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 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: 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 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...
commercial equipmentSanremo Rolls Out a Bunch of New Espresso Machine Tech
Italian commercial coffee equipment maker Sanremo Coffee Machines took a big step into the cloud this fall with the launch of Sanremo IoT, an internet-based platform that gives users...
anti-inflammatoryCoffee Protects Against Liver Diseases, and Scientists Have Figured Out How
A major academic literature review underscores coffee’s protective effects against liver diseases while outlining numerous potential underlying mechanisms. A research team affiliated with two public health institutions in Mexico pored...
acquisitionsCoffee and Pie Together in Dallas as White Rhino Acquires Emporium Pies
Dallas-based specialty coffee company White Rhino Coffee announced it has acquired fellow DFW business Emporium Pies, bringing two majority-women-owned chains together. The terms of the acquisition have not been...
AfricaReflections on 1 Million Coffee Farmers Trained with TechnoServe Coffee Head Paul Stewart (Part 2)
This is part two of a two-part interview with Paul Stewart, the global coffee director for TechnoServe. The nonprofit recently announced it has helped train more than 1 million smallholder...