Age of CoffeeThree Questions with Kosta Kallivrousis of Age of Coffee
Driven by a desire to connect with more people and pushed in part by the 2008 financial crisis, Kosta Kallivrousis left his father’s electrician business to take a job at...
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Addis ExporterThree Questions with Mike Mamo of Addis Exporter
As a world-class runner attending college in the United States, Mike Mamo had little inclination to join his family’s coffee business, Addis Exporter, founded by his father in Ethiopia. “I...
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,...
Arty RanaweeraThree Questions with Dilshan “Arty” Ranaweera of Cafe Secret Alley in Sri Lanka
When Dilshan “Arty” Ranaweera opened Cafe Secret Alley in Kandy, Sri Lanka, in 2017, he knew next to nothing about coffee. “Sri Lanka didn’t have a coffee culture,” Ranaweera said....
Addis AbabaThree Questions with Coffee Expert Beamlak Bekele
One of Beamlak Bekele’s earliest memories of her father is watching him cup coffee in a laboratory. Growing up in a coffee-centered family in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, Bekele never imagined...
ArkansasThree Questions with Filmmaker and Third Space Coffee Owner Brooke Bierhaus Sutton
Opening a coffee shop might seem like an unlikely path for a documentary filmmaker, but for Brooke Bierhaus Sutton, the connection is clear. Connection is at the core concept of...
2024 Year In ReviewBest of ‘Three Questions’ 2024: Conversations with Coffee Leaders
Continuing our 2024 Year in Review, here are some highlights from our ongoing “Three Questions With” series, which features people doing amazing work in all corners of the coffee world. ...
Artisan Coffee ImportsThree 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,...
ArmeniaThree Questions with Lina Granados of Racafé in Bogotá
When Lina Granados sat down to talk with DCN, she had recently returned home to Armenia, Colombia, from Trieste, Italy, where she was completing the residential requirement for her master’s...
BelcoThree Questions with Denis Mialocq of Belco
Denis Mialocq spends most of his days teaching others about the complexities of coffee, from gustatory explorations to environmental, economic and social issues. The training manager at green coffee trading...