Bird Dog — Espresso
Cup profile
brown sugar · dark fruit
- Sugar and spice
- Origin
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- Producer
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- Farm / Co-op
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- Varietals
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- Harvest
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- Weight
- 340g
- Bag price
- $18.00
- Price / oz
- $1.50/oz
- Brew
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from the roaster’s storeread by Cherrybook from the listing“estimated” below = inferred, not stated
Price and availability set by the roaster.
Cherrybook last checked this listing 5 days ago.
Cherry's Index
Evidence-of-quality score, not a cup score. Methodology
61
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
- 85/ 78% weightReddit sentimentSentiment across specialty-coffee discussion
- 10/ 22% weightRoaster transparencyProducer / farm / lot disclosure depth
Renormalized base 68.7 shrunk to 60.8 at 57% confidence = 61.
Sensory profileestimated
- Acidity
- 2
- Body
- 4
- Sweetness
- 4
- Balance
- 3
- Clean
- 3
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 Speckled Ax
Community reputation · Reddit
Cult favorite· sentiment 85/100
Speckled Ax is highly regarded within the Maine coffee scene, frequently cited alongside other top-tier local roasters like Tandem. Users praise the quality of their beans, noting that they translate well from the café experience to home brewing. While they are sometimes mentioned in broader discussions about coffee quality or brewing experiments, there is no evidence of negative sentiment or quality issues.
highly regarded local roasterconsistent flavor qualityexcellent café experienceoften compared to top-tier peers