2024 Was a Warning
The past year of climate shocks and surging coffee prices has felt portentous. Without significant investment and industry cooperation, coffee’s future seems increasingly uncertain.
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KAF COFFEE, GLASGOW
Kaf Coffee is extremely new. When I visited it had been open perhaps a week, tops. A sliver of a
RWANDA BUSHOKI LOT 5114, AVENUE COFFEE ROASTING COMPANY, GLASGOW
One of the main reasons I started this blog (aside from it being a way to explore and promote the
PAPERCUP COFFEE COMPANY, GREAT WESTERN ROAD, GLASGOW
It’s possible that, after six months living back in Scotland, I’m finally starting to miss the US. A
NICARAGUA CERRO DE JESUS, ARTISAN ROAST
It’s a little strange that it’s taken me this long to get around to reviewing Artisan Roast’s
WELLINGTON COFFEE, EDINBURGH
Wellington Coffee is a hard place to track down. Both in a figurative sense, because it has minimal-to-zero internet presence,
ETHIOPIA KOCHERE KORE, AVENUE COFFEE ROASTERS, GLASGOW
It’s a natural progression for a specialty coffee shop to move into roasting their own. It makes sense financially
HABITAT CAFE, ABERFELDY
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PURE MAGIC EL SALVADOR, UNORTHODOX COFFEE ROASTERS, KINROSS
The sign that a country has truly embraced specialty coffee is when cafes, and especially roasters, start popping up in
ARTISAN ROAST STOCKBRIDGE, EDINBURGH
Artisan Roast, it seems, is taking over. Not content with being Scotland’s first specialty coffee roaster (est. 2007), they’
BURUNDI MBIRIZI LOT #7, WILLIAMS & JOHNSON, LEITH
I first tried Williams & Johnson’s Burundi Mbirizi Lot #7 during research for my review of Foodstory in Aberdeen.
LOWDOWN, EDINBURGH
There’s something reassuring about a coffee shop in a basement. It feels safe, withdrawn, away from the care and