Tools & Resources
Practical tools for the Coffee | One Roast at a Time loop
Reports, calculators, forms, and reference pages that support calmer roasting, brewing, tasting, and learning.
Flagship tools
Use these when you are planning, reviewing, or comparing
Gene Café CBR-301
JSON Roast Report & Plan Helper
Upload a Gene Café app export and get a cautious, plain-English report with timings, milestones, fan behaviour, weight loss, and planning clues.
Brewing water
Coffee Water Calculator
A beta helper for building repeatable brewing water from low-mineral water and measured mineral additions.
Tasting
Simple Cupping Form
A practical tasting form focused on body, acidity, balance, finish, and whether the coffee is worth drinking again.
Gene Café CBR-301 references
Read these when you are trying to understand the machine
Gene Café CBR-301 Start Here
The practical entry page for owners trying to make sense of the machine without overreading the graph.
What to Know Before You Buy
A buyer-facing note about expectations, control, and what the Gene Café does and does not appear to be.
What I Wish I Knew Before Roast 1
A practical reflection on the early mistakes, assumptions, and calmer ways to learn the CBR-301.
Project method
How the project tries to stay honest
Method & Assumptions
The project works best when measured data, observation, interpretation, and hypothesis are kept separate.
Green Coffees Used
A reference page for coffees used across the project, useful when comparing roast notes and outcomes.