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Welcome to another edition of the Coffee News Roundup, this week brought to you by a Spotify playlist of alternative 90s rock—The Cranberries, Manic Street Preachers, No Doubt, Radiohead—and a Chemex's worth of coffee. Let's go. Revelator Coffee Offering Five Sponsorships for Upcoming US
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Another week ends, and another Coffee News Roundup heaves into view, bringing tales of protest, mystery and nitro cold brew. Shall we begin? SF coffee shop turns down Salesforce contract in immigration protest - via San Francisco Chronicle Wrecking Ball Coffee Roasters, a San Francisco-based coffee company, has turned down
Interviews
This is part 2 of my interview with Catherine Franks, founder and owner of Steampunk Coffee Roasters in North Berwick, Scotland. Part 1 can be found here. This interview has been lightly edited for clarity. You changed your packaging recently—can you tell me about that? Changing our packaging was
Interviews
Steampunk Coffee Roasters is one of my all-time favourite coffee companies. My first published review on this site was their Costa Rica Mirian 1 (it was delicious, since you asked), and the Warehouse in North Berwick is a wonderful, welcoming cafe full of warmth and puppies. If you're
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Last week saw Seattle host the Specialty Coffee Expo 2018, an industry conference designed to gather the great and good in the world of coffee in one place to discuss the future of coffee (and drink just a lot of coffee). There was a symposium where cutting edge coffee ideas
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February in Michigan means snow, freezing temperatures, and more snow. Today, for example, we're being buffeted by something called Winter Storm Mateo (I feel like they're running low on names)—which means a day of staying inside, listening to Elbow, and drinking coffee. It's
Interviews
Equator Coffees & Teas is one of the true pioneers of coffee’s third wave. Since the mid-90s, Brooke McDonnell and her partner and co-founder Helen Russell have been a driving force in the growth and development of the Bay Area’s coffee scene, from humble origins roasting in a
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Hello and welcome to another edition of the Coffee News Roundup. This is the time of year when resolutions are quietly abandoned, gym memberships begin to gather dust and the urge to comfort eat to ward off the winter blues grows ever stronger. The good news is that coffee has
Coffee Features
2017 was an interesting year for the Pourover. I started this blog in November 2016, with the goal of exploring, highlighting and promoting Scottish specialty coffee. I managed that for nearly a year, with coffee and cafe reviews, interviews, and the odd article about movies. I met some fascinating people,
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It’s the Friday before Christmas, and judging by the coffee news this week, the world has mostly given up and is coasting gleefully towards 2018. This is usually the time of year—if the West Wing is anything to go by—that governments and companies try to quietly bury
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Another week of political turmoil, landmark elections, apocalyptic weather and a clearly uncomfortable horse. Powered by various online echo chambers, near-constant news coverage and a general sense of pervading dread, it can seem like the world is constantly teetering on the brink (I’m not saying it isn’t). Thankfully,
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Snow has finally come to southeast Michigan, with the first flurries descending as I left for work yesterday morning. After a disturbingly mild autumn—seriously, are 60 degree days in December normal? My existential-dread-o-meter is off the charts right now—it looks like winter has at last decided to make