2019 saw a spectacularly dichotomous coffee market, with historically low prices for much of the year for the basest commodity coffees — those that constitute
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The young Beijing, China-based studio Office AIO describes the overall sensation for consumers at the new Basic Coffee shop in Beijing’s XianYuKou district as like
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Domingo Muguira Revelta, the founder of the long-running Mexican decaffeination company Descamex and the coffee brand Los Portales, passed away after heart failure on Nov.
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In this week’s episode of Unpacking Coffee, Kandace and Ray check in with Seattle-based roasting stalwart Kuma Coffee. Incidentally, the word of the day on
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Green coffee trading company Caravela Coffee has announced the appointment of Rich Futrell as sales manager for North America. A Chicago native, Futrell founded the
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This week’s episode of Unpacking Coffee checks in with Jake Deome, the founder and coffee director for Seattle’s Looking Homeward Coffee, who hopped a train
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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.
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In this week’s episode of Unpacking Coffee, Kandace and Ray check in with Areli Barrera de Grodski and Leon Grodski de Barrera, the founders of
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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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