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Coffee News Roundup: Week Ending March 28th

A Chemex pouring coffee into a cup on a table, seen from above, overlaid with logos for Fresh Cup Magazine and The Pourover

Another bumper edition of the Roundup this week. Here's some of what happened:

  • Several thousand bags of Massimo Zanetti coffee were mislabelled as decaf and sold across multiple Midwest states, leading to a voluntary recall due to the risk of what the FDA called "medically reversible adverse health consequences".
  • Botanists are looking into the potential of stenophylla, a wild coffee species indigenous to West Africa, as a possible alternative to arabica and robusta as the planet heats. Stenophylla is considered more resilient, and new research shows that it is also chemically quite similar to arabica in terms of taste.
  • Gen Z, I'm told, are the nostalgic generation: they embrace vintage clothing, music, and even analogue tech like the humble VHS. They're also into retro coffee, it seems, increasingly embracing their grandparents' favourites: instant coffee and flavoured creamers. The vast majority of Gen Z add creamer to their coffee, apparently, and they're also behind the recent rise in popularity of instant.

Read more on all these stories—plus some health news regarding those super-automatic office coffee machines—over at Fresh Cup Magazine:

Coffee News Club: Week of March 31st
Click to find out what % of people put creamer in their coffee. Here’s a hint: it’s more than you think. That and more—here’s the news for the week of March 31st.

If you missed it, you can read my latest article which looks at the implications of the U.S. government's border crackdown and anti-trans mania in Texas on the upcoming SCA Expo trade show in Houston:

Travel Warnings and Detainments Cast a Shadow Over America’s Biggest Coffee Trade Show
Amidst the U.S. government’s crackdown at the border and a raft of anti-trans legislation in Texas, some coffee professionals are skipping the Specialty Coffee Association’s Expo in Houston.

I'll be back on Friday with a new Coffee Conversations interview, but until then it's goodbye from Moon, my editor Claire's cat, who would like a word:

An extremely fluffy black and white cat pokes his head over the back of a sofa

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