One origin a month
The exact bags to buy, and where they are in stock.
Bean Voyage is a research desk. Each month we publish a Voyage: a dossier on one origin in the coffee belt that ends in a shopping list.
Named lots at named roasters on several continents. Current price, a link straight to the bag, and the date we checked it was in stock.
Choice without guidance
You own a burr grinder. You pay €18 to €25 for a bag. And you have thousands of specialty roasters and tens of thousands of lots to choose between.
They are described in the same borrowed language. Juicy. Floral. Notes of stone fruit. Nothing there tells you whether this Guji is exceptional or merely competent.
So you buy the same Ethiopian you bought last year, and the world’s coffee stays theoretical.
What you have to work with today
Standart Magazine
$130 a year, with shipping
Beautiful. No buy-list.
Coffee Review
Free
Scores, US-skewed, often dated.
r/pourover, Home-Barista
Free
Opinions. Unsearchable a year later.
Bean clubs (Bean Box, Trade, Pact)
A recurring charge
They pick from their own shelf.
Bean Voyage
€9 a Voyage, €39 the Passport
Five named lots, price, dated stock check.
What a Voyage is
A magazine feature that ends like a shopping list. The place gets you there; the numbers decide what you buy. Every factual claim names its source in the line where it appears.
The place
A region, a washing station, sometimes a single farm. Named producers, named professionals, and what the last harvest actually did.
The process
Washed, natural, honey. What happened to the cherry after picking, and what that does to the cup.
The flavour map
What to expect, and why. Altitude, variety and process, each with the number that explains it and where the number came from.
The Selection
Five Lots at five roasters we have no stake in. Price, a dated in-stock check, a link straight to the bag, a Brew card underneath.
The moment the seal breaks
A Voyage is free to read, and it is indexable, so a search or a forum link can send anyone straight to it.
At the end of the story the Selection sits sealed. You see five roaster cities and the date we checked their shelves. Not the names, not the prices.
€9 opens it. The seal stamps once, five cities become five roasters, and the first Brew card unfolds. The Voyage is then yours to keep.
It is the only thing on the site that moves.
The foot of Voyage 01, as it stands now
Voyage 01: Guji, Ethiopia
Five bags from this origin, verified in stock 22 August 2026
- Lot 01Rotterdam, Netherlands▪ ▪ ▪ ▪ ▪
- Lot 02Riga, Latvia▪ ▪ ▪ ▪ ▪
- Lot 03Berlin, Germany▪ ▪ ▪ ▪ ▪
- Lot 04Seattle, USA▪ ▪ ▪ ▪ ▪
- Lot 05Canberra, Australia▪ ▪ ▪ ▪ ▪
Five bags from this origin, chosen by the Desk. €9 opens them, and they stay yours.
Open the Selection — €9Real roasters, real prices. The story above it is free.
What it costs
Passport upgrade
€30
For a traveller who bought a Voyage.
Your €9 is counted, not lost.
Three prices, paid once. There is no fourth product and no recurring charge.
Every Voyage, past and future, while the Bean Voyage service remains active. If we ever stop publishing, you keep downloadable copies of the Voyages you bought.
Refunds on request within 14 days, no questions.
Dispatches, free
Not everything the Desk writes is behind a price. Dispatches are free articles on processing, varieties and what is in season now — sourced the same way a Voyage is, and they ask you for nothing.
Washed or natural Ethiopian coffee: what actually changes in the cup
Two bags from the same Ethiopian zone can taste almost unrelated. Most of the time the variety is not what separated them. Here is what the processing does, with the sources.
How to read an Ethiopian coffee bag: heirloom, 74110, Kurume, Wolisho
Four words on an Ethiopian bag carry almost all the information, and one of them carries almost none. Here is which is which, and who says so.
How the Desk works
We do not sell coffee, and roasters do not pay us.
We have no shelf to defend. If the best documented lot this month sits in Melbourne, that is where we send you, and we earn nothing when you buy it.
Research at the Desk is AI-assisted. Every factual claim is sourced, and we never claim to have tasted a coffee ourselves.
Scores carry their source and year, in the form 88.5 (Coffee Review, 2025). Stock carries the day we looked, in the form in stock, verified 12 March 2026. The Desk has no palate and does not pretend to one.
The archive is the point.
Twelve dossiers a year, kept in the Atlas, still useful next year because origins recur. A Voyage you bought in March is still open in December.
Voyage 01 has departed · 22 August 2026
Twelve origins a year are waiting.
The story is free to read. The Selection is €9, and stays yours. Voyage 02 departs 1 September 2026.
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