2025 Year in Review

2025 Year in Review: Coffee Science

Coffee research in 2025 ran the gamut from farm-level survival to consumer-side marketing trickery. Naturally, coffee also continued to be a major focus among medical researchers, with primarily good news...

2025.12.30

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2025 Year in Review: New Home and Prosumer Coffee Grinders

Several brands best known for commercial cafe equipment pushed further into the home market this year, rolling out kitchen-friendly grinders designed to satisfy serious enthusiasts. Home-focused makers, meanwhile, listened to...

2025.12.30

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2025 Year In Review: Coffee Accessories

At its simplest, coffee only needs to be ground, mixed with water and filtered. But these aren’t simple times, and as any coffee person knows, consistently great cups — black...

2025.12.30

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2025 Year In Review: Home Coffee Brewing and Roasting

The options for home coffee bars got deeper and more interesting in 2025, as both newcomers and legacy brands rolled out genuinely ambitious gear. Programmability and automation took a big...

2025.12.30

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2025 Year in Review: Green Coffee and Policy Whiplash

For the majority of 2025, producers, traders and buyers of green coffee have suffered collective whiplash due to radical policy changes affecting the global coffee trade, amid enduring threats such...

2025.12.29

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Best of ‘Three Questions’ 2025: Conversations with Coffee Innovators

Some coffee careers start the “classic” way — behind a bar, learning the rhythm of service and operations. Others arrive by detour, through architecture and urban planning, coral conservation research,...

2025.12.29

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2025 Year in Review: Best of ‘Design Details’

In 2025, some of the most memorable coffee-centered design projects were clearly built around the feelings designers wanted to inspire among guests — comfort and belonging, wonder and spectacle, clarity...

2025.12.29

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2025 Year In Review: New Coffee Roasting Equipment and Tech

Roasteries large and small grew increasingly full of hot air this year, with multiple innovations emerging from makers of fluid-bed coffee roasting equipment. Artificial intelligence also continued its unrelenting flood...

2025.12.26

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Here Are 26 New Roasters to Support in 2026

2025 was an exceptionally weird year to start a coffee roasting business in the United States. Coffee prices were already elevated, pushed by climate change, labor constraints, higher production costs...

2025.12.26

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2025 Year in Review: Coffee Business News

Underneath the dark cloud of tariffs that hung over the coffee industry for much of the year, the business of specialty coffee carried on at a breakneck pace. Among the...

2025.12.23

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