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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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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

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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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Little Victories Coffee Opens Another Winner in Ottawa

Ottawa, Ontario-based coffee roaster and retailer Little Victories opened its third location earlier this year, just three blocks away from its existing locus in the bustling downtown core. With a...

2024.12.04

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La Coop Coffee Returns to DC with Flagship Roastery Cafe

Washington D.C.-based La Coop Coffee has a homecoming for the holidays with the opening of its flagship roastery cafe in the Manor Park neighborhood, just blocks away from its first...

2024.12.04

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Roast Summit Heading to Melbourne in March

Roast magazine, which has published educational content for coffee roasters for over 20 years, will reach a new audience in Australia with the first-ever international Roast Summit. The two-day networking...

2024.12.03

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Inaugural Oakland Coffee Market Happening December 14

It’s well established that coffee stuff is the only gift worth giving. Luckily for people in the Bay Area, a new in-person popup market called the Oakland Coffee Market is...

2024.12.03

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Roaster Maker Sivetz Opens Showroom and HQ in Oregon

Fluid-bed roaster maker Sivetz just opened a dedicated showroom and headquarters in Hood River, Oregon, about an hour’s drive east of Portland. The showroom represents the latest milestone for the...

2024.12.03

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