Monthly Archives: June 2020

Several makers of highly prized home coffee brewing equipment have joined forces for a brew kit giveaway in support of the Black Lives Matter movement. Equipment makers Acaia (scales and…

Just over three years after leading agricultural certification agencies Rainforest Alliance and UTZ announced plans to merge under the Rainforest Alliance name, the group today unveiled its sweeping new certification…

En las primeras semanas de la pandemia de COVID-19, quedó claro que las cuarentenas domiciliares y el distanciamiento social crearon una serie de interrupciones en el mercado de venta al…

When tasting things in quick succession, subtle differences jump out more readily. This is true around roastery cupping tables, and it is also true of a new whole-bean online retail…

Green coffee buyers from all over the globe paid top dollar at the first ever Ethiopia Cup of Excellence (CoE) auction, offering a combined $1.34 million USD for the 28…

The ice we skate is getting pretty thin The water’s getting warm so you might as well swim My world’s on fire, how ’bout yours? That’s the way I like…

The coffees presented by professional baristas on the stages of coffee competitions are intended to be exceptional. Cultivated, processed and roasted with extreme care, these show-stopping coffees also tend to…

What if paying a farmer double the commodity price for their single-farm microlots could actually leave them worse off than had they just sold everything into the commodity market? This…