Fredy Montero, a Colombian forward for Major League Soccer’s Vancouver Whitecaps, is perhaps most famous for being the Seattle Sounders’ all-time record goalscorer. The international soccer player has also plied…
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Kitchen Coffee Roasters Website: www.kcr.by Location: Minsk, Belarus (map link) Date Open: Autumn, 2018 Lead Architect: ZROBYM architects (Minsk) Submitted by: ZROBYM architects Project Description (Note: DCN Design Showcase project descriptions were written by Showcase…
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The September/October 2019 issue of Roast has been released, featuring coverage of key principles in sensory science in coffee, seed viability and its relationship to cup quality, and the emergence…
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In Part 1 of this story, we outlined the ways in which coffee is typically procured, while contrasting that with the way it is marketed by coffee brands. In this…
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Edison Coffee Co. Website: ww.edisoncoffeeco.com Location: Flower Mound, Texas (map link) Date Open: March, 2019 Designer (Interior Design): Dustin Wekesser (Dallas) Design Firm (Fabrication and Build): Total Art Design and…
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In keeping with the endless forward march of technology and design, German commercial grinder maker Mahlkönig has officially moved on into what it’s calling the “Next Generation” of its grinder…
The French Press makes rich delicious coffee, however, it has two drawbacks. The first is the sediment. To minimize the sediment, I made a practice of not pouring all the coffee in the mug and never…
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When we last wrote in depth about Geisha (also spelled Gesha) coffees in 2017, a 100-pound lot of this prized variety of Arabica, grown at Hacienda La Esmeralda by the Peterson family, had just broken the then-current record for the highest price ever paid for a green coffee: $601 per pound. Flash forward to July […]
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The Coffee Paradox, by Benoit Daviron and Stefano Ponte (Zed Books, 2005) analyzes at length the disturbing trend that, just as coffee has grown fashionable and retail prices for coffee have increased in regions where coffee is consumed, like North America, Europe and East Asia, the basic prices paid to growers for their green coffees […]
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The Crown: Royal Coffee Lab & Tasting Room Website: www.royalcoffee.com/the-crown Location: Oakland, California (map link) Date Open: March, 2019 Architect of Record: Norman Sanchez Architecture Inc. (Alameda, California) Interior Architect: Studio…