Horizon Blend
LightNorthscore 42
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- Farm / Co-op
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- Weight
- 1.5 lb
- Price / oz
- $0.71/oz
- Brew
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As cupped
bright · berry-like · sweet · tangy sweetness
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Northscore
Quality score with explicit source coverage. Methodology
42
Limited signal
Confidence45% coverage / 2 of 4 signals
Treat this as a directional read until more source families land. Coverage is signal availability, not cup quality; missing sources are dropped and the remaining weights are renormalized.
Missing: SCA grade, Coffee Review
- 60/ 56% weightSensory averageMean of acidity, body, sweetness, balance, cleanliness
- 20/ 44% weightCommunity sentimentSentiment across specialty-coffee discussion
Sensory profileestimated
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Tasting flight
Taste this against three others Cherry picks.
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About Compass Coffee
Community reputation · Reddit
Polarizing· sentiment 20/100
The Reddit coffee community's discussion regarding Compass Coffee is almost exclusively focused on labor practices rather than the quality of their coffee. A prominent thread highlights allegations that the company misrepresented corporate executives and lobbyists as baristas to obstruct a unionization effort. Consequently, the community sentiment is highly negative, with users explicitly calling for a boycott of the chain.
labor union controversyallegations of anti-union tacticscalls for boycottcorporate transparency issues
Threads cited (10)
- r/espresso · 883↑ · A different take on the espresso compass
- r/espresso · 533↑ · Anyone else find the espresso compass too confusing? I’ve been trying to make a more begin
- r/espresso · 382↑ · Different take on the espresso compass (v2)
- r/Coffee · 331↑ · A Great Aeropress Recipe (After a Week of Careful Notes)
- r/Coffee · 278↑ · How does one learn to taste coffee?
- r/Coffee · 237↑ · Boycott Compass: coffee chain lists CEOs and Uber lobbyist as baristas to halt union drive
- r/Coffee · 237↑ · Beginner Wall of Text
- r/Coffee · 158↑ · Notes on upgrading to a premium hand grinder
- r/espresso · 149↑ · Help with the espresso compass?
- r/Coffee · 141↑ · What am I tasting?
On YouTube · Reviewers discussing Compass Coffee
YouTube reviewers have published 3 popular videos about Compass Coffee (71,152 combined views). Channels include Compass Coffee, Kurasu Kyoto (Global), 🍃Bura Bura Life🍂.