Longtime Seattle coffee roasting and retail company Caffe Vita is apologizing to guests after protests and calls for boycotts stemming from a managerial email sent
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In this week’s episode of Unpacking Coffee, Kandace and Ray chat with James McLaughlin, CEO of Chicago-based Intelligentsia Coffee. Intelligentsia occupies a rarified place in
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Like most coffee-producing countries throughout the Americas, Peru’s coffee sector has struggled to rebound — both in terms of volume and economic impact — from
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Cold brew remains widely adopted by the specialty coffee industry as something to be treated with care — both as a standalone beverage or as
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In this week’s episode of Unpacking Coffee with Kandace and Ray — the latter high on cold meds — the hosts sit down with Máquina
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While Unpacking Coffee has exclusively focused on roasters since its debut, its 71st episode heads further into the coffee chain as Kandace and Ray chat
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Now a household name among home coffee connoisseurs and professional coffee people alike, Baratza may never have existed if not for a non-compete clause signed
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Two of the biggest minds around the specialty coffee industry have tackled one of coffee’s most complicated, misunderstood and timely topics in a new miniseries
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In an era when most specialty coffee companies are working towards inclusion and accessibility to draw more drinkers into the fold, one coffee equipment maker
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This week, Kandace and Ray return from Iceland, where in between chasing waterfalls, dodging geysers and staring awestruck at strange and desolate landscapes, they managed
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A small coffee joint between Alexandra Park and Little Italy in central Toronto features a design element that flips traditional coffee retail design upside down
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As the echoes from the final episode of Game of Thrones reduce to wintry whispers, another series is proving itself to be evergreen, full of
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Most brands go it alone, offering a strict set of logos, colors and catch phrases designed to collectively draw your eye and say, “Please pick
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At Central City Coffee in Portland, Oregon, every bag sold translates into a little bit of hope — not for profit, but for the people
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The nickname Stumptown for the coffee mecca Portland, Oregon, has its roots, so to speak, as far back as the mid-1800s, when the removal of
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Sometimes I fear I am aging without grace. Though this is not yet a condition formally recognized by the medical community, its primary symptom is
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After a 2018 full of shenanigans mixed with some serious insight, Kandace and Ray are back for a brand new year of Unpacking Coffee. First up
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After a 2018 full of shenanigans mixed with some serious insight, Kandace and Ray are back for a brand new year of Unpacking Coffee. First up
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After a 2018 full of shenanigans mixed with some serious insight, Kandace and Ray are back for a brand new year of Unpacking Coffee. First up
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Under the umbrella of “prices” come any number of other important topics: Cost of production, profitability, futures contract lengths, supply and demand fundamentals, shifting financial
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