Coffee News Roundup: Week Ending December 2nd

Krispy Kreme agrees to pay nearly $1.2 million in unpaid back wages, while the unionization wave washes over Peet’s, and Colombia once again considers leaving the commodity coffee market.

Read all the news over at Fresh Cup Magazine:

If you missed it, you can catch up on my latest article, an interview with Rabbithole Roasters’ David Lalonde on the promise of specialty dark roasts:

In Defense of Dark Roasts

In the specialty world, dark roast coffee has, it’s fair to say, an unfavourable reputation. At best it’s considered old-school, a holdover from the first and second waves; at worst like it’s trying to hide something. And at one stage it was trying to hide something

The Pourover

And a special guest star to close us out, my sister’s cat Maru!

(I’m running low on Merlin photos, so if you have a cat who would like to be featured here, send me a—preferably landscape aspect ratio—photo to [email protected] 😺)