Latest harvested coffee media signals, scored and translated into a Contour angle. This is the review surface before ideas become Journal posts.
Ecotact launched the Trace IQ, a container-mounted device for monitoring green coffee shipments with real-time location and environmental data.
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Cup of Excellence partnered with Siip, CQI named Felipe Fallas Naranjo, and Starbucks Korea’s chief was fired.
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Cosori introduced the Juni automatic pourover brewer, bringing app-controlled brew profiles and connected features to home and cafe users.
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Wanderlust Coffee opened its second cafe in West Lafayette, Indiana, with bolder design near Purdue Research Park.
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It’s hard to accept that coffee grinds are worthless once you switch off a shot. I mean, composters like them. You can make MDF out of them and chopping boards. You can even turn ‘em into coffee cups.
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Even though premade espresso is clearly not as good as freshly made espresso, when it comes to lattes, there does seem to be something going on that tips the balance towards the premades, and we’re pretty sure it’s got something to do with crema — or the absence of it.
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“We should be hyping this more” was a quote from a podcast we recorded this week. We’d just finished a blind cupping; one which could be more pivotal than we might like to admit. You’ll never guess what we were tasting …
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If you compete in the World Barista Championship, you’ve gotta make twelve beverages in fifteen minutes, right? That’s seventy five seconds per beverage. Easy enough, eh? But there’s a lot of chatting, hospitality, farm to cup explanations. It’s extraordinary how many first-time competitors are DQ'd for going overtime.
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You’re at home, you decide you want a coffee, and you need it quick cause you’re about to run out the door. What do you make? I can tell you right now it’s not espresso. I timed myself to make coffee on some of our equipment at the BH office with a goal to work out the speed, energy demand, and cost effectiveness of each method
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Mexico’s coffee production is forecast to rise in 2026/27 as robusta expands and domestic consumption grows.
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Drip Coffee’s owner sued Kimco Realty over alleged lease fraud tied to a Fort Lauderdale Target redevelopment.
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India coffee production is forecast to fall in 2026/27, while exports rise on soluble demand and new trade deals.
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Researchers from the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, have proposed the formal name Coffea × libex for hybrids of the liberica and excelsa.
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There are two types of barista … one that steams individually for every beverage, and one that steams in twos. One’s not better than the other.
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Do you think that cafés who use automated milk foamers are cheating? Or that the choice to speed things up is also a decision to compromise on quality? Well, this might surprise you, but every time you steam milk, you’re quietly adding water to it. Switch to automation, and that water disappears. When you steam milk, steam condenses into the liquid.
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In this blog post we will teach you the art of dividing up a pitcher full of steamed milk in such a way that you end up with the same amount of foam in each beverage you pour.
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