Monthly Archives: December 2019

(Editor’s note: This article originally appeared in the November/December 2019 issue of Roast Magazine. Links have been added for context.) Like many urban centers in the United States, Portland, Maine, was…

As might be expected, the topic on many people’s minds this year was coffee prices, which for much of the year sat at woefully unsustainable levels. Like weather-related events, the…

To witness the convergence of the specialty coffee and craft beer industries has been like watching an espresso extraction emerge from a bottomless portafilter. This year especially, that extraction moved…

The year in coffee science news began with some groundbreaking but dismal news that most wild coffee species, including arabica, are now classified as in danger of extinction. Yet for…

In this final year of the second decade of the new millennium, humans have remained reasonably content with the existing methods for brewing their coffee. Of greater concern at this…

2019 saw a spectacularly dichotomous coffee market, with historically low prices for much of the year for the basest commodity coffees — those that constitute the bulk of the coffee…

For machines of the size and scale of commercial coffee roasters, progress comes slow, and 2019 has proven to be a relatively quiet year in the industrial coffee roasting category….

While botanists, agronomists and other scientists in myriad fields have been hard at work here on earth trying to unlock the secrets to developing higher-quality, higher-yielding and more resilient and…

A high-tech retail experience squarely focused on coffee has opened in Atlanta’s Midtown neighborhood. Huge X Brash is a collaboration between local roasting company Brash Coffee Roasters and the design and…

As commodity coffee prices sagged at historic lows throughout much of 2019, many of the world’s largest coffee buyers held their tongues as tightly as they pulled their purse strings….