Craft/Operations

Maryland’s Aveley Farms Coffee Plants New Roastery Alongside Beer and Pizza

Aveley Farms Coffee Roasters is heading into a bountiful winter with the opening of its new roastery and coffee bar, part of an all-day coffee, beer and pizza collaboration just...

2024.12.20

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The Co-Founder of Charlotte’s Giddy Goat Coffee is Also a Paralympic Medalist

When not running a booming coffee business, the co-founder of Charlotte, North Carolina’s Giddy Goat Coffee Roasters is likely to still be running, or biking, or perhaps swimming. Carson Clough,...

2024.12.20

Balzac BrothersBusiness OperationsCarson CloughCharlotteCraft/OperationsFranceGiddy Goat Coffee RoastersIndustryMarketingMicroNorth CarolinaParalympicsParisPeopleRetailRhyne DavisRoastingSouth/Southwestコーヒー

Researchers Find Highly Accurate AI Algorithm for Coffee Defect Detection

A research team focused on potential real-world AI solutions for agricultural producers says it has created a highly accurate computational model for identifying defects in green coffees. The group of...

2024.12.17

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Missouri’s Upshot Coffee Turns Up in Clayon with HiFi Cafe

St. Louis-area roaster Upshot Coffee dropped the needle on its third coffee shop this month in Clayton, Missouri, drawing inspiration from Japanese record listening rooms. Visually tied together by a...

2024.12.16

Business OperationsClaytonCofinetConor VanbuskirkCottlevillCraft/OperationsEric PetersMidwestMissouriOpeningsPrime CoffeeRetailRoastingSouth/SouthwestSt. CharlesSt. LouisTravis GarciaUnblended CoffeeUpshot Coffeeコーヒー

Consultancy Pomelo Bringing Roasting Business Owners Together with Junto

Raleigh, North Carolina-based Pomelo Coffee Consulting is launching the second iteration of its coffee roaster, education, networking and consulting platform called Pomelo Junto. The six-month program will involve a cohort...

2024.12.12

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Autumn Coffee’s Second Shop Falls Close to Home in Gresham, Oregon

As its namesake season reached its colorful and gusty peak in October, Gresham, Oregon-based Autumn Coffee Roasting opened its second coffee shop. The roasting company opened its first brick-and-mortar cafe...

2024.12.12

Andrew HumeAutumn CoffeeBusiness OperationsCraft/OperationsMarketingMicroNorthwestOpeningsRetailRoastingコーヒー

Three Questions with Swelter Coffee Roasters Founder Stephanie Welter-Krause

Stephanie Welter-Krause was first inspired to roast coffee while thumbing through the home roasting section in the influential 2012 book, The Blue Bottle Craft of Coffee, written by James Freeman,...

2024.12.11

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Column: The Shifting Seasons of Coffee Shipments

Seasonality The idea that a particular crop — in our case, coffee — is available and fresh for a particular portion of the year is long-ingrained in the specialty food...

2024.12.10

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Hardline Coffee Puts Its Foot Down with Northwest Iowa Flagship Cafe

Though permanence hasn’t come easy, Hardline Coffee has solidified its place in Sioux City, Iowa, with the opening of its new roastery and cafe. After launching and with a mobile...

2024.12.09

Amateur CoffeeBusiness OperationsconstructionCraft/OperationsHardline CoffeeIowaMarketingMicroMidwestNisa SalmenOpeningsRetailRoastingSam DaileySioux Cityコーヒー

Sovda Bulks Up with Launch of the Precision Silo

Professional roastery equipment maker Sovda is launching the Precision Silo, a 4,800-kilogram-capacity green coffee storage, loading and blending machine. Divided into eight chambers, each with 600-kilogram capacity, the Precision Silo...

2024.12.07

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