Roasteries
Small-Batch Roasting with a Purpose
A Mennonite roaster in Ohio, whose roasting journey began with a popcorn popper in Belize, now supplies fresh coffee to his close-knit community.
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- Skills & Education
A Lingonberry Latte That Nods to Nordic Roots
A coffee professional explains how a Scandinavian-inspired syrup — warm spices, lingonberry juice, and local honey — became a signature latte at a new Minneapolis cafe.
- Prices & Trade
Behind the Specialty Coffee Transaction Guide: An Inside Look at Anonymity, Data, and the Fight for Fair Prices
Chad Trewick and Peter W. Roberts discuss how they protect data donors' identities, the feedback loop with contributors, and the road ahead for their pricing transparency tool.
- South America
Leon Bedoya and the Daily Work of Pricing Colombian Coffee
A look at the co-op buyer who grades growers' beans, sets their payments and carries news between farms and the institutions that govern the trade.
- Central & North America
Inside the Dominican Coffee Story: Quality, Climate, and Local Roasting
A researcher shares insights from a two-week trip assessing how climate change affects coffee farming in the Dominican Republic, highlighting the role of local roasters and the challenges posed by disease and shifting weather patterns.
- Coffee Science
Beyond Perfect: Rethinking Quality in Specialty Coffee
Why the pursuit of an ideal cup misses coffee's fleeting artistry—and what we should ask instead.
- Coffee Around the World
Bridging the Gap Between Coffee's Supply Chain and the Cup
A conference keynote asks how specialty coffee can turn complex origin information into something customers can actually taste—and why that matters for producers.
- Marketing & Branding
Making Twitter Work for Baristas: Education, Promotion, and Genuine Engagement
A practical look at how baristas can use a short-form social platform to learn from industry leaders, promote their cafés, and build a professional presence without overdoing self-promotion.
- Cafe Profiles
Where Swedish Coffee Culture Meets Colombian Beans in Redondo Beach
A new California café invites patrons to linger over direct-trade coffee while honoring the farmers who grow it.
- Roasting
Small-Batch Green Coffee Buying Gets a Rethink
New packaging formats and ordering platforms are reshaping how smaller coffee roasting operations secure green coffee, with an emphasis on lower volumes, direct origin access, and simplified purchasing.
- Roasteries
How a Copenhagen Roaster Flipped the Direct Trade Script
A Copenhagen roastery has turned the usual certification model on its head by setting standards for buyers rather than farmers, and its founders explain how that approach shapes sourcing and café culture.
- Asia-Pacific
Sorting by Color, Raising Yunnan Coffee's Standing
A look at how a wet-mill color sorter, developed through trial and error with local partners, is helping farmers in southern Yunnan pick fully ripe cherries and lift cup quality.
- Cafe Profiles
A Legacy Roastery Gets a Functional Refresh in San Francisco
A family-run coffee business in the Sunset District is reworking its long, narrow Noriega Street shop to double seating and open sightlines to the roaster, with construction underway and completion targeted for mid-April.
- Operations & Menus
Café Quality Upgrade: Lessons from a Two-Year Transformation
A coffee business owner shares how he rebuilt his café program by focusing on people, questioning every detail, and investing heavily in training.
- Brewing Methods
Why the Water Behind Your Brew Deserves as Much Attention as the Beans
How inconsistent water chemistry across locations shapes extraction, flavor, and equipment—and what coffee businesses can do about it.
- South America
High-Altitude Experimentation: A Colombian Farm’s Unconventional Path
At a fog-shrouded estate outside Bogotá, two producers are testing fermentation methods and building a network with neighboring growers to push the boundaries of specialty coffee.
