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Celebrity coffee brands are having a bit of a moment. Depending on your preference, you can buy coffee from A-list actors like Hugh Jackman and Tom Hanks, rock bands like Green Day and Korn, or rappers like Jadakiss and Snoop Dogg. Sadly, you can no longer buy your coffee from
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We’ve all heard the jokes about decaf, we’ve all seen the “death before decaf” memes. It’s true that for many companies, decaffeinated coffee is an afterthought at best and an annoyance at worst. Maybe it’s roasted without care, or it’s not dialed in with the
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The climate crisis is coming for coffee. It’s coming for everything else as well, of course, but coffee appears uniquely at risk due to its susceptibility to stress and disease. And that threat could be existential: multiple reports and articles in recent years have foretold “the end of coffee”
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Everyone loves a coffee gadget. If you search “coffee” on the crowdfunding site Kickstarter, you get 4,542 results. They’re not all gizmos, of course; some are coffee table books, espresso-infused beauty products, or small companies trying to open a cafe. These are not the projects we’re concerned
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Hello and welcome to the year 2022, which looks and feels a lot like 2021. But here we are, January 1st, and what better way to start off a new rotation around the sun than by looking back on the year gone and all the coffee news that happened. Well,
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Hello and welcome to 2021, and with it the Coffee News Roundup review of 2020. 2020 was a bad year, obviously. A lot of people died in a worldwide pandemic that was grossly mishandled by many governments, and a lot more people were economically decimated by the bad choices those
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In any other year, in any other timeline, the 2020 Glasgow Coffee Festival would have already taken place. It was due to be held back in May within the grandeur of The Briggait, the soaring 19th century fish market that has been the festival’s home since its inception in
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Back in March, when the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic was beginning to become starkly apparent, many (if not most) coffee companies went into hibernation. They shut down, furloughed or laid off their staff, applied for government assistance, and waited. Starbucks was different. Although they claimed to be “closing” their
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Short answer: yes, I believe so. Long answer: well, read the article. Last year, while doing research for this article in Sierra Magazine detailing ways to lower your personal coffee carbon footprint (a slightly futile activity, it turns out), I decided to take my own advice and replace my paper
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A couple of days ago my brother-in-law texted to ask me from whom he should buy coffee. He wanted to support local, independent roasters struggling to stay afloat during the coronavirus pandemic. So, I had a think. There are the obvious places, but I wanted to give some options. I
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Hello and welcome to the final Coffee News Roundup of 2019. Last year, due to traveling back from Scotland and being hugely jet-lagged, I phoned in the final Roundup by simply rehashing some of the stupidest, most pointless and/or funniest coffee stories from the preceding twelve months. This year,
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Hello and welcome to the last Coffee News Roundup of 2018. There is very little news this week, and since I spent Friday flying home from Scotland the rest of the weekend is basically a wash. With that in mind, I thought this would be a good chance to look