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Bean Voyage

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.

How the Desk chooses →

Voyage 01 is being written. There is nothing to sign up for on this page, and nothing to ship — we sell the Selection, never the coffee.

Hand-inked map plate of the Guji and Sidama highlands in Ethiopia, with contour lines and altitude marks — Plate: the Guji and Sidama highlands, Ethiopia. Drawn for Bean Voyage. Contours are illustrative, not survey data.

Plate I

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

Quarterly print

$130 a year, with shipping

Beautiful. No buy-list.

Coffee Review

Cupping scores

Free

Scores, US-skewed, often dated.

r/pourover, Home-Barista

Forum threads

Free

Opinions. Unsearchable a year later.

Bean clubs (Bean Box, Trade, Pact)

Beans in the post

A recurring charge

They pick from their own shelf.

Bean Voyage

A dossier and a Selection

€9 a Voyage, €39 the Passport

Five named lots, price, dated stock check.

Sources: each publisher’s own pricing and product pages. If a price has changed since we wrote this, theirs is right and ours is stale.

Botanical engraving of a coffee arabica branch with cherries and two cross-sectioned cherries showing the seeds — Coffea arabica: leaf, flower, ripe cherry, cross-section, and the seed that ends up in your grinder. Drawn for Bean Voyage.

Plate II

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.

Plate III

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.

Specimen — the foot of a Voyage story

Voyage 07: Guji, Ethiopia

Five bags from this origin, verified in stock 12 March 2026

Lot 01Oslo, Norway▪ ▪ ▪ ▪ ▪
Lot 02Melbourne, Australia▪ ▪ ▪ ▪ ▪
Lot 03Portland, USA▪ ▪ ▪ ▪ ▪
Lot 04Berlin, Germany▪ ▪ ▪ ▪ ▪
Lot 05Kyoto, Japan▪ ▪ ▪ ▪ ▪

Five bags from this origin, chosen by the Desk. €9 opens them, and they stay yours.

Open the Selection — €9

Example figures. Voyage 01 is not published yet, so nothing here opens.

Plate IV

What it costs

Voyage

€9

One edition, kept forever.

The Selection opens and stays open.

Passport

€39

Every Voyage, past and future.

Paid once. We never bill you again.

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.

Checkout opens with Voyage 01. Nothing is for sale on this page.

Plate V

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.

Hand-drawn world map plate with the coffee belt hatched between the tropics and origin marks across it — The belt between the tropics, where the coffees we write about grow. The marks are origins, not endorsements — twelve a year, one at a time.

Voyage 01 is at the Desk

Twelve origins a year are waiting.

Keep the address. When the first Voyage departs, the story is free to read and the Selection is €9.