2025 Year in Review

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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2025 Year In Review: New Professional Coffee Grinders

Commercial coffee grinder makers this year sure gave them something to talk about, and by “them,” we mean the grinders. Brand after brand rolled out new wired and wireless platforms...

2025.12.23

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2025 Year In Review: New Commercial Espresso and Brewing Equipment

Communication is key. In commercial cafe equipment, that axiom applies now more than ever as espresso machines and coffee grinders grow increasingly intertwined. This year, multiple major manufacturers unveiled new...

2025.12.23

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2025 Year in Review: 10 New Coffee Shops in the Midwest

The Midwest showed up in 2025 with new coffee shops blending menu inventiveness and creative programming with earnest and sincere service. The openings in this list include roasters expanding into...

2025.12.23

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2025 Year In Review: 10 New West Coast Coffee Shops

Whether to Mexico, Vietnam, Ukraine or outer space, new coffee shops that opened this year up and down the West Coast showed specialty coffee’s power to deepen connections to places...

2025.12.23

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