coffee beans
Why You Should Be Freezing Your Coffee Beans
It is now scientifically proven that simply by chilling your beans before grinding, you can make a superior cup of coffee.
Millennials Are Very ‘Emotional’ About Buying Coffee
A recent online survey, which looked at more than 900 millennials’ coffee buying habits, found that coffee is about way more than just beans and price.
How Much Should a Cup of Coffee Actually Cost?
We investigate if you're really getting ripped off, or are just a caffeine addicted parasite feeding off the third world.
Juvenile Delinquents Are Trading Crime for Coffee at This Rotterdam Cafe
In Rotterdam, a new cafe is helping young men turn away from lives of crime by giving them jobs roasting and serving coffee. But this ain't charity—they're making legitimately great coffee.
A Bristol Rave Was Nearly Ruined By Coffee Rust
Organisers of the world’s first coffee rave have had their supply of beans depleted due to “coffee rust,” a fungal disease destroying coffee plants in the Dominican Republic.
This Man Is Making Brownies from Discarded Coffee Bean Pulp
A former Starbucks technical services director has found a way to mill flour from discarded coffee bean shells. If successful, “CoffeeFlour” could be a new source of income for producers in Nicaragua, Mexico, and Vietnam.
Coffee Beans Have Their Own Class System
Robusta coffee beans have been dogged by deep, long-standing prejudice in the java industry. One London company is hoping to spearhead a revival because global warming and increased international demand means quality coffee supplies can't come from...
Bad Coffee Is Dying a Slow Death in Paris
Coffee in Paris has been, historically speaking, rather dreadful—a bitter, black brew made from robusta beans. But now new cafés with a passion for good beans are slowly beginning to change French coffee culture for the better.
How-To: Make Cold Brew Coffee With Rob Dunne
Everyone's high on cold brew coffee right now, but here's how to make it like a pro.
Chasing Coffee in Ethiopia: Hyenas Give the Best Goodbyes
At the end of our coffee-sourcing trip in Ethiopia, we drove through the capitol city that had transformed into a sea of saddened World Cup fans. Ethiopia had just lost to Nigeria. Luckily, before our flight home we were introduced to a pack of wild...
Chasing Coffee in Ethiopia: Part One
I work at Sightglass, an independent coffee company in San Francisco. We take dozens of sourcing trips around the world to places where there's a variety of obstacles: political and health issues, to dangerous terrain.