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April 5, 2023

Do specialty coffee consumers actually want to be more connected to farmers?

It’s fair to say that many specialty coffee brands base their marketing strategies around the idea that coffee consumers want to be more connected to farmers. These branding techniques largely revolve around disseminating more information about where coffee comes from, including the farmers who grow it. The majority of specialty coffee professionals want to know as much information about origin as possible. This includes processing method, variety, altitude, and terroir.… read more

It’s fair to say that many specialty coffee brands base their marketing strategies around the idea that coffee consumers want to be more connected to farmers. These branding techniques largely revolve around disseminating more information about where coffee comes from,… read more

July 19, 2016

5 Weird Things People Put in Their Coffee

Looking to spice up your morning coffee? You’re not the only one. In fact, people have been adding bizarre ingredients to their brews for years....

June 29, 2016

5 Reasons Thai Specialty Coffee Is Blooming – And 4 Challenges It Faces

Thailand isn’t just a major coffee-producing country; it’s also one in which specialty is rapidly on the increase. Back in 2002, the country produced only...

October 30, 2015

Cold War Coffeenomics: Combating Communism with Coffee

If someone told you there was going to be a coffee shortage, what would you think? Supposing you actually believed it might happen, you’d probably...

October 5, 2015

Do All Third Wave Coffee Cities Have to Be Homogenous?

Is it possible to retain a distinct coffee identity when specialty coffee reigns supreme internationally? Or are we becoming homogenous imitations of other third wave...

August 31, 2015

Fika Coffee Break: The Social Ritual of Coffee

It might be a controversial claim, but if you ask me, no one gets more excited about an invitation to drink coffee than a Swede....

July 3, 2015

Nitro: Is It the Next Big Thing in Cold Brew?

It started with the Starbucks Frappuccino. Later, it was revived in the specialty coffee world by the Stumptown and Blue Bottle cartons: packaged cold brews...

May 22, 2015

Is Coffee & Music the Perfect Addiction?

Listening to music was made a lot easier in the last 10-20 years, first came CDs, then mp3s, and finally with all those streaming services...