2025 Year in Review2025 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...
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2025 Year in Review
2025 Year in Review2025 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 Year in Review2025 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 Year in ReviewBest 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 Year in Review2025 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...
ColumnsWeekly Coffee News: Sustainable Farming in Mexico + Training in Dallas
Welcome to DCN’s Weekly Coffee News! Subscribe here for all the latest coffee industry news. Also, check out the latest career opportunities at CoffeeIndustryJobs.com. Profile: Finca Los Pinos Touts Carbon-Neutral Coffee in...
2025 Year in Review2025 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 Year in ReviewHere 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 Year in Review2025 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 Year in Review2025 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...