Less than a year after releasing its EQ line of glassware designed for the appreciation of various attributes of brewed specialty coffee, Canadian coffee gear maker Kruve is expanding the…
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Several articles in the past few months that I encountered centered on the importance of ROR (rate of rise) when roasting coffee. After reading just one it was like eating potato chips, l could not…
Minneapolis green coffee importer Cafe Imports has announced a new sourcing program with Colombian coffee exporter Banexport that responds to the ongoing coffee price crisis. The program, called Farm Select,…
In business, time is money. For the past year, a New York City start-up called Goffee has been trying to save offices and their workers both. The company, which launched…
Despite market reports year after year after year suggesting that the higher-end specialty coffee segment has the most opportunity for growth and increased market share in the United States, the…
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The Cup of Excellence coffee quality competition and auction celebrated its 20th anniversary last week in Lavras, Minas Gerais, Brazil. Returning the event to the city of its birth, the…
Earth-friendly certifications and standards abound for products like coffee, chocolate and palm oil. But do the programs work? A frog the size of a fingernail. A poncho-clad farmer leading his…
It’s not a great sign for specialty coffee roasters — or consumers, for that matter — when importing businesses are issuing warnings like this: Without a dramatic restructuring of the…
In this age of gig work and remote employment, whereby the lines between coffee shops and co-working spaces are often blurred to near invisibility, the question of whether a coffee…