Cardinal Blend
Medium
Cup profile
milk chocolate · toasted nuts
- Cocoa and nut
- Origin
- —
- Producer
- —
- Farm / Co-op
- —
- Process
- —
- Altitude
- —
- Varietals
- —
- Harvest
- —
- Weight
- 340g
- Bag price
- $16.99
- Price / oz
- $1.42/oz
- Brew
- —
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Price and availability set by the roaster.
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Cherry's Index
Evidence-of-quality score, not a cup score. Methodology
49
Sparse signal
Confidence23% coverage / 2 of 7 signals
Score is heavily shrunk toward 50; treat as a placeholder until more sources arrive.
How confidence affects the score
Coverage measures signal availability, not cup quality. Missing sources are dropped, remaining weights are renormalized, and the result is shrunk toward a neutral 50 baseline by 43% so one thin signal cannot carry the score on its own.
Missing: SCA grade, Coffee Review, YouTube reviews, Buyer reviews, Cherrybook tastings
- 65/ 78% weightReddit sentimentSentiment across specialty-coffee discussion
- 10/ 22% weightRoaster transparencyProducer / farm / lot disclosure depth
Bonuses applied
- +1Editorial coverage clusterThis roaster has 3+ recent editorial mentions across trade press
- +-4Stale-stock demotionThis lot has been listed in stock for an extended time; specialty coffee freshness degrades over weeks
Renormalized base 53.0 shrunk to 51.8 at 57% confidence + bonuses = 49.
Sensory profileestimated
- Acidity
- 2
- Body
- 4
- Sweetness
- 4
- Balance
- 4
- Clean
- 4
Flavor wheelestimated
Comps & alternatives
Tasting flight
Taste this against three others Cherry picks.
Brew a set side-by-side. Cherry varies the picks along axes that pair with this lot; origin, process, roast, or producer; so you learn the difference, not just drink four good cups.
About Compass Coffee
Community reputation · Reddit
Mixed reviews· sentiment 65/100
Mentions of Compass Coffee in these threads do not refer to the specialty roaster, but rather to the widely cited 'Coffee Compass' brewing diagnostic tool (by Barista Hustle) and controversies surrounding a D.C.-area chain with the same name. There is minimal discussion of Compass Coffee's actual beans or roasting quality in these results.
Coffee Compass brewing toolUnion busting controversy (DC chain)Name confusion with Barista Hustle chart
Threads cited (10)
- r/Coffee · ↑ · How does one learn to taste coffee?
- r/Coffee · ↑ · Boycott Compass: coffee chain lists CEOs and Uber lobbyist as baristas to halt union drive
- r/Coffee · ↑ · What am I tasting?
- r/Coffee · ↑ · Coffee Myths vs Proven Facts
- r/pourover · ↑ · Hit a wall
- r/Coffee · ↑ · Anyone else remember seeing this brewing guidance chart?
- r/pourover · ↑ · My strategy for getting the best out of every bag. Discuss!
- r/roasting · ↑ · Coffee Compass for roasting?
- r/Coffee · ↑ · Coffee Compass appreciation post
- r/Coffee · ↑ · Losing my mind at this guy commenting on the BH Coffee Compass
On YouTube
2 videos · 65k combined views
Compass Coffee has 1 video on their channel; 1 video comes from outside reviewers (🍃Bura Bura Life🍂).
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