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Wandering no more, Nearby Coffee Co. has settled into its first brick-and-mortar coffee shop and roastery in Pflugerville, Texas, next to Austin. Until now, Nearby had been serving the Austin…

With a semi-ironic stoicism delivered in a deep baritone voice, and a proven resistance to music recording conventions such as keeping guitars in tune, Bill Callahan has built a fiercely…

Woman working on farm in Minas Gerais, Brazil. Photo by Danielle Seréjo.   Introduction by Kenneth Davids, Editor in Chief Phyllis Johnson, longtime president of green coffee importer BD Imports, has emerged as an eloquent spokesperson for acknowledgement and change at a time when specialty coffee is searching for an effective response to systemic racism […]

Beverage syrups and sauces giant Torani has completed its move across the bay from South San Francisco into a state-of-the-art manufacturing and office headquarters called the Flavor Factory in San…

Cold coffee brewing technology company BKON has launched a new bag-in-box system for bulk or wholesale cold brew served through a kegerator called the KegX. Through a partnership with packaging…

The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) is proposing sweeping changes to its Organic certification program regulations that may have a profound impact on the conventional and specialty coffee industries….

Roaster Alex Carlson; Direct of Coffee Ali Gulduren, and Owner Efrem Fesaha at Boon Boona Coffee in Reston, Washington.  Photo by Jeriel Calamayan, courtesy of Boon Boona Coffee.   For new readers who may not be familiar with Coffee Review, we introduced the first-ever 100-point, wine-style coffee reviews to the specialty coffee industry in 1997. Our […]

Portland, Oregon-based nonprofit Grow Ahead and Vermont-based nonprofit Food 4 Farmers have teamed up for the launch of three crowdfunding campaigns to support agroforestry projects involving Indigenous and women-led coffee…

As coffee businesses pivot left and right in attempts to navigate the emerging economic landscape carved out by the COVID-19 pandemic, groups supporting those businesses are also making moves. One…

Savannah, Georgia-based Perc Coffee Roasters has expanded beyond its home city with the opening of its second cafe, in Atlanta. In the East Lake neighborhood, the company is practicing a…