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Do Light Roasts or Dark Roasts Have More Caffeine? Study: Maybe Medium?

New research suggests that everything coffee people have known about how roast level (light, medium, dark, etc.) affects caffeine levels was mostly wrong, but also sort of right. One of...

2024.11.27

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Weekly Coffee News: Roaster Software Update + Franchisee Wins $7.1 Million

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. Giesen Unveils Updates to Roast Profiling Software and Subscriptions....

2024.11.22

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Design Details: ‘Place-Based’ Design with Onda Origins in Seattle

DCN’s ongoing Design Details series highlights specific details in coffee shop/roastery interior design, industrial design or visual design in coffee packaging. Share your project for consideration here. Seattle-based coffee roasting...

2024.11.21

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Is TikTok Right? Can Adding a Teaspoon of Cinnamon to Your Coffee Help You Burn Fat?

Cinnamon has been long used around the world in both sweet and savory dishes and drinks. But a new TikTok trend claims adding a teaspoon of cinnamon to your daily...

2024.11.20

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A Brief Guide to Wonderful Colombian Coffees at Bogotá’s El Dorado Airport

Throughout the world, airport coffee tends to be like traveling back in time 20 years. The coffee itself is often anonymous, over-roasted and begging for milk and sugar — maybe even...

2024.11.19

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Can You Trust Companies That Say Their Plastic Products are Recyclable? US Regulators May Crack Down on Deceptive Claims

Plastic is a fast-growing segment of U.S. municipal solid waste, and most of it ends up in the environment. Just 9% of plastic collected in municipal solid waste was recycled as of...

2024.11.19

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Weekly Coffee News: No-Strings Coffee Grant + Vastly Different World Views on Cup Waste

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. Honeycomb Credit Offering $1,500 Grant to US Coffee Businesses...

2024.11.16

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Column: Understanding Brazil’s Dual Influence on the Global Coffee Market

[Publisher’s note: This is Part 1 of a short series of stories by guest author Jonas Ferraresso exploring some of the intricacies of the Brazilian coffee market and Brazil’s outsize...

2024.11.09

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Weekly Coffee News: Brazil Research Farm in Danger + La Marzocco and Mohlkönig Sync

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. São Paolo Government Considering Selling Key Research Farmland in...

2024.11.09

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Column: Prices and Weather in Colombia Create Tension Between Conventional and Specialty

The Colombian coffee industry is currently in the middle of its main annual harvest. As the third largest coffee producing nation in the world, achieving a successful harvest for producers...

2024.11.08

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