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Find out what you actually like.

Your taste profile is built from every cup you rate. It shows which styles you score highest, what your best cups taste like, your sweet-spot recipe for each style and method, and which water suits you, along with how many brews each pattern is based on.

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Average score by style and method
  • Sencha · western8.4 · 14 brews
  • Shou · gongfu8 · 6 brews
  • Malty black · western7.4 · 9 brews
  • Roasted oolong · gongfu7 · 2 brews

Starting to take shape. Two brews isn't a pattern yet, so the roasted oolong line is marked as early.

What your best cups taste like
  • Sweetness4 / 2.5
  • Umami4.5 / 4
  • Body4 / 3
  • Strength3 / 3.5
  • Finish4 / 2.5
  • Bitterness1.5 / 3

Green: brews you scored 8+. Gray: the rest.

How it works

  1. 01

    Rate your brews

    The overall score is enough to start. Taste ratings (sweetness, bitterness, and so on) make it sharper.

  2. 02

    Open Taste profile

    It appears after three rated brews and updates every time you rate another.

  3. 03

    Use it

    Buy more of what you love, try new teas in the family you rate highest, and start new teas from your sweet-spot recipe.

The details

Your best cups vs the rest

Taste ratings from brews you scored 8 or higher are compared with the rest, so you can see what separates a great cup from an okay one.

Sweet spots

The typical temperature, leaf ratio, and first-steep time of your best brews, for each style and method, since a gaiwan sencha and a mug sencha are different recipes.

Honest about sample size

Every pattern shows how many brews it's based on. Two brews is too early to say; it's starting to take shape after three, and steady after eight.

What you fix most

Which changes you ask for most often, like less bitter or more flavor. A clue about how you brew by default.

Worked out, not guessed

It's plain averages of your own ratings, worked out on your device. No AI.

Questions

How many brews does it need?

Three rated brews to start. It gets more useful with every cup.

Is this part of the free plan?

The taste profile is part of Tea Nerd, and is unlocked for everyone during early access.