In a vast, booming city with no shortage of coffee options, Toronto newcomer Morning Parade Coffee Bar is leading a hyper-local coffee procession, proudly bearing the flags of quality and… more…

The effects won’t be known until later this year.
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The July/August issue of Roast takes a look at the lasting impact of the coffee leaf rust epidemics that have swept through coffee growing regions over the past century, the… more…

Kopi Kade in Colombo, Sri Lanka.
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Tequesta, Florida-based specialty coffee roaster Oceana Coffee has entered into a partnership with Miami-based cannabis products maker Bhang Corporation for a new line of CBD coffee products under the more…

I am convinced that coffee brewers come with their own gremlins. If by chance you don’t know what a gremlin is, there are numerous Bugs Bunny cartoons that can explain… more…

For the release of Issue 06, Coffee People is heading to Portland, Oregon.
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Opening a beautiful specialty coffee shop can be an arduous uphill climb, but with their worldly influences, technical knowhow and personal drive, DreiBerge Coffee owners Andrea and Ryan Cummings were more…

Barefoot Coffee Roasters in Solana Beach, California.
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Colombian President Iván Duque signed into law a new fund late last week designed to support the country’s smallholder farmers in times of downward price shocks. The law comes just… more…

With summer travel season in full swing, a new company is aiming to fill a longstanding hole in the coffee lover’s portable brewing kit: A convenient, packable tool for precisely… more…

When I started a small roasting company six years ago in Salt Lake City, Utah, I was surprised by how often I had to field these questions: “Is this coffee… more…

Team submissions are due by Friday, July 19th.
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Climate change is taking a remarkable toll on small farmers in Colombia’s picturesque Zona Cafetera, presenting a clear long-term threat to the coffee sector’s viability. Yale Environment more…

The legacy of coffee is intertwined with design. Welcome to Sprudge Vintage, a summer pop-up of curated coffee vintage from the third wave and beyond, drawing on today’s worldwide movement of vi more…

In coffee projects around the world, best practices and increasing yields are often the lynchpin in the strategy to improve smallholders’ livelihoods. By definition, a smallholder has a small tr more…

After four years of being held in New York City, the head-to-head tournament-style Coffee Masters USA barista competition, produced by Allegra Events, is heading west this year to Los Angeles…. more…

The $2 floor would almost double the current commodity coffee price.
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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 to check in with Reykjavík. more…

Beachcomber Coffee Company in Gibsons, British Columbia.
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Following a successful effort to unionize by workers at the lone SPoT Coffee location in Rochester, New York, three employees at locations in the Buffalo area claim they have been… more…

After nearly two years of chatting through plans and taking small step after small step towards their goal, Ohio natives Lindsey and John King have opened Walkie Talkie Espresso &… more…

For as long as people prefer their drinks served liquid and hot, there are going to be burn-related lawsuits. From the infamous and widely misunderstood 1994 case Liebeck v. McDonald’s… more…

I don’t want to sound heartless, but we need to stop subsidizing coffee production. As coffee prices are sitting at historic lows and destroying people’s lives, it is shocking to… more…

Pabst Blue Ribbon Hard Coffee isn’t actually a beer at all.
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YA Coffee in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
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(Editor’s note: This article originally appeared in the September/October 2017 issue of Roast Magazine. Photos by Rob Hoos and figures adapted from Cropster export files. Links have been added for more…

Researchers from the University of Nottingham in the UK recently published a study in the journal Scientific Reports suggesting caffeine increases brown fat. This caught people’s attention because more…

Organized by The Netherlands-based green coffee importer Trabocca, the Ethiopian Cup coffee auction resulted in USD $84,274 in premiums above a base price for coffee producers from the prized regions. more…

Alfred Coffee has banned the all-star basketball player for not signing with the Lakers.
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Compelling Coffee in Los Angeles, California.
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Denver-based coffee roasting and retail company Dazbog Coffee has cut the ribbon on a new multi-story production facility and adjacent corporate headquarters. Dazbog Co-Founder and CEO Anatoly Yuffa t more…

A growing number of progressive coffee companies from the United States, Canada, Europe and Australia have banded together in support of a radical new strategy to promote coffee purchasing transparenc more…

An international group of roasters have joined forces to bring a common language to reporting on coffee buying.
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As aesthetics and creativity are central to the culture of high-end coffee consumption, businesses and individuals in the coffee world have created a constant stream of images showcasing exquisitely c more…

In a negotiation that has been closely tracked in the coffee world, top officials in Ghana and the Ivory Coast failed to come to an agreement with many of the… more…

It was fitting that Voyager Craft Coffee would start off as a mobile coffee bar in 2015. With its creative menu and multiroaster format, the company’s voyage continued less than… more…

Remember the dark days when coffee roasting was a craft shrouded in secrecy, its methods and techniques held close to the vest by a select few people who primarily learned… more…

Where to drink coffee in Vitória, Brazil.
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At just the moment when many people would proudly tilt its cans of the ol’ red, white and blue, Pabst Blue Ribbon released something brown, white and blue instead. The… more…

Aaron Fekete is bringing a wealth of worldly coffee experience back to his hometown of Cadillac, Michigan, with the launch of Owl Eye Coffee Roasters. The sole owner of the… more…