Editorial policy
What has to be true before an article publishes here: where claims come from, how links and DOIs are checked, and what happens when something turns out to be wrong.
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Sourcing standards
Every factual claim that carries a number is traceable to a source listed at the foot of the article, and every source entry states in one line which claim it supports. That last part is unusual and deliberate: a list of links at the bottom of a page proves nothing if none of them maps to anything specific above.
| Claim type | Acceptable source | Not acceptable |
|---|---|---|
| Regulatory limits | The regulation itself (eCFR, FDA) | A news article about the regulation |
| Caffeine quantities | USDA data or a peer-reviewed measurement | A brand's marketing page |
| Brewing standards | Specialty Coffee Association standards | A forum consensus |
| Chemistry and extraction | A DOI-verified journal paper | A journal homepage cited as a paper |
| Production volumes | USDA FAS or the ICO | An aggregator with no primary link |
Link and DOI verification
Before an article is published, every external URL in it is requested and must return a live response — 200, a redirect to a live page, or a 403 that indicates a publisher bot block rather than a dead link. Every DOI is looked up through the Crossref REST API, which returns the paper's registered title, journal and publication year; those are checked against how the article describes the paper.
Uncertainty and contested evidence
Where a claim rests on a single small study, where studies disagree, or where a popular belief has weaker support than its popularity suggests, the article says so in the body — not in a disclaimer at the bottom. Coffee has several of these: whether cold brew is meaningfully gentler on the stomach, whether dark roast is easier to digest, and how much decaf's caffeine content matters in practice are all areas where the honest answer is qualified.
Ranges are preferred to single figures wherever the real-world variation is large. Caffeine in an 8 oz cup of coffee is commonly quoted as 95 mg; measured samples of the same drink from the same chain have varied several-fold, and articles here say that rather than repeating the average as though it were a specification.
Authorship and attribution
Every article is written and edited by Mical Robert, Brewnote's editor, and the structured data on each page names him as the author with Brewnote as publisher. The byline on each article links to his author page, which sets out how he works.
What you will not find is invented credentials or invented experience. No article claims a qualification, an employer, an award or a personal anecdote that was not actually supplied by the author. Where an aside reads like a field note, it is an editorial note about the evidence, framed as such. This matters more than it sounds: a fabricated backstory is the most common way sites try to manufacture authority, and it is the fastest way to lose it.
Corrections and updates
How a correction is handled
Step 1: Report it
Email contact@trysix.online with the article URL and the specific sentence or figure you believe is wrong. A source for the correction helps but is not required.
Step 2: Verification
The claim is re-checked against its original source. If the source has itself changed or been retracted, the article is re-sourced rather than patched.
Step 3: Correction
Substantive errors are corrected in the body of the article and the page's update date changes, which is reflected in the structured data and the sitemap. Typographical fixes are made silently.
Step 4: Withdrawal
If a claim cannot be re-sourced, it is removed rather than softened. An article that loses its central claim is unpublished, not quietly rewritten around the gap.
Advertising and editorial independence
Advertising, where present, is contextual and programmatic. No advertiser selects, reviews or is shown an article before publication, and no article is commissioned because of an advertising relationship. There are no affiliate links on the site; if that changes, it will be disclosed at the point of the link.
- External URLs checked live
- 100
- DOIs confirmed via Crossref
- 100
- Minimum sources
- 2
- Minimum in-body internal links
- 3
If you want to see how this is applied in practice, the about page describes the site's scope and funding, the disclaimer sets out the limits of what any article here should be relied on for, and the contact page is where corrections go. The privacy policy covers what the site collects while you read.