Burge Coffee is a free, browser-based platform for home roasters and coffee enthusiasts that provides tools to track every roast, cupping, and brew, along with field guides and a community-powered roaster map — no account or data upload required.
What is Burge Coffee?
Burge Coffee is a home-roasting resource and toolset built by Ben Burge, a coffee obsessive who started learning to roast his own beans. The platform takes your roast data, tasting notes, and brew parameters as input and produces structured logs, cupping scores, and progress visualizations — all processed locally in your browser. It also hosts a curated Field Guide with practical articles on roast stages, green coffee storage, and origin comparisons, plus a community-sourced map of niche independent roasters.
Key Features
- Roast Log — Record bean origin, charge temperature, first crack timing, development time, and tasting notes for every home roast; view progress over weeks and months.
- Coffee Journal — Log every coffee you taste (not just your own roasts) to build a personal flavour library and discover preferred origins and processes.
- Brew Diary — Dial in your technique by logging dose, grind size, water temperature, yield, and total brew time; spot inconsistencies and improve repeatability.
- Cupping Log — Score fragrance, aroma, body, acidity, and aftertaste side-by-side using a structured format similar to professional cupping forms.
- Roast Master Sim — A free browser-based simulator that lets you control the heat curve and hit daily target roasts, teaching real roast dynamics without equipment.
- Café Reviews — Record every coffee shop you visit with notes on what you ordered, taste, atmosphere, and whether you’d return — a personal travelogue.
- Community Roaster Map — Explore and contribute to a worldwide map of small-scale roasters; add roasteries that deserve a spotlight.
- Coffee History Timeline — Interactive timeline spanning 1,200 years from Ethiopian origins to modern specialty coffee, filterable by era.
Who is it for?
- Home roasters starting out — Use the Field Guide articles (e.g., Why Home Roasting Changes Everything) and the Roast Log to learn bean development stages from first crack to development time.
- Advanced home roasters refining technique — Leverage the Brew Diary and Cupping Log to dial in grind size, water temperature, and brew ratios, then compare cupping scores across batches.
- Coffee enthusiasts who travel or explore — Use the Café Reviews and Roaster Map to document every shop visited and discover new roasters like Square Mile Coffee Roasters or Tim Wendelboe.
- Anyone curious about coffee history — Explore the History Timeline to understand how coffee moved from Ethiopian forests to modern specialty culture, filterable by region and era.
What can you do with Burge Coffee?
- Track every roast from bean to cup: Log the charge temperature, first crack timing, and development time in the Roast Log, then later record the cup’s aroma and body in the Cupping Log — everything stays in your browser.
- Find and share small roasters: Browse the Roaster Map to discover roasteries like Onyx Coffee Lab or Koppi, and submit your own recommendations to grow the community database.
- Learn roast theory interactively: Play the Roast Master Sim to practice heat curve adjustments, then reinforce knowledge with Field Guide articles on storage and origin profiles.
Pricing
Burge Coffee is completely free. No accounts, no subscriptions, no payment required. All tools run in your browser with no server-side storage.
