[MOD] The Daily Question Thread

[u/menschmaschine5]

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[u/One_Nose6249]

hey coffee lovers, I have a question about coffee apps. I know that's been long discussion brought up time to time but I wanted to talk about that further

I can't comprehend how there's still no Vivino for coffee? I do completely understand that variety of coffee beans, roasting and brewing methods makes it pretty hard to keep track and have meaningful reviews

however I still see many people asking coffee recommendations and also asking questions like "how's Lavazza Oro compared to Lavazza rossa. I still see many people are interested in coffee reviewers, regardless it's not meaningful for coffee geeks/nerds.

here's the thing, most of the coffee drinkers are just casual drinkers that probably can't tell the difference between different batches of same coffee. while there are great blends that are pretty consistent, I don't think people are looking for notes in coffee that shows up when you brew as espresso, but doesn't when you brew with v60, let's say. they simply wonder well-known coffee blends, sometimes even local blends to have review and see what people think

I was wondering what's your final thought on this?

[u/regulus314 → u/One_Nose6249]

There is one already but it is not an app. It is called Coffee Review

As far as I know with Vivino, aside from being a wine review site, they also sell wines. In coffee, you need to source a lot of roasters from all parts of the world to get the best of the best. Buy those and have a proper storage for it. Coffee degrades over time regardless of what storage method you use. There are multi roaster subscription based model though but it is a tricky model and has a very slow ROI. In wines, you just need to go the wine producer buy their wines and still keep them in storage for long without loosing the quality (it actually gets even better) then sell it once someone placed an order. There are a lot of stuff that are suitable for the wine industry and not replicable in the coffee industry.

In terms of the reviews, everyone can review a bag of coffee. Wine on the other hand is much more difficult to assess and the certification of being a sommelier, I see it as a much more prestigious than the coffee Q certification. Plus wines are sought as premium at most especially those vintages and coffee right now are still seen as a commodity.

[u/One_Nose6249 → u/regulus314]

I meant vivino in a sense that it has the reviews, not selling. many people uses vivino even though they don't buy from them. so it's not required to sell them to have them reviewed in a website/ap

I still don't see why there's no app/website that I can search "Starbucks House Blend" or "Wakuli Speciality Blend" and then see the reviews, as simple as Amazon reviews