Monthly Archives: August 2020

Online green coffee seller Genuine Origin has expanded its women-producer-focused La Morena program, which has grown each year since its inception in 2016. This season the United States-based importer is…

Outdoor utility equipment brand VSSL, which specializes in compact and durable kits for campers and hikers, has trekked into new terrain with the launch of its first coffee-focused product, the…

It was nearly a decade ago that a message popped up on the Home-Barista.com forum titled “Artisan beta roasting software available.” Since that time, the open-source, volunteer-supported Artisan roasting software…

Drinks served at a new walk-up coffee window at the recently established roastery of Red Arrow Roasters have been hitting the mark for summer-goers along the Southeastern shore of Lake…

As coffee roasters and retailers have increasingly fine-tuned their online operations to continue to move coffee, so too has green coffee trader Cafe Imports, which has just launched a new…

In the last episode of Coffee Economics with Karl, Colombian coffee trading company Cedro Alto Founder Karl Wienhold touched on the difficult subject of coffee farm production costs. As with…

Making a clear case for transparency in brewing, a new device called the Pure Over is on its way into production, offering filter-free drip coffee from a brewer composed entirely…

Montreal, Quebec-based roasting and retail company Dispatch Coffee has raised $1.26 million (approximately $960,000 USD) in seed funding to support growth plans throughout Canada. Founded by Chrissy Durcak in 2012,…

Nearly three years after category 5 Hurricane Maria ripped through the island of Puerto Rico, the United States Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) has announced a $2.6 million investment to…

(Editor’s note: The following comes from an article by Morten Münchow and Jesper Alstrup of CoffeeMind, which appeared in the July/August 2020 issue of Roast Magazine. Click here to read the full…