Monthly Archives: July 2019

Phoenix, Arizona’s Press Coffee Roasters has officially moved its roasting operation into a massive new two-story production facility that also includes the company’s eighth coffee shop. The 5,600-square-foot building, near…

Massachusetts-based nonprofit Verité, which works to improve labor conditions in some of the most exploitative industries throughout the world, has received funding for a three-year project addressing labor in Brazil,…

Agricultural commodities packaging and storage specialist GrainPro, Inc., has announced the appointment of current vice president Jordan Dey to president, beginning Sept. 1. Dey will replace Philippe “Phil” Villers, who…

Toiletries, shmoiletries. Startup luggage-maker Pakt has created a kit that’s even more essential to the dedicated traveling coffee consumer: the Pakt Coffee Kit. With the financial path to production well…

In what amounted to the largest Yemeni specialty coffee auction in history, buyers from all over the world paid more than $163,000 for coffees from 33 different producers, with a…

In an unlikely specialty-coffee-meets-political-ineptitude jumble, La Colombe Coffee Co-Founder and CEO Todd Carmichael has agreed to donate $22,000 to cover families’ school lunch debts to a Pennsylvania school district. It…

A thorough exploration of the origin, proliferation and struggles of the Fair Trade movement came by way of the Guardian this week. The article analyzes the purpose, practices and effects…

As business owners and customers alike in Berkeley, California, prepare to grapple with a 25 cent fee required for all single-use cups, the city is launching a progressive reusable cup-share…

Just days after announcing it had secured £13 million ($16 million USD) in funding from private investors, UK-based coffee roaster and retailer Black Sheep Coffee announced it has acquired the…

by Michael Teahan Close Cousins Understanding pressure in an espresso machine is straightforward in many respects. We have a few benchmarks for extraction that have been borne out of years…