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Kirin Offers Promise for Coffee Cherry Waste in Fermented Ingredient

Japanese beverage giant Kirin Holdings has announced a new fermented ingredient made from coffee farm byproducts, pitching it as a flavorful and body-building beverage enhancer and a circular sustainability solution....

2026.01.06

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FairWave Acquires Milwaukee’s Fiddleheads Coffee

FairWave Specialty Coffee Collective has acquired Wisconsin roaster-retailer Fiddleheads Coffee, adding another Midwest brand to its portfolio of specialty coffee companies. Financial terms were not disclosed. Based in Thiensville, Wisconsin,...

2026.01.06

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Cup of Excellence Coming to 11 Countries in 2026

The nonprofit Alliance for Coffee Excellence (ACE) released a preliminary schedule for its flagship Cup of Excellence (CoE) green coffee competition and auction program, featuring 11 coffee-producing countries in 2026....

2025.12.31

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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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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: 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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