Monthly Archives: May 2020

There was a time not long ago when the specialty coffee community was like one big French press, with consumers and baristas and roasters all swirling around one another, awash…

Since 2014, the Specialty Coffee Retail Price Index (SCRPI) has tracked online retail prices charged by a representative group of United States and Canadian specialty coffee roasters. SCRPI reports typically…

For most of the world, the first months of 2020 have been a challenging season, with millions across the globe either anticipating, in the throes of, or rebounding from the COVID-19 pandemic. For the past two months, Berkeley, California, where Coffee Review is based, has been under a statewide shelter-in-place order. Whether we’re too busy […]

The Coffee Roasters Guild has announced that it has canceled the annual Coffee Roasters Guild Retreat for 2020. The Retreat, which constitutes the Specialty Coffee Association guild’s largest gathering and…

Sightglass owners Jerad and Justin Morrison’s hard work with a talented new staff in opening an expansive and attractive roastery and restaurant location in Los Angeles has at last come…

As the rare larger specialty coffee roaster with no retail cafes to speak of, Counter Culture Coffee has managed to find favor among untold numbers of quality-focused coffee shops throughout…

Like the lumber from which its seating counter and bar surface are made, the destiny of 1802 Roasters was reclaimed this week with its re-opening as a drive-through and curbside…

For all the frazzled parents in a desperate, wide-eyed search for ways in which to keep their children occupied as many government agencies maintain “safer at home” orders, roaster manufacturer…

Along with a coffee-trading partner in Ethiopia, two Dutch organizations have further pushed the envelope of coffee supply chain transparency through a new platform called Trace. Created by the nonprofit…