytics SDK. Your data is not sold or shared.
  • Private to youNo other user can see what you save.
  • Delete any timeYour account and everything in it, from Profile in the app.