Blocked

How coarse is the grind, and what is that measured against?

ALS-COFFEE-1.2-GRIND-003

This question matters to a buyer and CANNOT be answered from a public product page today. What would be required is stated in full.

Why this cannot be run

Blocked by G-03.

Assertion

grind_specification equals_one_of whole_bean, coarse, medium_coarse, medium, medium_fine, fine, extra_fine

  • whole_bean
  • coarse
  • medium_coarse
  • medium
  • medium_fine
  • fine
  • extra_fine

Applicability

applies when
the product is sold ground or offers a grind choice
signal
a grind option or a grind designation in product text

Accepted evidence

  • product_description — a numeric particle-size range, or a named designation accompanied by the scale it is read against
  • product_options — a grind designation exposed as an option value

Explicitly insufficient evidence

What does not count, and why. Published because the omission is where a check quietly becomes a claim.

  • a bare coarseness word such as medium or coarse
    It is a seller-relative label, two published scales disagree about it, and a consumer guide concedes on the record that fine, medium and coarse are neither universally acknowledged nor consistent.
  • "standard grind", "regular grind", "universal grind", "all-purpose"
    This vocabulary names no point on any scale, and the immersion and espresso bands do not overlap, so no single grind can be universal.
  • a grinder dial number or click count
    Grinder settings are proprietary and are not comparable across grinders or even across units of the same model.
  • a brew-method name alone
    A method name does not pin a particle size, and the published espresso band alone spans roughly a factor of two.
  • a micron figure quoted for the roaster's grinder or for a brewing guide elsewhere on the site
    A figure about equipment or a general guide is not a specification of what is in this bag.

Conflict rules

  • When a numeric range and a brew-method recommendation disagree — then record the internal contradiction, which is the one thing a machine can check here without an external definition

Discrimination

Authored expectation: no prediction, confidence low. The numeric band this standard used to carry is not published at this grammar version.

Almost no retail coffee page publishes a particle size or names the scale behind its grind word, so an assertion demanding either would fail for nearly everyone. That is a reason to specify it carefully rather than to run it as written: the useful executable form is the narrower question of whether a named grind option is purchasable, which is published separately, and this entry records the full question the buyer actually has.

The numeric fail-rate band this reasoning was authored with is NOT carried at grammar 1.2 and is not reproduced here. Authored bands held 1 of 10 against this category's own sample and every miss was HIGH, so a direction derived from the band would inherit the error that condemned it (SCHEMA.md §9.3 step 3). The band survives in ALS-COFFEE v1.1 (standard_hash f8ec2780f60c38931913e5b6cd37506500c8462709209de7180ba6691d6137e7), which is byte-frozen and still served.

For a shopper

Grind size is the strongest single lever on how your coffee tastes and the words for it mean different things at different roasters. Until sellers publish a number or name their scale, matching a grind to your brewer from a page is guesswork.

For a merchant

Publish a particle-size range or a sieve specification for each grind you sell, or at minimum name the scale your designations are read against, so a buyer can map your medium onto their brewer.

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