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Design Details: Atomic Coffee Roasters Spreading Energy

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. Peabody, Massachusetts-based Atomic Coffee....

2025.01.01

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Electric Roasting Equipment Surged in 2024

Last year’s trend towards electric roasting equipment for commercial coffee operations picked up even more steam this year. It’s now starting to feel like a full-on paradigm shift. Still relatively...

2024.12.31

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25 New Coffee Roasters to Support in 2025

This year, dozens of new facilities dedicated to roasting specialty coffee opened across the United States. While some are led by seasoned industry veterans and others by newcomers, nearly all...

2024.12.31

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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

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Inaugural STLCoffeeFest Coming to St. Louis in February

Coffee enthusiasts and professionals in the St. Louis area are gearing up for the inaugural STLCoffeeFest, an independent, consumer-focused coffee event taking place Feb. 22, 2025, at 18 Rails at...

2024.12.19

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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

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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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