Roasting

Fair Trade USA Names Private Label Expert Clay Dockery Head of Coffee

Sustainability certification group Fair Trade USA recently named private label industry veteran Clay Dockery as head of coffee. The appointment comes amidst a transitional period for the Oakland-based nonprofit, whose...

2024.10.15

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Mad Catter Coffee Roasters is Up and Purring in Pennsylvania

The specialty coffee rabbit hole for Pennsylvania’s Mad Catter Coffee Roasters got exponentially deeper last month with the opening of the company’s spacious production roastery and training facility in Allentown....

2024.10.15

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Go for the Gold (Mountain) in This New Sample Roasting Competition

Sample roasting, a standard practice in green coffee evaluation and purchasing, is generally considered a means to an end. Yet a new small-scale competition led by Nicaraguan green coffee specialist...

2024.10.15

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Presenting the 2025 Roaster of the Year Finalists

Roast magazine is thrilled to announce the six finalists for the 21st Annual Roaster of the Year awards! Roast recognizes winners from two categories: Micro Roaster (companies roasting less than 100,000 pounds...

2024.10.15

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Presenting the 2025 Roaster of the Year Finalists

Roast magazine is thrilled to announce the six finalists for the 21st Annual Roaster of the Year awards! Roast recognizes winners from two categories: Micro Roaster (companies roasting less than 100,000 pounds...

2024.10.15

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Minnesota Company Sues TreeHouse Over Pod Production Secrets

A Minneapolis company called Microtrace is accusing private-label food manufacturing giant TreeHouse Foods of “reverse engineering” proprietary technology used to identify Keurig-style coffee pods. In a lawsuit filed Sept. 30...

2024.10.09

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BestCup Spins The Hi-Fi Coffee Pod, a Specialty K-Cup Reinvention

Salt Lake City-based coffee co-packing startup BestCup is offering a new approach to Keurig-style brewing with a compostable pod product called the Hi-Fi Coffee Pod. Featuring an open-bottom filter design,...

2024.10.09

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Private-Label Specialist Cascade Coffee Has New Investor

Everett, Washington-based Cascade Coffee, one of the largest coffee roasting and packaging companies in the United States, has received an undisclosed investment from Chicago-based investment firm LaSalle Capital. The private-label...

2024.10.08

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Let’s Talk Coffee is Back, Heading to Peru in 2025

Seattle-based green coffee trading company Sustainable Harvest is reprising its long-running Let’s Talk Coffee event, with plans for Peru in September of 2025. Held in coffee-producing countries, and convening a...

2024.10.08

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In Brooklyn, Lucienne Coffee is Serving Coffees Roasted in Japan

A new coffee company called Lucienne Coffee in Brooklyn, New York, is specializing in the brewing and sales of high-quality specialty coffees roasted in, and imported from, Japan. Selling whole...

2024.10.07

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