Flavour, measured.
We build instruments for flavour, and we publish how well they work.
Four origins. 16 characters. Each one defined by the compound that produces it, not by the thing it reminds you of.
What it currently reads
Read from the catalogue when this page was built, not transcribed. The figures that are least flattering are the ones worth publishing.
- Catalogue
- 494 bottles · 3,708 confirmed readings · 470 notes heldacross 16 characters
- Evidence
- 99.2% of readings quote the words that produced them3,680 of 3,708 — a reading with no quotable phrase is not kept
- Repeatability, catalogue
- 87.5% of readings are found on every re-read; 12.5% on some only3,680 readings carry a re-read count
- Where readings come from
- 2,391 tasted · 1,285 aggregated · 28 curated · 4 humanevery reading records which kind of source produced it
- Human review
- 185 readings ruled on by a person · 96.8% agreed with the instrumentmachine confirmations are excluded — counting them would be the instrument agreeing with itself
How strongly, across every confirmed reading
Intensity runs 0–4 and the evidence uses the middle of it. Written tasting notes support present, and strongly; they do not separate a 3 from a 4 the way a trained panel with reference standards would. Widening the scale would not make a reading finer, only make a coarse one look finer.
What is not here: the band thresholds, the source weights, the phenol and cask mappings, the merge constants, the descriptor lexicon and the anchor set. Those are the calibration. That they are in effect is published; their values are not.
The method
Sixteen characters. Every reading carries the words that produced it. Nothing is stated beyond its evidence.
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The research
What has been measured about the instrument, what has not, and a calibration programme proposed — not funded, not underway — with NTU, Heriot-Watt and SWRI.
Research →The instruments
DramFinder, a flavour finder for venues, in development with one venue live. Overtone, a reading made audible, and Constillation, a collection as a map — both built, neither yet offered.
The instruments, with status →The software
Cask Builder. Casks, configured. The arithmetic runs in front of the buyer.
Club Platform. Members, measured. Every action one audited transaction.
Both are software for the drinks trade rather than instruments on the Flavour Compass. Each page states where it is.
What we build, in full →