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Radial Coffee is Getting Around in Vernon, Connecticut

Coffees from South and Central America have found a new hub in Vernon, Connecticut, inside the new roastery and cafe of Radial Coffee. Since the soft-opening of the 1,200-square-foot shop...

2024.01.05

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Design Details: Wraparound Illustration at Olympia Coffee

DCN’s ongoing “Design Details” series highlights specific details in coffee shop/roastery interior design or coffee-related packaging and branding. Share your project for consideration here. Late last year, Washington state-based Olympia Cof...

2024.01.04

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Prague’s Typhoon Roasters Establishes US Presence with Luminous Coffee Owner

Czech Republic-based coffee roaster maker Typhoon Roasters now has United States representation through Las Vegas, Nevada-based coffee professional Mason Salisbury. The founder and head roaster of the boundary-pushing coffee company...

2024.01.03

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24 New Coffee Roasters to Support in 2024

As specialty coffee consumption continues to grow throughout the United States, the number of new companies and facilities devoted to turning green coffee brown has spread precipitously. Simultaneously, existing coffee...

2023.12.28

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Portland’s Futura Coffee Roasters Brings Regenerative Focus to East Coast

With direct ties to Colombian specialty coffee and a proactive economic approach to environmental stewardship, Oregon-based Futura Coffee Roasters has expanded to the east coast. The growing Futura leadership team...

2023.12.21

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The Sepia Coffee Project Offers a Guiding Light in Metro Detroit

When Martell Mason returned to metro Detroit in 2020, he found a more hopeful place than the one he’d left 20 years earlier. Yet when he zoomed in on his...

2023.12.20

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Mill City Roasters Launches 2-Kilo Electric Roaster, the MCR-2E

Minneapolis-based roasting equipment maker Mill City Roasters has launched the MCR-2E, the company’s largest and most advanced electric-heat roaster to date. The 2-kilo-capacity MCR-2E pairs UL-listed 5,000 watt heating elements...

2023.12.20

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Mill City Roasters Launches RoastPath Software and Sharing Platform

Minneapolis-based coffee roasting equipment company Mill City Roasters this month officially launched RoastPath, a software package and community-focused platform for coffee roasters that’s six years in the making. Core features...

2023.12.15

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Legal Dispute Between Montana Coffee Traders and Ghost Town Goes Public

A legal issue that has quietly simmered between two Montana coffee roasting companies since May spilled into the public sphere this week, with both companies saying they’ve received negative backlash....

2023.12.14

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Greenstreet Coffee Replants Itself in South Philadelphia

The retail operations of Philadelphia roasting company Greenstreet Coffee are verdant once again with the opening of a new South Philadelphia cafe just blocks away from the Greenstreet roastery. Helping...

2023.12.14

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