Inside a former bouncy house complex outside Boston, coffee beans now bounce around the drum of a Diedrich CR-70 roaster recently obtained by Atomic Coffee Roasters. Production at the 10,000-square-foot…
Portland, Oregon-based Junior’s Roasted Coffee has launched a farmer-focused CSA-style program called Community Funded Coffee (CFC). Meanwhile, Junior’s sibling brand, Guilder, has opened its second cafe, inside the iconic Powell’s…
How, exactly, do they get the caf out of decaf?
I am writing this column while in the throes of a mild but certainly unpleasant case of COVID-19. My brain, rapt in congestion and the medicinal haze of over-the-counter drugs,…
While no business is “pandemic-proof,” 2021 yet again proved that the business of coffee roasting remains relatively low risk while allowing for online sales and incremental growth. The proliferation of…
After a year in which any research that was non-pandemic-related seemed almost quaint, the scientific output largely resumed course in 2021. In peer-reviewed study after peer-reviewed study, the academic world…
Following the pandemic shocks of 2020, this past year saw a fresh wave of investments and acquisitions in the coffee sphere, as companies and investors sought to capitalize on the…
It’s been a topsy turvy year for high-end home coffee grinders, as electric grinder makers rolled out manual machines and vice versa. More than anything else, the year in home…
With manufacturers giving so much focus to the home coffee segment in 2021, the commercial grinder output, so to speak, was relatively low in volume. Most of this year’s headlines…
As the projections associated with climate change become increasingly dire, 2021 saw numerous coffee roasting equipment makers put forth new systems for more efficiently delivering heat to the beans inside…